• LEX@lemm.ee
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    I was buying some edibles a few weeks ago and the guy behind the counter told me this cheap brand was infused with “nano technology.” I laughed a hearty laugh and replied, “I’m sorry, did you just say those are infused with nano technology?” He looked me right in the eye and said, “yes.” I bought the $6, ‘nano technology infused’ edibles lol!

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      I overheard a budtender say that at my local dispensary too lol. Must be a marketing incentive.

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          I’ve kind of understood “dealer” to be someone who sells illegal drugs, and “budtender” to be someone who works the counter at a legal dispensary. I dunno for sure, I don’t actually encounter these concepts often.

          It does seem kind of silly, I mean we already have words that describe people who work in stores. On the other hand, it’s specific and easily understood from the first hearing.

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            oh my god! it’s a real word. I thought it was a typo. I have never heard of it before, since Marijuana is not legal where I live. I learned something. Thanks.

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        Nobody at the dispensary knows anything about marijuana. You just get the same canned responses with every question.

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      I mean, he /could/ be right. He probably isn’t but he could be.

      Nano technology doesn’t refer exclusively to like nano robots it could also just be infused with nano particles of something.

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        Well, there’s a lot of particles that are “nano” in size. And “nano” isn’t a size; nano is a unit prefix.

        Even the earth is smaller than 1 nano parsec. So the meaning is irrelevant when earth is a nano “particle” (on the parsec scale).

        Meaningless jibber jabber.

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          And “nano” isn’t a size; nano is a unit prefix.

          Even the earth is smaller than 1 nano parsec.

          Thank you for the pointless pedantry

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          Pedantic. When people say micro-scale/nano-scale they mean “measured in micrometers/nanometers”. So a nanoparticle is a particle with a size that makes nanometers the most convenient unit.