If you have to tell people you’re an alpha, you’re not.
It's ok, we sigma now.
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 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.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
There’s no wolf alphas in nature neither. It’s an old and debunked theory based on studying captive wolves.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Not joining the whole alpha thing but where does alpha get described as lone?
Alphas are purported to be top dog but they still run with a pack
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Call down, Nancy. I know. I was calling people who claim to be alpha, “weak ass bitches.”
Kalysta@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What? Someone making sense about the social evolution of humans? Not on my internet!
Phegan@lemmy.world 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.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How beta.
xkforce@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Alpha software: broken and incomplete software
Alpha radiation: very little penetration power
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Alpha Centauri: less than a tenth of the size of Beta Centauri.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Did you just call me fat?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sounds like me…
a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
And if he’d rolled low: “It’s the big one.”
xor@infosec.pub 8 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.technohacker@programming.dev 8 months ago
Missed opportunity for her to delta outta there instead
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I tried that once but my flight got delayed twice so I flew frontier instead.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 8 months ago
Perfect opportunity to howl as she walks away from the table. _AR-AR-AROOOOO!!!!_
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
wtf is a TL
jkibble@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Pretty sure that’s time line
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Thank you! I legitimately had no idea what that could stand for.
Kuori@hexbear.net 8 months ago
timeline
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 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
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Please god please don’t bring a/b/o here, Lemmy was my safe space 😭
Tomassci@kbin.social 8 months ago
out of context this looks like you're afraid of blood groups, in context I agree
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It’s alpha as in alpha-stage software. Not ripe for production.
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
What’s a/b/o role playing?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So here’s an entertaining video that will give the basics. But it’s a kink based around the alpha wolf idea
force@lemmy.world 8 months ago
if i had to take a guess, alpha beta omega?
OwlPaste@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Actually it turns out its a myth that there are alpha wolves. www.sciencenorway.no/ulv/…/1850514
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I think that’s exactly what the meme is about
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lol you get the joke! 7 points for gryffindor
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
That is an oddly specific amount of gryffindor points.
skvlp@lemm.ee 8 months ago
zurohki@aussie.zone 8 months ago
skvlp@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Tnx :)
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 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@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sigma? How about ligma?
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Mind goblin?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 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.
JammaJammaPJ@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Isn’t this the plot of one of those twilight movies
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 8 months ago
FoXeS aRe JuSt CaT sOfTwArE rUnNiNg On DoG hArDwArE
nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
sigma balls
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I think Sigma is more often used to describe misogyny than anything positive, so I’m definitely not that either.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 8 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.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I’m the omega man
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 months ago
I bet you encounter a lot of resistance…
Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
In my whole life, a lot of zombies out there
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Yes, Xitter is also my platform of choice to consume non-dumb-ass content…
spacecadet@hexbear.net 8 months ago
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
bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I tell people there are two reasons I wear clothes. #1 people would be uncomfortable. #2 I am too inattentive to stop it from dragging on the ground.
radiofreeval@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Aren’t alpha males and females kind of real in the sense that they are just wolf mom and dad?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Not really, they act more like normal extended family dynamics. The pyramid isn’t as linear as that implies.
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
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)
morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Join me on !sigma_memes
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are we all supposed to sigma now?
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.
Auzy@beehaw.org 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
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
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.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 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.
enkille@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably the “praying” part
niske@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Probably because they used ”praying” which is quite directly connected to religions.
jaykay@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Excuse me, I’m a delta
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Hello roof!
Nikki@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i am the omega female