Start pronouncing it 'nucular', there's no bigger turn off.
RIGHT?! I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.
Common misconception but it's actually based on Saint Nukulus, the guy that puts uranium in your boots if you leave them out overnight.
Did you know he was a real-life engineer in ancient Turducky?
Now, to be fair, nucleus it comes from the latin nuculus. It just that it sounds bad and feels bad to say
Noooooo my whole worldviewww
Fun fact: "nuclear" ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, 'little nut'. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing "ask" as "ax".
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
went further back lol
Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut ("little nut")
Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut
I can't find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.
So the PIE for little nut would be something like *knewelós
I don’t think the nuclear engineer wants the furries to know about ‘little nut’
I'll take "that totally happened" for 200, please.
Clearly you have not regularly been to bars in Capitol Hill.
That's nothing, that's tame, that's barely even remarkable as odd for all the wild shit I've seen and heard (and done -cough-) at and around the bars there.
That's horrible! Truly awful! Which bars, specifically, should I be avoiding?
Well its been a while since I've been, but the Unicorn hopefully still has deepfried Snickers, uh, going to the Wild Rose as a dude is always... an option, lets say... aw fuck, they cancelled taco tuesday, apparently... and one of the original owners passed this year =(
Yeah I guess I'm a bit past my bar cruising prime years.
More or less, just avoid anywhere flooded by college kids, and you'll probably find somewhere that matches your vibe.
Lemmings spotting obvious satire challenge (impossible)
so this is lemmy's "science memes" huh
Edit: /nm
What would you want instead, a picture of the cover of Principia Mathematica? Just a Wikipédia link to the page for Pilot Wave Theory? Some broccoli taped to a white wall?
I like science memes like this.
What's stopping you from posting it exactly? You didn't like the thing that I posted. Be the change you want to see in the world.
I give it a month before we see the guy QQing about they types of people that hit on industrial engineers.
Are you a well-designed process? Because you have zero wasted steps and maximum output.
Sort of a similar situation with me and renfair people. I build and fit people with custom orthopedic braces and prosthetics and have access to a metal and leather lab.
I wouldn't claim anyone is overly flirtatious, but they do seem to get friendlier and ask a lot of questions about things like hand setting rivets.
Cosplayers would also love you, but the venn diagram between cosplay and ren fair is nearly a circle, so
I do work with a lot of moldable foam. I've always kinda figured if I get kicked from the field or get bored I can always build costumes or custom leather kink gear.
If you are worried about too many furries in your line of work, try changing jobs! Maybe get into IT or something?
Stupid sexy Nuclear Engineer!
Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!
Don't get the question. Sounds like telling people you're a nuclear engineer is working out well.
Embrace the furries, could be fun for a fling.
I don’t get it. Why furries?
STEM fields are just full of furries, I don't make the rules.
Because Seattle is full of them
What’s it got to do with being a nuclear engineer though? It just seems so random, it feels like I’m missing something.
Yes, and therein lies the humor, the juxtaposition of opining in casual tone what feels implied by the speaker to be mundane and relatable but which is in fact extremely niche and specifically un-relatable.
I suspect they are hoping to get their hands on some radioactivity which will turn them into an animal-human hybrid.
Many such cases!
Don't go to bars in Seattle?
Maybe don't brag about your job.
We don't know if they were bragging or not. It's pretty common to ask what someone's job is during small talk. For all we know they literally just said their job title and left it at that.
If i were a nuclear engineer, everyone around me wouldn't hear the end of it
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