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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month 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 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait what, where did you get that ladies shirt?

[–] azi@mander.xyz 42 points 1 month 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 30 points 1 month 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 10 points 1 month 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 7 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month 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.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month 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 81 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Saw her at the range the other day

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 month ago

Black eye, coming soon...

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month 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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

Haters: tHaSS seXistht!

Never trained a noob to shoot, huh?

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

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.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Doesn't matter, the idea is the same. Poor performance, perfect meme content haha

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago

Most useful stethoscope ever

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's clearly a selfie made with iPhone, which is why it's mirrored...

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You see both his hands. So someone else would have to use the selfie camera but also make sure they are not in frame. I mean, it's not impossible, but it's highly unlikely. As much as I would like to blame Apple products, it's more likely this is not a mirrored image but human stupidity. Seeing what's happening in the world these days, I always assume everything is human stupidity unless there's proof it's a technical error or something. Although everything Apple related is also human stupidity.

[–] AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 10 points 1 month ago

It's obviously some smoothed Z-DNA

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OK very funny but its probably the camera doing a horizontal flip and the photographer not knowing to flip it back.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Judging by the buttons on his shirt, probably not.

I didn't even think of that. That's clever nice spot.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

He likes wearing female blouses and doesn't appreciate your judgement.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month 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!"

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago

Wow, okay racist