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knowing when your friend is out of the house, because their phone capitalises their messages

noticing they’re down because that was the wrong emoticon

lol vs lmao vs hahaha vs ahaha

subtly wrapping your schedule around the edges of timezones on the other side of the world

conversations that play out over a week because you’re both perpetually idle but you want to know how they’re doing

not being able to wake up for an alarm, but leaping halfway across the house for the message alert you’ve been waiting for

talking to the same person about different topics in three conversations simultaneously

knowing when your friends have been spending time together because they start to type alike 

having to produce something and have a use is a capitalist ideal and not an intrinsic part of humanity

Guess what happened to people who didn’t do things before capitalism? They died. Cause if you weren’t hunting, gathering, or useful in some aspect of nature. You were killed, died or starvation, dehydration, or exposure. 

note: in the neolithic era, a person in their 40s or 50s would be considered elderly

12,000-year-old burial of a woman about 45 with mobility disabilities both congenital and acquired

burial of a 40-50 year old Neanderthal man who had survived to old age with a deformed right arm and a long-healed head injury that would have made him blind in one eye

neolithic burial of a man in his 50s who lost the use of his left arm in adolescence

neolithic burial of a man in his 40s with evidence of a significant mobility disability caused by an injured hip and leg, some time in adulthood but long before his death

neolithic Asian burial of a man in his 20s with a congenital disorder which would have made him a quadriplegic around age 14. He survived for 10-15 years after that.

$2800/3 br