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• Wildfire0Straggler3@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the university’s psychology department set out to study how LSD affected felines. That might seem like a bizarre research topic, but hey, it was 1976, they had this acid, they had these cats—what else were they going to do?

    Lots of eild experiments giving drugs to animals.

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    • kunegis@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure, let’s write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The crack spider’s bitch, Environment Canada Wildlife Service.

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  • tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Scientists

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Scientists smart enough to get approval for buying ecstasy for research purposes!

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  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The same person who’d hug a tripping octopus.

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  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.

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• 474D@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  *octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)

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  • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    *Octopussies

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    • Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Only Japanese ones

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  • monarch@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I use all forms of octopi interchangeably just to piss off linguists.

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I feel like any linguist upset by non-prescriptive language needs to maybe reconsider their life choices. Imagine telling someone they’re painting incorrectly or being mad at the discovery of a new species.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.

      Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.

      Don’t worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.

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    • murtaza64@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Linguists are probably the least likely people to get upset at someone using the “wrong” word. they might pull out their notebook and start asking you questions though

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      octopiussi

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So “octopuses” would be technically correct with “octopodes” and “octopi” also accepted.

    If you’re writing Latin, you’d want octopi instead. If you’re writing Greek: octopodes.

    But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early on your preferred version.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Octothingies is my favorite

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    • RBridger@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it’s actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you’d still want octopodes

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Octopi?

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    • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!

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  • PintOShenanigans@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Octopodes nuts

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    • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don’t, it’s ock-top-oh-deez

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  • fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Title fixed.

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  An octopus stole the pixels, huh

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “the lab’s pet octopus fucked with us in a type of fuckery as yet undocumented: part 726a” just doesn’t have the same oomph

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• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How me and my best lab buddy spent our summer blowing the research budget.

  • by Oscar T. Octopus

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• pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who doesn’t want to cuddle on ecstasy?

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My cat, always. That little fucker just wants to dance.

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• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.

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• REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do you people share webp links to messaging apps? Preview never shows and sometimes the image doesnt open

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  • fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The work around I do is save them on my phone, then sligly edit them, e.g. do a little crop on the side then resave then it seems to work for whatever reason.

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