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which plants though? are you making shit up?
From henceforth "trees" shall now be called "tall wavy bois" and "flowers" shall be known as "colorful stemmy bennies."
I will not be taking questions.
But what will the tree community be about then?
!trees@lemmy.world mentioned
Weed. Like it’s always been.
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
NPC wojak: "I love science."
"Science says sex and gender are two different things."
NPC wojak gets angry: "Science was corrupted by the Jewish cabal! See: John Money*!"
* John Money is not Jewish, but is pushed by transphobes with the hope you'll accuse him being one.
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.
Using Martin Hirschfeld has the issue of not being able to sell the myth of "transgenderism is a recent thing".
what are the changes and why?
can't post this and expect us to carry on
This sort of thing happens all the time, and it's usually subject to some level of debate. Just look at the ponderosa pine (pinus ponderosa. Some say there is one species with multiple subspecies, some say they are just different varieties, some say that they are different species, or some are and some arent, etc.
Yeah! I'm barely able to get mad about this with no information!
meanwhile,
we still refuse to call Sonic th hedgehog protein anything else.
I mean, I'm ngl sometimes I do feel like I gotta go fast.
Sometimes I also want to curl up into a ball, too.
So no one can see me because I'm so small
Pluto is a planet!
Yes, a dwarf planet!
And Jupiter is a Gas Giant, but we still count it as one of the planets of our solar system
Because if dwarf planets counted, we'd have to include a hell of a lot more than 9 planets.
NASA says there are only 5 dwarf planets in the system. But, it's all pretty arbitrary. The line between planet, dwarf planet and asteroid are all pretty fuzzy.
An alien civilization looking at the Sol system might say that it's only got one planet, Jupiter. Everything else is so much smaller that they're not really significant.
Another logical cut-off would be that planets had to be bigger than any moons in the system. If we went by that standard, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus and Mars could all still count as planets, but Mercury would get ditched because it's smaller than Ganymede and Titan.
What's funny is that we're still using the name "planet" which comes from "asteres planētai", meaning "wandering star". For the Greeks what mattered wasn't the size or the mass, it was how bright they were. That meant that a tiny object near the sun like Mercury (Hermes) got the name planet, because despite being tiny, the fact it's close to the sun means it reflects a lot of light. And Jupiter (Zeus) and Saturn (Cronus) got named not because they're so big, but because they're big and far away from the sun, which means they reflect sunlight in a similar way to the much smaller inner planets. Earth's moon might have been given the name "planet" if it had been a lot smaller and/or further away.
Any time you cut off a spectrum you get weirdness around the edges.
then accept the spectrum.
just list the top 15 or 20 largest planets in the solar system when making a poster or a textbook.
And we should.
The most performative "hurr durr science" bullshit ever. Who fucking cares if Pluto was considered a planet when you were a kid?
Not you specifically. There are people who really seem to care about this shit.
The only reason Pluto is no longer a planet is because we discovered there were loads more planets and couldn't be bothered to acknowledge their existence!
It's been like that for decades to be honest. Ceres used to be called a planet, but you don't see anyone complaining about it's demotion
i've spent 25 years on this blue marble fascinated by space, and only recently discovered there multiple long orbit dwarf planets going around the sun??? that is so cool why is this not widely known!
Well, it is widely know.
Unpopular opinion: dwarf planets are cool.
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Potatoes are now called potatoes
What kind of toes?
If you have to ask, you can't afford em
tomatoes and potatoes are now called tomatos and potatos
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Cue in the guys about to get hanged meme. Paleontologist asking the Botanist, "First time?"
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