To use a different (alternate) approach to solving a problem when the standard approach doesn't work, an approach that is less complicated than improvising.
There was no bell at the hotel front desk, so we alternized by saying "ding, ding" until the clerk came out of the back room.
by JBoftheWikipedia July 24, 2009
Get the alternize mug.Refers to a "just as bad or worse" substitution-product/activity employed to supposedly "fill the void" created by a discontinued unhealthy habit --- the idea here is that while the milk itself may indeed be low-fat, the added calorie-rich and sugary-sweet chocolate has far more fattening ingredients than just the cream in full-fat milk could possibly have contained, and so the person will likely gain even more weight than ever.
Three classic --- and very tragic --- examples of a "chocolate-milk alternative" would be a substance-abuse recovery-program's giving a dry-drunk lots of high-sugar foods in place of alcohol, someone's switching to compulsive shopping in place of gambling, or a person's becoming harshly-snappy and irritably-demanding after giving up cigarettes.
by QuacksO November 5, 2018
Get the chocolate-milk alternative mug.Refers to the more light-hearted/trivial-affliction-related (i.e., non-substance-abuse or other serious-addiction-type condition) gatherings of sufferers where everyone shares life-stories and fellowship, and tries to assist each other in reducing/alleviating said unfortunate conditions/infirmities. Examples would include Belchers Anonymous (at all the other meetings listed here, they serve you tasty carbonated drinks, but at this meeting, you only get non-fizzy libation so that you won't start burping!), Bellyachers Anonymous, Colliders Anonymous (for folks who often clumsily blunder into objects/people), Foot-steppers Anonymous (again, this would be for those of you who don't adequately watch where you're walking, and so you accidentally tread on others' toes a lot), Groaners Anonymous (they seat you in chairs with heating-pads and offer you pain-relievers), Grumblers Anonymous, Stumblers Anonymous, Whiners Anonymous, Yawners Anonymous (at all the other meetings they let you sit on comfy upholstered chairs, but here they make you sit on hard wooden benches so that you don't get too relaxed and then start sleepily displaying your tonsils), etc.
One amusing fact about alternative anonymous meetings is that quite a number of any particular meeting's attendees may also suffer from a lot of the maladies and shortcomings addressed in other anonymous meetings, as well (i.e., achy people who copiously moan and groan also tend to complain a lot and mindlessly bumble into and/or step on the feet of unsuspecting souls unfortunate enough to happen to be in their paths), and so you tend to see a lot of familiar faces at many of the various meetings.
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Me: oh, that’s just Klaus’s cult, the alternative spiritual community
Me: oh, that’s just Klaus’s cult, the alternative spiritual community
by Basictransguy March 9, 2022
Get the alternative spiritual community mug.The Fidler Alternative is the name of the alternative value of p-hat, the sample proportion, which would lead to the same result for a two-tailed hypothesis test.
He told his students that the Fidler Alternative was always going to be an equal distance from p-null as p-hat was, just in the opposite direction.
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Get the Fidler Alternative mug.Alternative Transhumanism, also Alt-Transhumanism or Alt-H+, is a term, often pejorative, to refer to ideologies, philosophies and ideas that are considered as transhumanism but they aren't part of classical transhumanism or make opposition to classical transhumanism, that doesn't advocate the classical transhumanist ideas of mixing with machines and AI and nor even to become classical cyborgs, androids and machines. Some ideologies, philosophies and ideas that are considered as forms of alternative transhumanism are: (Techno)psionicism, quantumism, extraphysicism, spiritualicism, (techno)vibrationalism, divinialism, geneticism, esoteric soulism, esoteric transhumanism and post-spacetimeism.
"Alternative Transhumanism is not that bad, it's actually good to break the hegemony of classical transhumanism and show it's possible to have other alternatives for human evolution besides the classical transhumanism itself. But it might take some time until classical transhumanism become hegemonic, but it might happen in less than 10 years from now."
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