Sick of this shit : memes

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 195 points 1 month ago

I'm Indigenous and I grew up in northern Ontario in a hunter and gatherer family of hunters and trappers. We did wake up at 4am to go travel, work, set things up, gather and maintain equipment .... so that everything was set for the day. Then when the day came, you know what? ... we sat around and rested as much as we could which was hours of just resting. Because evening would come and you had to prepare for the night. Then rinse and repeat.

Apex shit was all about conserving energy to survive. If nothing was happening, you rested as long and as much as possible because there will come a time when you will need to expend a terrible amount of energy in a short period of time to get work done, to carry out a hunt or to remedy a serious problem.

If you are expending energy all day, every day non stop ... you're doing it for someone else's benefit and you will burn yourself out.

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 month ago

As far as I know, it's about endurance with our ancestors

Because we can sweat. And with that, we can run longer without overheating.
There are still some people in Africa hunting their prey that way.

Everything else came afterwards. Not sure about the timelines, so can't say how much impact evolutionary selection has - but would be a very uneducated guess anyway

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 month ago

True ... but even African hunters in the hot weather aren't tracking and running down prey every hour of the day every day ... hunting animals, especially large animals is a one time event. It's done once, provides a big source of food, the food gets processed, hopefully preserved for a while and it nourishes people for a period of time, usually several days or even weeks ... then the hunters restart the process again.

What many people ignore about the whole hunter / gatherer lifestyle is the amount of hunger and starvation that goes along with it. Just because someone says they are a full time hunter .... doesn't always mean that they are capable of going into the wilderness, finding an animal, killing it and eating it that day. It is all dependent on luck and if the resources are available at the time ... and that can change due to weather, timing, seasons, cycles and a dozen other things. Before the modern era, my parents had stories of starvation and famine happening here in northern Ontario 70/80 years ago.

There's a reason why human evolution moved into the agricultural revolution because it was a more stable food source for everyone.

Hunting and gathering is always glorified as the epitome of apex human activity ... but no one ever counts the millions and millions of hunter/gatherers that died along the way because they were just unlucky and couldn't find enough food.

[-] Janx@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago

That's a lot of words to say "I'm a squirrel".

^(kidding)^

[-] anugeshtu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I'm not an expert, but isn't that a very vague analogy to horse power and torque?

Torque = the power right at the moment you need it, hp = overall. In most cases, you get hp displayed at the car dealers as a selling point.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Not really, no. They measure different but related things, torque isn't actually a measure of power, unless you also know the RPM.

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[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 102 points 1 month ago

Unironically, alpha male shit is a psyop from big corporations to encourage employees to work harder in the hopes of getting imaginary super-raises.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 month ago

Yup. It came out that Clavicular has been funded by Peter Thiel. I was watching a guy do a marketing breakdown of a "clip farms". Where top streamers pay people to clip their videos and upload them to flood the algorithm. PirateSoftware, Asmongold ... like a lot of streamers use this service to surface to the top.

I think he did a breakdown of Clavicular and he was like, someone has poured a lot of money into getting this guy noticed.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The way that it's so impossible to tell what's organically popular and what's just a hype campaign is honestly so maddening, it's not as blatant as what they do with political campaigns but it is still an attack on democratic pluralism in a really significant way imo

e; 'pluralism'? where tf did you even remember that from - searches -

Pluralism thus tries to encourage members of society to accommodate their differences by avoiding extremism (adhering solely to one value, or at the very least refusing to recognize others as legitimate) and engaging in good faith dialogue.

I mean, sure, but just not with genocidal people, right?

One of the more famous arguments for institutional pluralism came from [noted slavery advocate and slave owner] James Madison in The Federalist paper number 10

Maaaann, I hate politics

[-] Soulg@ani.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the streamers doing it don't try to hide it, they openly pay editors to manage their YouTube clips etc

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

I think I'm miscommunicating it. You know how sometimes you feel as though you understand a topic until you have to explain it? :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lqJF5BTvo (40minutes)

This video talks about it.

He talks about a Discord server where they pay people to do it. Not like editors or employees which are perfectly fine and make sense, but to hire other people to do it:

https://discord.com/invite/clipping

If you clip their stuff they'll you via their campaigns through that Discord server. It's to game the algorithm to make people think that other people are really interested in this to push them up the charts.

He brings up a good point in the video where he talks about how this should be considered advertising as opposed to natural content and labelled as such but laws around this are not clear.

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[-] axexrx@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

The study that the whole alpha/ beta dynamic comes from was studying caged wolves in a zoo.

So limited territory, resources and mates.

Its essentialy prison social dynamics. Makes sense thats what theyd be trying to push in general society- keep people competing for the artificially scarce resources, instead of trying to wrestle back control of said resources from tbe corporations/ their owners

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, it's just "influencer shit".

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago

I squirrelmax because I’m acorn pilled.

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago

This guy nuts.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

is*

So are we all. ✊🏼

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[-] kamen@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago

I'm a software developer. For me, "alpha" means somethings that's still buggy, unfinished and unfit for wide availability.

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

I study ancient languages. Alpha is just a letter of the alphabet.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

i'm a wannabe software developer. to me, alpha is when you're bored of using latin letters

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 14 points 1 month ago

I'm a physicist. To me, alpha is highly dangerous but is incapable of penetrating the human body. Seems to check out

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Wrong. Beta means that. Alpha means "set everything on fire."

I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm saying we have different definitions. Cheers!

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm a hobby software developer and a fan of reading a lot of about physics. To me, "alpha" means an highly unstable configuation with massive amount of over optimistic excitement and just one wrong nudge will have catastrohic emmission of high energy photons and sounds. But it all decays away eventually and reaches stable state. xD

[-] newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org 46 points 1 month ago

People concerned with how alpha they are are so silly. So hilariously unaware that they are broadcasting just how deeply insecure they are.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Right? If some dude on YouTube has to reassure you you’re “alpha“, you most certainly are not.

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[-] cinoreus@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

Well squirrels are also strong enough to crack the earth in half, I watched it in a documentary.

[-] SpacePirate@feddit.nu 5 points 1 month ago

In this documentary was the squirrel also responsible for creating the contenets by running on earth core?

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[+] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I work with a lot of guys into (or adjacent to) the "I'm deeply insecure about myself" part of the manosphere. Testosterone supplements, sildenafil, meat heavy diets, etc.

I usually ignore it, but sometimes they start pushing that stuff or talking down to me about it. The easiest way to shut it down is playing off their insecurities.

"I'm already a man, I don't need gender affirming care." Followed by asking them how their transition into a man is going -- most of them are highly transphobic.

"Why? Mine [dick] works fine, but I'm glad you found something that helps."

"I don't do fad diets."

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 29 points 1 month ago

You mean to tell me that the people at the top, who confidently know they have already won, don't run around like desperate insecure dickheads trying to prove that they are the most valuable worker bee?

On a more serious note, they represent and propagate some of the worst parts of our culture, especially in the US.

According to them (and most of my upbringing) the indicators of leading a good life include money, possessions, greed, excess, and dominating others.

Things that are actually good for us are seen as being crutches for the weak. You know, like community, healthy relationships, generosity, and fulfilling work/hobbies.

I would say it propagates conservative values like innate hierarchy and your worth as a human being equal to your economic output, but plenty of people who don't consider themselves conservatives get wrapped up in it.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago

I like squirrels.

[-] xylol@leminal.space 6 points 1 month ago

watching squirrels reminds me of myself when I was playing arc raiders, running from corner to corner, stopping to see if I hear anything around me, then scavenging for stuff, then run some more to another corner and repeat. then come across some big arc and run for my life

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

You know, I would totally play an extraction game where you play as a squirrel gathering nuts and things.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Isn't Acron exactly that, in a couch co-op? 🤩

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[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Not an extraction game but Squirrel With a Gun might be up your alley.

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[-] Triumph@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

I used to get squirrels to climb on me for peanuts.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

sits in your lap

Peanut please. Peanut me now.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh they'll nut you, alright! 😏

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Oh ouch.

Hope your peanuts get better.

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[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

It's more like love-hate for me. They're terribly cute and they do play an important ecological role.

But they are destructive little shits. Mercilessly and needlessly destroying homes, gardens, and at times even vehicles. Their reigns of terror are expensive and tough to mitigate. And with so few remaining natural predators, their populations quickly grow to near plague levels quite rapidly. May your tomato plants be damned.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Stop chasing away the coyotes, corvids, raptors, snakes, or pretty much any mid-tier predator, then. Coexist > consume.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago

Best advice I've seen in a long time.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Gotta get that nut either way!

[-] makeshift0546@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

When I wake up in the morning and do my bike rides or lifting, I feel great throughout the day and have more energy. You don't have to be alpha to know a bit if excersice is great and I think you'll find makes you feel better for the rest of the day

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

Nah, I never feel better after I work out. Just tired and kind of shitty. Having to go to work afterwards would make me want to walk into traffic.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's why I work out after work

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Same and overall I do feel better. Just not immediately during/afterwards.

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