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.
If you have to tell people you're an alpha, you're not.
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.
There's no wolf alphas in nature neither. It's an old and debunked theory based on studying captive wolves.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/
What? Someone making sense about the social evolution of humans? Not on my internet!
Stop your honking, Nancy. I know. I was calling people who claim to be alpha, "weak ass bitches."
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.
How beta.
Alpha software: broken and incomplete software
Alpha radiation: very little penetration power
Alpha Centauri: less than a tenth of the mass of Beta Centauri.
Did you just call me fat?
Sounds like me...
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.Missed opportunity for her to delta outta there instead
I tried that once but my flight got delayed twice so I flew frontier instead.
Perfect opportunity to howl as she walks away from the table. AR-AR-AROOOOO!!!!
Every time I see people call themselves an alpha I immediately think they’re a/b/o role playing on main. Mind you that kink also involves misunderstanding wolves, but kink is rarely based on reality
Please god please don't bring a/b/o here, Lemmy was my safe space 😭
out of context this looks like you're afraid of blood groups, in context I agree
It's alpha as in alpha-stage software. Unfit for production.
What's a/b/o role playing?
So here’s an entertaining video that will give the basics. But it’s a kink based around the alpha wolf idea
wtf is a TL
Pretty sure that's time line
Thank you! I legitimately had no idea what that could stand for.
Embedding the image:
Tnx :)
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.
Actually it turns out its a myth that there are alpha wolves at all. Makes this even better. https://www.sciencenorway.no/ulv/wolf-packs-dont-actually-have-alpha-males-and-alpha-females-the-idea-is-based-on-a-misunderstanding/1850514
The only thing I know about wolf socialization is from a documentary I saw where 2 wolves were fucking and the girl wolf's dad came back with the rest of her pack and caught them and when the boy wolf tried to run away he dragged her down like 3/4 of the giant hill they were on by his dick before it popped out. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.
Isn't this the plot of one of those twilight movies
FoXeS aRe JuSt CaT sOfTwArE rUnNiNg On DoG hArDwArE.
Also rabbits eat carrots, mice eat cheese, and turtles eat pizza
sigma balls
I think Sigma is more often used to describe misogyny than anything positive, so I'm definitely not that either.
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.
Yes, Xitter is also my platform of choice to consume non-dumb-ass content...
I'm the omega man
I bet you encounter a lot of resistance...
In my whole life, a lot of zombies out there
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.
Are we all supposed to sigma now?
Join me on !sigma_memes
