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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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

  • by Oscar T. Octopus
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Sure, let's write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's a classic. I love how it starts serious and then goes into absurdity really fast. Like when the 'crack spider thinks building webs is for suckas and he just waits for the caffeine spider to tire out before busting a cap in his ass...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

The same person who'd hug a tripping octopus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who doesn't want to cuddle on ecstasy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

An octopus stole the pixels, huh

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I use all forms of octopi interchangeably just to piss off "linguists".

Edit:linguists -> "linguists"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel like any linguist upset by non-prescriptive language needs to maybe reconsider their life choices. Imagine telling someone they're painting incorrectly or being mad at the discovery of a new species.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I meant to put the linguist at the end in quotes my bad on that. I was trying to refer to the self styled reddit "linguists" that you would see trying to correct people for using the wrong form of then/than where it was really not appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Linguists are probably the least likely people to get upset at someone using the "wrong" word. they might pull out their notebook and start asking you questions though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.

Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.

Don’t worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That one Merriam-Webster video that did the rounds on this topic years ago seems to have been retracted. I don't think "technically correct" is right, since it is never really used, but more "arguably could have been". And, as was even stated in that video, if you say octopedes nobody will know what you're on about.

The video has been taken down, but they've published this article which ultimately recommends either "octopuses" or "octopi", and reaffirms that if you say octopodes nobody will know what it means. Except octopodes nuts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Well, we can't have all the octopodes nuts having their secret octopodes (related?) discussions with their own secret language like the word "octopods", now can we?

We can't keep letting them get away with it!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Only Japanese ones

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So β€œoctopuses” would be technically correct with β€œoctopodes” and β€œoctopi” 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Octothingies is my favorite

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow, look at all these plurapodes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

There's lodes of them!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You want 8 pies? What?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Title fixed.