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  • 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.




  • 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.







  • 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.