HFY Sci-Fi Short Stories - Humans are Weird : Wheelbarrows & Taking the Gloves Off (r/HFY TFOS# 800)

[@_zaaya-t-dp_6736]

That last story was metal, mental, and FOR THE ALGORYTHM!!!

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@silverjohn6037]

First story sounds like 48-60 hours of digging into a defensive trench line with no sleep. So pretty average for the infantry.

[@FlowingRiver118]

Only to move the trench at the 61st hour...

[@kimcooper4751]

Using wife's phone today not her opinions I just had to say so true when I was in the infantry long ago we were at the beginning of the new battle concepts high mobility,rear area battle,small fast high mobility so staying static was going to in the past we still had e-tools ,bayonets and all of us trained in fighting positions, range cards ,pre plotting artillery no GPS yet and gone were out bayonets and e-tools digging in will be no more. Now in Ukraine they are digging in they are back to WW1 trench warfare and need bayonets and to dig in fast and deep range cards ,pre plotted artillery drones negated fast high mobility Infantry and Cav probes and breakthroughs back to the basics they even have fielded Maxim machine guns

[@peekakuchu6878]

So wheelbarrow When was the wheelbarrow first invented? The common wheelbarrow has far flung and exotic roots, as it can be traced back to third century ancient Asia. In 231 A.D, Zhuge Liang of Shu Han in China created a single wheel cart for an efficient way of transporting food and supplies to the front lines of battle. Based on Chen shou ancient historian. Edit: lengthy discussion in comments, editing for clarity on source, Khuge Liang was credited to the invention of the wheelbarrow. History is written by historians, evidence is available that it pre existed his accounts, I dont validate nor invalidate history, draw your own conclusions

[@Roosauec]

Even earlier than that. Emperor Hui's tomb during the Han dynasty depicted wheelbarrows pushed by men on the murals, and they date back as far as 118 AD.

[@peekakuchu6878]

@@Roosauec yeah, but he is still recorded as being the inventor zhuge Liang.

[@Roosauec]

@@peekakuchu6878 How can he have invented it if it existed before he was born?

[@peekakuchu6878]

@@Roosauec he has credit for inventing it... Think about it, obviously the earlier pics of it had no one claiming it as their invention

[@Roosauec]

@@peekakuchu6878 And so he's taking credit for other people's work.

[@peekakuchu6878]

Head to Hungary, though, and the annual international Wheelbarrolympics feature the non-motorised kind! Held in the village of Hosszúhetény, participants in the Talicskaolimpia engage in various tests of speed and skill… all involving wheelbarrows.

[@asdrubaelvect8038]

There are motorized wheelbarrow s

[@peekakuchu6878]

@@asdrubaelvect8038 motorised wheelbarrows are for the weak!!

[@asdrubaelvect8038]

@@peekakuchu6878 I mean agreed. I was just surprised they existed. Never seen one. I don't think they carry them at home depot.

[@peekakuchu6878]

@@asdrubaelvect8038 I've never seen one b4 lol... New ways to make waste😏

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

In oz a wheelbarrow race is where you hold your mates legs and he runs on his hands and you follow holding his legs.

[@Kualinar]

I played that as a kid. Quite fun.

[@atomicknight63]

Man, that WAS surprisingly brutal.

[@WiredTurkey316]

Stay hydrated good sir For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

Darkon would do well in Valhalla or Elysium. Theyd love a fighter like him among thier ranks.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

after the first story, I dind't know what to expect from the second, but it wasn't that.

[@calvingreene90]

Stoned off his ass on fatigue toxins and endomorphins.

[@sethgilcrist8088]

After 24 hours of no sleep your legally intoxicated in most countries. Kinda weird but cool.

[@neuralmute]

@@sethgilcrist8088 My memories of university certainly bear this out. Things get really weird around the 36 hr mark...

[@sethgilcrist8088]

@@neuralmute na it's at the 48h mark that things get weird. And if you make to the 72h mark Good bye reality.

[@DonPatrono]

dude in the first story was so high on adrenaline, endorphine and presumably a couple litres of coffee he was basically nearing post-nut-clarity level of understanding the universe

[@rogerbeckner6419]

@@sethgilcrist8088 Only ever made it to the 38th hr before reality went bye-bye. And that was when I was barely 2 decades old.

[@discusmaximus]

For the Algorithm, For the Author(s), For the Narrator, Agro Squirrel !

[@DaWhiteWolffie]

...............................dang, man. There's a reason why our bodies have 'limits' locked into them, both in working and fighting/surviving. And yes, pretty sure that kind of lack of sleep and work exhaustion feels like being 'high', as you're doing something very similar to your body that the drugs do chemically.

[@soffren]

As someone who has pulled all nighters for work, and "experimented" in the past, I can confirm. Sleep deprivation mixed with exhaustion and dehydration feels like a mix between Alcohol and Xanax (which can kill you if you mix them irl, much like a lack of sleep mixed with dehydration).

[@FedralBI]

For the wheelbarrow!

[@AgroSquerril]

for the barrow!~

[@thunderbird4636]

Damn that second one must have been an American

[@AgroSquerril]

lol

[@ZypherOfShadows]

As an American, there are few things truer than this. We. HATE. To loose. Too darn stubborn. xD

[@thunderbird4636]

@@ZypherOfShadows As a fellow American, I totally agree.

[@Deckape75]

Or from a Nordic country. They figured out how to make a pill that induces a Berserker state!

[@zhangeldy4097]

Or Russian

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@dinodomain5012]

Aw man * clears throat* FOR THE ALGORITHM!

[@nos2342]

@@AgroSquerril to please the algorithm

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, For the Author(s), For the Disembodied Voice!

[@KwaterbugBUTCHER]

For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice! For the Squirrel 🐿

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank You for the reading

[@thunderbird4636]

Dude it says 420 views. Fn perfect lol Edit: I took a screenshot of it

[@AgroSquerril]

nice

[@eleventhprimarch5303]

That was a twist I didn't see.

[@sentath]

Betty Adams !

[@AgroSquerril]

indeed

[@bobsterclause342]

Humans are weird playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLcVxcFtbECU9m3jQycRUHyyenJVZOE4j7

[@SirWhiteRabbit-gr5so]

But we have a Hulk.

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

For the Squerril

[@AgroSquerril]

For the Algorithm

[@scarcevoyage4079]

For the Algorithm!!!!!!

[@AgroSquerril]

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[@reasonablehiccups4792]

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[@danielstellmon5330]

For the algorithm!

[@gprivat812_my_selection6]

10:30 Sounds like complete BS!

[@timobrien2813]

Thank you. UKUK

[@razorka1293]

cool

[@contrafax]

Interaction for The Almighty Algorithm!

[@ICountFrom0]

Another set down

[@merlinwizard1000]

116th, 26 June 2023

[@undrachvrsage]

FTA

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@arakheno4051]

F.A.S.

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@hollyferay8131]

Too gross

[@soffren]

Didn't understand this until the end. Agreed tho.

[@klappstock943]

For the Algorithm the story and the voice

[@jimmycoyote74]

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[@AgroSquerril]

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