Unionized
from PugJesus@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz on 29 Jan 14:24
https://lemmy.world/post/24875420

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rockSlayer@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 15:22 next collapse

If you don’t think about it very hard, solidarity is basically macro ionization

ornery_chemist@mander.xyz on 29 Jan 16:45 next collapse

What about ChemE then? They’re both. Sort of. Okay maybe they’re not chemists, but… chemistry-adjacent.

smeg@feddit.uk on 29 Jan 17:08 next collapse

Here’s a version without the bad crop, comedy homicide, pointless circle around the punchline, and puritanical censoring

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SwordInStone@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 22:32 collapse

thanks

djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Jan 17:08 next collapse

Onionized

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works on 29 Jan 19:31 next collapse

Ah, because of the ions.

Took me eons.

LordTrychon@startrek.website on 29 Jan 20:27 next collapse

In his essay “To Tell a Chemist” (1965), Asimov proposed a simple shibboleth for distinguishing chemists from non-chemists: ask the person to read the word “unionized”. Chemists, he noted, will read un-ionized (electrically neutral), while non-chemists will read union-ized (belonging to a trade union).

waz@feddit.uk on 30 Jan 20:05 collapse

Or some will say it’s spelled incorrectly

Vanth@reddthat.com on 29 Jan 21:04 next collapse

My initial thought was “would chemists theoretically be less into labor protections than plumbers”?

I guess that puts me in a third bucket.

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works on 29 Jan 22:33 collapse

Am a chemist in your group. I read it the plumber way too. Took me several seconds to get it.

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works on 29 Jan 21:45 next collapse

Good luck finding the chemistry teacher, though.

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works on 29 Jan 22:30 collapse

As a leftist chemistry teacher, I read it as “having attained union”, rather than “not ionized”, so YMMV with this heuristic

ETA: (also, yeah, I have excellent job security until all public schools are abolished in the US)

General_Effort@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 22:56 collapse

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.