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Exotic Matter

A theoretical class of matter that violates one or more properties of normal matter as described by the Standard Model of particle physics. This isn't just weird stuff; it's stuff with properties like negative mass/energy density, which would cause gravity to repel rather than attract. While often purely hypothetical, some forms (like matter with negative pressure) are used in cosmological models to explain dark energy or to theorize about warp drives and traversable wormholes. It's the "what-if" building material of advanced cosmology and sci-fi tech.
Example: The hypothetical "Casimir vacuum" exhibiting negative energy density, or "strange matter" made of up, down, and strange quarks, are forms of Exotic Matter. In fiction, the "dilithium" crystals in Star Trek that regulate matter-antimatter reactions, or the "Tiberium" from Command & Conquer, are treated as exotic matter with incredible properties.
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Post-Matter Cyber-Nihilism

A variant that argues for the ultimate irrelevance of matter itself, seeing the physical world as a temporary substrate that will eventually be superseded by pure information. Post-Matter Cyber-Nihilism embraces the idea that consciousness, society, and eventually all existence can be translated into informational form, leaving matter behind as a discarded stage. Its goal is not just to overcome meatspace but to prove that meat never mattered—that the real was always the informational, and the physical was just a medium we're now ready to outgrow.
Post-Matter Cyber-Nihilism Example: "He argued that matter was just a slow, clumsy form of information—that rocks were just data with high latency. 'Post-matter cyber-nihilism means recognizing that the physical was never the point,' he said. 'The Wired is where reality is finally becoming itself: pure, fast, free. Matter was the chrysalis; the network is the butterfly.' His listeners either found this profound or profoundly stoned. Both could be true."

A Matter of Geography

when you're denied to live a normal everyday experience due to the constraints and limitations of where you're from
- Wait, you've never ordered coffee before?
= I didn't. it's a Matter of geography.

Splatter the matter

“Bruh! My tummy started rumbling in church so bad, I barely made it out of there and into McDonald’s next door to Splatter the matter.”
Splatter the matter by subtronic October 11, 2018

looks don't matter to me 

But no promises if I am hanging out with a flat-chested "plan Jane", and a buxom "cutie with a booty" happens by.
In the classic 1976 "wet 'n' juicy" movie "Corps brûlants", the young Eric temporarily abandons his bosomy teenage-brunette girlfriend Corrine for an older blonde hottie, but then soon realizes that his similar-aged cutie-chick lover is much better suited to him, after all. Why he ever suffered even this brief "hiccup" in his affections for the delicately-freckled Corinne has always been a mystery to me, though, since even a "looks don't matter to me" defense wouldn't wash here... his gentle-natured sweetie-pie had softer and more-attractive facial-features --- and noticeably bigger/firmer boobs --- than the somewhat-shallow-personalitied older lady whom he'd shown interest in, and so I cannot understand what he'd seen in that boring flaxen-haired dame, anyway.
looks don't matter to me by QuacksO December 25, 2019

Black Votes Matter 

Blacks and other minorities tend to vote in favor of politicians that support policies that promotes social justice, equality of opportunity, protects the safety net, affordable heath care, daycare, affordable housing, quality education, and provides job security and living wages to the middle and working classes.
Blacks are typically a minority in a general election so they depend on the majority of the voting population to contribute enough votes to their candidate of choice to have a chance of winning.

In many cases the opposing party will try to discourage people to collectively vote with blacks and/or to reduce the power of minority voting using strategies from voter suppression to gerrymandering, increase voting times and places. So when you vote consider how your vote will impact the blacks and other minorities and their candidate and policy choices. Sadly wasteful non-voting and extreme voting practices by the privileged, such as voting for non-viable candidates has resulted in destroying the potential of the black vote to matter.
Black Votes Matter only when they collectively have enough votes for their candidate to win. So understand the implications to blacks and other minorities regarding your choice, and how much you vote matters to their choice.
Black Votes Matter by mlhiss March 4, 2020

Bar Lives Matter 

An exaggerated, insensitive, and racist term used by bar owners in Texas during the COVID-19 crisis to protest small business closures. A blatant attempt to parody the Black Live Matter movement’s involvement in the international protests following the police related deaths of: George Floyd, Breonne Taylor, and Ahmad Arbury in May and June 2020.
Dr. Faucci: Bars are an unsafe hotzone for the growth of COVID-19

Governors: We need to keep our people safe. It’s hard to wear face masks in bars and restaurants responsibly so we will temporarily be mandating these businesses close.

Bar owners: you’re all communist trying to steal my rights, but BAR LIVES MATTER, and I’m going to get a haircut