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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Don't "alpha males", as they describe themselves, typically prefer submissive women?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Rudolph Schenkel (yes really)

What? What is weird about that name? Maybe I'm too German native speaker to get this.

[–] eronth 2 points 3 hours ago

I think probably you're too German. It's kind of a goofy name from an English point of view. And, for clarity, we don't necessarily generally think German names are particularly goofy.

Either that or I'm missing what the guy is referencing.

[–] portuga 6 points 10 hours ago

Schenkel translates to “deer fucker” in german, I dunno I’m just making this up

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. languages evolve, and the origin is nothing more than a curio today. People use the term "alpha" to mean a thing that exists in humans, even if it never did in wolves.
  2. this thing is called by the rest of the population "being and asshole" and as such i find the self identification of those people very usefull and time saving.
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Shut the fuck up, omega

No /s come at me mods

(Not really though)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Hhyeah yes Daddy Alpha, I'll be quiet for you UwU~

[–] SLVRDRGN 12 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Guys, can't we all just get along. You're upsetting the Gammas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I'm Zeta Maxx

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Just remember:

An alpha release is unfit for public use, contains bugs, is untested, unrefined, and is likely to crash and may cause system wide issues.

An alpha is the first step, the very basic of basics, an infant in terms of development.

If anything, be an Omega man.

[–] lunarul 1 points 4 hours ago

Ultimate power move: be both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The Omega you want to be

The Omega you actually are

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

The omegaman you want to be

The omegaman you are

This is fun. Let's play more.

[–] EmpathicVagrant 3 points 17 hours ago

So it’s Walter Masterson.

Got it.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 day ago (10 children)

It makes more sense when we assume it's software development terminology instead. Alpha means the software is immature and full of issues.

I am a release candidate male.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I am about v4.1 right now

[–] Test_Tickles 4 points 18 hours ago

Well, I am a god damn mess as a person. So I'm like pre-alpha. I guess that makes me a proof of concept, or maybe even a thought exercise.

[–] Psaldorn 48 points 1 day ago

Hello ladies, I'm legacy code nobody wants to refactor and is being slowly converted into microservices.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

I'm just a beta male... they doubt I'm ready for release... but I'm far more stable than any alpha male.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I’m barely a proof of concept then. Or minimum viable product. 🙃

[–] buddascrayon 6 points 1 day ago

I'm an old version male. I'm out of date but stable and used by people who generally know what they're doing and I don't want something new that'll likely blow up in their face.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I'm an alpha male: barely able to keep myself running and likely to completely break down if I encounter something I'm not prepared to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm a Google Beta.

I am effectively immortal, but I will probably someday disappear without notice.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Don’t worry, your features “will be incorporated in future releases of our latest chat client and our Gmail.”

[–] TexasDrunk 11 points 1 day ago

I was stable release several years ago. Now I have security issues but some folks still think I'm awesome.

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[–] themeatbridge 95 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Imagine if phrenology caught on as the latest pop-culture dipshit trend.

"My bumpy skull means I'm preternaturally predisposed to be polygamous and misogynist, and I'm just looking for a girl who has a compatible set of head bumps."

"If you can't handle me at my alimentivenest, you don't deserve me at my inhabitivenest."

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

Clearly you've stayed away from 4chan and I commend you for it.

[–] rtxn 20 points 1 day ago

Isn't that just sparkling racism?

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[–] pjwestin 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Peter Gibson, the guy who discovered non-celiac gluten sensitivity, retracted his own study a few years later, but it had already become a fad diet, so it just stuck. That being said, there have been some studies that seem to confirm its existence, but the evidence is pretty thin. (To be clear, celiac disease and wheat allergies are 100% proven and can be reliably tested for).

[–] alekwithak 2 points 4 hours ago

A lot of people's gluten sensitivity is actually a sensitivity to glysophates.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

However, the gluten-free fad diet was actually incredibly beneficial for sufferers of celiac desease because it made gluten-free products so mainstream and really expanded what pre-made foods and snacks they can buy in stores.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Not really though, because it led to many places and cooks not taking it that seriously. Becky won't have any idea there's a little gluten on the knife and cutting board, but a person with celiac definitely would.

[–] Saprophyte 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sometimes, I have a friend with celiac who often sees "gluten free°" on menus to look down at the bottom of the menu and see "°not for people with gluten sensitivities"

He calls it "Becky gluten free" because Becky doesn't know what gluten is but she doesn't want it in her body.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To be more precise, Shenkel's work was discredited by the collective efforts of numerous scientists studying wolf behaviour. Probably the most notable of these was David Mech. His book "The Wolf" was based on Shenkel's work, and his own research on wolves in captivity, and was really the work that popularized the "alpha" nonsense in the public mind.

After numerous studies of wolves in the wild failed to bear out these conclusions, Mech later concluded that his work was wrong, and got The Wolf removed from publication.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As a lambda male, this doesn't faze me at all.

[–] hakunawazo 30 points 1 day ago

Oh, hi Gordon.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Screw alpha males, I'm an alpha woman with a thing for omega soft guys. 🥰

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I'm a male Bonobo, please keep me in line.

[–] chiliedogg 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

omega soft

I can definitely manage that.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The dude from the Scorpions also studies wolves?? When he's not rocking you like a hurricane?

No wait, that's Rudolf Schenker.

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[–] Caesium 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the study is so stupid for anyone who takes it seriously. I however enjoy the tag it birthed on Ao3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I just kinda associate it with smutty werewolf novels at this point

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