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

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Rudolph Schenkel (yes really)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I was thinking maybe because of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, being kind of the alpha of the reindeer herd? No idea, really

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I don’t get it either. It’s not like he’s called Wanker or anything.

[–] eronth 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for your perspective.

For a moment I was wondering if it's the similarity to the Israeli currency Shekel, but that doesn't make sense to me either.

[–] eronth 1 points 8 hours ago

Shekel also sounds funny to us. It might be related to how it sounds kinda similar to shekel, but I think he's just noting that the goofy-sounding name is real.

[–] madcaesar 1 points 14 hours ago

Isn't Schenkel thigh in German?

[–] portuga 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

"Thigh", actually :-)

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (2 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.
[–] BluesF 1 points 17 hours ago

~~Does it exist in humans, though? I'm fairly certain that it remains pseudoscientific in humans as well as wolves.~~

Oh, wait, I read point two. I stand corrected.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Shut the fuck up, omega

No /s come at me mods

(Not really though)

[–] SLVRDRGN 15 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'm Zeta Maxx

[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 days ago (11 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.

[–] Sylvartas 7 points 15 hours ago

I am a minimum viable product male

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

I am about v4.1 right now

[–] Psaldorn 53 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Test_Tickles 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 56 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm a Google Beta.

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

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days 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 4 points 22 hours ago

Ultimate power move: be both.

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

The Omega you want to be

The Omega you actually are

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

The omegaman you want to be

The omegaman you are

This is fun. Let's play more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

(You're on!)

The Omega you want to be:

The Omega you are:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The omega you want to be

The omega you are

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

(nice pivot, but I gotta go with what I know!)

The omega you want to be:

The omega you are:

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[–] themeatbridge 96 points 2 days 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] 40 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days 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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[–] pjwestin 38 points 2 days 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 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days 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] 5 points 1 day 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 12 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] 37 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] hakunawazo 32 points 2 days ago

Oh, hi Gordon.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

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