• anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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      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.

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        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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        My dad joined a local celiac group in the early 2000s not long after his sister developed celiac through pregnancy and his doctor suggested he start the diet out of an abundance of caution. At the time there were about 10 people in the group local to a city of ~250k. They’d swap menu hacks to get safe(ish) food while out and about and trade recipes. Then some specialty stores started carrying more safe stuff as the fad was starting to gain traction and it definitely went mainstream when mainstream groceries and restaurants started officially offering safe options. Needless to say, that gluten-free diet support group no longer exists.

        Most interestingly, his other sister tested negative on the celiac blood test and neither I nor my dad have ever had that test done, so there’s a good chance we’re in the clear after all.

        I can’t remember now why I felt compelled to share this, or how it tied into your comment but I hope it’s at least interesting!

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        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.

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        True, although I met a girl with celiac early in the gluten-free fad who claimed that she couldn’t trust a lot of restaurants’ gluten-free options because a lot of them weren’t actually gluten-free. Restaurants were just chasing a trend that they didn’t fully understand. Things are much better now, but I think early on a lot of restaurants were treating gluten-free like the Atkins or Paleo diet, not an allergy.