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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Honestly if I had my current level of knowledge, probably hygene. Teach them to make soap (animal fat and a source of base like ash), wash their hands, keep poop away from potable water sources, stuff like that.

Remember, it literally took until Victorian times to figure out that washing your hands prevents disease.

Also, math. Teach them how to do basic arithmetic, how to use a unit of measurement to figure out how big something is, stuff we'd learn in elementary school but weren't rigorously developed until the Ancient Greek age.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Soap is super important, as for math - I'm guessing it's going to need to be geometry based before they can grok irrational numbers, or hell, symbolic notation in general

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Dispensing elderly wisdom

[–] buttwater@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm good with plants, I'm observant, I like stargazing, I'm a good de-escalator. I'd probably an elder and end up doing some type of weather forecasting.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tell me you work in middle management

[–] buttwater@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Not quite. Former history teacher now in an office environment

Dying from allergies & asthma.

While still living, the tribe could deploy me as an animal detector: place me at the front of hunting parties, and the moment I start sneezing & wheezing, they know they've got prey nearby.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

Mandatory I'd have died more than once, but I suspect I would have been good at mental things like tracking and storytelling. I'd probably suck at everything else, too.

[–] Flemmy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Selling camping gear

[–] Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Eating the richβ€”if they tried.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I would excel in the use of the internet and computers as I would be the only one with knowledge about it. I would also be the only one who knows how to drive a car.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty ok at knapping flint and I'm not a terrible hunter. I'm also usually in poor health.

So I'd probably die as a baby.

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