Why do people do this? I’ve never understood.

This is my second read. It’s a fascinating glimpse of a Papuan culture that will soon be changed forever by contact with our civilisation.

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It’s more complex than this, but it’s related to climatic change.

First, we’re still in the ice age. We’re just in an interglacial period.

During the glaciation, humans mainly hunted a few big game. It was an inhospitable environment.

When the glaciation ended, the climate became more stable, warmer, more clement. Rivers rised and became calmer, as the sea level rose.

Humans started diversifying and broadening what they ate. They collected much more plants, hunted more animal species, notably small game, fished much more. It was the mesolithic.

In zones that were particularly abundant in resources, probably at the edges of ecozones, it became possible and interesting to settle down somewhat, and defend this territory against outsiders. Owning resources allowed to invest time and labor into making things more productive. Domestication was part of that.

Not all regions are suitable, or have sufficient domesticable species. Some places took much longer than others to really get farming going, and most never did, until domesticates arrived there from somewhere else.

They took over the Roman Empire. They had a pretty good claim.

I like it.

Yes, see my other answer.

The scenario doesn’t really make sense as the electro-chemical activity in your brain would be stopped as well, so you couldn’t be conscious.

But if we suspend disbelief, you could say that you’re stuck with the image that got to your retina when time stopped. Which means that you couldn’t see the protagonist moving!

Also, realistically, he couldn’t even move as he’d be against a barrier of unmovable air.

Good thing is that since time has stopped, you won’t get your eyes burnt since light stopped travelling as well.

Didn’t even think about this. I thought of how crushingly boring and annoying it must have been to have been unable to move at all. For 6 months.

And now I realize it must have been dreadful, at first.

Yes, there have been problems for a long time there, but then Myanmar was apparently on a path to democracy, but then the coup happened, so now there are problems again. It’s the current civil war I’m referring to.

A few years. About 1 more than the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, if I remember correctly

We actually used to see this term more often back around the 2010s when 4chan had a bigger presence

I often fantasize that one day I’d start my company and require that all resumes be submitted without a name on it.

Great story, thanks

How did it start?

Was it on Archive of our Own?

Judging from the screenshots, it seems to be completely non-sexualized. You could hardly get aroused by looking at the woman’s body there.

What I would change in my case:

• Engage with people, even if it’s awkward or you have something more fun and that takes less effort right now
• Get a basic understanding of personal finance (read a book or two)
• Don’t be content with the bare minimum. You’ll spend a lot of time working. Try to get as much as possible for yourself for every hour working.

But I think each person’s realities will vary a lot. For example, regarding the first bullet point, maybe you’re extraverted and already a social butterfly, in which case the advice doesn’t apply.

Depends what.

Customer-facing work: you can stay open longer.

Office work: yeah, since productivity plummets, I don’t think it helps much, if at all.

You should definitely color Lebanon.