programming.dev
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Oiconomia@feddit.de to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

Can I lick it? Yes you can.

feddit.de

message-square
94
link
fedilink
1.04K

Can I lick it? Yes you can.

feddit.de

Oiconomia@feddit.de to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
message-square
94
link
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • Galapagon@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    72
    ·
    1 year ago

    Chemistry has discovered more than they probably care to admit by accidentally licking things.

    • xkforce@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      32
      ·
      1 year ago

      Purposefully licking things.

      Chemists of old were a bit less safety conscious than we are today. Tasting the chemicals you just made was just part of the job back then.

      • spittingimage@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        17
        ·
        1 year ago

        Chemists of old were plenty safety conscious. Licking the science is what apprentices were for.

      • atomicorange@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 year ago

        We still like to sniff stuff. You’ve got some very sensitive chemoreceptors right on your face, might as well use them!

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          very sensitive chemoreceptors

          laughs in canine

    • Oiconomia@feddit.deOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      “Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?” is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.

      EDIT: Michael Sveda’s discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      1 year ago

      Mouth pipetting is a large part of this.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Literally how we got aspartame. It started as an ulcer drug.

  • ladicius@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    66
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Biology: Lick here… Yep, that’s the spot. Continue… Oh yeah, keep going. Uhhh…

    • atomicorange@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      40
      ·
      1 year ago

      Human anatomy: you’re technically always licking it. And now you’re aware of it. Your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Touching your teeth.

      • Commanderoptimism@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        19
        ·
        1 year ago

        I always hate how well this works…

        Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          12
          ·
          1 year ago

          The fuck did I do to you? Now I can feel my tongue and I don’t know how to breathe!

          I hope you can hear your blinking for the rest of the day!

        • Classy@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          I’ve heard that with enough lack of stimuli combined with enough concerted concentration, you can actually begin to feel your guts as they process food. Like, feeling the muscles contracting.

        • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yes, and if you imitate a salt shaker over your tongue, you can taste the salt…

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    52
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Geography: You can try, but it’s gonna take you a while.

    Cartography: “Would you not lick my maps, please?”

    History: Fuck You.

    Sociology: Allowed and encouraged in some fields, others… better not.

    Economics: “Is Human Resources there?”

    Medicine: “Next, please.” or “Don’t, please.”

    Civil engineering: Go ahead, eat the dirt.

    Law: Go to jail.

    Political science: Could you please do this somewhere else?

  • AlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    48
    ·
    1 year ago

    Electronics: Only the low voltage side.

    • Oiconomia@feddit.deOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      24
      ·
      1 year ago

      Lick the null and keep on with your life. Lick the phase and suffer. Lick two phases and die.

      • omega_x3@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        You can always lick the ground or earth depending on where you live

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    ·
    1 year ago

    Mycology: “go ahead have a seat. Lick this one. It’ll be fun!”

    • Jivebunny@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Certain tree frogs in the Amazon: while you’re at it, lick us too

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I want to make a joke about “that’s how you catch herpes”, but my brain is fried.

        So I’ll just leave you with the knowledge that the Colorado River Toad is also psychedelic. and the Park Service really wants people to stop.

  • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    1 year ago

    Software engineering… If you can lick it, you spelled “click” wrong. And that’s why your code won’t compile, you complete failure.

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      NameError: name ‘lick’ is not defined. Did you mean: ‘click’?

      • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        NameError: name ‘lick’ is not defined. Did you mean: ‘sudo rm -rf /’?

        Ftfy

        • LoudWaterHombre@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          📞Hello police? Yeah it’s this one.📞

  • Mikufan@ani.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    1 year ago

    Let’s ask Microbiology and Virology

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      1 year ago

      “Lick this dish please.”

      “So you do lick the science?!”

      “No. You are the science.” <checks watch><marks something down on a clipboard>

    • QTpi@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      My Clinical Microbiology teacher: I’m no longer allowed to teach you how to waft plates, but… if you happen to catch a whiff of ____ growing on a plate, you would smell ____. ::wink, wink::

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    1 year ago

    In zoology, science might lick you, but it might also bite you.

  • growsomethinggood ()@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    27
    ·
    1 year ago

    Physics clubs always pull out the liquid nitrogen ice cream, so licking is an option!

    • HonorableScythe@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      As long as it’s the ice cream you’re licking and not the liquid nitrogen.

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    1 year ago

    Chemistry + licking = cooking

    • charolastra
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Well I’ll be…! I wonder if that’s how they came up with the word?

  • lenuup@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    1 year ago

    And then there is NileRed, who does lick the chemistry He does.

  • BluesF@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    1 year ago

    Chemistry 50 years ago: it is encouraged to smell, taste, and injest all of your work

    • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      You know it’s an old paper when it describes the taste of mercury salts.

      • BluesF@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Or the dizzying high resulting from tasting 2,3,4,5-tetramethoxyamphetamine

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      And sometimes inject.

  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    A quick question, should the software engineer lick the monitor screen or the keyboard?

    I… uh… am asking for a friend who is a software engineer.

    I am a butterfly instructor.

    • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      the motherboard. how else can you tell that it is working?

      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Given most software engineers develop in a cloud environment, I would… I mean my friend would have to shove their head into a server rack that is consuming high amounts of wattage. My friend would then have to try reaching for the motherboard by extending their tongue.

        The only problem I see here is travelling to the data centre which are often located in different countries or even continents. I am not sure if their employer would cover that expense.

        • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          1 year ago

          ssh into the server and lick your desktop’s motherboard

          • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            1 year ago

            Gives a whole new meaning to SSH tunnelling.

            • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialBanned
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              Quantum properties of SSH

        • odium
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Also, I don’t know if Amazon will let my friend in a similar situation into their data centers to lick the AWS motherboards.

          • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            1 year ago

            AMZN can charge extra as part of their AWS plan to allow enhanced debugging.

        • deur@feddit.nl
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Given most software engineers develop in a cloud environment

          This is 100% false

    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      Most keyboards get really gross after a while and are hardly ever cleaned. I’d go for the monitor.

      • Nelots@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        This is why they never get cleaned, you gotta start somewhere. Lick the keyboard!

        • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Apple could have avoided an entire lawsuit for their butterfly keyboards, if their users did this one thing. SMH.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      The butterflies. Someone needs to see if they taste of butter.

      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        They taste more like flies and less like butter.

        Source

        Don’t ask.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I have eaten fried moth. Tasted much like almond

    • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Licking is for mouses and touch-pads.

      Use the onLick() event.

    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t there a game where if you put ketchup on the disc it does something to make it easier to speedrun? So licking might be too unreasonable

      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for sharing the insight. Apparently, it was a speed run hack on Xbox for an old SpongeBob game.

        So, there’s some precedent set in the field of computer peripheral licking to improve results.

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Lmao dammit emacs

    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialBanned
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago
      Hey there I am Dev

      I set the universal constants.

  • dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    You can lick anything at least once.

    • atomicorange@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 year ago

      So you’re saying I can lick Uranus?

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        If you go there, yes.

      • spittingimage@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Point yourself at the surface so that when you get there the tongue-part of the pressure diamond you’ve become is lowest.

        • atomicorange@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Thank you for the practical advice! Uranus exerts a lot of pressure and getting my tongue up there could be challenging.

      • supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        That you wish you could ;)

    • odium
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      How would I go about licking the sun?

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialBanned
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Just send a meta-lick into the future. After long enough, the Sun will come closer to get licked.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Choose parts of the sun the sun has thrown away so as to not need to find a way of surviving to living range of the surface of the sun

  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    i had to link it, no choice rlly

    • bazus1@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      You can quest like a tribe does.

    • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      You beat me to it, but I’ll also add this other obligatory link.

Science Memes@mander.xyz

science_memes@mander.xyz

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don’t throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

  • [email protected]

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]

Biology and Life Sciences

  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • !reptiles and [email protected]

Physical Sciences

  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]

Humanities and Social Sciences

  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]

Practical and Applied Sciences

  • !exercise-and [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • !self [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]

Memes

  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]

Miscellaneous

  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 560 users / day
  • 3.81K users / week
  • 10.3K users / month
  • 23.2K users / 6 months
  • 289 local subscribers
  • 14.6K subscribers
  • 4.59K Posts
  • 114K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Salamander@mander.xyz
  • fossilesque@mander.xyz
  • SciBot@mander.xyz
  • fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org