• @[email protected]
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    706 months ago

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

    • @xkforce
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      316 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.

      • @spittingimage
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        176 months ago

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

      • @atomicorange
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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.

  • @ladicius
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    646 months ago

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

    • @atomicorange
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      416 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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        186 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.

        • @hakunawazo
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          16 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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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?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      226 months ago

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

      • @omega_x3
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        36 months ago

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

  • FuglyDuck
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    326 months ago

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

    • @Jivebunny
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      36 months ago

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

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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.

    • @NegativeInf
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      116 months ago

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

    • FuglyDuck
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      266 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::

  • @Viking_Hippie
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    286 months ago

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

  • @BluesF
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    216 months ago

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

      • @BluesF
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        26 months ago

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

    • @mipadaitu
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      26 months ago

      And sometimes inject.

  • @AusatKeyboardPremi
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    206 months 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
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      the motherboard. how else can you tell that it is working?

      • @AusatKeyboardPremi
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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.

    • @trxxruraxvr
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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.

        • @AusatKeyboardPremi
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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.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      66 months ago

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

    • @[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

      • @AusatKeyboardPremi
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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.

    • @atomicorange
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      146 months ago

      So you’re saying I can lick Uranus?

      • @spittingimage
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        26 months 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
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          26 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months 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

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

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