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A tweet saying "When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that int he context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing importand features, filled with flaws and not fit for the public.
And alpha radiation, which has next to no penetrating power.
Quite reasonable given that the animal behavior researchers recanted on the wolf research that led to a mistaken usage of the terms alpha and beta. Turns out they were just looking at adult wolves and labeling them alpha, and juvenile wolves and labeling those beta.
A lot of the Alpha/Beta hierarchies that right-wingers venerate also have strong parallels between parent/child relationships. Almost as though there is this generation of excess males desperately looking for adults to emulate, only to be lured into industrialized fascism. They're chewed up and spit out as goons operating for the personal profit of a bourgeois landlord class.
Really depressing stuff. The myth of the primitive social tribe used to corrupt young men into becoming agents of post-modern wealth aggregation machine.
There were so many different 'primitive social' systems, that doubtless ( at least in my mind) operated in every imagineable way over the past 300K-150K years. Some worked better than others, some disappeared because there was some event (giant flood, wolf pack ate everyone, etc), and not because they were any less useful, or less functional.
I'm still bummed out by the degree to which "feeding young people into the kill-or-be-killed media machine" seems to be succeeding as an organizing principle.
smae - it's never been a fav rubric. I'm always pumping the anarchisms, and 'if everybody wins, that means nobody loses' memes.
The person who published that paper has spent so much of his life trying to inform people that it is flawed.
And so many of the "how do you know what the author meant?" "I AM THE AUTHOR!"
If someone advertises that they are supposedly “better” than someone else, I think “what a loser” and that they are most likely a liar.
Humility is a lost art.
I myself am more of a vertical slice...
Jack of all trades, master of none...
Trying to be alpha is such a beta thing to do.
#Truth
When I hear someone say alpha/beta whatever my brain just goes to omegaverse hah
Same.
I feel like I’m a deprecated male
I’m a Gold Master Male. I’m ready for mass ~~procreation~~ duplication.
Alpha male? Beta male? Is there a Production model male as well?
Yep. The requirements are clear:
Be kind and respectful with everyone. Be accountable for your actions. Be honest and transparent about you expectations and intentions in any relationship.
That is it. But seems those are requirements hard to implement those days.
Yee, the production model is Pedro Pascal
That explains why my ex wife has the dude printed on a pillow sheet
Shit, those programmers are talented. Don't let any juniors anywhere near that.
That's what you would call people who feel secure in who they are.
Wait until you hear about “Release Candidate Males” and “Emergency Hotfix Males” !
Well eventually all males become EOL so there would be some steps in between alpha and that.
I hear there's a fair amount of abandonware males around as well.
And "oh fuck fuck fuck shit fuck oh no no no no, we need a database backup now!"-deployments. I don't like those.
and production still needs to get staged in beta before pushing
In the context of software it can mean whatever the fuck dev wants.
It essentially means, "beware, the software is pretty shit rn".
Even release models are flawed.. wait for the second patch atleast!