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.

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

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

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

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So are we all. ✊🏼

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

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

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

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

Yeah that's why I work out after work

You also had to visit a nut doctor?