ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Honor your predecessors 7 hours ago:
At my job, the toilet seat is covered with the piss of the last guy. So I’m not sitting down on that fucking thing.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 7 hours ago:
So are sharks.
- Comment on Gotta go cold turkey 16 hours ago:
Pedantoholic!
- Comment on Gotta go cold turkey 1 day ago:
I know people have made this point before, but alcoholic is alcohol + ic, so someone addicted to work should be a workic.
- Comment on misery business 1 day ago:
Hey man nice shot
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 day ago:
That is persistence hunting, you nincompoop.
Lol, you know what name-calling as a form of argument means, don’t you? And no, that isn’t persistence hunting, that’s hunting with poison. Your own link includes injury as a reason this might work, and being poisoned could be considered as an injury, but tracking an injured animal is a form of scavenging and is nothing special or unique in the animal world. What is special and unique (or would be if it were true) is the ability to pick out a healthy animal and simply walk or jog after it until it drops, and that is what make the endurance hunting claim such a “popular opinion” – and by opinion I mean something not supported by any facts.
I don’t know what’s stopping you from opening links on the page I provided.
Your link is to a very brief Wikipedia page, and I cannot read this “2024 study” without paying a subscription, which I’m not going to do. Since you’ve obviously actually read that study, you must know that that’s an obstacle. If you actually have a copy, I’d love to see it instead of just the abstract which I was able to read. That being said, as a former Anthropologist I’m reasonably certain the authors used the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample for their work. Having read nearly all of the ethnographies that the sample draws from (there’s really not much else for Anthropology students to do other than actually going places) I can assure you that there is no mention in them of anything like persistence hunting. Plenty of mentions of stalking and concealment and the use of spears and bows and arrows and poison, but there was never any controversy over these human activities.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 day ago:
The practice was reported as abandoned in most places before the late 20th century
In other words, nobody has ever been reliably documented as having done this.
but the San people and other hunter-gatherer tribes are known to have used it in the 21st century
By far the most extensive study of the San peoples ever conducted was in the 1960s and 1970s by Richard Lee and other anthropologists as part of a Harvard study, and there was no mention whatsoever of “persistence hunting.” There was mention of their extensive use of poisoned spears and arrows, which allowed them to track and eventually kill already-wounded animals. Something that could easily be mistaken for persistence hunting.
A 2024 study found hundreds of recorded examples of this method being practiced on all inhabited continents.
Hundreds? I would love to see this study.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 day ago:
That’s not a fact. Who has ever been documented to have done this successfully?
- Comment on law enforcement partners 1 day ago:
I used to counter this argument with Paul McCartney, but it turns out he’s been something of a cunt his whole life as well.
- Comment on law enforcement partners 1 day ago:
Rupert Murdoch is so old that his fucking dad (not grandfather or great-grandfather) orchestrated a successful smear campaign against Australia’s best general during WWI, over a century ago. Reason: the general was Jewish.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 day ago:
Krantz talked about walking and jogging, and referenced human performance in marathons as evidence of this idea. People who push this idea today always talk about marathon runners as well.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 day ago:
Group hunting most likely, since that’s something all the other great apes (gorillas, chimps and orangutans) do. There’s plenty of footage of chimps surrounding their prey and catching them that way. Also we have omnivore dentition so we ate a lot of plants, and most likely scavenged quite a bit.
In more recent times (like the last million years or so) we used spears, and contemporary hunter/gatherers (like the !Kung who featured in the bit from the David Attenborough documentary that people like to link to as “proof” of the endurance hunting thesis) often used poison with their spears and arrows, which did allow them to leisurely walk after their prey. But only because their prey had been poisoned, not because humans have superior endurance.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
Just that we never did shit like that. It’s not something that needs an alternative explanation. People tend to assume that it was originally proposed as an explanation of our bipedal locomotion, but Krantz actually suggested it as an explanation for our big brains. He hypothesized that jogging after animals in the heat of the day (he never offered a reason for why this would have occurred only in the daytime) would have resulted in large numbers of neurons dying from heat overload, so a big brain would have allowed this neural death to happen without impairing cognitive function. This is why he proposed the endurance hunting at around two million years ago, when our brain size started increasing from chimpanzee size to modern human size, rather than around five million years ago, when our ancestors made the shift to full bipedality.
But the reasons behind the increased brain size have never really been so controversial as to require some weird explanation like this. We know that it wasn’t a simple overall increase in size, but was rather the result of an increase in the size of areas of the brain responsible for things like language and tool use, which leads to the easy inference that it was language and tool use that caused the increase in brain size.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
The Beatles were the first (or among the first, at least) to heavily utilize multitrack recording and overdubbing. Nirvana wasn’t first at anything.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
People who ride their bikes on the wrong side of the road, against traffic, are even bigger assholes. And fucking dumb as dirt to boot. The only dumber thing you can do on a bike is to sail through a stop sign or red light without even looking to see if there’s any cross-traffic coming.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
C’mon, Iowa is least good for potatoes. Or maybe that’s corn.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
I generally like kids, but that’s because I don’t have any of my own and as a school bus driver I only have to deal with them in 15-minute doses.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
The “running man” hypothesis – the idea that our ancestors a million or two years ago were casually jogging after prey animals until they dropped from exhaustion due to our supposedly superior endurance – is utter nonsense. It’s absurd on its face and there is absolutely no evidence of any kind supporting it, yet it has become generally accepted as an incontrovertible fact about our past.
The man who initially proposed this idea in the 1960s (Grover Krantz) has become utterly forgotten and is never referenced by the idea’s modern proponents, and for good reason: he was better-known as a staunch believer in the existence of Bigfoot.
- Comment on Yeah Ill Have A Whooper With Beef Wings 2 days ago:
I was doing my taxes one night on April 15th and while looking for my W2s I found a bag of weed that I had misplaced weeks before. I hadn’t smoked since I had lost it so I naturally toked up and completed my tax form (thank god for the 1040-EZ form). Then I drove to a post office that was open until midnight and had a drive-thru lane to accommodate us tax procrastinators. Then I drove through the drive-thru lane twice, each time giving the dude collecting envelopes a “what the fuck are you looking at?” scowl before realizing too late that he had a legitimate reason for looking at me. I managed to hand him my return on the third trip through the line and he just laughed.
- Comment on Take cover 2 days ago:
- You need to increase your head count or your budget will go down next fiscal year
- Comment on Take cover 2 days ago:
i didn’t tailor the cover letter to the position
You should have printed it out and cut it into the shape of a shirt.
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 3 days ago:
Ya know, it should have been obvious to me that there was a problem like this, since there’s always condensation on the lid (which is clear glass for no good fucking reason) after I’m done with a load.
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 3 days ago:
I’m a school bus driver and I get tips from the kids (really, the parents) at Christmas and the end of the school year, usually in the form of gift cards. It’s still such a weird concept to me, but the thing I truly appreciate is hand-written (by the kids themselves) cards that express their appreciation and affection. It also saves me from having to go to Target (the most common gift card) and find something there that I actually want.
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 3 days ago:
I have a newer LG washing machine in my house. It smells like the sewage line is backing up into it … which I know it isn’t because it free-drains into a utility sink.
- Comment on Delicious 3 days ago:
The girls that lived across the street from me had an Easy-Bake oven. Even as a kid I knew those little cakes were fucking terrible. I ate them anyway. Thank god for LED lightbulbs.
- Comment on Delicious 3 days ago:
If the smell of your pee drives you out of the bathroom, you might be eating too much sugar.
- Comment on Delicious 3 days ago:
Shit, I could eat a pound of bacon while standing at the stove frying a pound of bacon.
- Comment on Delicious 3 days ago:
Shit, in my fat phases over the years I would eat in the neighborhood of 6000 calories a day (I would be literally gaining a pound a day since that’s 3500 calories over my normal daily intake). It’s easy to do when you can basically inhale a box of Little Debbie’s zebra cakes in one sitting. It never really occurred to me that I was literally risking immediate death from this behavior.
- Comment on Delicious 3 days ago:
At LiDL or Aldi an 8 oz. brick of cream cheese is like $1.50, so a little less. What blows my mind is that a 16 oz. plastic tub of cream cheese is like $8 at most places. Like, why the fuck does the plastic tub make it 5X as expensive?
- Comment on Title 3 days ago:
Goddammit when will I finally be free of Old Yeller?