Pluto is the biggest dwarf planet

Eris is the most massive and initially thought to be the largest too, but now it’s known to be slightly smaller than Pluto. It was discovered in 2005, it initially appearing bigger than Pluto, plus the discovery of many similar, smaller objects nearby is what prompted the discussion of reclassification.

The universe is messy and any definition is going to encounter edge cases: planet-or-star edge cases became “brown dwarfs” and now there are also “sub-brown dwarfs” for its edge cases.

GOONTELPRO

Oh, I just realised I’m the same, haha

120 comments to 18 upvotes, geez!

They apologised for the tone and that it wasn’t meant to be a call-out of Hexbear, they haphazardly mentioned the “volcel poIice” meme as a joke and didn’t understand the intent behind it: https://hexbear.net/comment/6147530

I’m saying this as a sex-negative ace person who found the original post kinda aphobic, though I didn’t say so explicitly at the time. In one of my comments there they replied that they were “being combative for no reason and immediately regretted after hitting post”: https://hexbear.net/comment/6147126

I wasn’t trying to make a broader claim about Japan, just on that one thing specifically

I just wanted to vent about it, because it has made me hypervigilant about any pervy shit in Japanese media.

I had heard before about that Danish tv show. Part of what frustrates me with current discourse is how the female body in particular gets… mysticised I guess. Like there’s all the teasing about showing as much as possible but not those areas, then you see a woman actually bare-chest and it’s: “oh, I guess her nipples are bigger”. On the other end, I personally get discomforted by a visible… uh… “penile bulge”. I don’t really like to think about the stuff that goes on down there…

I still wrestle with how much I should write that off as childish sensibilities.

I understand where you were coming from and it’s a complex topic. I struggle with the topic myself and how to read my aversion to sex stuff (I think the main reasons are that as a cis male sexual arousal makes me afraid of hurting others, plus I get creeped out by many parts of human biology, I could never perform surgeries)

I’ve often heard the notion that Japan is more lax on sexual content or less puritanical more broadly. I would be fine with that if pop culture wasn’t infested with fan service and stuff like designing young female characters with intentionally tintillating combination of ultra-short skirts and thigh highs. Too many times where I get curious about an anime and find out it’s horny for no good reason. It’s often in a very immature way too, it has the vibe of naughty teenage boys.

I can’t shake off the idea that a lot of it is just cultural reinforcement of the patriarchy, asserting male authority over women by inherently sexualising every aspect of them.

I think consent is very important in this discussion, so much stuff happens involuntarily. I don’t want to immediately look at a woman’s butt or boobs when seeing one, it feels gross and insulting to her and I can’t imagine how women especially have to navigate such a landscape.

A small team in Kyoto launched dédédé, a website inviting people to share the positives, negatives, and oddities they find in urban spaces. The platform aims to foster casual participatory urbanism.

I’m ace and while I do look at horny images from time to time, full-on pornography or sexually explicit talk still grosses me out, I sometimes feel prudish or childish about that as a result.

I feel in a weird place when all this talk is made about normalising sex while being sex-negative, I don’t want to push my preferences on all of society, y’know?

Whenever I personally referenced the “volcel poIice” meme it was intended to be lighthearted, a friendly reminder that it got weird in a way that could give a chuckle.

I have no clue what any of this is about

Since you brought up Monster, a different work by Urasawa, Pluto was adapted to theatre once.

While the phrasing is hilarious, there do seem to have been blackouts throughout 2021. Here’s an article from the Global Times published 8 months later: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1235270.shtml

The unexpected and unprecedented power cut in three provinces in Northeast China - Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning - on Monday following reported electricity shortages have resulted in major disruptions to the daily lives of people and business operations, sparking growing concerns over the potential disruption of power supplies as demand booms ahead of the upcoming winter season.

Power rationing in some parts of Northeast China, particularly in some residential communities without advance warning, has sparked public anger and growing debate over China’s power supply. Some have questioned if the recent power cuts are an indication of a potentially large domestic gap in power supplies that could lead to an “energy crisis.”

I wonder, does Lemmygrad take a lot of flak for being ‘tankie’ too or is it just Hexbear?

for me I guess…

I’m planning to study electrical engineering and have had possibly working in China in mind as well, does that count as “tech”?

As someone who struggles with self-discipline for assignments at home I like this

That’s what I was thinking too. Foreign support for Biafra looked a lot like what Belgium did with Katanga aka divide and rule.