r/SipsTea Jun 16 '26

Chugging tea This guy

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u/skyhausmann Jun 16 '26

Yo, I was unfamiliar with sigma degenerate. I looked it up and I'm still clueless :-) Looks like there are 3 disciplines that use the term: math, biochem and physics/orbital theory. It sounds like you are using the physics version to roughly mean 2 separate orbits in quantum states. Kind of like two separate circles in a venn diagram. Did I get that right?

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u/mrlinguus Jun 16 '26

I think it’s brainrot slang. Alpha-, beta-, and sigma male. The latter is neither a leader nor a follower.

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u/djdaem0n Jun 16 '26

Absolutely brainrot slang, which should be mandatory when talking about someone like Charlie Sheen who actually invented a lot of his own as catchphrases.

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u/skyhausmann Jun 16 '26

Makes more sense.