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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Junior developer mushrooms designing registration forms having heart palpitations

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Easy just have a drop-down menu for each value that can change 😎

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You have sunk my battleship!

[–] Orbituary 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"You sank my Jengajam" -- Homstray.

[–] flicker 4 points 2 weeks ago

"I was raised by a cup a coffee!" -- Homsar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

But we're playing Connect Four!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you could edit out my sex description from your comment, I’d really appreciate it, thanks.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

And no Omega males

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I was guessing it was "23k sexes found so far" but this makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Fascinating, thank you for expanding on this!

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 2 weeks ago

Then throw gender into the mix if they had such a concept. Essentially incalculable.

[–] UnhingedFridge 28 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

When you write in "Yes" next to sex on forms.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

The polite way is to write "yes, please".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

... laying on my back, pajama top on, thinking of England

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 2 weeks ago

You mean you don't now?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think you're confused. It's a form asking about sex, not how often you turn into a werewolf.

[–] expatriado 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That's when you go, "fuck it. Everyone's a they. Deal with it."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fungus TERFs be like, "ThErE aRe OnLy 6561 gEnDeRs"

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] rtxn 1 points 2 weeks ago

Do you think they have dicksquigs?

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Germans would be like "I can't even talk about this fungus without analyzing a DNA sample first".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

New life goal, open up a queer bar called "Ballgowns and Fractals".

[–] jordanlund 10 points 2 weeks ago

Putting the fun in fungus...

[–] troglodytis 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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'