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[-] Wildfire0Straggler3@lemm.ee 54 points 3 weeks ago

Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 weeks ago
[-] smeg@feddit.uk 24 points 3 weeks ago

Scientists smart enough to get approval for buying ecstasy for research purposes!

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] arrow74@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

She wasn't even a scientist. She just kinda showed up, made friends with the research facility, and convinced them to let her try teaching the dolphin to speak.

Ironically her "method" did start to show some success

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago

The same person who'd hug a tripping octopus.

[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.

[-] 474D@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

*octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)

[-] HappyFrog 15 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Only Japanese ones

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So “octopuses” would be technically correct with “octopodes” and “octopi” also accepted.

If you’re writing Latin, you’d want octopi instead. If you’re writing Greek: octopodes.

But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Octothingies is my favorite

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago
[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 11 points 3 weeks ago

I'll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!

[-] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, look at all these plurapodes

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 6 points 3 weeks ago

There's lodes of them!

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Its origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus it’s language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You want 8 pies? What?

[-] PintOShenanigans@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] 474D@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don't, it's ock-top-uh-deez

[-] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Title fixed.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago

An octopus stole the pixels, huh

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

"the lab's pet octopus fucked with us in a type of fuckery as yet undocumented: part 726a" just doesn't have the same oomph

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

How me and my best lab buddy spent our summer blowing the research budget.

  • by Oscar T. Octopus
[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Who doesn't want to cuddle on ecstasy?

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

My cat, always. That little fucker just wants to dance.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

How do you people share webp links to messaging apps? Preview never shows and sometimes the image doesnt open

[-] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

The work around I do is save them on my phone, then sligly edit them, e.g. do a little crop on the side then resave then it seems to work for whatever reason.

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