• Mudkipology@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 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.

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      10 months ago

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

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          10 months ago

          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.

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            10 months ago

            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.

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              10 months ago

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

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                  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.

  • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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    10 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