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[–] Mudkipology@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I specifically wanna be pentaborane, because it has the rare honor of a perfect score on the fire safety diamond. Highly flammable, highly toxic, highly reactive, explodes on contact with air, explodes on contact with water, and lethal amounts can absorb through your skin (if it even gets that far). It was actually considered as a possible jet or rocket fuel in the 1950s and earned the nickname "Green Dragon" because it burns green. But the US government ended up rejecting it because even its exhaust is poisonous. It is in fact so dangerous that the government's supply of it sat in storage until 2000 because that's how long it took to invent a safe disposal method - a procedure whose actual scientific name is Dragon Slayer.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

subscribe to toxic chemical facts

[–] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Me too. I want to subscribe

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This is the most metal thing I've heard of in the field of chemistry, which is kinda profound given that chemistry defines what a metal is.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm probably an oxidizing agent.

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Uh oh. Infinite carbon.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

It’s toxic gas for me, I need to work on my diet.

[–] joulethief@compuverse.uk 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Look, I'm not afraid of water. I can swim fine. I was a lifeguard ffs. But the water here is always cold, and I'm almost always wearing leather boots amd work pants. I'm not afraid of water, I'm afraid of getting wet. I'll get very angry if I get wet, because how then am I supposed to get dry? Dangerous when wet describes me well.

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I made this after accidentally triggering somebody's manic psychosis.

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Can I steal it to recklessly distribute throughout mystical and mental health meme spaces?

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

I might have to print it and put it on a lanyard. Or it sometimes feels like that.

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah. It's an apt description of the specific way in which I am a menace.

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Hail Eris! Hail Discordia!

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are subscribed to lemmy mental and mystical meme spaces? May I ask in which instance these are please?

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right off hand there's Witchy Memes but I meant just as much off Lemmy as on.

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !witchymemes@lemmy.world

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago
[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crisis should be crises, plural. I believe this is an example of faulty parallelism.

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I considered that spelling as well. I think the plural and singular both fit.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope.

Right now the list reads plural, plural, and singular. Parallelism states that all words in a list should have the same form. So they should all be plural, or all singular.

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While that is true, it also means various types of alterations in consciousness and paradigm shifts, but there is really only one type of existential crisis.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Well I don't really agree with that and I also don't think it's a solution to faulty parallelism.

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Toxic gas. Might also be explosive.

[–] InigoMontoyota@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was definitely saying toxic gas. Or at least that's what my wife says

[–] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I came here to make the same "what my wife says" joke about me being toxic gas.

[–] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Harmful To Aquatic Life.

(I don't eat them but do order a lot of stuff online and am often covered in paint.)

[–] famousringo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Warning: Exposure may cause irritation.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

It's just Safety Data Sheet now. Calling them Materials was dehumanizing.

[–] Slartibartfass@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm non-flammable non-toxic gas—I'm not dangerous, I just take up a lot of space.

[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

And you can be suffocating?

[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago
[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago

I'm the big X over in the corner

[–] Banik2008@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago

Not illustrated here, but I like the one with the guy coughing his lungs out.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Infectious, irritant, oxidising agent, toxic gas source

Alternatively, the big X not to be confused with the dead bird site's new name

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I'll take that dead smiling fish upper right.

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Optical Radiation 🫣

[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Infectious substance, explosive, harmful irritant

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, in the morning before coffee

[–] clark@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

I’m the Polish one.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm a compressed gas.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Gotta be one of the flammable types but how do I know which?

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