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• anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m an alpha male: barely able to keep myself running and likely to completely break down if I encounter an edge case my designers did not forsee.

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  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m a Google Beta.

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

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    • If_Its_Kitsch_I_Sits@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just try not to leave the few remaining people who depend on you, up shit creek. Get a will.

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    • pancake@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m a beta-lactam antibiotic.

      Good for many tasks, but rapidly becoming useless.

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn, too early of a release eh?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And not suitable for public release, obviously

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also have a memory leak.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Limited release to the world.

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• pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s the difference between beta and release candidate?

      EA doesn’t know either.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am a minimum viable product male

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I too am a release candidate, but my marketing sucks.

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  • mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • revlayle@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am about v4.1 right now

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m Concord.

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  • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think of myself as code-complete but not necessarily bug-free.

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  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think I might be a vertical slice…

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.”

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, I’ve got news for you: rollingstone.com/…/far-right-phrenology-physiogno…

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t that just sparkling racism?

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  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    so I was in the UK’s largest chain bookstore (Waterstones) on Saturday and I found a phrenology cat

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the cutest pseudoscience I’ve ever seen.

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  • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2dolychocephalic4me

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    if our heads don’t slot together like lego pieces the relationship isn’t going to work out

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Between RFK, Leon, and Trump the odds are pretty good of it coming back b

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  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d get some good hammers and make a (possibly literal) killing as a retrophrenologist…

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• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shut the fuck up, omega

    No /s come at me mods

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    • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Either you or OP wrote Schenkel wrong.

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    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OP is correct

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• masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ultimate power move: be both.

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Omega you want to be

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    The Omega you actually are

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    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The omegaman you want to be

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      The omegaman you are

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      This is fun. Let’s play more.

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  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So it’s Walter Masterson.

    Got it.

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• Bonifratz@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, hi Gordon.
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• pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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).

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• missgalvin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t “alpha males”, as they describe themselves, typically prefer submissive women?

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rudolf Schenkel (yes really)

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

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• Utter_Karate@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m an alpha male. If you study me in captivity I will display downright unnatural behavior.

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• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alpha, beta, sigma, all just types of prison bitch. Scientifically speaking.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you were a (regressive, anti-science) female that believed this, wouldn’t you have to be a “beta” wolf in this fictional world?

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• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The dude from the Scorpions also studies wolves??

  No wait, that’s Rudolf Schenker.

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• Caesium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Carrots improve eyesight…nah, just military misinformation that is now a staple for parents to get their kids to eat their carrots

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• BoxedFenders@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if this discourse sounds hilarious to a Greek person wondering why Angloids keep referring to themselves by letters of their alphabet.

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• TheDoctor@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The alphas in question

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• zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Someone needs to tell all the authors involved in the wave of trash urban fantasy books that flooded the market a while back, using this to write werewolves. (True Blood, etc.)

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• Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are species that do have leader types in the social hierarchies though. Gorillas for example, or orcas.

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve heard this debunk a lot over the years, and I don’t disbelieve it, but is it not the case that one or two animals (wolves or otherwise) in a group will be the “bosses” or something close to being dominant over the others? Is all of that internal power struggling we see in groups/families of animals not really what it seems? Or is the “alpha” stuff different from that? Or does it only apply to wolves, and “alphas” do exist in other animal species?

  Yours, confused and uneducated,

  u/58008

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• Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL!

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did Schenkel deliberately make that alpha shit up (which would justify calling his paper “bogus”) or was he just bad at research?

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