Gorsuch In Shambles

The scientific mic drop we didn't know we needed! This meme brilliantly points out the irony that plastic bottles (containing PFAS or "forever chemicals") aren't recyclable, yet the fundamental particles making up EVERYTHING in our universe are identical! Both columns show the exact same Standard Model of Elementary Particles chart because quarks, leptons, and bosons are the same whether they're in aluminum cans or plastic bottles. The universe doesn't discriminate - only our recycling bins do! The kicker? Those "forever chemicals" are made of the same building blocks as everything else. Nature's greatest recycling program has been running since the Big Bang - humans just haven't caught up yet!

Organic chemists have a one-track mind. See a carbon atom? Must be organic chemistry. Never mind that carbon is literally everywhere—in your pencil, your soda, that diamond ring you can't afford on a researcher's salary. To an orgo chemist, spotting carbon is like finding free food in the department lounge—suddenly everything else ceases to exist. The rest of us just roll our eyes while they frantically draw hexagons on every available surface.

Ever noticed how that banana on your counter goes from green to brown in what feels like milliseconds? That's nothing compared to the TURBO RIPENING that happens with ethylene! This plant hormone is basically the Flash of fruit maturation - it triggers a cascade of enzymatic reactions that accelerate ripening faster than you can say "guacamole." Commercial growers literally spray ethylene gas to force-ripen fruits for market, turning your produce from rock-hard to mushy overnight. Nature's chemical speedster making regular ripening look like it's moving in slow motion!

Those poor H 2 O molecules never stood a chance! When ionic compounds enter the water party, it's like bringing a magnet to a paperclip convention—total chaos! Water molecules frantically rush to surround those charged ions, abandoning their hydrogen-bonded friends faster than grad students grabbing free pizza. The polar water molecules get so obsessed with the ions that they're practically screaming "NOTICE ME SENPAI!" as they orient themselves around the charged particles. This solvation shell formation is basically water molecules signing their own death warrants. Their normal structure? DEMOLISHED. Their previous relationships? TERMINATED. It's molecular heartbreak at the atomic level!

The eternal nightmare of organic chemistry students everywhere! That "S" drawing is the infamous Schlegel diagram of cyclohexane - the molecular structure that haunts dreams and ruins GPAs. Drawing this perfectly on exams is like trying to perform brain surgery with oven mitts. The reply "Now load it in chem3d an optimize" is the modern chemist's equivalent of "just use a calculator" - completely missing the existential crisis of having to draw these by hand during tests. The perfect representation of that moment when you realize your beautifully drawn chair conformation looks more like abstract art than actual science.

The irony is delicious here. Chemistry student completely misses that "no reaction" IS the punchline. In chemistry, a reaction occurs when substances combine and transform. No reaction = no chemical change. It's like watching someone try to titrate with their eyes closed. The best part? They're still waiting for an explanation days later, proving some compounds are just too dense to penetrate. Next time they should try adding a catalyst—like basic comprehension.