Author: peasantchick

quoms:

The thing about how horrifyingly, lethally hot this summer is (across basically the entire northern hemisphere) is that yes, it is, and yet if I live for another 60 years maybe 40 of them are going to be hotter than this one. Maybe even that’s optimistic. Any acknowledgement of how bad it is right now is inseparable from the realisation that it not only can be worse, but absolutely will be worse.

I’m not saying anyone should be panicking, but I am saying that as a society, as a planet, we ought to be pouring resources into finding ways to keep people alive under these unprecedented conditions; it’s going to be one of the major public health and civil engineering challenges of this century, and we can see it coming. Yet instead, because capitalism, what we are in effect doing is pouring resources into finding ways to make these conditions worse.

That’s not acceptable.

people who want pluto reinstated as the ‘””’ninth planet’‘““‘‘ are fake fans. how many of you can name another dwarf planet? how many of you hypocrites fought for ceres, another current dwarf planet that once had it’s planet classification ripped away? it got called a large asteroid until we came up with the dwarf planet classification, you know who else is in an asteroid belt? pluto. it’s not special for a dwarf planet. it’s just the most famous.

combining dwarf planets under planets at the moment would make pluto the 10th planet out of a total 13 (and you would know that already if you really loved pluto). except that might not last very long, because there’s about 200 more candidates for future dwarf planets,
“and possibly more than 10,000″ further out than pluto we haven’t seen yet

this article going around, “Yes Pluto is a planet”? if you read past the title, it goes onto how we tend to call even large moons ‘planets’. the same definition (”round objects that are smaller than stars”) ends up with a total of 102 planets in our solar system. if we count ceres (the one dwarf planet closer to the sun than pluto) and only the moons bigger than pluto, then pluto comes out as the 17th planet. but that number counts earth’s moon (that moon called The Moon) as its own planet, of which ‘moon’ is a subcategory. it’s weird. and it throws away the idea that Planets Are Objects That Orbit The Sun. and under that definition even pluto’s moon charon could be it’s own planet, or it could share the one ‘double planet’ label with pluto.

in conclusion, tumblr, please chill about pluto. it’s been 12 years of this. we keep finding more dwarf planets and we keep learning more and more about the solar system, so it’s never going to be exactly the same as when we were kids again. i think we should definitely teach kids about it being the 2nd dwarf planet out of 5-so-far. and it might one day be classed as a planet again, but it’s not going to be as number 9, and you might have to learn a bunch more planets at the same time. but please. please my dear people who share things without reading them. if i see another viral post about pluto really being a planet without any other dwarf planets mentioned i might die

hotcommunist:

anyway with regards to the opioid addiction crisis y’all really need to learn the difference between reliance and addiction, because they’re not the same.

I am reliant on opiate painkillers the same way I am reliant on my epilepsy medication: I take a set amount twice a day in order to function normally. my condition is not curable. physio will not fix it. I do not experience any highs from my painkillers, but I do experience less pain.

this differs vastly to addiction, where the amount you take is not set, may be beyond the safe dose. It will likely cause withdrawal symptoms if stopped abruptly, as well as harming your body due to the large doses ingested.

this is why it’s terrifying to hear that restrictions are going to be tightened to the extent that it will be almost impossible to get.

that kind of “reform” will only push people -reliant and addicted alike – to get it from non – official sources, where you don’t know what the fuck is in there. it will make actual addicts less safe and reliant people forced to live in agony.

the way to treat this “epidemic” is to invest in addict help schemes, rehab centres, and offer a variety of pain management systems, not this stupid blanket ban style thing that politicians are saying for brownie points.

guess that isn’t as profitable though hm.

mylordshesacactus:

I’m doing a SU rewatch, got to We Need To Talk, and started wondering what happened to poof Pearl between Bitchy Legwarmers Pearl ™ and s1 Pearl. She’s talented and careful, she doesn’t poof easily.

And sure we could totally get angsty about this, it’s Pearl and this is the time period between “Rose getting serious about Greg” and “Steven”

But also, the one time we saw Pearl getting poofed it was in a training accident because she turned around to lecture and got stabbed by her own holographic robo-double.

Basically it’s a complete tossup of anywhere from “got unhealthily reckless and careless trying to get Rose’s attention on a mission and was traumatically killed” to “absentmindedly ate an olive and was so horrified she straight-up died”