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[–] SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org 36 points 2 weeks ago

This is what is meant by "piss off".

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Drinking Fountains

"I've always wondered whether you could drink slowly enough, and eliminate fast enough, that you just sort of peed continuously. But I'm afraid to try because I worry someone might call while I'm doing it and ask what I'm up to, and I won't be able to think of a lie."

[–] psud@aussie.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You'd die of water poisoning

[–] MrLLM@ani.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

100% of the people who have consumed dihydrogen monoxide will eventually die.

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] xylol@leminal.space 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It has what the plants crave

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

That's what makes regenerative farming so good, all that piss and shit make it great for the crops, no need for other fertilizers

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Do plants crave kidneys failure

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm just saying you could slip in a bite of beef jerky or raw-dog some Gatorade powder once in a while

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Been to an airport that had that. (Lost the picture though. !remindme Christmas)

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 21 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You’re gonna want to add some salt to that gallon you’re drinking, ask me how I know

[–] X@piefed.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hyponatremia.

Hypo-, meaning low; -natr- derived from natrium, Latin for sodium; -emia, meaning presence in blood.

Low sodium presence in blood.

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Huge chubby emu ref

[–] Magikjak@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] X@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago
[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm also curious. Is there a particular kind of salt?

[–] Winter_Oven@piefed.social -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Isn't Epsom salt like a majority water?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

Would that prevent hyperhydration, or would you need it to have more than just salt? 🤔

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

lol no. It says "a day". It says nothing about when exercising or sweating your ass off outside when you might need to actually care about adding salt.

I drink about a gallon a day of water and my normal diet replenishes things just fine. Your kidneys shouldn't be dumping a bunch of stuff out that you're already low on. They're not mindless filters that run at a constant rate.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My employer is not liking this strategy,..

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Always pee on company time!

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

at my former job, my boss was a nosy little.. nice lady....
Anyways, i had a mysterious bladder infection all the time. Any time she would waddle her ass towards me i suddenly had to go to the bathroom. Sometimes multiple times!

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What's a 'gallon' in normal volume measurements?

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

It's about 1.5 goat stomachs, mate

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Either ~4.55 L (imperial) or ~3.79 L (US).

Ugh. Why do they do this to us?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Depends. Which gallon are you talking about? The British one or the American one? Or one of the other ones...?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're going to need to replace a few electrolytes also.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 0 points 1 week ago

It's like a salty Hoosier unable to remember suit because he got not-paper rich hustling people that forgot what games are for. That's why they got stripped of major from the deck. Removing a point of game doesn't remove reality like pushing a delete button in the third grave doesn't remind you that math was fucking important. What's a fucking pun, anyway?

[–] verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago
[–] smh@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

/me laughs in POTS. I had four 30 oz tumblers of electrolyte water before noon today. (0.94 gallons aka 3.5 liters) And yes, I pee constantly.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

You know a good hack is you can just lie about having to use the bathroom.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

So, the modern day version of smoking? Oh, wait. They’d listen to each other, rather than be chuckle fucks — okay, there were some.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

That's the most accurate take on drinking too much water