🍉 Albert 🍉

i did enjoy looking at old thesis on my university. seing typewriter written thesis with hand drawn plots in graph papers, original gel images, glued in pictures…

those theses are adorable scrapbooks of stress, sweat and tears.

that are so precious

and this cunt is starting a new nazi party, named after the previous American nazi party

did they just make an article about Google using AI for searching?

in other news, have y’all seen this new meme?

new moore law dropped

i only see a blank comment.

it isn’t racism it is [describes racism]

yes, that chapter count was indeed impressive

there are puzzle games that do that sort of.

the Roko’s basilisk was from his forum, true, not directly his idea, but hes sort of related.

he is just a guy that sometimes, I hear wierd stuff and then I am not surprised hes involved in that.

That harry potter fan fic is weird, because instead of smut or shipping, it’s like what if Harry Potter was a humanist philosoper instead if a normal child with magic powers.

it’s fine to place arbitrary separations in a spectrum as long as we are aware it’s a spectrum.

but it’s also annoying that “dwarf” implies smaller, and as I said before, we could have gas giants that could be classified as a dwarf planets.

and without a doubt there are exoplanets that are gas giants but also dwarf.

which is just plain stupid.

then accept the spectrum.

just list the top 15 or 20 largest planets in the solar system when making a poster or a textbook.

I’m Jewish and I’m upset whenever someone calls Jew Harp (an instrument) or Jew Ears (an edible mushroom) with another name.

come on, why can’t we be associated with yummy mushrooms or cool cowboy instruments?

if you call it Jaw harp i want to break your jaw,

at least the Latin name for jew ear still says jew ear

forget about John Money

look into Magnus Hirschfeld, had the first gender clinic and did research and surveys on gender, he pioneer gender treatments and helped transsexual people (that’s was the name back then)

he was Jewish and was targeted by the Nazis exactly how you said.

The famous book burnings started out when they raided his institute and burned all his research.

this is borderline.

there’s a point where we can argue that the US has shit standards for food safety. and there’s arguing that chemicals names are scary.

plus, he’s a bit of a weirdo with the Rocco’s Basilisk and his weird harry potter fanfiction

go back to your harry potter fan fiction

I get all that, and maybe a size threshold would have been useful.

but the rule of “cleared its own orbit” is not only arbitrary, but time and orbit dependent.

you there could be another planet far away, which is likely a gas giant, and if discovered it would be obviously considered a planet. however we will never know for sure because we will never know if there’s another object in it’s orbit, and if we then discover another gas giant in its orbit (it would be so large it’s unlikely to have cleared its orbit), then we would have to demote two gas giants (or more) into a dwarf planet status.

which is so plainly ridiculous. just make a reasonable threshold between asteroid and planet based on mass. or even geology, if it’s just loosely bound rubble, its an astoroid, if it’s large enough to have geology of some sort, then a planet (although that would be harder to determine).

but just based on an extrinsic factor?

if eventually Ceres yeets pluto out, would Ceres become a legit planet?

why is a planetary object multiple AU away from the object you are studying determined wether something is a planet or a dwarf planet?

that’s like defining that hydrogen is no longer hydrogen if it is bound with another element.

I’d rather we have dozens of planets, with news articles talking about “new planets discovered”

we can still teach the handful of “classical planets”, so we can have posters, or have like periodic tables, and everyone be aware that they might go out of date as more is discoverd.

the solar system will be more exciting and more varied.

also, the “clearing orbit from similar objects” is time and orbit dependent,

larger orbits take longer to clear, which mean in a few billion years ceres might eject pluto and become a planet?

or we could have gas giants beyond pluto (like this hypothetical 9th planet ) which it would be unlikely it has cleared its orbit, so we could have a planet larger than Jupiter which we would call a planet, but if we discover another planet in its orbit (too large to clear), then we will have to say that it is a dwarf planet.

meanwhile,

we still refuse to call Sonic th hedgehog protein anything else.

but so what?

we used to have a handful of elements, but when we kept discovering more, we didn’t change the rules to have elements, and “strange elements” so schools only have to teach about 16 elements.