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
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".
Is that because we exist within a nut?
Or something like that, I don't know. I don't remember anything from the "the universe in a nutshell" book.
Don't go to bars in Seattle?
Stupid sexy Nuclear Engineer!
Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!
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?
Lemmings spotting obvious satire challenge (impossible)
I attract lawyers.
Like, romantically? Or due to your activity?
I, too, like to commit crimes
It was nurses for me. Not necessarily attracted them, but like a third of my matches on dating apps were nurses. And I remember one of them mentioning that it seemed like every other guy she matched with was in IT (at the time I thought it was simply because dating apps were still kinda new around here and IT people were more likely to be trying it)
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.
Don't get the question. Sounds like telling people you're a nuclear engineer is working out well.
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.
If you are worried about too many furries in your line of work, try changing jobs! Maybe get into IT or something?
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.
Guy did say it like five times in one paragraph, just in case people forgot it before they finished reading his post.
If i were a nuclear engineer, everyone around me wouldn't hear the end of it
I think bragging about how much money or education you have is very low class. I also think this is how you end up with a golddigger wife. Better to hide your wealth.
Sounds like a honeytrap, those Furries must be up to something
The last thing we need is for them to develop nuclear capabilities...
Breeder reaction 😳
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.
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
