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[–] AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 0 points 3 months ago

It's obviously some smoothed Z-DNA

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Even if we assume that he's wearing a ladies shirt for a moment... Why does he have that stethoscope? Is this what doctors do when the patient is waiting in the exam room?

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait what, where did you get that ladies shirt?

[–] azi@mander.xyz 0 points 3 months ago

Either the image is an accurate facsimile (DNA was wrong and the guy's wearing a men's size shirt (buttons are on his right side)) or the image was mirrored (DNA was correct and the guy's wearing a women's size shirt (buttons are on his left))

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shirt buttons are sown onto the left side of women's clothes and the right side of men's. The buttons on his shirt are on his right side.

I'm assuming OP means maybe the DNA model has the helix spinning the wrong way because the image was flipped horizontally, but that would cause the shirt buttons to be on the wrong side for men's clothes.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So that's why my shirts are inconsistent...

WHY IS SOCIETY LIKE THIS? I'll have to make a shirt in which I alternate each button as revenge!

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

Apparently it stems from the days when women had servants who helped them dress, while men generally didn't.

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago

every other button is both on the other side and facing inward?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 0 points 3 months ago

You can tell what type a base pair is by listening to the tone it makes, but it's very quiet so you need a stethoscope.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Most useful stethoscope ever

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Quick! How do we know he’s a doctor? He could be a scientist with this cost! We need a stethoscope!!

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I once saw a shutterstock photo of someone using a large soldering iron on a motherboard, holding it like a pen (so holding the hot part). Stuff like this is so poorly done and fake, it's at the level of porn acting.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Here is the sacred tome you refer too m'lord wiggle;

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Seriously though, is this the one you were thinking of?

I'm fairly sure this is the original I saw; But searching for "woman, soldering iron" results in many copycats, so it's hard to say if this is actually the one from back when, or if my mind just misremembers it as such.

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not OP, but I've seen this one years ago. Defo the one.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the one I know, I've seen one with the woman wearing a hard hat 😂

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Hmm, I've spent quite some time in meme circles including 4chan back in the day, but I don't remember one with a hard hat. Oh well, I stand corrected.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Women will seriously try that! Astonishes me every time, like, have they never seen a rifle shot in a movie?!

OTOH, the women I've dated who escaped Mississippi could all shoot like Annie Oakley.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Haters: tHaSS seXistht!

Never trained a noob to shoot, huh?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

Judging by how bad men are with women's anatomy despite consuming so much porn I'm gonna say watching movies doesn't give you any experience.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago

Cracked orbit in 3... 2... 1...

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That pic is valid because it's a lab in Australia. Sheesh! Use some common sense.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 0 points 3 months ago

If you hold the picture upside down the dna spirals the right way.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

Wow, okay racist

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Soup@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could flip the image but the thing about a spiral is that it’s the same no matter you turn it around in space.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

If you physically spin it, yes, it wouldn’t change its direction, but I was talking about flipping the image horizontally.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago

"That's it, Dr Scientist, you're not taking this seriously. YOU'RE FIRED!"

"Good! I'm a maverick, I don't play by your rules! Fuck you, here's my badge and my gun!"

"Wait, why do you have a badge and a gun!? We didn't issue you those... You work in a lab!"