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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the "it's just a phase" diagram

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This shit should be titled “it’s just a phase”

Your joke is funnier than the OP.

My dude you ought to steal this and add it to the chart and repost as your own.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

when I thought of it, I thought to myself "this is either going to be massively misconstrued as me trying to be a dick to trans people, or I'm a comedy genius, lets find out", rad that it's the latter

sidebar: I also considered "I Can't Believe It's Not a Phase Diagram". so, whoever steals this next, you're welcome, not one but two good title ideas!

[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Where is the Gender Bose Einstein Condensate and Gender Time Crystal?

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

yet another failed attempt to map the gender spectrum 😔😔

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Gender BEC would be a low energy gathering where all of a sudden everyone is on the same wavelength.

Gender Time Crystal would be someone who switches between two genders regularly.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Time Crystal Gender = Gallifrean

My favorite gender is gender ice 9

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 days ago

How about gender superglass?

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The moral of the story is don’t put someone under too much pressure or get them too heated, otherwise they’ll go gender critical.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is ...

Surprisingly deep.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

Nah, just math. Look at the graph!

Well normally it'll get gender fluid all over the place but if you do it right they'll go gender critical and get gender all over the place. That's how we got the month of June.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you crush me, then reheat me to just below my melting point, then quench me back then crush me some more, my microgender structure gets stretched and tensed with smaller and smaller grains. I become harder and harder until my yield strength is equal to my ultimate strength. Deep down I'm still the same alloy but heat treated.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Thanks! I just like the feeling of the microcrystalline structure solving and re condensing with new orientation that prevent my gender planes from dislocating on all sorts of cleavage directions.

[–] Vytle@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The "Gender Gas" joke has always bothered me for no reason other than because gas IS a fucking fluid.

[–] Comptero@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Both gender gas and gender liquid are gender fluid

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

its what all the linux girls using KDE are

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 8 points 2 days ago
[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 9 points 3 days ago

It's how they turn the frogs gay

[–] Chronic_Intermission@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pressure: pushing down on me, Pressing down on you, no man ask for, Under pressure that burns a building down, Splits a family in two, Puts people on streets

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

You're right, that should be "Gender Liquid" with "Gender Plasma" in the far unreadable section. Gas and liquid should be grouped as fluids - is plasma a fluid? I don't think so but I'm not a physicist

Goddammit

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The top right corner is supercritical fluid, which is correct, it's not the same as plasma, which doesn't really fit neatly on a pressure/temperature phase diagram.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Yes, it is just ionized gas. What happens when you ionize something in a liquid or solid state? Can ions not form a solid or liquid without some occupied orbitals?

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

Gas can behave like a fluid. Or rather, the two can behave similarly, but they aren't the same thing.

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

They are though. "Fluidity" is not a discrete phase of matter, it's a characteristic certain phases of matter exhibit.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

Ah you're right. I misread your comment. I thought you were calling gas a fluid haha

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago

Ok so... what exactly would the gender triple point be?

... A person at their first rave, first time doing molly or E?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Breaking: Scientists discover new Gender Plasma state of gender.

Bender "Gender Bending" Rodriguez, Gender: Bose-Einstein Condensate (Bender is very ❄️cool🧊 😎)

[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Gender Fluid? You mean like the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

The kind you get when you get them to the right temperature and pressure.

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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Idk if you want to put yourself in the "gender critical" category.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Not me for certain. Too much pressure and too hot

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

But it's so colourful! It makes being gender fluid seem boring…

[–] Sprawl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

They say it gets hot between states.

[–] marte@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 3 days ago

I'm at the triple point

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

God I've been waiting to see a good version of this for years, thank you OP

Edit: goddammit it's all wrong

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago

Be pansexual; it's a gas!

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Looks like you cracked your phone screen.

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