I gotta say you’re being too precious about Pluto. yes, it’s made up, let it go. it doesnt matter. dwarf planets are special too.

from the Wikipedia page:

The IAU’s definition does not attach specific numbers or equations to this term, but all IAU-recognised planets have cleared their neighbourhoods to a much greater extent (by orders of magnitude) than any dwarf planet or candidate for dwarf planet.

so Neptune and earth have indeed cleared their orbit. also pluto is better understood as one of the Trans-Neptunian Objects (good megathread topic).

you’re thinking of spontaneous generation.

phlogiston was a theorized substance related to combustion and luminiferous aether was a theorized medium for the propagation of light waves.

N64 textures

wishing this man a very die

a friend of mine just installed windows 11 on their new PC and it fucking hurt to see

if you use a computer you owe it to yourself to learn how & start using Linux. stop using games as a crutch, that’s G*mer behavior. I don’t care if your favorite game won’t work with Proton. pick a new one that does there are literally so many and you’ll end up liking it more because your computer will actually respect you.

i mean FFS the steam deck runs on modified Arch. doom (the new shit), KSP (is native), animal well, rdr2, even halo all run great. I run pathologic 3 off an old thinkpad with a thunderbolt eGPU. a better world is possible.

poor reading comprehension and reactive attitudes can explain most of it but yeah - .-

feels like really asinine arguments have been popping up with increasing regularity lately.

18 years ago!?! godamm

honestly voIcel police is just a really tired meme. that said I do really value the anti-horny culture of this particular board, it’s played a big part in keeping this a good space for people that aren’t cis men I think.

that Einstein stuff was amazing.