Comment on All downhill from there

LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• saimen@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ourworldindata.org/quaternary-megafauna-extinctio…

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  • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re missing a .

    There have been many extinction events in Earth’s history. There have been five big mass extinction events and several smaller ones.

    There have now been many studies focused on the question of whether humans were a key driver of the QME. Many suggest that the answer is yes. Climatic changes might have driven an initial decline in large mammal populations — small population crashes — but human pressures are likely to have thwarted their recovery. Large mammals survived previous periods of climatic change, but the arrival of humans put pressure on already-depleted populations.

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      \ is the escape character in markdown. Gotta do a double \ and then another \ for the underscore

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      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        (°▽°)/

        I’m assuming this menu is specific to the Voyager app rather than to Lemmy itself:

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      • saimen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Now I got it, thank you

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ¯\(:3)/¯

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      • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        (ง’̀-‘́)ง

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also our accuracy and reach when throwing stuff.

  Especially when combined with our ability to make stuff sharp by banging it against other stuff and breaking it just the right way.

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And THEN add to that that once you got hit with the spear and are running slower, a wolf just appears and starts hunting you too.

    Imagine being hunted by 2 different apex predators working together

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    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then later in history…

      An hawk flies down and attacks you, joining the wolves and the humans. They’ve got the fucks birds in on it now! God is dead.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I went on a hike and a coyote started hunting me on the last mile back to the car. I carry at least a large stick when I hike now.

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      • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Shit that’s scary. I’m glad to be living in Central Europe. Scariest thing here is the Rabbit of Caerbannog (a.k.a. the Legendary Black Beast of Arrrghhh)

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      • FuckFascism@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Coyotes don’t hunt humans, though it may have been receiving food from other hikers which could cause that behavior.

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  • ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Atlanta!!! Here’s a random video i haven’t watched about it. The Atlanta doubles your spear throwing range youtu.be/YT_s1CEAhkA

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you mean atlatl or do people in American Georgia just throw real good?

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      • ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I like your version better

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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not according to Atlanta’s 39-50 record this season. They ain’t even going to make the wildcard round. Even my pathetic Minnesota Twins are 10 games better than that. And they are still under .500.

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    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Atlanta!!!

      Atlatl. Or simply spear-thrower.

      It’s a bit like a fing-longer, but for your whole arm, and therefore more useful.

      Same principle as the sling: they make your arm longer so the “hand” moves faster when you swing it, allowing you to throw stuff at higher and more lethal speeds, and farther.

      We’re still quite lethal even without these tools though, just look at baseball pitchers.

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      • ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Atlanta. Dyac 🤦‍♂️

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• BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What I never got about this theory is, fine, you run after the Ptadgedrwgydon for 87kms, when it gives up due to exhaustion and you kill it with a stone. What now? You’re 87kms away with a carcass that weighs 500kg, how do you get back the food to the tribe?

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is how we learned to be nomads. Kill big thing, bring camp to big thing, hang out until big thing is all eaten.

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  • SomeKindaName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The tribe can walk.

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  • paperazzi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is how Komodo Dragons hunt, too.

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  • nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Group hunting for mega-fauna. Partial field-processing of remains, beyond a dressing.

    idk, moose hunters might still. Is there a moose hunter at the forum today…?

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    • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Moose hunters just shoot them these days. The only time anyone is running any more is when they are headed to a charger for their phone because the charge is down to 10%

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      • nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We were talking about the after killing part, specifically.

        Field dressing, meat logistics, leather processing and whether you’re saving the brains for that or not.

        Thanks for your enthusiam. Feel free to reply with information more directly related to getting meat and craft materials back to camp.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s probably part of the reason why the evidence of persistence hunting being used as an actual hunting technique, compared to ambush hunting or trapping is incredibly slim. And that’s the reason why there’s really no scientific consensus that persistence hunting was a major thing at all.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I figured they chased them in a big circle. Or did laps. Or anything other than a completely straight line.

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    • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can imagine… “You, c*nt! Would you mind turning left a bit? Thanks!”

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      • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but yeah. Head them off in the direction you want them to go, just like sheepdogs do.

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• Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That would be a terrifying way to die.

  Wasn’t that the premise of the Slenderman video game?

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  • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    get with the times, gramps, its all about the backrooms now

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