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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

subscribe to toxic chemical facts

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Me too. I want to subscribe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm probably an oxidizing agent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Uh oh. Infinite carbon.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Hail Eris! Hail Discordia!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Harmful To Aquatic Life.

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

[–] Chais 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Toxic gas. Might also be explosive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

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

[–] famousringo 12 points 11 months ago

Warning: Exposure may cause irritation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And you can be suffocating?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I'm the big X over in the corner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'll take that dead smiling fish upper right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Infectious, irritant, oxidising agent, toxic gas source

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Infectious substance, explosive, harmful irritant

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Optical Radiation 🫣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I’m the Polish one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, in the morning before coffee

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm a compressed gas.

[–] CookieJarObserver 2 points 11 months ago

Explosive, Toxic and Flammable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

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