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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



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  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So the map is more accurately titled "How American Twitter users refer..."

[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"White american male twitter users", according to the last paragraph

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago

I could have not clicked that video. But I did. And I regret it.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

Oh dear God...

I now need eye bleach, for my ears? 🌽

[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks! I think it would be a great rule of thumb for lemmy to always include sauce and especially the sidefacts about the data that relativize it. (See other replies)

Less shiny maybe, but more real :)

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Haha, I do quick dumps. Maybe when I have more time, but in the meantime you guys usually pull through digging around, and you usually find some extra cool stuff too. :)

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So basically you're doing the "don't ask, just say something on the Internet to issue a challenge" method of learning stuff?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sometimes, sometimes I am curious to know more too, sometimes I know things are right, sometimes I know they are wrong but it makes for good conversation... I pick from the meme firehose (feeds) ones I know will make for interesting threads. It is a vibe. It does not take me long to get the memes, so it is a fun passive thing. I do this for fun too. :) It is also why I insist that we use "meme" in the Dawkins sense (see sidebar).

[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Sometimes its a fine line between infographs and memes. Sometimes it isn't