Rattling off insect classifications while a simple pun goes over you’re head is a great demonstration of the differences between knowledge and intelligence.
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Submitted 16 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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pjwestin@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Usernames DO NOT check out
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Ignorance is bliss
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Neither usernames check out
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
they kinda drink them actually
ceenote@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
And they drink Bug Lite when they’re concerned about their weight.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
why would they drink Bug Lite when they’re concerned about their weight? i assume you mean they’re concerned that they have too little weight
wagesj45@fedia.io 15 hours ago
Sometimes calling someone a big dumb bitch is the only appropriate course of action.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 hours ago
“Bug” is a folksy word for any invertebrate with 6 or more legs. For example, they call lobsters and crayfish bugs.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’ve learned recently that “Vegetable” is kind of like that too. Like most vegetables are fruits, seeds, leaves, roots, etc etc. Vegetable is a culinary term, not a botanical one, and it’s still foggy. It’s basically a plant that isn’t sweet, but they also call sweet corn a vegetable so whatever.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
many people call slugs, snails, and worms bugs too. So any invertibrate with the right vibes
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
i sometimes call anything an insect that’s smaller than a small rabbit or lizard (depending on the mood of day) and has no spine.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 hours ago
So there is no such thing as a bug, in the same way that there is no such thing as a tree
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
If a pillbug/rollypoly/potato bug/doodlebug/ <whatever your region calls it> is a bug? Then lobsters and crabs are absolutely bugs. This actually doesn’t bother me.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Lobsters and Crabs are 100% giant sea insects. Shrimp are basically giant sea gnats. They are tasty and provide nutrients. No problem there. Plenty of cultures eat land insects.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Bugs of the sea
Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
tasty sea roaches? 😬
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
and bats
pyre@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
bug is typically something that stings, while insect is more generic.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Well no but yes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera
Hemiptera (/hɛˈmɪptərə/; from Ancient Greek hemipterus ‘half-winged’) is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising more than 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from 1 mm (0.04 in) to around 15 cm (6 in), and share a common arrangement of piercing-sucking mouthparts.[3] The name “true bugs” is sometimes limited to the suborder Heteroptera.[4]
But wasps can sting and they’re not bugs. They can also bite. So the key part is piercing with their mouth. For true bugs (as in the biological sense)
T156@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Not always. Flies, ants, and mosquitoes are all considered bugs, despite having no stinging capacity to speak of.
smeg@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
Does “bug” have a technical definition? If so then it’s news to me and everyone who uses it to mean pretty much any small invertebrate (or microorganism, or software defect).
NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 15 hours ago
smeg@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Entomologists reserve the term bug for Hemiptera or Heteroptera, which does not include other arthropods or insects of other orders such as ants, bees, beetles, or butterflies. In some varieties of English, all terrestrial arthropods (including non-insect arachnids and myriapods) also fall under the colloquial understanding of bug.
Sounds like those entomologists should have tried a bit harder either in educating the masses or choosing names!
Bob_Odenkirk@hexbear.net 16 hours ago
Nah bugs are any little land creepy crawly, maybe an even slugs and snails.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 6 hours ago
I know anti-intellectualism plays into this somewhere somehow.
… I’m just not sure where and how.
“When you argue with fools, others may not be able to tell who’s the fool.”
scytale@piefed.zip 15 hours ago
So you’re telling me people who drink Bud Light eat their buds? <insert lenny face>
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Got’im.
Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 12 hours ago
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Aren’t spiders insects?
mech@feddit.org 16 hours ago
No. Insects have 6 legs, spiders have 8.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Are they in some separate category?
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Even when they pretend to have 6?
tetris11@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
No, but in a war they would side with the insects
Gsus4@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
um…here’s a spider wearing a water droplet as a hat
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I love these little fuckers so much. They’re so much fun. And they’re genuinely cute. Just lookat’em! LOOKATEM!
Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
ok, now I need to find a place to print and frame that :D
gwysibo@hexbear.net 15 hours ago
fewer beer
arrow74@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Telling someone to drink less beer and study more is wild.
Academics in general have a long history of being alcoholics or alcoholic adjacent
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Am an academic, can confirm
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
I am in 1st year of college, I don’t drink, and I am failing.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
There are three types of academics, ones that are addicted to alcohol, ones that are addicted to caffeine, and ones that are addicted to both.
(For health reasons I dont reccomend both at the same time)
anugeshtu@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
… But Irish coffee, though??
arrow74@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I’ll never forget my proffessor that just slammed monster and chain smoked cigarettes during fieldwork.
I only saw him drink water once. It was about 115 (Fahrenheit) and he took a single sip of water from a nalgene before putting it away.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
*fewer beer XD
manxu@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Akshully I think it’s either “less beer” or “fewer beers” (plural).
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Screw you! I drink what I want. (And can stop at any time)
Tire@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
“I’m not drunk, MOM! I’m just working on my PHD!”
Windex007@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Yeah, that “EAT_ROADKILL” fellow is far too serious.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
It’s a way to dull the senses to how retarded everyone around and especially above you is, maybe…until you need your plumbing fixed 😅