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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 78 points 4 months ago (3 children)

how to assassinate a...

chemist: just keep challenging them to make more and more unstable and/or toxic compounds. if they've made it past FOOF gas, up the ante by saying "ok now do a 1-pot synth"

microbiologist: accidentally a little pathogenic virulence factors into their E. coli supply and poke some holes in the laminar hood HEPA. (don't do this if you share a bathroom with them)

particle physicist: take a couple screws out of one of the hundreds of ladders around the facility

theoretical physicist: remove a manhole cover in one of their usual walking paths, Looney Tunes style

biochemist: sabotage all their grant proposals and they'll take care of their own assassination

computer scientist: fucking don't they're an endangered species now

entomologist: literally indestructible don't even bother trying. these motherfuckers raise botfly larvae in their own limbs for shits and giggles. i fear no man. but entomologists... they scare me

mathematician: use a gun

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Molecular biologist: repeatedly spike their samples and reagents to cause random failures. Eventually lack of sleep from running it "just one more time" will kill them.

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Marine Biologist: You can't kill a 13 year old girl, no one actually becomes a marine biologist, they just all want to.

Sociologist: Trick them into going to a psychology convention, the crowd will do the work for you.

Psychologist: See above, reverse it. Might be harder to trick, tell them someone in there said they're just an anthropologist who's bad at math.

Anthropologist: Take away their teaching license, can no longer feed themselves because no one else is hiring them.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

the Galois reference is the best

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yes that was definitely intentional and absolutely not just an anti-joke i used when i ran out of ideas. excellent catch 😎👉👉

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 4 months ago

For anyone wondering, Galois was a mathematician who postulated that you could simplify any problem with a gun

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wish I'd known about this strategy when my rival picked geologist as his starting Pokémon.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: you can kill most anyone or thing with a baseball bat at any time you like.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A wild student loan appears!

MajorMajormajormajor used baseball bat!

It's not very effective...

MajorMajormajormajor has fainted from the effort.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

See. You almost died from a baseball bat.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

Holy smokes, it works!

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 months ago (4 children)

where's the picture of the knife?

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's cool. Obsidian is the strongest block so I bet it's a very effective weapon.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago

*Sneaks up behind you with a wooden bat*

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 months ago

rocks or gtfo!

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

You trying to get yourself killed?!

[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

Came here to say this, they can't just tease us like that.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

I can't read this without imagining it in Jeaney Collects's voice

[–] Dam_nedShe_fossil@mander.xyz 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

cool rock tax pls

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Obsidian has been used extensively as weapons for hunting and tools for preparing food for thousands and thousands of years.

But yea like other stones, it breaks.