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[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ask a ~~physician~~ physicist to build a bridge, it collapse but he knows exactly how and why it collapsed.

Ask an engineer to do it, it holds but he has no idea how it's holding together.

[-] lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

Wow med school has really upped their game.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

"Doctors Without Bridges"

[-] Naboo_calls_for_aid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Where we're going we don't need bridges

[-] Hobo@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

I think the word you're looking for is physicist. A physician is a medical doctor (as in a person that treats sick people). A physicist is a person that studies physics (as in a person that knows how to solve word problems involving pool tables).

[-] oce@jlai.lu 11 points 2 years ago

It's a classic French speaker mistake because physicist is "physicien" and physician is "médecin", very different.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

(And Russian)

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