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[–] Mudkipology@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

subscribe to toxic chemical facts

[–] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Me too. I want to subscribe

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm probably an oxidizing agent.

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

Uh oh. Infinite carbon.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] joulethief@compuverse.uk 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year 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 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

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

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

Hail Eris! Hail Discordia!

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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

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

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are multiple types of crises, but every existential crisis is an existential crisis. The plurality is negated by the modifier, "existential."

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. A midlife crisis and a psychotic episode could both be called existential crises. I don't think there's a hard definition to it like you seem to be asserting.

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can already tell that if I continue this conversation, you'll be the one in the picture.

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

Meaning you're going to refuse to learn about faulty parallelism?

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meaning you're getting blocked for your own good.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Funny, despite your clever picture, I don't seem to be the one suffering in this exchange.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Toxic gas. Might also be explosive.

[–] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

Warning: Exposure may cause irritation.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Slartibartfass@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 10 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

And you can be suffocating?

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I'm the big X over in the corner

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'll take that dead smiling fish upper right.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Infectious, irritant, oxidising agent, toxic gas source

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

[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Infectious substance, explosive, harmful irritant

[–] Banik2008@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Optical Radiation 🫣

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, in the morning before coffee

[–] clark@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I’m the Polish one.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a compressed gas.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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