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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 120 points 3 days ago

Whoever designed that image should have to return the Fe they were paid.

[–] shundi82@sh.itjust.works 81 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] shundi82@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

It would have been even better, if I'd said:

"An excellent source of irony."

But alas, I'm not that witty on the spot. :-P

[–] lengau@midwest.social 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Iridium quality cereal? ConcernedApe is so good to us!

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

It's hard to make though. You have to harvest Iridium quality Wheat and mine for Iridium bars and then build the Advanced Cereal Irradiator on your farm to craft it.

It's hard to do until year 2.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

The term “oat start” makes me think of a bag of oats over one’s mouth making it impossible to start whatever they were gonna start. The meaning is enhanced by the stoppiness off the word sounds.

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's some expensive cereal...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably cheap compared to that Kashi stuff.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Takes a distant third to magic spoon

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fe

Of course that's iron. What, is that a Latin root or something?

[–] Yax@feddit.de 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup, ferrum is the Latin word.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good thing I speak French, it won't ever get me confused. In French, iron is called "fer". Also, copper is "cuivre", which also matches its periodic table symbol of Cu. Same can be said for lead: "plomb".

Unfortunately, there's quite a few that also don't match the symbol, some aren't even in English. I always hated how nitrogen is called "azote" in French.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Azides are nitrogen compounds though, so still usefully to know.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm glad I know this now.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

If they put "Fe" on it, too many people would boycott it for gendering the cereal.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

It’s latin for Female Iron. Remember everything was gendered in the world of Romantic Romans

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 19 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Yeah, my good buddy is from Genovia, where they use a regional version of the periodic table with more human-friendly names. They use Ca for calcium, Ir for iron, Hy for hydrogen, and Ox for oxygen. This change was their answer to the metric system—a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.

Back in the 1960s, Gennovia was looking to bolster its local industry and economy. The government decided that simplifying scientific terms would help more people get into science and technology fields. It seems to be working because their literacy rates in science are through the roof? Somehow. They even have Ni for nickel and Si for silver, making it so much easier to remember what’s what. I didn’t know it was prevalent enough that it made its way onto package branding tho. Interesting stuff.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.

everyone that speaks English...

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[–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Well I didn't expect to see a Meg Cabot reference on Lemmy. (She's actually a family friend believe it or not.)

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Your number one source of Iridium and Californium! Over 10,000,000 calories in each bite!

[–] Vigge93@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not to be too pedantic, but Californium is Cf

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s what? I can’t hear you

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry you'll have to speak up I'm wearing a towel

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 9 points 3 days ago

Quickly, you only have .0001 seconds to enjoy your Californium!

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Whenever abbreviations don't make sense, you can safely assume it's Latin.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (9 children)

This is medicine in a nutshell too. And not just abbreviations, but acronyms... for words in a language that no one uses. I hate it.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.

And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.

Ridiculous.

I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.

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[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Well, what other language should be used? Latin is the language of science because there's no way we'd ever agree on which alive language to use.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't say it was a bad system or that we need to change it: I said I hate it.

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Fair enough haha

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[–] codapine@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago

If they put the correct symbol there it would read café

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Everyone knows that iron, like all abbreviated four-letter nouns gets abbreviated as the first three letters.

Iro
Jun
Fuc

See? Easy peasy

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Also a good source of California

[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago

Love me some cereal fortified with Iridium

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago
[–] qiancsf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

man = male, iron = Fe > __________

[–] KaRunChiy@kbin.run 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And the Masters of the Universe!!

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