Spyke
lemm.ee

And in 2006, Pluto was declared not a planet. Also in 2006, Facebook went public. Coincidence? I think not!

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So, you're saying for thousands of years nobody knows about Pluto. Then a handful of people suddenly start obsessively monitoring the night sky and enumerating every object they can see in a big journal. More and more of them start building bigger and bigger telescopes, blowing enormous sums of money on this seemingly pointless hobby. They're spending the most productive years of their lives sleeping through day so they can wake up in the middle of the night and count celestial objects. And then you're telling me Pluto caused Autism?

I think you've placed the cart before the horse.

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redlemmy.com

Can we please get an autistic info dump on pluto in this thread

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sopuli.xyz

Kinda rude tbh.

Plenty of neurodivergent people to find one compatible. I love hearing other autists ramble, makes me feel safe and comfortable.

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stinkyreply
redlemmy.com

those are both more valuable than zero-effort one liners

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Sorry, replied to the wrong person, apologize. It was another autist not you, fixed it now.

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Melatoninreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Planet = 76 years - Dwarf = 19 years

Planet wins. Dwarf can't even drink yet.

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MrsDoylereply
sh.itjust.works

Dwarf can't even drink yet.

In the US. Most countries have 18 as the limit; in most of Europe that's only a limit on buying alcohol, not drinking it.

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sh.itjust.works

Its still effectively a buying limit here in the US as well. I had my first drink at 4 because I was convinced whiskey was apple juice and stole a swing, the end result was a drunk 4 year old.

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Yes, I know about our backward ass country. The United States of America: where you may fight and die in a war at 18 but can't have a drink.

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Amonreply
lemmy.world

please make a c/spurriouscorrelations

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Amonreply
lemmy.world

You made the banner version, but it doesn't really matter who makes it, though.

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True, wanting a community and creating it doesn't have to correlate or cause one another

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Or did those with autism cause Pluto? Correlation does not prove causation. They weren't able to fully connect the dots in the case of vaccines. They only saw a mere common "trend" among the research and ran with it.

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They should rename Pluto to Aminoglycoside since Pluto is associated with a planet in older literature.

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Straw men have only ever existed on planets. There are no straw men on Pluto. Therefore, Pluto is not a planet.

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I blame Percival Lowell for this. And his minion, Clyde Tombaugh.

Then they yanked Pluto from planetary existence, to cover their tracks!

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Genetics, mostly. But socialization, culture, etc possibly. There have been trans people as long as there have been people. Some cultures were more accepting than others. I'd encourage you to check out Native American Two Spirit people for an ancient way cultures of the area perceived some kinds of trans people, often in a quite positive way.

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Why do party balloons sometimes drift north?

  1. The string, they let go of it.

  2. The wind was blowing that way.

I think it's a good parallel.

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