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I love hanging out with my parents because they are great parents: have these parents considered trying “not being terrible parents”

also this nails it. people have been quietly cutting off their horrid family members since the dawn of time, it just used to be easier to get away with it unnoticed before we had instantaneous global communication. bsky.app/profile/lasr...

You didn’t have to come out and SAY that you were packing up your ocean-crossing canoe to search across the seas for a new land just to get away from your awful family, but you know that had to have been a FACTOR for a lot of history’s intrepid explorers and settlers

the evolution of which gave us the Haka so there’s that Ka mate ka mate ka ora ka ora

and that’s how we got the Māori (maybe)

In my heart I want there to be a direct connection between Hawaii and Aotearoa, but I guess jury’s still out If the origin was somewhere but separate waves to either Or if they went to Hawaii first then pulled a U-ey back to NZ similarities tho are undeniable

“Oh, there’s a frozen land bridge leading to uncharted territories across the Bering Sea now? Where my horrible family won’t follow me to judge my mammoth spearing technique ever again? Sign me up.”

and that’s how human beings arrived in North America, probably

I get the sentiment, but that is definitely not how that happened. Also, I wonder why that is the example here, and why it is not some temper tantrum throwing Puritan child getting away from Europe.

Current consensus is that there were waves of migration by sea over tens of thousands of years before and after the “land bridge.” Curiosity about what’s on the next island, familiar to all paddlers, was probably the main driving force

“Dad, I have HAD it with your incessant urge to shit all over my flint-knapping technique, and Grandpa did NOT do it better: I’m leaving all you assholes behind on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and dispersing the hell out of Africa.”

Doing linguistic drift to the language I speak so that if my relatives show up in a few hundred years, I will no longer be able to understand what they are saying