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bugs
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Voyajer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So close. Less beer, fewer beers. Both acceptable.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 months ago
Jesus Christ someone get that dude a therapist.
Pilgrim@beehaw.org 11 months ago
But his username is mentally healthy so how could he need a therapist?
happybadger@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Or tell him he’s the Lord of the Flies for being a Hemiptera expert and see what he does.
chetradley@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The number one rule for pedants is: if you’re going to be pedantic, you’d damn well better be correct.
Skoobie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Display Name: Mentally Healthy Username: EAT_ROADKILL
Dude is at odds with himself.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Duality of man
mhague@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not a scientist, but I’m the kind of person to keep black windows as pets and create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area. I’d allow spiders being called bugs, or even insects. Even poisonous is alright but it does hurt a little.
Endmaker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area
You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
We’re going to need a link
mhague@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was a Google site so all that’s left is a random archive somewhere. I had all the local spiders+favorites, but the only original content were pictures of Latrodectus and Kukulkania Hibernalis. Beautiful spiders.
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 11 months ago
Are some spiders poisonous? Are all animals that are venomous also poisonous? Also I’d like to say that there is no linguistic difference between the two in some languages. There is no distinction between the two in German for instance. It’s either giftig or it isn’t.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
None that I know of. I think the OC was just mocking a bit on how some people can get so bent out of shape when the word is used colloquially.
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s an unfortunate false cognate that the word Gift means poison in English.
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There is a distinction to make. For example some snake venom is not poisonous when traveling through your digestive system, and only becomes a problem when it enters the blood stream (usually from a bite).
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 11 months ago
- there is no scientific definition of “bug”. the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
- this person’s first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren’t
NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world 11 months ago
They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.
Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
TIL, vegetables are a social construct.
This article illustrates this nicely:
athensscienceobserver.com/…/vegetables-are-a-soci…Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Neither of those two sentences define the spider as either insect or non insect. Did you even read them?
King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 11 months ago
And the first sentence literally describes the scientific definition of bug…
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They eat spiders too.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
They’re autonomous content scraping internet bots. Aka web crawlers.
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You son-of-a-bitch! I’m in! Subscribe me to your facts.
Delusional@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stupid science bitch couldn’t even understand the joke.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
What’s a science removed
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Curses are probably replaced with “removed” for you.
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A retort in three parts;
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It’s bugs (colloquial), not Bugs (texanomic),
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There’s being pedantic and then there’s being a jackass - that’s you, jackass, and
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@eat_roadkill should embrace their name and go chow down on a three-day-dead skunk.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah, I’m pretty sure taxonomy is in latin because actual scientists got tired of dealing with pedantic dipshits.
“Bug” is an english word so it’s the domain of an etymologist not a biolgist. My lookup of the word indicates applying “bug” to arachnids is perfectly cromulent.
Morphit@feddit.uk 11 months ago
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Also, Op never called spiders a bug to begin with
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runswithjedi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
that bud is hops
roguetrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nobody would eat hops you big dumb bitch.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As long as you decarb it first, I don’t see an issue. Throw it on some peanut butter crackers and have a good time.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who among us has not dined on their bud’s ass after a few beers? It’s just common courtesy.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was said by a big dumb bitch
AppleMango@lemmy.world 11 months ago
username doesn’t check out…
azi@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Anyone know what the first known case of ‘bug’ exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It’s a very English-language term so it surely wasn’t when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.
exocrinous@startrek.website 11 months ago
Taxonomy is a conspiracy invented by neckbeards so they could “um ackshually” us when we call a bug a bug.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 months ago
My bio professor basically admitted to us that a lot of that pedantry is pure smugness and nobody cares. Further still, all those names are so complicated because scientists love to try to one up each other on difficult to pronounce and needlessly long latin names.
Timbo1970@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Except…what do spiders eat? Hence, a bug-lite would fit perfectly with their favoured prey. Big-brain missed the obvious.
TheEntity@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
I’m guessing you missed where that was stated in the image.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a typical case of someone who is so eager to sounds right in an argument that they will not bother double checking to see if they missed the original point or true meaning before replying.
There are a lot of people like that on Reddit. Well, I assume there still are I deleted my account a while ago. What a toxic place.
jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Neil Degrasse Tyson tier reply
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Username doesn’t check out
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 11 months ago
mmm, human-lite
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Bug isn’t even a technical term. Lobsters are considered bugs!
danc4498@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a great point you big dumb bitch.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 months ago
Yeah I always assumed “bug” was like “vegetable” — it’s a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are “true bugs” so maybe the analogy isn’t completely sound.
(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)
dh34d@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
They’re culinary vegetables. My wife likes to say it like this: intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing that it doesn’t go in a fruit salad.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Agreed. In my mind “bug” has always meant arthropod. So it’s include insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 months ago
You wouldn’t say that if you ever tried those tomatoes …joins.com/…/20210117130800678.html
I’d even call them candy.
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bug is a technical term. Only insects of order Hemiptera, categorized by the ability to fly and the presence of piercing, sucking mouth parts, are considered true bugs.
Lobsters are certainly not considered bugs.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’m sorry but you’re simply incorrect. Bug can be a technical term, but that doesn’t also preclude it from also being a non-technical term, because words often have more than one meaning. See also: theory.
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
Merriam-Webster, definition 1:
>called also true bug
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
The scientific taxonomic system was made, in part, because traditional colloquial terms are a mess. For example, “daddy longlegs” refers to a type of spider in my area, but there are two other animals and three plants that it could refer to depending on where you grew up. Taxonomists saw that there there ten different standards, decided to make a new one to replace them all, and for once, it actually worked out for the most part.
“Bug” is one of those old terms. It might have been mapped post hoc on top of the modern taxonomic system, but it didn’t start that way, and isn’t always used that way.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Crawdads are still mudbugs though.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But commonly it’s a catch all for any creepy crawly, including arachnid. The classification is even called True Bug, not just Bug
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
But they wanted to feel smugly superior! Poor fella can’t even be pedantic properly…