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  • Lizardking27@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzbugs
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    4 months ago

    “a: any of an order (Hemiptera and especially its suborder Heteroptera) of insects (such as an assassin bug or chinch bug) that have sucking mouthparts, forewings thickened at the base, and incomplete metamorphosis and are often economic pests”

    This is the primary and most correct definition of bug.

    Yes, people use it wrong. That doesn’t change the definition of the word.


  • Lizardking27@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzbugs
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    4 months ago

    I’m sorry but you’re simply incorrect.

    Bug is a technical term. Only insects of order Hemiptera, categorized by the ability to fly and the presence of piercing, sucking mouth parts, are considered true bugs.

    Lobsters are certainly not considered bugs.


  • Lizardking27@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyztemperature
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    6 months ago

    Wow either you’re trying really hard to not understand or you’re really just too thick to comprehend the information I’m giving you. Either way I’m not wasting my time on you anymore. You’ll understand when you have more experience in life.

    Until then, enjoy your circlejerk, I guess.


  • Lizardking27@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyztemperature
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    6 months ago

    I didn’t say “not using fahrenheit is elitist”.

    I said “screeching and circlejerking on the internet about how fahrenheit sucks is the behavior of elitist trolls that just like to consider themselves superior to others.”

    A person from a metric country complaining about fahrenheit because they don’t understand it is exactly as ignorant as a person from an imperial country complaining about metric.

    Fortunately, in the U.S. we understand that both have their applications and use them accordingly.


  • Lizardking27@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyztemperature
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    6 months ago

    “It’s fine if you like it, but don’t make up junk reasons. Just own it.”

    Take your own advice. I’m the only one here that’s provided legitimate reasons as to why this is true, every other comment is basically just “lmao fuck Fahrenheit amirite?”

    But honestly I’m really not surprised that a random meme community on the internet doesn’t understand an idea more complicated than “x good, y bad”. Believe it or not, science is more complex than that.


  • Lizardking27@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyztemperature
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    6 months ago

    It’s a 0-100 scale of temperature relative to our senses and body temp. It’s also more precise.

    And btw this is not just “why I think” Fahrenheit is better for these things, this is a widely understood consensus. It’s really only condescending elitist trolls on the internet that like to screech about fahrenheit because it lets them feel like they’re smarter than everyone else (this very thread being a fine example). Anyone who actually knows what they’re talking about knows there is no one single tool or reference that is best for all applications.


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    6 months ago

    I mean, you’re 100% wrong. Fahrenheit isn’t “how people feel” arbitrarily, it’s almost literally a 0-100 scale of how hot it is outside. You need no prior knowledge to interpret a Fahrenheit measurement. Which really reflects poorly on everyone who says “Fahrenheit doesn’t make any sense” because if they were capable of any thought at all they would figure it out in 2 seconds, like everyone else. I’m a lab rat that uses Celsius all day every day, I’m just not a pretentious stuck up tool about alternate measurements just because I refuse to understand them.