• @[email protected]
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    891 month ago

    Here’s a version without the bad crop, comedy homicide, pointless circle around the punchline, and puritanical censoring

  • @[email protected]
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    241 month ago

    In his essay “To Tell a Chemist” (1965), Asimov proposed a simple shibboleth for distinguishing chemists from non-chemists: ask the person to read the word “unionized”. Chemists, he noted, will read un-ionized (electrically neutral), while non-chemists will read union-ized (belonging to a trade union).

  • @rockSlayer
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    201 month ago

    If you don’t think about it very hard, solidarity is basically macro ionization

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      1 month ago

      As a leftist chemistry teacher, I read it as “having attained union”, rather than “not ionized”, so YMMV with this heuristic

      ETA: (also, yeah, I have excellent job security until all public schools are abolished in the US)

  • Vanth
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    121 month ago

    My initial thought was “would chemists theoretically be less into labor protections than plumbers”?

    I guess that puts me in a third bucket.

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      1 month ago

      Am a chemist in your group. I read it the plumber way too. Took me several seconds to get it.

  • @[email protected]
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    What about ChemE then? They’re both. Sort of. Okay maybe they’re not chemists, but… chemistry-adjacent.

  • @General_Effort
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    Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.