There are times I hike out to the woods and find a nice spot where I can't hear the lawn mowers, the car horns and tires, the barking dogs. I don't smell the exhaust fumes and fertilizer. Nothing around me but birds, breeze, animals scurrying around, bugs in the grass.

These moments are so precious. I can turn the modern brain off for a bit and just be an animal in nature.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

This guy lizards

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 20 points 10 months ago

you’re still a lizard

Thought this was going to be some sort of Mark Zuk redirect.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

One downside of being a lizard: there's always the risk that while you're enjoying your nice nap in the sun, a bird of prey is barreling down on you with the speed and precision of a fighter jet and you won't even know it until you've been violently jerked awake. Just in time to realize that you are completely fucked.

So, you know, it's a tradeoff. No student loans, or really any responsibilities, but also dramatically higher risk of sudden violent death.

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

there's always the risk that while you're enjoying your nice nap in the sun, a bird of prey is barreling down on you

Damn Romulans! They ruin everything nice.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

I would much rather a rude awakening and a gleaming beak, than the slow dismantling of everything I ever tried to achieve

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

GUY: It's all true, mister. You gotta believe me.
MULDER: I want to believe.

X-Files s10 e3

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

In the late Permian, Bug eats you