this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
96 points (94.4% liked)

Science Memes

20075 readers
1365 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 17 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 6 days ago

linus's counting style is to go until he runs out of fingers and toes, then start over from 0. this is genuinely why there has never been a kernel with a minor version of 21.

what's demonstrated here is his typical greeting.

[–] LustLive@fedinsfw.app 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] trd@feddit.nu 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] LustLive@fedinsfw.app -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nopes.... my ass is fuck proof. So I prefer you explain the OP.

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

I think they're saying he counts with his fingers facing himself so it looks like swearing. My mother does this when talking to me and i genuinely have to stop her every time. It's only when you do it in a conversatiin to someone that it's bothersome, of course

[–] LustLive@fedinsfw.app 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I do count in the same manner. Who would count with fingers facing someone else?? Ain't we becoming too full of etiquette?? I guess thats a lot.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hmm maybe I'm wrong about the meaning of the post then, it's just what i got from the images

[–] LustLive@fedinsfw.app 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the post is misplaced n absurd

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's in the wrong community imo. Not saying it's not about science, but there's multiple Linux meme subs this could be on where people might actually think it's funny.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I'd posted in Linux memes... how many people would know who Ed Witten is?

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Guitar or violin?

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Didn't you notice the other hand? It's 996

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cosmological parameters. And it's two.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago