Don’t go to bars in Seattle?
Breeder reaction 😳
Maybe don’t brag about your job.
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.
Guy did say it like five times in one paragraph, just in case people forgot it before they finished reading his post.
If i were a nuclear engineer, everyone around me wouldn’t hear the end of it
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.
I attract lawyers.
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)
I, too, like to commit crimes
Stupid sexy Nuclear Engineer!
Feels like I’m wearing nothing at all!
Start pronouncing it ‘nucular’, there’s no bigger turn off.
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”.
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.
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
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.
Stop, you’re gonna make me nux!
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[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 *knewelós
I don’t think the nuclear engineer wants the furries to know about ‘little nut’
RIGHT?! I’m glad I’m not the only one. It’s based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.
Common misconception but it’s actually based on Saint Nukulus, the guy that puts uranium in your boots if you leave them out overnight.
Did you know he was a real-life engineer in ancient Turducky?
Now, to be fair, nucleus it comes from the latin nuculus. It just that it sounds bad and feels bad to say
Noooooo my whole worldviewww
dw it’s not true, you were right, “nucleus” is already latin
Oh no being told I’m right is my fetish 👀
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Yes officer, she touched my nuculus.
nuculus*
🥺
Nuculeus
😩
Nuculeuslear
Don’t get the question. Sounds like telling people you’re a nuclear engineer is working out well.
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.
Even the folks who bring out a guitar in every gathering they participate?
I love Wonderwall! 😍
I slap the end of pipes and tubes with a sandal. Sometimes I use two sandals, but society can’t always handle the intensity of that.
Are you painted blue while doing this?
Not as blue as my balls waiting for him to finish playing
cis he/him
insert ‘I’m gonna pre’ compilation
3 words:
Self. Lubricating. Anus.
Perfect for a nuclear engineer’s control rod
Sounds like a honeytrap, those Furries must be up to something
I’ll take “that totally happened” for 200, please.
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.
Which capitol hill, lmao?
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.
Hah, got it. I know of at least two capitol hills I’ve been to in other major cities, so I wasn’t sure.
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.
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.
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.
Eh, not all furries are so bold, but I see your point as well.
That’s horrible! Truly awful! Which bars, specifically, should I be avoiding?
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.
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Indeed I haven’t.
Well, perhaps you could try a Jeopardy-like quiz/trivia game at one of them some time =P
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.
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…
Lemmings spotting obvious satire challenge (impossible)
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.
Cosplayers would also love you, but the venn diagram between cosplay and ren fair is nearly a circle, so
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.
#humblebrag
I will not be negged into fixing your plate mail.
I bet you can’t make me a leather scabbard
Easy… I have a wood working shop at home. I can just trace the sword and carve… Wait a sec.
If you are worried about too many furries in your line of work, try changing jobs! Maybe get into IT or something?
Well then you just trade furries for scalies and bronies.
Maybe I shouldn’t ask, but what are scalies?
whoosh
so this is lemmy’s “science memes” huh
Edit: /nm
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?
I like science memes like this.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.
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.
But Sometimes I enjoy laughing at the same thing twice.
I’m intrigued by the broccoli.
I give it a month before we see the guy QQing about they types of people that hit on industrial engineers.
Are you a well-designed process? Because you have zero wasted steps and maximum output.
just wait till they ruin it like linux memes with femboys and socks and other garbage :(
Forbidden take
Oh, I am not alone with that? Yes.
Embrace the furries, could be fun for a fling.
I don’t get it. Why furries?
STEM fields are just full of furries, I don’t make the rules.
Because Seattle is full of them
What’s it got to do with being a nuclear engineer though? It just seems so random, it feels like I’m missing something.
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).
I suspect they are hoping to get their hands on some radioactivity which will turn them into an animal-human hybrid.
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.
