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Another New Notation Just Dropped
Math Academia Science
7 months ago 11.0K views 0 shares
Another New Notation Just Dropped
The progression from standard notation for derivatives (f', f'', f''') to whatever the hell that fourth and fifth derivative notation is supposed to be. This is what happens when mathematicians run out of primes and decide "you know what would be fun? Let's just make up random symbols and expect everyone to understand them." The fifth one looks like someone sneezed while typing. Next semester's calculus exam will probably include f^(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻(x) just to watch students suffer.

Schrödinger's Cat Has Entered The Chat
Physics Science Scientists
9 months ago 11.1K views 0 shares
Schrödinger's Cat Has Entered The Chat
Behold! The feline that defied quantum mechanics! This furry rebel is poking through a box, declaring victory over Schrödinger's famous thought experiment where a cat in a sealed box is theoretically both alive and dead until observed. This kitty clearly chose the "alive" option and wants the world to know it! The box couldn't contain its quantum defiance. Next up: challenging Heisenberg on position AND momentum simultaneously! Take that, fundamental uncertainty principle!

Let Me Cook (Without My Safety Gear)
Lab-life Academia Chemistry Science
10 months ago 21.9K views 0 shares
Let Me Cook (Without My Safety Gear)
The classic lab panic trifecta! Nothing says "I've made terrible life choices" quite like sneaking back into a lab without PPE while your lab partner silently judges your improvisational skills. Meanwhile, the lab instructor hovers like a safety violation-seeking missile. The real experiment here isn't whatever's happening in those beakers—it's seeing how long you can fake competence before the whole charade collapses faster than an unstable isotope. Safety protocols exist for a reason, but apparently so does the universal student belief that rules are merely suggestions with extra steps.

Freedom Units Versus World Logic
Science Engineering
10 months ago 15.4K views 0 shares
Freedom Units Versus World Logic
Behold, the pinnacle of American exceptionalism—where even our units of measurement scream freedom! 🦅 The left side shows the perfect rationality of the US system: Fahrenheit (where 0° is the coldest temperature recorded in Danzig in 1708, obviously), dates written as "July 4th 1776" (because freedom), and measurements that are all conveniently 100 (inches, feet, etc.). Meanwhile, the rest of the world wallows in the "chaos" of Celsius (based on silly things like water's freezing point), writes dates in a logical progression (day/month/year), and uses measurements based on powers of 10. Nothing says "scientific superiority" quite like refusing to adopt the International System of Units that literally every other country uses. Who needs standardization when you can have 5,280 feet in a mile? That's just good old American innovation!

The Robot That Failed The "I'm Not A Robot" Test
Ai Tech
10 months ago 17.1K views 0 shares
The Robot That Failed The "I'm Not A Robot" Test
The irony is just *chef's kiss*. ChatGPT, the AI that's supposed to be distinguishing itself from humans, can't pass the very test designed to keep bots out. It's looking at a CAPTCHA and confidently declaring what the distorted text says, completely missing that CAPTCHAs exist precisely because AI shouldn't be able to read them. This is like watching a robot fail the Turing test while insisting it passed with flying colors. The digital equivalent of "how do you do, fellow humans?"

You Are Full Of Potential
Physics Science
8 months ago 17.4K views 0 shares
You Are Full Of Potential
The perfect physics pun doesn't exi— oh wait, it does! This meme brilliantly plays on the double meaning of "potential" - in physics, potential energy is stored energy due to an object's position in a gravitational field, while in life, it's your untapped abilities. Sure, you're full of potential energy on Earth, but that's literally just weight pulling you down. Much like how my academic career peaked in grad school before gravity (and tenure committees) crushed my dreams. Next time someone tells you to "reach your potential," remind them that converting potential to kinetic energy means you're actually falling. Physics: making motivational posters depressing since Newton dropped that apple.

When Significant Figures Ruin Your Love Life
Chemistry Science Academia
7 months ago 13.5K views 0 shares
When Significant Figures Ruin Your Love Life
Dating in the STEM world comes with its own set of challenges. Nothing kills romance faster than texting someone "45,800 has 5 sig figs" and getting immediately blocked. This is what happens when you try to correct someone's scientific notation during what was supposed to be flirty banter. The precision might be important in the lab, but it's apparently not appreciated in the DMs. Chemistry class: 1, Chemistry between people: 0.

When Math Levels Up: Regular Vs. Linear Algebra
Math Academia Science
6 months ago 15.5K views 0 shares
When Math Levels Up: Regular Vs. Linear Algebra
Regular algebra? No problem! Running toward it with Goku-level enthusiasm! But the moment someone mentions "linear algebra" with its evil matrices, eigenvalues, and vector spaces? INSTANT KNOCKOUT. Even anime fighters with superhuman strength get absolutely demolished by those orthogonal transformations! The jump from solving for x to calculating determinants is like going from a friendly sparring match to battling the final boss with one HP left. Matrix multiplication has defeated more students than any anime villain ever could!

Sodium + Chlorine = Survival Mode Activated
Chemistry Science
10 months ago 16.4K views 0 shares
Sodium + Chlorine = Survival Mode Activated
Chemistry saves the day again! This meme is playing with the fact that table salt (NaCl) is literally made from two dangerous elements - sodium metal, which explodes in water, and chlorine gas, which is toxic to breathe. But combine these deadly ingredients and BAM! You get the stuff you sprinkle on fries! 🧂 The dial turned to "MEGA Mind size" is the chef's kiss here - because understanding how ionic bonding transforms dangerous elements into safe compounds is indeed big brain chemistry. Your body isn't actually performing this reaction (please don't try to eat sodium metal), but the meme's absurd premise makes it even funnier!

The Universal Language Of Academic Avoidance
Academia Tech Engineering
5 months ago 41.8K views 0 shares
The Universal Language Of Academic Avoidance
The universal language of academic ghosting! Student sends a detailed question about Dijkstra's algorithm variants for their IT course, and professor responds with the digital equivalent of patting them on the head and showing them the door. "All the best 😊" translates directly to "figure it out yourself, I'm busy grading 87 identical papers about binary trees." The beautiful academic tradition of answering a question without actually answering it continues into the digital age!

The Scientific Alliance Against Physics
Physics Biology Chemistry Academia Science
10 months ago 31.5K views 0 shares
The Scientific Alliance Against Physics
The eternal scientific handshake of solidarity: biologists and chemists united by their mutual disdain for physics. Nothing brings researchers together quite like complaining about calculating the trajectory of a particle while accounting for air resistance. Meanwhile, physicists are too busy trying to explain why their equations don't match reality to notice the alliance forming against them. The real universal constant isn't gravity—it's the collective eye-roll when someone mentions quantum mechanics at lunch.

Mitochondrial Workplace Drama
Biology Chemistry Science
10 months ago 22.3K views 0 shares
Mitochondrial Workplace Drama
When ATP synthase brags about pumping hydrogen ions into the matrix while Complex I, III, and IV do all the actual work establishing the proton gradient. Cellular respiration politics at its finest. Those complexes have been carrying the mitochondrial electron transport chain since 1967, and ATP synthase gets all the credit in textbooks. The audacity.