Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
2 0 ReplyHere's a version without the bad crop, comedy homicide, pointless circle around the punchline, and puritanical censoring
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In his essay "To Tell a Chemist" (1965), Asimov proposed a simple shibboleth for distinguishing chemists from non-chemists: ask the person to read the word "unionized". Chemists, he noted, will read un-ionized (electrically neutral), while non-chemists will read union-ized (belonging to a trade union).
22 0 ReplyOr some will say it’s spelled incorrectly
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If you don't think about it very hard, solidarity is basically macro ionization
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17 0 ReplyMy initial thought was "would chemists theoretically be less into labor protections than plumbers"?
I guess that puts me in a third bucket.
11 0 ReplyAm a chemist in your group. I read it the plumber way too. Took me several seconds to get it.
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Good luck finding the chemistry teacher, though.
10 0 ReplyAs a leftist chemistry teacher, I read it as "having attained union", rather than "not ionized", so YMMV with this heuristic
ETA: (also, yeah, I have excellent job security until all public schools are abolished in the US)
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What about ChemE then? They're both. Sort of. Okay maybe they're not chemists, but... chemistry-adjacent.
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