Useless red circle, I know, but in my defense I didn’t put it there, it was already like this when I found it.

    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
      111·
      5 months ago

      Women are generally pretty capable of lifting twice their weight. Stand back to back and link arms (you may need to crouch) and if she leans forward and you tense your core and lift your legs you will end up directly over her center of gravity. It’s essentially her lifting you like a backack. It isn’t a super comfortable lift for the guy in the equation if he’s got a weak core but we used to do this all the time at fight night. A teen girl who is maybe 120lbs soaking wet can easily pick up a 6’5 215lbs guy and walk down a city block with him on her back.

      In period women were generally muscled as fuck. Fetching household water, hand milling grain for bread and doing laundry were female coded tasks on top of doing whatever yearly hard labour tasks were required. They would absolutely be trucking their favourite guy out of town even if he was big.

  • far_university1990@feddit.de
    114·
    5 months ago

    𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    5 months ago

    See back then and for centuries after even: the default mentality for existing was not as zero-sum as it is today.

    Resources and generally speaking: ‘the world’ was seen as expansive and functionally infinite. I.e.: non-zero-sum. One’s acquisition of resources did not inherently detract from another’s resource. Societies would just exile people and consider them dead and gone into the ether.

    So a warlord could easily let some shit like this slide. No fight, free castle.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 months ago

        We could still have this thinking today.

        The scarcity of resources is largely one of distribution and access: not production or availability. There are more than enough resources. We destroy clothes and food for going unsold. People go homeless and hungry for lack of money or employment, not a lack of shelter or food. Famines are policy decisions.

        Only in the immediacy of natural disaster scenarios where infrastructure itself breaks down are we really faced with the kind of reality where there isn’t wasted excess.

        If you’re interested I suggest an easy but short read: Operation Manual For Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller. It is old as hell but it does a good job of portraying how such a mindset could work for modern civilization.

  • drolex@sopuli.xyz
    617·
    5 months ago

    Yeah a German king during the 12th century, sure, one of the many German kings of that time, like, uh, Hans, or, say, Helmut, yeah why not. Don’t tell me it was Conrad III, that little piece of shit was not the real king of the Germans.