I'm a software developer. For me, "alpha" means somethings that's still buggy, unfinished and unfit for wide availability.
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i'm a wannabe software developer. to me, alpha is when you're bored of using latin letters
I'm a physicist. To me, alpha is highly dangerous but is incapable of penetrating the human body. Seems to check out
You have discovered their secret. They are timid frail people preaching to timid frail people. Nobody with actually healthy mindsets and self confidence watches shit like that.
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.
That's a lot of words to say "I'm a squirrel".
^(kidding)^
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
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.
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.
Not really, no. They measure different but related things, torque isn't actually a measure of power, unless you also know the RPM.
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.
Unironically, alpha male shit is a psyop from big corporations to encourage employees to work harder in the hopes of getting imaginary super-raises.
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
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.
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
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.
Yes, it's just "influencer shit".
Well squirrels are also strong enough to crack the earth in half, I watched it in a documentary.
In this documentary was the squirrel also responsible for creating the contenets by running on earth core?
I squirrelmax because I’m acorn pilled.
This guy nuts.
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So are we all. ✊🏼
People concerned with how alpha they are are so silly. So hilariously unaware that they are broadcasting just how deeply insecure they are.
Right? If some dude on YouTube has to reassure you you’re “alpha“, you most certainly are not.
Most MAGA dudes in a nutshell.
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Gotta get that nut either way!
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
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.
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