• @Ensign_Crab
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    84 hours ago

    Douglas Adams’ middle name was “Noel”, not “and”.

  • ZeroOne
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    148 hours ago

    Nucleic isn’t a thing huh ? Can we send these people to a Gulag

  • AgentOrangesicle
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    4611 hours ago

    What part of deoxyribonucleic acid do you not understand?

      • @debil
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        129 hours ago

        This new craze they call “rock nucleic roll” is driving the country’s youth wild!

    • MacN'Cheezus
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      610 hours ago

      What if I told you there’s another kind of DNA for which that statement is actually true?

  • @Rato
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    5315 hours ago

  • @peanutyam
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    4717 hours ago

    “God safe us” - irony right there especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!!

    God save us ….

    • Victor
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      1211 hours ago

      The amount of grammatical mistakes in your own comment is pretty ironic as well.

      Muphry’s Law strikes again.

      • @[email protected]
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        910 hours ago

        Excuse me, it’s Muphry’s Theory. It hasn’t been proven enough to be a scientific law.

        • Subverb
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          25 hours ago

          I dont believe in Muphies Theory cause uts just a theory. I’ve done my own research and u ahoukd to.

        • Victor
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          49 hours ago

          😆👌 fair enough

      • @peanutyam
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        19 hours ago

        Well then use this as a teaching moment and elaborate then?

        I live in a country that uses the King’s English, not the American version so please enlighten me - I do enjoy learning.

        But don’t say there are an amount of errors without even trying to quantify them….given the burden of proof rests with you.

        • Victor
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          Fair enough, let’s have at it, Mr. “King’s English”. (God, do you even hear how insufferably pretentious that sounds?)

          Let’s start with the original comment. My edits in [brackets].

          “God safe us” - [the] irony right there[… something? “is funny”? What about the irony? You have to finish the thought.][missing comma] especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym[comma] perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!! [Overuse of exclamation points, although one could argue the level of severity in the contents of your message…]

          God save us …. [space between “us” and the ellipsis"; and an extra period after the ellipsis]

          Next comment!

          Well then[missing comma] use this as a teaching moment and elaborate[missing comma; also another “then”? Then then then then.] then?

          I live in a country that uses the King’s English[pretentious af but nothing wrong here], not the American version[missing comma] so please enlighten me - [hyphen instead of en dash] I do enjoy learning. [Good, you’re learning right now.]

          But don’t say there are [“is an amount”, probably? I don’t know what the King says, but that’s what I would say] an amount of errors without even trying to quantify them….given [again, ellipsis with an extra period; also the weird use of an ellipsis here – it should be a comma] the burden of proof rests with you.

          Did you learn something?

        • Victor
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          Care to elaborate? I may have missed a comma here or there, but what else was wrong?

          I mean your own spelling is rather atrocious - especially when devices tend to have a spell check; “Muphry”? Is he a distant cousin of Murphy perchance?

          Oh and I use the Kings English here in my country, not “US English” ……

          Oh my word, this was embarrassing for you. 😂 My spelling was absolutely perfect, you shmuck. No wonder you deleted it before I even saw the reply in my inbox.

          • @peanutyam
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            19 hours ago

            Hardly embarrassing - you don’t seem to understand light hearted banter clearly….yes I was playing on Murphy/Muphry.

            Geez straight to name calling though - classy 🙄

            Have a nice life.

            • Victor
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              17 hours ago

              You’re right. The schmuck name calling was perhaps a bit harsh on you.

              You were “playing” on Murphy/Muphry? What does that mean? It seems like you just didn’t know Muphry’s Law was a thing, and you tried to hang me for “misspelling” it, then you realized what it is and deleted the comment. But maybe I’m just assuming. 🤷‍♂️

              I don’t know if you’re bantering, perhaps you are. I just have a hobby of shitting on people’s grammar that complain about other people’s grammar. It’s this Robin Hood type of feeling I get. I’m probably sick or something.

              Take care!

  • @Vinny_93
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    17422 hours ago

    Should we point out that in this context it’s ‘save’, not ‘safe’? If you’re going to correct someone’s spelling, make sure your own is impeccable.

  • @Grimy
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    15022 hours ago

    Deoxyribonucleic acid, for anyone wondering

    • @Nurse_Robot
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      16722 hours ago

      Deoxyribo&ucleic acid, for anyone sophisticated

      • ALQ
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        4222 hours ago

        Deoxyriboanducleic acid, according to Shadow Radar.

      • @niktemadur
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        318 hours ago

        Ah yes, cue Monocle’d Pooh!

        • @very_well_lost
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          921 hours ago

          Sometimes I take an andacid when my stomach hurts.

          • @Nurse_Robot
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            621 hours ago

            More acid ought to do the trick

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s a gay term, and when gay men have sex, there is usually more than one dick. It’s a play on TNA, which is plural too.

          There is a gay magazine called DNA, a play on the fact that it may be genetic. we all know what they really mean.

          But, sure, in a straight monogamous relationship, there may be a singular. Broaden your mind to other possibilities.

    • madthumbs
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      421 hours ago

      I have this acronym finder as a search engine shortcut in vomnibar. It never has what I’m looking for:

      Department(al) Network Administrator Datanetwork Associates (Software) Does Not Apply

    • Doom
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      513 hours ago

      I thought it was the three branches of science? Dinosaurs, Nukes and Aerodynamics?

    • @Shou
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      1719 hours ago

      deoxyribose & acid

      • @[email protected]
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        1419 hours ago

        In German it’s “Desoxyribonukleinsäure”. I never realized English doesn’t have the “s”

        • ✺roguetrick✺
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          It gets worse. Desoxyephedrine and deoxyephedrine are two completely different substances. Ones methamphetamine and the other is natural and as drugs they act very differently.

    • @niktemadur
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      418 hours ago

      Does sound like some kind of duo.
      Comedy duo maybe?
      Psych Hop, aka Psychedelic Hip Hop… is that even a thing?

  • @yesman
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    9821 hours ago

    Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.

    for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.

      • DreamButt
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        2420 hours ago

        Scientists use one to pretend the other

        • @Hobbes_Dent
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          211 hours ago

          You gotta mix Greek and Latin to make it sound cool.

    • @[email protected]
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      1020 hours ago

      I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?

      • @dingus
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        519 hours ago

        Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the “mammillary bodies”. It’s because it looks like a pair of tits.

    • @Maalus
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      414 hours ago

      It’s DNeh, eh? actually

      • @Hobbes_Dent
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        111 hours ago

        Hey bud, how’s she goin’? They’re just talking about Dean, eh. He left for beers and weed and hasn’t returned. We need beers and weed.