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Joined 8 months ago
Cake day: October 30th, 2023
  • roastedDeflator@kbin.socialtoAnarchism@lemmy.ml•Voting doesn't work!
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    5 months ago

    This is a debate within the anarchist community for several reasons. First of if we were in a pre-revolutionary era and a lot of people were already active in some sort of non-hierarchical groups and about to take over society, yes at that point voting would be damaging to the cause. Currently we are not at this point.

    Also many anarchists consider direct democracy as way going forward towards autonomous local organisation. Rojava would be a recent example of this case.

    Personally, I think it is meaningful to vote. The important thing is not rely on it. One can easily vote and do community-organising as well. I agree that voting does not challenge any of the hierarchical structures that are in place. Not voting, doesn’t neither. At least at this point in time.

  • roastedDeflator@kbin.socialOPtoArchaeology@mander.xyz•The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
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    5 months ago

    All your questions are answered within the article. In most cases a few sentences before and/or after your quotes.

    Of all the things you mention I agree that the word dominating is not the correct one in this paragraph:

    If you follow long-distance races, you might be thinking, wait—males are outperforming females in endurance events! But this is only sometimes the case. Females are more regularly dominating ultraendurance events such as the more than 260-mile Montane Spine foot race through England and Scotland, the 21-mile swim across the English Channel and the 4,300-mile Trans Am cycling race across the U.S. Sometimes female athletes compete in these races while attending to the needs of their children. In 2018 English runner Sophie Power ran the 105-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc race in the Alps while still breastfeeding her three-month-old at rest stations.

  • roastedDeflator@kbin.socialOPtoArchaeology@mander.xyz•Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game
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    5 months ago

    I think it’s a very difficult task to try and interpret findings without being influenced by contemporary stereotypes. As you mention, there have been voices in the past decades of archeologists, anthropologists, etc who do a dissent job in trying to just examine the findings.

    Others -unfortunately- try to fit the findings into a preconceived narrative. To my understanding “man the hunter hypothesis” is one of those, because as it is mentioned in the article:

    the idea that all hunters were male has been bolstered by studies of the few present-day groups of hunter gatherers such as the Hadza of Tanzania and San of southern Africa.

    And I would argue that it was a very limited research based on a few (not the few) of those hunter-gatherer groups that are/were considered contemporary.

  • roastedDeflator@kbin.socialOPtoArchaeology@mander.xyz•Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game
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    5 months ago

    I think they’re making wild assumptions with very little evidence

    Don’t you think it is a wild assumption with very little evidence to suggest that only men hunted?

    Also, after the part you quoted, the article continues by saying:

    Pitblado says that even if not all of those female remains belonged to hunters, the meta-analysis suggests women have long been capable of hunting, and provides hints about where to look more closely for evidence. Human ecologist Eugenia Gayo of the University of Chile agrees. Such research could help answer questions such as “What were the type of environments where everybody got involved in the hunting?” she says.

    It shouldn’t be surprising that women could hunt, Pitblado adds. “These women were living high up in the Andes, at 13,000 feet full time,” she says. “If you can do that, surely you can bring down a deer.”

  • roastedDeflator@kbin.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Israeli intelligence report claims four UNRWA staff in Gaza involved in Hamas kidnappings
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    5 months ago

    Wasn’t it 12 like a day or two ago?

    That’s my understanding.

    In an ap article of the 29th they say:

    DETAILED ALLEGATIONS AGAINST UNRWA WORKERS
    The Israeli document, which has been shared with U.S. officials and was obtained by The Associated Press, lists 12 people, their alleged roles in the attack, job descriptions and photos. The findings detailed in the document could not be independently confirmed.
    The document said intelligence gathered showed that at least 190 UNRWA workers were Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives, without providing evidence.
    It said of the 12 workers, nine were teachers and one a social worker. Seven of the employees were accused of crossing into Israel on Oct. 7. Of those, one was accused of taking part in a kidnapping, another of helping to take away a dead soldier and three others of participating in the attacks. (…)

    The numbers mentioned in the posted article I first saw them on a wsg piece co-written by Carrie Keller-Lynn, a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel which has some ties with the IDF, to be more precise the IDF spokesperson unit. (Relevant link from twitter).

    [edit: I tried looking for her linkedin profile for more details, which appears in the results as: Carrie Keller-Lynn - The Wall Street Journal | LinkedIn but I get Profile Not Found - An exact match for caroline-keller-lynn could not be found. for now at least.
    edit2: I removed a link]