• BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Any time someone uses the terms “alpha”, “beta”, or “sigma” unironically when referring to a person, I immediately write them off as a braindead waste of oxygen.

    I’m not even religious, and I’m praying tiktok finally gets banned.

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      8 months ago

      Definitely a hacked/fake account lol

      On an unrelated note, nothing screams dominance more than someone who gets their lifeprotips from a guy who needs to abuse women to get them to listen to him, and got arrested by the police. Sure seems the police are the alphas in this case lol.

      And in the US, E Jean Carrol seems to have shown “President” Trump who is really in charge too

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        Props to the judge who reminded the jury in the defamation case that it was already established fact that Trump had raped E Jean Carrol as were the findings from a previous case, and to disregard Trump’s attorneys who claimed otherwise.

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      8 months ago

      Feel the same way but why did you mention religious in particular? Do they have something against tiktok or something? I hate it for a bunch of reasons but I don’t see anything that could be particularly religious.

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    The wolf thing is a myth, these actually refer to the stages of software deveopment. Alpha is buggy, unstable, missing key features and unsutable for the public. Beta is mostly complete, but may still have bugs or occasional crashes. (So basicly teenagers)

    Some recent papers sugest it might also refer to alpha particles, high mass but very low penetration power and depth. These particles are typicaly emitted by high mass atom.

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    Do people just say “type A” personality now? Or describe someone as more “passive” as opposed to “assertive”? The alpha/beta/etc terms are scientifically unreal but it’s not like people generally don’t know what is being referred to when discussing people’s general personality vibes

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      I tell people there are two reasons I wear clothes. If I didn’t: #1 people would be uncomfortable. #2 I am too inattentive to stop it from dragging on the ground.

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      8 months ago

      Not really, they act more like normal extended family dynamics. The pyramid isn’t as linear as that implies.

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      8 months ago

      Back when Twitter was not known as a new name, I would respond to people in the time line talking about how they are alpha with this. Most of them just blocked me.

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      There are no human alphas. Without each other we’re all weak ass bitches. Just look at the series “Alone”. Even the most rugged outdoorsmen absolutely get fucked hard when they are alone.

      We’re a social species. Our strength is our cooperation. Anyone who thinks he’s above the rest kicking ass all alone is just a moron.

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        Not joining the whole alpha thing but where does alpha get described as lone?

        Meme Alphas are purported to be top dog but they still run with a pack

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          True. Though I’ll add, none of these people actually are leaders in their friend group or community. They think that being an aggressive ahole makes them a leader when real leadership tends to be about gently convincing people that they want to do what you want done or that they should do it anyways

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        What? Someone making sense about the social evolution of humans? Not on my internet!

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          To be absolutely clear to anyone who hasn’t read about this; it was debunked by the same guy who came up with it in the first place!

          The dude studied wolves in captivity, drew conclusions about their behaviour, then applied those studies to wolves in the wild and discovered that he’d got it all wrong. The behaviours that he observed in captive wolves were all stress responses.

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            Didn’t he also put a bunch of adolescent wolves together for that? It was basically a lupine Lord of the Flies in there.

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            Because he’s a good scientist. He followed the evidence, ran a different experiment to test his findings, and followed the evidence again.

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              Absolutely. He had the courage to question his own assumptions when they were challenged by new evidence. Everyone could stand to learn from him.

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            8 months ago

            So, what I’m hearing is that there are human alpha males… but only in prisons. That checks out.

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              No no you’ve got it backwards. Those are just stress responses. Human alphas do exist but you have to put them in the wild with a hungry pack of wolves.

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    Just asked ChatGPT what the social structure of a Wolf pack is and it trotted out all the alpha, beta crap, because that’s now what most people believe.

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    i once ended a date by telling her alpha doesn’t make sense in humans and she wasn’t “alphaing” the conversation by talking more than me…
    she abruptly beta-ed the fuck out of there.

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    8 months ago

    FoXeS aRe JuSt CaT sOfTwArE rUnNiNg On DoG hArDwArE.

    Also rabbits eat carrots, mice eat cheese, and turtles eat pizza

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    I think Sigma is more often used to describe misogyny than anything positive, so I’m definitely not that either.

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      I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a mockery of misogyny (or the more general toxic masculity). The Sigma male term was supposedly describing a social outcast who doesn’t play the social game but still somehow wins the social game, and thus gets respect and women. Obviously the internet ran with it because it hits the sweetspot of stupidity where it becomes funny

      Of course some people actually believe it and use it unironically, but it’s mostly about mocking the supposed Greek lettered male classification. Then again memes change in time and maybe it is returning to its original toxic meaning.