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Lamarck Vs. Darwin (2020)
Evolution Biology Science
9 hours ago 2.7K views 0 shares
Lamarck Vs. Darwin (2020)
The perfect evolutionary mic drop! This person is making a Lamarckian argument (that we'd evolve masks if we needed them), completely missing how natural selection actually works. Evolution doesn't respond to "needs" - it's about random variations and differential survival rates over countless generations. The reply is brilliantly pointing out this flawed reasoning by asking about shoes. By that same logic, shouldn't humans have evolved built-in shoes after thousands of years of needing foot protection? Nope, because that's not how Darwin's natural selection works! Lamarck believed organisms could pass on acquired traits (like if you lift weights, your kids would be born stronger). Darwin showed it's actually about genetic variations being selected over time. No amount of mask-wearing will give your kids built-in N95s!

Get You One Of These Long Bois For The Quarantine
Lab-life Research Science Academia Chemistry
4 days ago 3.2K views 0 shares
Get You One Of These Long Bois For The Quarantine
Scientists' greatest pandemic invention: the 10-mile glove box! For when your experiments can't wait but your immune system has trust issues. Imagine pipetting from your couch while still in pajamas! Sure, the precision might be questionable and your PI might question your methods, but hey—science stops for no virus! Just don't sneeze while handling those volatile compounds... the neighbors three blocks away might get a surprise chemistry lesson.

Don't Anger The Sun Lord
Astronomy Universe Science Earth-science
5 days ago 3.8K views 0 shares
Don't Anger The Sun Lord
The ultimate celestial burn! Our Sun (a literal blazing ball of nuclear fusion at 15 million degrees Celsius) mocking Earth about corona terminology is peak astronomical sass. The Sun actually has a real corona - that spectacular outer atmosphere visible during solar eclipses! Meanwhile, Earth is just sitting there with its pandemic naming conventions getting absolutely roasted... literally. The irony is that solar coronas have existed for billions of years, while we're over here borrowing Latin terms for our microscopic problems. Stellar-level contempt from the entity that could literally vaporize us with a decent-sized flare. Talk about punching down!

Survival Of The Most Considerate
Medicine Science Biology
10 days ago 5.9K views 0 shares
Survival Of The Most Considerate
Remember when understanding basic statistics was considered a conspiracy theory? The meme perfectly captures that magical pandemic moment when someone discovered empathy trumps self-centered risk assessment. The beauty here is watching Mr. Pink-Face meltdown when confronted with the revolutionary concept that vaccines aren't just about personal survival rates, but about protecting vulnerable populations. It's almost as if public health involves... the public! *gasp* Next up: discovering that wearing pants benefits others more than yourself. The horror!

From Cough To Coffin: The Pandemic Denial Chronicles
Medicine Science Biology
14 days ago 4.6K views 0 shares
From Cough To Coffin: The Pandemic Denial Chronicles
When Patrick says "It's just a common cold" while SpongeBob is literally experiencing the entire COVID symptom progression... that's every pandemic denier in a nutshell. The meme brilliantly uses SpongeBob's increasingly dire situation to illustrate how COVID-19 starts with basic symptoms (fever, tiredness, dry cough) but can escalate to respiratory failure and—surprise!—death. Meanwhile, Patrick represents that one friend who still thinks masks are a government conspiracy to hide your beautiful smile. The scientific irony? By the time someone experiences "discoloration of fingers" (a real COVID symptom caused by microvascular damage), they're way beyond "common cold" territory. That's like calling a hurricane "a bit of wind." Next time someone downplays a pandemic, just show them this meme and slowly back away.

I Love My Unchanged Field
Chemistry Academia Science Research Tech
16 days ago 4.3K views 0 shares
I Love My Unchanged Field
The only scientific field where a global pandemic changed absolutely nothing about the daily routine. Computational chemists were already living their best lives staring at screens and modeling molecules from the comfort of isolation. While experimental chemists were crying over locked labs, these digital wizards just kept right on typing, completely unfazed. Their superpower? Being able to run experiments without ever touching actual chemicals. Social distancing champion since... forever.

The Engineering Student's Pandemic Dilemma
Engineering Tech Academia Math
16 days ago 5.1K views 0 shares
The Engineering Student's Pandemic Dilemma
The eternal engineering student dilemma! When universities announced hybrid options post-pandemic, it created the ultimate Sophie's choice for engineering students: actual human interaction or the sweet, sweet freedom of using WolframAlpha during exams without suspicious proctors watching your every move. For those who spent four years calculating integrals by hand while WolframAlpha could do it in 0.3 seconds, this is the mathematical equivalent of "do I want friends or do I want an A+?" The pandemic taught us many things, but perhaps the most valuable lesson was that pants are optional and computational engines are forever.

From Pandemic To Apocalypse: Nature's Waiting Room
Climate Medicine Biology Evolution Science
19 days ago 5.7K views 0 shares
From Pandemic To Apocalypse: Nature's Waiting Room
Celebrating the end of one global crisis only to be greeted by the scientific heavyweights waiting in line! That optimistic "back to normal" energy gets absolutely demolished when you realize climate change has been hitting the gym this whole time. And just when you think it can't get worse, the antibiotic resistance apocalypse shows up with its scary mask and spiky accessories—because bacteria have been secretly taking "how to ignore medicine" masterclasses for decades. It's like nature saying "You thought a pandemic was bad? Hold my petri dish!" The scientific community has been screaming about these issues while we were busy hoarding toilet paper. Classic human civilization—solving one existential threat just in time for the next one's grand entrance!

The Geometry Of Staying Safe
Math Science
29 days ago 4.7K views 0 shares
The Geometry Of Staying Safe
Who needs vague pandemic guidelines when you can calculate exactly how far away to stand from other humans? The top panel shows rejection of plain "social distance" instructions, but the bottom panel shows enthusiastic approval for the Euclidean distance formula √(x₂-x₁)² + (y₂-y₁)². Finally, a way to mathematically prove you're following health protocols! Just whip out your calculator at the grocery store and scream "YOU'RE 1.92 METERS AWAY, WE'RE GOOD!" Pandemic safety for nerds who prefer precision over approximation!

Next Year Can't Be That Bad, Right?
Math Science
1 month ago 6.2K views 0 shares
Next Year Can't Be That Bad, Right?
Oh, sweet mathematical optimism! The top equation represents 2020 as a simple integral of 1/x⁵, which is already pretty terrible since it approaches infinity as x approaches zero. But 2021? That's the same nightmare with "+1" in the denominator—a pathetic attempt to make the function marginally less catastrophic. It's like thinking a life preserver will help when you're being sucked into a black hole. Spoiler alert: when your disaster is measured in powers of x⁵, adding 1 is just mathematical thoughts and prayers.

The $120,000 YouTube Premium Subscription
Academia
1 month ago 4.2K views 0 shares
The $120,000 YouTube Premium Subscription
The economics of higher education, distilled into one perfect joke! This is basically every college student during the pandemic who paid full tuition for the privilege of watching professors struggle with Zoom. $120,000 for a glorified YouTube subscription with mandatory attendance? That's not education—that's Stockholm syndrome with student loans. The real experiment wasn't in the chemistry lab, it was seeing how many students would keep paying premium prices for education.exe running in safe mode.

Engineers Are Already Dead Inside Says Corona
Engineering Medicine Science
1 month ago 5.3K views 0 shares
Engineers Are Already Dead Inside Says Corona
The ultimate engineering burn from our microscopic nemesis! This meme plays on the stereotype that engineers are already "dead inside" from their notoriously demanding workloads and stress. The coronavirus is basically saying, "No need to attack these folks—their souls have already left the building!" As someone with engineer friends, I can confirm they're laughing through their tears right now. The fake breaking news format makes it even better—like the virus held a press conference just to roast an entire profession! Engineers: creating solutions to world problems while being absolutely destroyed by a particle that isn't even technically alive. Savage!