Fun fact: "nuclear" ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, 'little nut'. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing "ask" as "ax".
I can't find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -đđđđ (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elĂłs, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lĂłs.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.
So the PIE for little nut would be something like *knewelĂłs
Clearly you have not regularly been to bars in Capitol Hill.
That's nothing, that's tame, that's barely even remarkable as odd for all the wild shit I've seen and heard (and done -cough-) at and around the bars there.
Well its been a while since I've been, but the Unicorn hopefully still has deepfried Snickers, uh, going to the Wild Rose as a dude is always... an option, lets say... aw fuck, they cancelled taco tuesday, apparently... and one of the original owners passed this year =(
Yeah I guess I'm a bit past my bar cruising prime years.
More or less, just avoid anywhere flooded by college kids, and you'll probably find somewhere that matches your vibe.
But that would require travelling to the US. I'll have to pass on that until some semblance of sanity returns there. I don't expect to see that in my lifetime.
You probabaly won't have to wait too long. At this rate, the US is going to fracture soon and as a result I predict a large part of WA will become a new Canadian territory/province.
I'm Brazilian. For the first time ever, this month I started seeing ads from the US' tourism department or something. I used to see ads from Brazilian traveling agencies that take people there, never ads directly from the US. I thought it was quite absurd to think anyone would be going there for leisure purposes any time soon, but turns out the idioms school a block from my house is taking people there every year and the 2026 group is apparently larger than usual.
They famously historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood, that also has a lot of music venues, bars, nightlife, etc.
Its also where the uh CHAZ/CHOP momentarily existed, after Cap Hill got tired of being abuses by the local police force, barricaded/seiged them in their own Police HQ in the district, and forced them retreat from it entirely, in the dead of night, after literally burning a bunch of documents that would have proved they were knowingly breaking the law in their own 'riot control' actions, destroyed a bunch of their own computers too.
Anyway, I brought it up because the OP specifically mentions Seattle.
It was originally named 'Capitol Hill', because it was built with the idea that it would seat the actual Capitol of Washington state... but that ended up being built in a different city, Olympia... so... the name still persists, despite kind of being a misnomer / confusing.
Going off their other comments, the furry/tech population here, and their mention of specific bars, Seattle. Don't worry though, I'm in the same area/culture and still find it kinda weird to throw out a location like that.
To be fair to them, though, the op post does reek of capitol hill furries and techno queers being commonplace and pleasantly weird. So common, that even outside of that city, there are occasional furry bars and coffee shops and stuff. It's actually really nice.
Ah, nice city. I've been there a few times, but somehow I've never bumped into a furry. I always spent more times in the wilds nearby though, so maybe that does the trick.
Right, but, it seems like, according to this picture and a lot of the folks commenting, that if you meet a furry you will know, probably by dint of them telling you.
Sort of a similar situation with me and renfair people. I build and fit people with custom orthopedic braces and prosthetics and have access to a metal and leather lab.
I wouldn't claim anyone is overly flirtatious, but they do seem to get friendlier and ask a lot of questions about things like hand setting rivets.
I do work with a lot of moldable foam. I've always kinda figured if I get kicked from the field or get bored I can always build costumes or custom leather kink gear.
I'm pretty sure I got it from this community and I don't want to repost. I believe reposts ruined reddit and I don't want the same thing to happen to lemmy.
Bots ruined reddit. Reposts there were bad because there were bots behind them. Human reposts are usually fine if it's not something that gets reposted every day.
If you don't like this meme, post your own. That's how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it's a closed, invite-only forum. That's the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
If you don't like this comment, post your own. That's how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it's a closed, invite-only forum. That's the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
If you like this comment, post it again with a small change of your own. Thatâs how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless itâs a closed, invite-only forum. Thatâs the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
Yes, and therein lies the humor, the juxtaposition of opining in casual tone what feels implied by the speaker to be mundane and relatable but which is in fact extremely niche and specifically un-relatable.
Since a lot of Furries work in STEM, and Seattle has a ton of STEM folk, a furry that's flirting or making a nuclear innuendo joke has a much higher probability of happening in Seattle than most other places (except for maybe Portland).
It was nurses for me. Not necessarily attracted them, but like a third of my matches on dating apps were nurses. And I remember one of them mentioning that it seemed like every other guy she matched with was in IT (at the time I thought it was simply because dating apps were still kinda new around here and IT people were more likely to be trying it)
We don't know if they were bragging or not. It's pretty common to ask what someone's job is during small talk. For all we know they literally just said their job title and left it at that.
I think bragging about how much money or education you have is very low class. I also think this is how you end up with a golddigger wife. Better to hide your wealth.
Jobs come up pretty damn often in conversation with strangers. If they ask, youre obliged to tell them the truth. Doing so would hardly constitute bragging in my opinion.
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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 204 pts · 302d
Start pronouncing it 'nucular', there's no bigger turn off.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 302d
RIGHT?! I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 105 pts · 302d
Common misconception but it's actually based on Saint Nukulus, the guy that puts uranium in your boots if you leave them out overnight.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 18 pts · 302d
Did you know he was a real-life engineer in ancient Turducky?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 302d
Now, to be fair, nucleus it comes from the latin nuculus. It just that it sounds bad and feels bad to say
altphoto@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 302d
Yes officer, she touched my nuculus.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 302d
Noooooo my whole worldviewww
blibla@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 302d
dw it's not true, you were right, "nucleus" is already latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus?wprov=sfla1
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 301d
Oh no being told I'm right is my fetish đ
blibla@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 302d
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
nuculus*
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 302d
đ„ș
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 244d
Dubya said nucular, must be right.
Malgas@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 302d
Fun fact: "nuclear" ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, 'little nut'. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing "ask" as "ax".
Schmoo@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 302d
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 302d
went further back lol
Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut ("little nut")
Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut
I can't find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org · 5 pts · 302d
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -đđđđ (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elĂłs, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lĂłs.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.
So the PIE for little nut would be something like *knewelĂłs
harmbugler@piefed.social · 5 pts · 302d
I donât think the nuclear engineer wants the furries to know about âlittle nutâ
Jerkface@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
Stop, you're gonna make me nux!
Morphit@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 302d
Did I ax you?
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 301d
Is that because we exist within a nut?
Or something like that, I don't know. I don't remember anything from the "the universe in a nutshell" book.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 303d
I'll take "that totally happened" for 200, please.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 302d
Clearly you have not regularly been to bars in Capitol Hill.
That's nothing, that's tame, that's barely even remarkable as odd for all the wild shit I've seen and heard (and done -cough-) at and around the bars there.
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 302d
That's horrible! Truly awful! Which bars, specifically, should I be avoiding?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 302d
Well its been a while since I've been, but the Unicorn hopefully still has deepfried Snickers, uh, going to the Wild Rose as a dude is always... an option, lets say... aw fuck, they cancelled taco tuesday, apparently... and one of the original owners passed this year =(
Yeah I guess I'm a bit past my bar cruising prime years.
More or less, just avoid anywhere flooded by college kids, and you'll probably find somewhere that matches your vibe.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 302d
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 302d
Indeed I haven't.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 302d
Well, perhaps you could try a Jeopardy-like quiz/trivia game at one of them some time =P
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 302d
But that would require travelling to the US. I'll have to pass on that until some semblance of sanity returns there. I don't expect to see that in my lifetime.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 302d
Welp, thats entirely fair.
Yeah... we're kinda all completely beyond fucked these days, over in the US.
I guess our death rattle will at least serve as the most extreme season of reality TV that's ever been created, so... woooo for that I guess...
odelik@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 301d
You probabaly won't have to wait too long. At this rate, the US is going to fracture soon and as a result I predict a large part of WA will become a new Canadian territory/province.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 301d
I'm Brazilian. For the first time ever, this month I started seeing ads from the US' tourism department or something. I used to see ads from Brazilian traveling agencies that take people there, never ads directly from the US. I thought it was quite absurd to think anyone would be going there for leisure purposes any time soon, but turns out the idioms school a block from my house is taking people there every year and the 2026 group is apparently larger than usual.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 302d
Which capitol hill, lmao?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 301d
Its a neighborhood of Seattle.
They famously historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood, that also has a lot of music venues, bars, nightlife, etc.
Its also where the uh CHAZ/CHOP momentarily existed, after Cap Hill got tired of being abuses by the local police force, barricaded/seiged them in their own Police HQ in the district, and forced them retreat from it entirely, in the dead of night, after literally burning a bunch of documents that would have proved they were knowingly breaking the law in their own 'riot control' actions, destroyed a bunch of their own computers too.
Anyway, I brought it up because the OP specifically mentions Seattle.
It was originally named 'Capitol Hill', because it was built with the idea that it would seat the actual Capitol of Washington state... but that ended up being built in a different city, Olympia... so... the name still persists, despite kind of being a misnomer / confusing.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 301d
Hah, got it. I know of at least two capitol hills I've been to in other major cities, so I wasn't sure.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 302d
Going off their other comments, the furry/tech population here, and their mention of specific bars, Seattle. Don't worry though, I'm in the same area/culture and still find it kinda weird to throw out a location like that.
To be fair to them, though, the op post does reek of capitol hill furries and techno queers being commonplace and pleasantly weird. So common, that even outside of that city, there are occasional furry bars and coffee shops and stuff. It's actually really nice.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 301d
Ah, nice city. I've been there a few times, but somehow I've never bumped into a furry. I always spent more times in the wilds nearby though, so maybe that does the trick.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 301d
You almost certainly have bumped into a furry if you've spent a fair deal of time in Seattle.
They... just... aren't always wearing their fursuits, corporate tends to frown on that.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 301d
Right, but, it seems like, according to this picture and a lot of the folks commenting, that if you meet a furry you will know, probably by dint of them telling you.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 301d
Eh, not all furries are so bold, but I see your point as well.
morrowind@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 302d
Lemmings spotting obvious satire challenge (impossible)
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 58 pts · 302d
Sort of a similar situation with me and renfair people. I build and fit people with custom orthopedic braces and prosthetics and have access to a metal and leather lab.
I wouldn't claim anyone is overly flirtatious, but they do seem to get friendlier and ask a lot of questions about things like hand setting rivets.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 41 pts · 302d
Cosplayers would also love you, but the venn diagram between cosplay and ren fair is nearly a circle, so
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 302d
I do work with a lot of moldable foam. I've always kinda figured if I get kicked from the field or get bored I can always build costumes or custom leather kink gear.
gray@lemmy.ml · 52 pts · 303d
so this is lemmy's "science memes" huh
Edit: /nm
kadu@scribe.disroot.org · 35 pts · 302d
What would you want instead, a picture of the cover of Principia Mathematica? Just a Wikipédia link to the page for Pilot Wave Theory? Some broccoli taped to a white wall?
Rusty@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 302d
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 302d
What's stopping you from posting it exactly? You didn't like the thing that I posted. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Rusty@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 302d
I'm pretty sure I got it from this community and I don't want to repost. I believe reposts ruined reddit and I don't want the same thing to happen to lemmy.
robocall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
But Sometimes I enjoy laughing at the same thing twice.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 301d
Bots ruined reddit. Reposts there were bad because there were bots behind them. Human reposts are usually fine if it's not something that gets reposted every day.
smh@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 302d
I'm intrigued by the broccoli.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 303d
I give it a month before we see the guy QQing about they types of people that hit on industrial engineers.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 302d
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 302d
just wait till they ruin it like linux memes with femboys and socks and other garbage :(
FishFace@piefed.social · 10 pts · 302d
Forbidden take
Eheran@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
Oh, I am not alone with that? Yes.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 302d
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 302d
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 302d
whoosh
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 301d
Maybe I shouldn't ask, but what are scalies?
ameancow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
dumbass@aussie.zone · 34 pts · 302d
Stupid sexy Nuclear Engineer!
robocall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 302d
If you don't like this meme, post your own. That's how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it's a closed, invite-only forum. That's the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 302d
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 301d
Aw, cutting right when he hears "morons" and laughs is cruel
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 302d
The people who whine the loudest in situations like this are always the people who have like three posts in their history.
slate@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 302d
If you don't like this comment, post your own. That's how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it's a closed, invite-only forum. That's the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
Klear@quokk.au · 27 pts · 302d
If you like this comment, post it again with a small change of your own. Thatâs how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless itâs a closed, invite-only forum. Thatâs the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
MBM@lemmings.world · 27 pts · 302d
Sounds like a honeytrap, those Furries must be up to something
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
The last thing we need is for them to develop nuclear capabilities...
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 24 pts · 302d
Don't get the question. Sounds like telling people you're a nuclear engineer is working out well.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 302d
Embrace the furries, could be fun for a fling.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 302d
I donât get it. Why furries?
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 302d
STEM fields are just full of furries, I don't make the rules.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 302d
Because Seattle is full of them
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 302d
Whatâs it got to do with being a nuclear engineer though? It just seems so random, it feels like Iâm missing something.
Vespair@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 302d
Yes, and therein lies the humor, the juxtaposition of opining in casual tone what feels implied by the speaker to be mundane and relatable but which is in fact extremely niche and specifically un-relatable.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
I suspect they are hoping to get their hands on some radioactivity which will turn them into an animal-human hybrid.
odelik@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 301d
Since a lot of Furries work in STEM, and Seattle has a ton of STEM folk, a furry that's flirting or making a nuclear innuendo joke has a much higher probability of happening in Seattle than most other places (except for maybe Portland).
devils_advocate@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 302d
I attract lawyers.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 6 pts · 301d
I, too, like to commit crimes
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Like, romantically? Or due to your activity?
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 301d
It was nurses for me. Not necessarily attracted them, but like a third of my matches on dating apps were nurses. And I remember one of them mentioning that it seemed like every other guy she matched with was in IT (at the time I thought it was simply because dating apps were still kinda new around here and IT people were more likely to be trying it)
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 16 pts · 302d
I seem to be attracted to musicians more than any other hobby or profession. If you can sing or play an instrument, it makes me wet af.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 302d
PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 302d
Are you painted blue while doing this?
JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 301d
Not as blue as my balls waiting for him to finish playing
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
insert 'I'm gonna pre' compilation
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 301d
3 words:
Self. Lubricating. Anus.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 5 pts · 301d
Perfect for a nuclear engineer's control rod
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 301d
Even the folks who bring out a guitar in every gathering they participate?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 301d
I love Wonderwall! đ
sunoc@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 303d
Many such cases!
espurr@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 302d
You guys just hate furries...
ameancow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 302d
what is this content you're referring to?
ameancow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 302d
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 301d
And other furry bits
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 302d
yes.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 301d
Don't go to bars in Seattle?
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 301d
Maybe don't brag about your job.
Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 301d
We don't know if they were bragging or not. It's pretty common to ask what someone's job is during small talk. For all we know they literally just said their job title and left it at that.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 301d
Guy did say it like five times in one paragraph, just in case people forgot it before they finished reading his post.
filcuk@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 301d
If i were a nuclear engineer, everyone around me wouldn't hear the end of it
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 301d
I think bragging about how much money or education you have is very low class. I also think this is how you end up with a golddigger wife. Better to hide your wealth.
sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 301d
Jobs come up pretty damn often in conversation with strangers. If they ask, youre obliged to tell them the truth. Doing so would hardly constitute bragging in my opinion.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 301d
Breeder reaction đł
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 302d
Hmm, maybe you should become a vampire. That usually does the trick.
MamaSharon@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 302d