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submitted 1 year ago by Tazmanian@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 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”

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] cloud@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 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.)

[-] uis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] cloud@lazysoci.al -3 points 1 year ago

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

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