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[–] McMonster@programming.dev 288 points 1 month ago (9 children)
[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 178 points 1 month ago (10 children)

IT people hate computers.

IT people hate users. IT people hate other IT people. We're just a surly lot.

[–] thessnake03@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You just made an enemy for life!

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[–] AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 45 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I've had the privilege of working with users with actual computer training. Old ladies who started working on terminals in the 70s and 80s. They were awesome, because they actually understood what they were doing. They could give me an accurate description of what they were doing when shit went wrong. They had real concerns and realistic requests for improvement. And they never blamed the computer when they encountered something they didn't understand. They're all dead or retired now.

Todays computer illiterate workforce is doomed to be incompetent because they don't understand how their main tool works. Nobody bothered to train them.

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[–] CyberTaco@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Correction: IT people hate printers.

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 165 points 1 month ago (14 children)
[–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

…and a lot of them hate the end-user, too. Why must we involve people in the whole computer thing? Isn’t an abacus and a box of crayons enough?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume the end user can handle crayons

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 month ago
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[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 163 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)
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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 142 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And anyone in a field related to studying living creatures in nature hate pesticides/herbicides. Because pesticides harm everything that eats the thing that eats the thing that eats the thing that eats the pesticide.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 127 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] shatterling@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Simple, common bird appreciators too

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[–] Smeagol666@mander.xyz 123 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

Firemen hate pedophiles

Teachers hate pedophiles

Doctors hate pedophiles

Lawyers hate pedophiles

Liberals hate pedophiles

Conservatives hate pedophiles

Independents hate pedophiles

Where's the fucking list Donny? Give us the list you fat orange fuck. We know you're on it, and so do you. How did you think this was going to pan-out, dumbass?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Conservatives hate pedophiles

I wish this was really a blanket rule.

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] python@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

Software devs also hate UX/UI Designers.
And Product Owners.
And Scrum Masters.
And Software Architects.
And Security/Compliance Managers.
And QA Testers.
And worst of all... Software devs.

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[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago (2 children)

sysadmins hate end users because end users suck.

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother's pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. "Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!" she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.

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[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

Who downvoted you? Saruman himself?

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[–] Argurotoxus@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago

Glass manufacturers hate bubbles.

A lot.

[–] rhel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 1 month ago (7 children)

ENTs hate Q-tips?!

That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Structural engineers: fire, water, air and earth. They are like the Anti-Avatar

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[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

dentists hate sugar drinks (I'm with them on this one) ophthalmologists hate screens urologists hate themselves

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[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 month ago (14 children)
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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)
  • Emergency Medicine: Alcohol and/or fireworks
  • Family Medicine: Wellness influencers
  • Surgery: Pre-op NSAIDs (eg ibuprofen)
  • Pediatrics: RFK Jr
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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Funeral Homes hate the Government.

They are incredibly rude to the families receiving financial assistance, it takes 3 months for them to pay us, and did you know that if you don't have a will they cut your step-children out of the process entirely?

We had one gentleman in our care whose only living family was his step-daughter. Because there were no blood relatives and no will the Public Guardian took control of his disposition and the step-daughter had no say in anything that happened with him. Wasn't allowed to keep a portion of the ashes, the Funeral Director had to fight just to allow the step-daughter a brief final visitation.

This is also true for children under 18. Your 17 year old child has no say in your disposition if you have no other living relatives.

Have a will people, if for no other reason than to allow your loved ones to decide how they will grieve rather than some indifferent bureaucrat.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 51 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Chefs hate cooking themselves food at home

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[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

every time i pick a different direction in my career, Donald Trump personally brings about that industry's ruin

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Have you considered a job in the military-industrial complex, or maybe at a hedge fund?

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cardiologists hate deep-fried food.

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[–] Duranie@leminal.space 45 points 1 month ago

Massage therapists hate spray tans.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As a psych nurse I hate food and housing instability and the death of thirdspaces. Oh and also the prison industrial complex.

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[–] umfk@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Data scientists hate time zones.

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[–] anti_antidote@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Software engineers hate MBAs. It's like they live in a fantasy world where everything works perfectly and can be done in 3 days and can read your mind.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Engineers hate managers.

Remember next time you get a shitty product, don't blame the engineer who designed it. Blame the manager who forced him to do it that way.

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[–] shatterling@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Trauma specialist Doctors hate e-scooters

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[–] janonymous@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Game developers hate players. They keep breaking our beautiful games and optimizing the fun out of them!

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[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

Most, if not all, professions in the domain of knowledge creation hate AI.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Proctologists hate things without a flared base.

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but not this way!"

[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Programmers hate ai

Psychologists hate facebook....and also ai

Marriage Counselors hate reddit....and also ai

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (4 children)

lab techs hate improperly collected samples. The people who collect those samples often in turn hate lab techs.

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[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 32 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Game programmers hate graphical designers.

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Anyone using a phone hates clankers.

There's one automated system I need to call regularly at work that does not give me the option of dialing numbers and forces me to speak to it. It lists the options it can understand, but I can't just press a number to move on. Then it asks me to say and spell my first name, then say my last name (which it guesses the spelling of incorrectly) and pretends to type while it's processing. Why are we doing this?

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