According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks.

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    1 year ago

    so… just to clarify. you realize that violence is part of who we’ve always been? The reason our hands can make a decent fist at all is to be used as clubs.

    weapons are among the first, if not the first, forms of technology ever developed in prehistory. And probably not even by homo sapiens. We’ve never been not-violent. and you can see this in other primates like baboons and chimps and gorillas, which absolutely conduct their version of warfare.

    And like humans, dogs are also aggressive by nature. they are largely taught not to be as puppies. but left to their own understandings, they will be aggressive.

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      1 year ago

      Do you realize that a fist can be used to break a coconut and not smash someone head? Humans evolved to be smart not to be violent

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        1 year ago

        You…. Ever try to, uh, smash a coconut with your fist?

        Curious how that went.

        “We evolved to be smart!”

        And most of the first tools we created are absolutely classified as “weapons”

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          1 year ago

          Literally the first widespread tool in human history was a fucking handaxe.

          Second was a spear.

          Dude is just talking pure nonsense.

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            1 year ago

            Tools were made to do work. Monkey use rocks to break nuts

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              1 year ago

              Chimps use clubs to fish as well as in fighting other chimps.

              Using a rock might be “tool use” but it’s not “tool manufacture” for that they’d have to substantially modify the rock (say by flaking off chips to form an edge, or shaping a stick into a cudgel.) among humans the first tools made we’re probably cudgels- used for fighting (both other people and animals. Aka, a weapon.) and possibly stone anvils and axes.

              (Hand axes would have been more tool than weapon until fitted onto a haft. Then it would be either a spear or an ax.)

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                1 year ago

                Cudgel is as made as regular rock. Just branch picked up from ground. Earliest axes that are basically sharpened stones and as weapon are about as useful as not sharpened stone, but provide ability to shape wood.

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          1 year ago

          You should try to smash one with your head at last it would become useful for something