By the most conservative counts more than 70000 people have been murdered by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023. That works out to an average of about 90 people killed every day for 800 days. In other words, Israel has committed 6 Bondi Beaches every single day for more than two years.
And that's with the most conservative count of how many people have been killed.
Exactly when humans and our ancestors started using fire is one of those questions that is extremely difficult (impossible?) to answer with any certainty due to the difficulties in finding evidence. We have to get lucky (in this case it appears the site was covered by a pond relatively soon after it's use) for any part of a fire to be preserved.
For example say you went into the woods, set up a rudimentary firepit, used it for a couple of days, and left. Now think about how hard it would be to find that exact spot in a year, or 5, 10, etc! And that's with you being the one to deposit it in the first place! Now think about how little would be left and how hard that would be to even recognize as the remnants of a campfire after tens or hundreds of thousands of years!
I think control of fire has been with us as long as we've been recognizable as Homo sapiens and most likely for a great deal longer. There's a very interesting book I read years ago called Catching Fire (no not that one) by Richard Wrangham in which he argues that control of fire and the ability to cook food that comes with it is what really set off our brain development & anatomical changes that differentiate us from the other primates
I know of at least one of them from my parents' church. Dude had zero skin in the game and still decided to go over there "as a medic". His mom thought he'd be staying away from the front lines, I'm not sure if that was cope, if he lied to her, or something else went down, but he ended up getting killed almost immediately (I think it was less than a month after he arrived).
Dude had zero combat experience, one of the core tenets of their church is pacifism ffs, and from what it sounds like was still on the front line almost immediately.
It's really difficult to try and comfort a grieving mother when her son went and got himself killed for nothing
It definitely reinforced my skepticism of news media, contrasting the old newspaper reports of the first day of the battle vs what we know from hindsight and then just looking at how conflicts like Ukraine are covered vs the footage on the ground. For example, how many times have you heard of "Russian meat waves"? If you just read certain media reports you'd think it's the opening scene of Enemy At The Gates every day, while I have yet to see anything even close to a mass infantry attack. You'd think if such footage existed it'd be everywhere as proof of the "Russian disregard for human life"...
If you're willing to do some research I've found libraries' newspaper archives to be a good source for that sort of thing, a couple years ago I did some poking around to see what the Allied coverage of the battle of the somme looked like compared to one of Ukraine's counteroffensives
The Ukrainian diaspora used to be cool (see the Winnipeg General Strike and associated labour movements in the early 20th century) but then the government imported a ton of Ukrainian Nazis/collaborators (same thing) after WW2 as a way to control the earlier left leaning immigrants
Now Ukrainian cultural centres have statues of guys that organized pogroms and mass murders
By the most conservative counts more than 70000 people have been murdered by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023. That works out to an average of about 90 people killed every day for 800 days. In other words, Israel has committed 6 Bondi Beaches every single day for more than two years.
And that's with the most conservative count of how many people have been killed.