• @[email protected]
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    1618 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      118 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.

      • @Nikki
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        18 months ago

        i am the omega female

  • Maple Engineer
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    1138 months ago

    If you have to tell people you’re an alpha, you’re not.

    • @madcaesar
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      1368 months ago

      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.

        • @[email protected]
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          1018 months ago

          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.

          • @captainlezbian
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            498 months ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              128 months ago

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

          • @Agrivar
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            148 months ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              208 months ago

              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.

          • VindictiveJudge
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            38 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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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

        • @captainlezbian
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          118 months ago

          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

      • @Kalysta
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        38 months ago

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

      • Maple Engineer
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        Stop your honking, Nancy. I know. I was calling people who claim to be alpha, “weak ass bitches.”

    • @Phegan
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      18 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.

  • @xkforce
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    568 months ago

    Alpha software: broken and incomplete software

    Alpha radiation: very little penetration power

  • @[email protected]
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    468 months ago

    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.

    • Kevin
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      198 months ago

      Missed opportunity for her to delta outta there instead

    • ivanafterall
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      Perfect opportunity to howl as she walks away from the table. AR-AR-AROOOOO!!!

  • @captainlezbian
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    388 months ago

    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

      • Tomassci
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        out of context this looks like you’re afraid of blood groups, in context I agree

    • Karyoplasma
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      It’s alpha as in alpha-stage software. Unfit for production.

      • @force
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        28 months ago

        if i had to take a guess, alpha beta omega?

      • @captainlezbian
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        28 months ago

        So here’s an entertaining video that will give the basics. But it’s a kink based around the alpha wolf idea

        • LoudWaterHombre
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          58 months ago

          If this is an hour long video explaining wolf porn then we might have a different view on ‘entertaining’

          • @captainlezbian
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            28 months ago

            It’s a video explaining a lawsuit over wolf porn copyrights. It’s entertaining by batshit value

  • @[email protected]
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    238 months ago

    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.

  • @AeonFelis
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    208 months ago

    Sigma? How about ligma?

  • @[email protected]
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    138 months ago

    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.

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    FoXeS aRe JuSt CaT sOfTwArE rUnNiNg On DoG hArDwArE.

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

  • @[email protected]
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    68 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      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.