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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Many beanis are saying this

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Bourgeoisie

Sick of hearing about the goddamn elites

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Between them E, T, A, O, I, and N hold the majority of letters in texts. These are the upper class.

Throwing in the S, H, R, D, and L bourgeoisie accounts for more than three quarters.

This leaves C, U, M, W, F, G, Y, P, B, V, K, X, J, Q, and Z to share less than one quarter of the written letters in English.

I'm not sure that the obvious word of the proletariat needs to be used more, though.

How about syzygy?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Syzygy is my go-to word for playing hangman

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That's why I remembered it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Well in english all words include vowels and you are excluding every vowel except u and (sometimes) y

scrabble fan?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago
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Milksop but only as an insult for people who think drinking cows milk is manly

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

When I poured the juice in my cup I was crossing my rubicon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Most people are pretty far from that river

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

immiseration

always gets my goat how these them here marxist terms get the red squiggly underline'in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Oh my god I’ve always noticed the red squiggle but never put together that it’s often Marxist terminology……..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

mitochondria cause its the “powerhouse of the cell”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what even is a powerhouse??

the c r a a a z z y thing about mitochondria is that it's a completely separate organism!!!! what the fuck!!!!! it has it's own genetic code.

and there is no known life existing without them????

it is the perfect roommate of the cell.

idk how to use the word more

you can use it to debunk "race science" by way of "mitochondrial eve" but I almost never get to pull that one out.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

there is no known life existing without them????

Prokaryotes do not have mitochondria. Prokaryotes outweigh animals about 40:1, so we shouldn't overlook them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuck em, prokaryotes probably can't even post good

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Knew what it was before clicking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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Bring back the “why I oughta” while making a fist gesture

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

How about a phrase?

(It's not) even wrong.

The first few sentences of the Wiki pages are formal. But sometimes the phrase comes to my mind when I'm playing speed chess or trying to play the guitar. How did I screw it up this badly?

Not even wrong

"Not even wrong" is a phrase used to describe pseudoscience or bad science. It describes an argument or explanation that purports to be scientific but uses faulty reasoning or speculative premises, which can be neither affirmed nor denied and thus cannot be discussed rigorously and scientifically. Peter Woit uses the phrase "not even wrong" to mean "unfalsifiable".

Origin of the expression

The phrase is generally attributed to the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or careless thinking.

Rudolf Peierls documents an instance in which "a friend showed Pauli the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value but on which he wanted Pauli's views. Pauli remarked sadly, 'It is not even wrong'." This may also be quoted as "That is not only not right; it is not even wrong", or in Pauli's native German, "Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!" Peierls remarks that quite a few apocryphal stories of this kind have been circulated, and mentions that he listed only the ones personally vouched for by him. He quotes another example when Pauli replied to Lev Landau, "What you said was so confused that one could not tell whether it was nonsense or not."

[–] PsychedSy 7 points 4 months ago

I've been on a feckless kick

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

But pronounce it like Yugopnik when he mixed it up with Hub-bub and we got "Hubullabub"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Amalgamation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Burgerlander

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

“Revolution” and its offshoots, preferably out of physics terns

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl...isoleucine, the full word is 189,819 letters, its the chemical composition of the largest known protein,

more and more people are saying it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Revisionists! But said like Rick from the young ones said fascist

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Garbledina

Burninate

Fhqwhgads

Fangoriously

Gibblies

Decemberween

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