Anyone else find it weird how articles often tend to add the parental status of the subject in the title?
dream job
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Hagdos@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Only if it’s about a mother though.
cmhe@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I guess being a mother is considered an important life achievement, while being a father does not.
mouserat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I guess it’s bait for people who like to judge. The idea could be: it’s not responsible to quit science for this and being a mother makes irresponsible choices even worse. That’s not my point of view, but I know people whose life seems to be so empty that they feel a constant need to look down on others and the “mother” information gives them at least 5 more minutes of talking shit about how this is a terrible decision.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
I see it the other way around. Older people eat up clickbait news, and older people tend to be parents, so identifying the woman as a mother makes them go “she’s someone like me” while identifying her as a scientist is less likely to resonate. It helps some people imagine themselves in her shoes.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s been this way since the inception of the news paper. To see papers they needed to get people invested in the subjects of the paper. That included giving information about the subject of the articles that other people might relate to. If you’re a mother you’re more likely to be inspired by a mom of 3 who went for a degree in science and ended up becoming a “Trebuchet Master”.
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Since they specified female, there is presumably also at least one male trebuchet master as well, meaning that the UK considers trebuchets important enough to have multiple trebuchet Masters.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
The new alternative to Trident. It’s cheaper to have trebuchets posted around the coastline than nukes scooting around on submarines and offers about the same amount of protection from the country being nuked.
dch82@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
offers about the same amount of protection from the country being nuked.
Sadly true lol
Emmie@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It’s the cheapest means of getting fresh beef from point A to point B
HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
There’s a restaurant on the outskirts of bangkok that launches a whole rotisserie chicken from a slingshot over the guests tables and impales on a spike on the helmet of a guy on a unicycle
neonred@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Being “trebuchet master” without “Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics”… doubt
Shou@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sounds like multidisciplinary peak perfocmance to me.
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I would, too. Which is the more exciting job? Unfortunately there probably isn’t much call for a trebuchet bombardment these days.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Fun fact, only one trebuchet has ever been deployed for combat in the new world.
The conquistadors and coalition forces built one during the siege of Tenochitlan, they tried to fire it but the sling snapped, rock went up, rock came back down.
Thus ended the storied military record of trebuchets in the new world.
towerful@programming.dev 2 years ago
That’s fascinating! You should update the Wiki on trebuchets.
Clearly someone has pulled a Scots Language Wiki and has been writing bullshit on that article for years
Arbiter@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Not yet.
tomatolung@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Perhaps this should be decreed in a new Geneva convention as the only allowed long range missile system? That would make wars less deadly and more useful.
nonailsleft@lemm.ee 2 years ago
What’s the distance on those things?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Depends on the mass of the projectile, and how the throwing arm is tuned.
If its release is tuned for distance and they’re flinging period-accurate projectiles, tuned firmly distance a typical period tree could throw stones about 300 meters.
Depending on the kind of fortifications they were against (and if they had siege engines of their own, or other artillery- bow and arrows, whatever) they might set up a little closer and tune instead for more forward velocity rather than range.
The typical mass was about 200-300 kilograms, or a small sedan. You could go heavier, but that typically reduced range.
scutiger@lemmy.world 2 years ago
200-300 kilograms, or a small sedan
A small sedan weighs about twice as much as that
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“They would have been pulled up to a castle, maybe 200-300m away and they could have launched rocks, boulders and flaming boulders into castles,”…
Shard@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And cheese my cows. They could launch cows as well.
nullPointer@programming.dev 2 years ago
search YouTube “punkin chunkin”
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 years ago
1000 meters easy.
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Interesting that “Mother, 33” doesn’t have a name
MadBob@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Have you never read a newspaper before?
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 years ago
wait they did not ask for 10 years experience in the field?
hexabs@lemmy.world 2 years ago
100 hours of aoe2 and we’ve got a deal
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 years ago
Oh, I got that! Do you think the Brits will accept a foreigner from a place that wasn’t one of their colonies?
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Best I can do is 80 hours of Besiege, take it or leave it
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Scientist in the UK wear surgical caps and carry stethoscopes? I guess doctors are a subcategory of scientists.
courier8377@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Clinical research i’d guess
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 years ago
Doesn’t becoming a doctor involve researching something new in the field of medicine?
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 2 years ago
You’re thinking of a PhD doctor. Medical doctors don’t have to research or publish anything new.
Deebster@programming.dev 2 years ago
Found the source: ireland-live.ie/…/i-hurl-18kg-rocks-for-a-living-…
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 years ago
As a retired toolmaker, I see your trebuchet and raise you the artillery piece I made for myself - a small Coehorn mortar of about 50mm/2" bore.
I’ve known 2 toolmakers that have built their own full scale full functional Gatling guns from scratch also.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
The military will need skills like that once modern civ collapses later this century.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Building a trebuchet to hurt rocks is stem though
shasta@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It didn’t say she builds them though
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Probably makes more money as a trebuchet operator too
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Behold the return of the Mighty Trebuchet Memes!
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
(Trebuchet) swinger in your area
stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It’s the new pineapple on your doorstep.
Hestia@hexbear.net 2 years ago
I know what she should do with that illegal-to-say
androogee@midwest.social 2 years ago
I know what it would be illegal for me to say that she should do with that.
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
To be pedantic, that’s still covered under E
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet.
I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,)
It’s like, a right of passage or something.
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
I have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out
dave@feddit.uk 2 years ago
I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.
Kryptonidas@lemmy.wtf 2 years ago
I’m a software engineer, but now I feel like I need to build a trebuchet.
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
I’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
Deebster@programming.dev 2 years ago
btw, it’s a rite of passage.
Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I designed and 3D printed a Ballista…
Same-same, right?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Mother, 33, stops being a scientist to do science.
evranch@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
scienceengineeringSiege engineering to be precise
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 years ago
And M. A lot of M actually. And S. Also T. Put some A in it to make it not threatening.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
no M here. you can just launch shot and need no M to explain it. have you ever had fun?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I mean, if this were 1400 AD, sure…