• @[email protected]
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    726 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      326 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        176 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        96 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      “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

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

    • @[email protected]
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      406 months 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
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        196 months ago

        I always hate how well this works…

        Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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          126 months 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!

        • @[email protected]
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          46 months 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.

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    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?

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

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        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    326 months ago

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

    • FuglyDuck
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      276 months ago

      “Lick this dish please.”

      “So you do lick the science?!”

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

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months 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::

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

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        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          26 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months 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

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months 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.