Start pronouncing it ‘nucular’, there’s no bigger turn off.
RIGHT?! I’m glad I’m not the only one. It’s based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.
Common misconception but it’s actually based on Saint Nukulus, the guy that puts uranium in your boots if you leave them out overnight.
Did you know he was a real-life engineer in ancient Turducky?
Now, to be fair, nucleus it comes from the latin nuculus. It just that it sounds bad and feels bad to say
Yes officer, she touched my nuculus.
Noooooo my whole worldviewww
dw it’s not true, you were right, “nucleus” is already latin
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Nuculeus
Nuculeuslear
😩
nuculus*
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Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.
Is that because we exist within a nut?
Or something like that, I don’t know. I don’t remember anything from the “the universe in a nutshell” book.
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
went further back lol
Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut (“little nut”)
Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut
I can’t find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.So the PIE for little nut would be something like *knewelós
I don’t think the nuclear engineer wants the furries to know about ‘little nut’
I’ll take “that totally happened” for 200, please.
Clearly you have not regularly been to bars in Capitol Hill.
That’s nothing, that’s tame, that’s barely even remarkable as odd for all the wild shit I’ve seen and heard (and done -cough-) at and around the bars there.
That’s horrible! Truly awful! Which bars, specifically, should I be avoiding?
Well its been a while since I’ve been, but the Unicorn hopefully still has deepfried Snickers, uh, going to the Wild Rose as a dude is always… an option, lets say… aw fuck, they cancelled taco tuesday, apparently… and one of the original owners passed this year =(
Yeah I guess I’m a bit past my bar cruising prime years.
More or less, just avoid anywhere flooded by college kids, and you’ll probably find somewhere that matches your vibe.
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Which capitol hill, lmao?
Going off their other comments, the furry/tech population here, and their mention of specific bars, Seattle. Don’t worry though, I’m in the same area/culture and still find it kinda weird to throw out a location like that.
To be fair to them, though, the op post does reek of capitol hill furries and techno queers being commonplace and pleasantly weird. So common, that even outside of that city, there are occasional furry bars and coffee shops and stuff. It’s actually really nice.
Ah, nice city. I’ve been there a few times, but somehow I’ve never bumped into a furry. I always spent more times in the wilds nearby though, so maybe that does the trick.
Indeed I haven’t.
Well, perhaps you could try a Jeopardy-like quiz/trivia game at one of them some time =P
But that would require travelling to the US. I’ll have to pass on that until some semblance of sanity returns there. I don’t expect to see that in my lifetime.
Welp, thats entirely fair.
Yeah… we’re kinda all completely beyond fucked these days, over in the US.
I guess our death rattle will at least serve as the most extreme season of reality TV that’s ever been created, so… woooo for that I guess…
Lemmings spotting obvious satire challenge (impossible)
Sort of a similar situation with me and renfair people. I build and fit people with custom orthopedic braces and prosthetics and have access to a metal and leather lab.
I wouldn’t claim anyone is overly flirtatious, but they do seem to get friendlier and ask a lot of questions about things like hand setting rivets.
Cosplayers would also love you, but the venn diagram between cosplay and ren fair is nearly a circle, so
I do work with a lot of moldable foam. I’ve always kinda figured if I get kicked from the field or get bored I can always build costumes or custom leather kink gear.
#humblebrag
I will not be negged into fixing your plate mail.
I bet you can’t make me a leather scabbard
Easy… I have a wood working shop at home. I can just trace the sword and carve… Wait a sec.
Stupid sexy Nuclear Engineer!
Feels like I’m wearing nothing at all!
If you are worried about too many furries in your line of work, try changing jobs! Maybe get into IT or something?
Well then you just trade furries for scalies and bronies.
whoosh
so this is lemmy’s “science memes” huh
Edit: /nm
What would you want instead, a picture of the cover of Principia Mathematica? Just a Wikipédia link to the page for Pilot Wave Theory? Some broccoli taped to a white wall?
I like science memes like this.What’s stopping you from posting it exactly? You didn’t like the thing that I posted. Be the change you want to see in the world.
I’m pretty sure I got it from this community and I don’t want to repost. I believe reposts ruined reddit and I don’t want the same thing to happen to lemmy.
But Sometimes I enjoy laughing at the same thing twice.
I’m intrigued by the broccoli.
I give it a month before we see the guy QQing about they types of people that hit on industrial engineers.
Are you a well-designed process? Because you have zero wasted steps and maximum output.
just wait till they ruin it like linux memes with femboys and socks and other garbage :(
Forbidden take
Oh, I am not alone with that? Yes.
Don’t get the question. Sounds like telling people you’re a nuclear engineer is working out well.
Sounds like a honeytrap, those Furries must be up to something
The last thing we need is for them to develop nuclear capabilities…
I attract lawyers.
Don’t go to bars in Seattle?
Embrace the furries, could be fun for a fling.
I seem to be attracted to musicians more than any other hobby or profession. If you can sing or play an instrument, it makes me wet af.
I slap the end of pipes and tubes with a sandal. Sometimes I use two sandals, but society can’t always handle the intensity of that.
Are you painted blue while doing this?
cis he/him
insert ‘I’m gonna pre’ compilation
3 words:
Self. Lubricating. Anus.
If you don’t like this meme, post your own. That’s how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it’s a closed, invite-only forum. That’s the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
The people who whine the loudest in situations like this are always the people who have like three posts in their history.
If you don’t like this comment, post your own. That’s how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it’s a closed, invite-only forum. That’s the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
If you like this comment, post it again with a small change of your own. That’s how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it’s a closed, invite-only forum. That’s the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
I don’t get it. Why furries?
STEM fields are just full of furries, I don’t make the rules.
Because Seattle is full of them
What’s it got to do with being a nuclear engineer though? It just seems so random, it feels like I’m missing something.
Yes, and therein lies the humor, the juxtaposition of opining in casual tone what feels implied by the speaker to be mundane and relatable but which is in fact extremely niche and specifically un-relatable.
I suspect they are hoping to get their hands on some radioactivity which will turn them into an animal-human hybrid.
Many such cases!
