• LennethAegis
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    894 months ago

    23k sexes that’s fascinating, so I looked it up:
    They have two sex genes, named A and B, each of these have have an allele (alternate form) called alpha and beta. So combined there are 4 unique spots in the gene to look at. A-alpha, A-beta, B-alpha, and B-beta. Each of these can have variations, with A-beta having 32 and the rest 9. 32 x 9 x 9 x 9 = 23328 unique sexes

    So describing your sex would look something like A-alpha-1, A-beta-8, B-alpha-3, B-beta-5.

  • UnhingedFridge
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    284 months ago

    When you write in “Yes” next to sex on forms.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      204 months ago

      That’s when you go, “fuck it. Everyone’s a they. Deal with it.”

        • @SkybreakerEngineer
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          84 months ago

          Real fungus doesn’t care about gender, only the WAAAAAAGH

          • @rtxn
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            14 months ago

            Do you think they have dicksquigs?

        • Flying SquidOP
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          24 months ago

          Maybe fungus should consider itself lucky that it doesn’t need bathrooms.

      • @[email protected]
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        54 months ago

        Germans would be like “I can’t even talk about this fungus without analyzing a DNA sample first”.

      • Farid
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        34 months ago

        Honestly, just doing that would not only solve certain issues, it would remove some unnecessary complexity from English. In most (maybe all?) Turkic languages we don’t have gendered pronouns, just one for “they” and nothing disastrous has happened yet.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          34 months ago

          It would take some adjustment, but I’d be all for it.

  • @troglodytis
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    44 months ago

    Ballgowns and fractals can mate? Can we get a rule 34 in that?

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    Was curious as to the use of the prefix Schizo in the genus name and found this on a CDC website: ‘Schizophyllum is derived from “Schíza” meaning split because of the appearance of radial, centrally split, gill like folds’