Telling someone to drink less beer and study more is wild.
Academics in general have a long history of being alcoholics or alcoholic adjacent
Am an academic, can confirm
I am in 1st year of college, I don’t drink, and I am failing.
Heavy drinking is considered irresponsible through your bachelor’s. After that it’s considered “networking” and “building professional relationships”. With the implicit usage as a coping mechanism
Not just in academia. This is true for corporate life. There are happy hours left and right which are as much networking as they are excuses to have someone else buy you drinks
If you’re not joking, reach out to your college’s academic support/tutoring centers. They’re literally paid to be there and help you with your classes. Even if you understand all the class content already they can still help you with whatever you’re struggling with, like figuring out how much time a project needs or how to get it started/organized.
I struggled my first go ‘round in college 20 years ago and wish I’d known that, now that I’m going back I’ve been using the support systems the college has a lot more and it’s been paying off.
Reminds me of this very old college meme (but it checks out):
Well you gotta do what you gotta do
*fewer beer XD
Akshully I think it’s either “less beer” or “fewer beers” (plural).
Now you two just had the same interaction as in the post lmao
To build on this, this usage is called a non-count noun. Less beer, less water, less air, less sand, etc. all refer to non-countable quantities of some substance. Beer could be counted, if referred to by some metric (“one glass of beer,” “24 ounces of beer”), same as “a bottle of water,” “one tank of air,” “a truckload of sand.”
Which is all to say that you’re right. “Less beer” makes far more sense than “fewer beer.”
Screw you! I drink what I want. (And can stop at any time)
Enjoy your bug light! =D
Cheers!
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There are three types of academics, ones that are addicted to alcohol, ones that are addicted to caffeine, and ones that are addicted to both.
(For health reasons I dont reccomend both at the same time)
… But Irish coffee, though??
Would not reccomend but you do you
I’ll never forget my proffessor that just slammed monster and chain smoked cigarettes during fieldwork.
I only saw him drink water once. It was about 115 (Fahrenheit) and he took a single sip of water from a nalgene before putting it away.
He’s gonna have a bitch of a time a few decades later passing kidneystones.
“I’m not drunk, MOM! I’m just working on my PHD!”
It’s a way to dull the senses to how retarded everyone around and especially above you is, maybe…until you need your plumbing done or the damn printer fixed 😅
Ok but “bug” has multiple meanings, and almost nobody means “hemiptera” when they say it. More commonly, it’s any terrestrial arthropod. Arachnids are bugs. Centipedes are definitely bugs.
Heck, there’s a broader definition that basically includes all arthropods. “Moreton bay bugs” are a popular food this time of year. And they’re a kind of lobster.
terrestrial arthropod
i’d like to differ
Crickets in cheeto dust taste fine…soon in a 7/11 near you 😛
You’re already eating bugs, in fact the FDA has so-called “food defect action levels”, which define the acceptable levels of food “contamination” from sources such as maggot and insect fragments among other things (best not to think too hard about it) in your daily food.
I love when someone tells me something fucked up and then tells me not to think too hard about it.
Where I live, the definition of a bug is super liberal to the point of absurdity.
But even that’s been topped a few times over the years. When I used to be active on Reddit, I would participate in the “bug” identification sub. It wasn’t frequent, but it also wasn’t all the uncommon for folks to show up asking for ID on reptiles and amphibians, even remember that a shrew (or maybe it was some other small mammal) was posted once.
It wasn’t that big of a surprise for me. I used to work retail decades ago and I remember a customer who returned a bag of salad greens because there was a bug in it. The “bug” was a very small baby frog (just out of tadpole stage) – likely some kind of tree frog.
uh, slugs are bugs! any non-vertibrate animal is a bug
uh, slugs are bugs
I’mma be honest, I would not instinctively agree with this.
I suggest “bug” applies exclusively to chitinous invertebrates.
I’m trying to square my instinct that
- snails aren’t bugs (because they’re squishy without the shell) with the feeling that
- crabs are bugs (because they’d go tap-tap if you tapped on their exoskeleton with a finger) but
- hermit crabs aren’t bugs if they’re in a shell but are bugs if they’re naked
Snail shells aren’t chitinous.
Crab shells are chitinous.
Hermit crabs are only partly chitinous, and the shells they use are not chitinous.
Hope that helps
My grandma referred to dogs as bugs (positively) and you know what, I agree
“Bugs” even refers to errors on computers. Funny how the pedants don’t go into computer forums and berate the coders for using “bug” incorrectly.
Because it comes from a literal bug that messed with a computer.
Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s.
I just watched a mad scientists refer to shrimp, lobster and coconut crab as bugs for the purpose of making giant insects.
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And they drink Bug Lite when they’re concerned about their weight.
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why would they drink Bug Lite when they’re concerned about their weight? i assume you mean they’re concerned that they have too little weight
He’s saying bug lite is a low calorie drink for dieting spiders
Sometimes calling someone a big dumb bitch is the only appropriate course of action.
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Rattling off insect classifications while a simple pun goes over you’re head is a great demonstration of the difference between knowledge and intelligence.
*your
Yeah, but I’m not fixing it, you big dumb bitch.
I’m not big.
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“Bug” is a folksy word for any invertebrate with 6 or more legs. For example, they call lobsters and crayfish bugs.
many people call slugs, snails, and worms bugs too. So any invertibrate with the right vibes
So there is no such thing as a bug, in the same way that there is no such thing as a tree
It’s a feature
Or a fish! If there were, then people would be fish and sharks would not be.
Fish could be defined as the most recent common ancestor of tuna and herring, and all of its descendants. That would exclude sharks and lungfish, but would include most other groups that we unambiguously recognise as fish, while excluding tetrapods.
i sometimes call anything an insect that’s smaller than a small rabbit or lizard (depending on the mood of day) and has no spine. it’s colloquial use
I’ve learned recently that “Vegetable” is kind of like that too. Like most vegetables are fruits, seeds, leaves, roots, etc etc. Vegetable is a culinary term, not a botanical one, and it’s still foggy. It’s basically a plant that isn’t sweet, but they also call sweet corn a vegetable so whatever.
Not only is vegetable like that, but “fruit” is like that too. Notably, apples and strawberries are not botanical fruits, each little “seed” on the strawberry is the fruit, and the section of core around each apple seed.
The human being shares 70% of the DNA with a potato, some people many more
If a pillbug/rollypoly/potato bug/doodlebug/ <whatever your region calls it> is a bug? Then lobsters and crabs are absolutely bugs. This actually doesn’t bother me.
Lobsters and Crabs are 100% giant sea insects. Shrimp are basically giant sea gnats. They are tasty and provide nutrients. No problem there. Plenty of cultures eat land insects.
tasty sea roaches? 😬
and bats
Bugs of the sea
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“bug” is a technical definition, surprisingly
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In my experience academics will often refer to hemiptera as “true bugs”, and not get too didactic about it other than that.
Not really fair to blame academics for common misuse of a term from their respective field, they’re all vastly outnumbered and people can be extremely stubborn when being corrected on terminology
Nah bugs are any little land creepy crawly, maybe an even slugs and snails.
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Three Tweets, each replying to the previous.
By “you’re right, i’m wrong” @OkBu…:
what kind of beer do spiders drink? bug lite
By “Mentally Healthy” @EAT_ROAD…:
bad joke, spiders are not bugs only insects of the order hemiptera classified as bugs and spiders aren’t even insects. maybe if you drank fewer beer and spent more time studying you would know that but it’s your life
by “you’re right, i’m wrong” @OkButStill:
they eat bugs you big dumb bitch
Good human.
If that dude drank more beer and less time studying they would have friends.
In Australia the spiders don’t eat bugs, they mostly eat low flying birds and posties
Death island*
Hard mode irl
Is it also true that the kangaroos steal all the women too with their statuesque muscles?
God, what a big, dumb bitch.
Name checks out. He may have prions in his brain…
So you’re telling me people who drink Bud Light eat their buds? <insert lenny face>
The ancestor of all of us, animals, bugs and plants. So we eat always our parents-
I am sick of the portion sizes at fancy restaurants. This μm of deconstructed food is overpriced.
I know anti-intellectualism plays into this somewhere somehow.
… I’m just not sure where and how.
“When you argue with fools, others may not be able to tell who’s the fool.”
Aren’t spiders insects?
No. Insects have 6 legs, spiders have 8.
Are they in some separate category?
They’re separate biological classes.
So they’re about as far apart as you are from a reptile, bird or fish.as far apart as you are from a reptile
That would mean…not very. Reptiles are an extremely broad and diverse group, containing everything from penguins and crocodiles to tuataras and pythons. Mammals are the most closely-related extant clade that is generally not considered “reptile”, to reptiles.
Arachnids, on the other hand, are more distantly related to insects. Crustaceans form their closest relatives, followed by myriapods (centipedes & millipedes). Only then do arachnids appear.
Reptiles … penguins
Hold on…
Yup. Birds are reptiles! If you want to define a monophyletic clade that includes crocodiles and lizards, there is no way to do that without also including birds. To define a clade, you take the evolutionary tree and make a “cut” somewhere on it. Everything below that cut is part of the same clade, you can’t selectively remove some branches but not others, unless it’s by changing where you make your single cut.
So in this diagram:
The green circle notwithstanding, you would usually define reptile as a cut at the “C” on the diagram. You could put the cut at Lepidosauria, but that would mean crocodiles and turtles are no longer considered reptiles either.
A more zoomed-in look would show that after crocodiles and birds branched apart, you also get another branch where pterosaurs branch away from dinosaurs, and that birds are one of many branches and subbranches of dinosaur.
That’s fascinating… I knew birds had been linked to dinosaurs for a while but hadn’t given much thought to the implications… I just thought it meant dinosaurs were being reclassified as not reptiles…
I really appreciate the info and the way you laid it out. Just curious, is that knowledge part of a hobby and/or career? Or was that like just one of the random tidbits you picked up somewhere?
Reptiles, as traditionally defined and therefore as usually meant, do not include birds or mammals. It’s a paraphyletic classification (of which there are boatloads).
Mammals, Birds and therefore non-mammal, non-bird amniotes (reptiles) are class-level classifications, as are insects and arachnids.
Sure, but we’re having this conversation in 2025, after phylogenetic classification has long since taken over as the way we describe the relations between species.
Birds are unambiguously reptiles.
Mammals are not reptiles, but are the most closely-related animals to them.
Who is “we”? It certainly isn’t most people. It’s like these interminable “no such thing as a fish” bollocks. Or “AcKsHuAlLy bananas are berries OHOHOHOHO.”
Keep that kind of jargon for your academic articles. In pop-sci contexts like here, it’s not unreasonable to use, but it deserves a health warning because of the intersection of audiences. Insisting that there’s only one correct usage is insufferable.
No, because spiders are super many, tiny, and scary, exactly like insects.
Lembot_0006 is orders of magnitudes larger than most reptiles, and is one of a kind.
I expect to lose this argument, but mom didn’t raise no quitter.
Crab
Arachnid
Arthropod?
Even when they pretend to have 6?
Or when 2 legs fall off?
No, but in a war they would side with the insects
