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[-] [email protected] 120 points 6 days ago

I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

Was this a House episode?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Probably not getting buried, though.

Probably.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

In a lot of places in the US, a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse is going to catch 2 to the head.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Or be nominated a Secretary of Health and Human Services.

[-] [email protected] 83 points 6 days ago

Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though... you've considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn't beating, your skin is pale... realizing you are in a coffin and everyone's performing a service... hmm... guess I am dead. course I guess that's kind of the difference is humans aren't so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2' away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Love me some pictures for sad children

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Have a PNG version.

And another.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Have a picture of a signed physical copy.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago

Depends on the human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard%27s_syndrome

Side note: I am furious that I wasn't able to find the name of this syndrome without ChatGPT. Is this a skill issue or are traditional search engines (in this case DuckDuckGo) just completely useless now?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

I googled "human thinks he's dead" and that Wikipedia page was the first result

[-] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago

well "skill issue" was one of the options so it might be that

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

🤷‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Pretty much the whole Internet got worse in the last decade. Search engines are a pain to use nowadays.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

duckduckgo has become pretty worthless for search, ecosia is slightly better i think but without the privacy benefits. i have a local llm running in koboldcpp that i use if i really need to just bounce words off something while it nods along

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

seems like it might be skill issue in this case. a Google search for "medical condition person thinks they're dead" gave it immediately

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago

smells itself

eh I guess I died....

[-] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago

"Ed Wilson"

More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

Read his book "The Social Conquest of Earth" if this intrigues you.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

Not the anarchists

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Sounds like propaganda tbh

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of 'hierarchical pecking order'. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You have a spray bottle of oleic acid

Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr or Caroline Leavitt

[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book "The Ants" is mind-bogglingly thorough

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Also, Social Conquest of Earth.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

"I swear I'm not dead!"

"Yea we don't care, you smell dead and it's disgusting, leave until you take a bath"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

why doesn't the ant that was sprayed on carry itself away.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

It would be inappropriate for a dead ant to move.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

They must ~~rest~~ live in peace.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I wonder what will happen if they put that chemical into an insecticide spray.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Ants coming to bring you more dead ants. You will be the evil ant god.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Moving means partly alive, but partly alive means mostly dead, so off you go!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

fist time in earth history to get a day off

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What the hell happened to the ant? My god I dislike cliffhangers.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

It says at the end. It hung out in the graveyard, then went back to work.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

So It was all a convoluted plan to take a few days off, what a slacker!

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