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[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago

It depends on which type of physicist. If they are a particle physicist 3cm is a whole lot

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

As a microbiologist, 3 cm is like the next county over. The particle physicist gets to add a few orders of magnitude to that.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago
[-] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

"A straight line is the edge of a circle with an infinite radius" type energy

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 123 points 2 days ago
[-] omega_x3@lemmy.world 107 points 2 days ago

Electrical engineer: fuck it make the wire thicker I'm not checking voltage drop again.

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago
[-] marcos@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago

That's the kind of reaction almost every kind of engineer would have. But also, some sympathy for the rocket people that can't afford to make measurements irrelevant.

[-] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

I feel seen

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Or "Fuck it, I bet there's enough slack in there that I can pull it out a few more centimeters, I just have to pull really hard."

[-] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago

Or "Fuck it, I bet there's enough slack in there that I can pull it out a few more centimeters, I just have to pull really hard."

That's what she said

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 19 hours ago

Nooooo that's why you have the new guys go get the wire stretcher

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

if that fails, the wire glue, to glue a new length on.

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I mean to be fair, solder, and some heat shrink (and copious amounts of tape) have legitamately extended wires for me haha. I do like the idea of sending greenies off to find the wire glue though ;).

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Oh i've done some things also.

My friend, looking up: "That sure is an interesting place for a junction box."

Me: "It was that or the next owners will get a horizontally mounted ceiling fan."

[-] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Even if you miss, you will land among the stars...

astronaut swearing the whole way there

Source

There is a comic that does this perfectaly, but I can't find it right now. Something something post an incorrect fact to the internet, and other will gladly correct you.

[-] CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago
[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

~~perfectaly~~ perfectly

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago
[-] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 76 points 2 days ago

Men trying to find the clitoris: 😩

[-] innermeerkat@piefed.social 33 points 2 days ago
[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

Uhh, that's either a really low belly button or exceptionally high clitoris.

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I snorted out my milk. Fuck both of y'all.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

I thought it was near the right butt cheek

It's actually right at the entrance to the butt hole

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago
[-] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Omg I choked on some toothpaste. Thanks. Have your up vote.

[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 19 hours ago
[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

This one was more. I get it's the hackneyed ass response. But they had to know how good it was.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Thank you! Don’t believe the “haters”, it’s nice to get a positive comment. I was very proud of joke, and was honestly surprised nobody beat me to it first.

[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 18 hours ago

They know how good it was because it has lots of upvotes.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

Al Roker was the weatherman in New York City, and three years ago we had a blizzard. We were supposed to have, according to Al, 4 to 12 inches of snow. That's his prediction. We had 36 inches. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he was two feet off. THAT'S NOT EVEN IN THE BALLPARK! If you were a roofer and you built a roof and it was two feet off, you'd still be in prison.

Lewis Black

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

If you were a roofer and you built a roof and it was two feet off, you'd still be in prison

Unless it was the prison roof that you built.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

Man I hate how AI and non-serif fonts have ruined my reading of so many things.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Monday: "It will rain on Saturday and Sunday." (Makes no outdoor plans for the weekend)

Wednesday: "It might rain on Saturday, it will rain on Sunday." (Still no outdoor plans)

Friday: "It will rain on Monday and Tuesday." (Too late to make outdoor plans)

Doesn't rain for the entire month.

[-] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Gotta rely on old people and their bum knees to predict the weather.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I broke my foot and didn’t get medical care like 3 years ago, and now it lets me know.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Or you learn to smell it and feel it. But it's not good for distant weather and the earlier you feel it the worse it'll be. It's a common skill in places with stupid amounts of weather like the American Midwest.

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[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

I’m pretty sure enough of these moments is why we now have absolutely catastrophic weather forecasts every other week but they usually aren’t so bad

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 18 points 2 days ago

No, it's because Trump cut off access to data from weather satellites.

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[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

While I love Black and the routine, I always am baffled when people complain about the weather reports getting it wrong.

For the last million years of human society, the only predictor we had for weather was passed-down stories and signs in the sky to indicate changing seasons. We knew it gets cold in winter, but we had no idea when exactly the first snowfall would be, or if there would be a blizzard that would kill half the tribe.

Today we get very accurate predictions up to a week in advance when actual storm systems are approaching because we have god-like eyes in space that can see the goddamn clouds FROM ABOVE.

We are Gods incarnate, we can see into the future with magic in space. If the storm dumps more rain than expected, wow great... nature still is complicated, you still knew a storm was coming!

That spiel is funnier if you also read it in Lewis Black's tone.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

To be fair, weather predictions have gotten much more accurate in the past 20 years or so (however, whether that stays true now that things like the National Weather Service and NOAA have been defunded remains to be seen).

[-] Sat@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 2 days ago

Dentist: 🦷☠️

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 2 days ago
[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

WiFi router: 📡

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's what she said

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