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I want to kill myself but in a way that wont inconvenience anyone

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Alright girlies we can't let the executive dysfunction win today

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I mean alright girlies we can't let the executive dysfunction win tomorrow

#fuck wish i had someone to share this with

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Alright girlies we can't let the executive dysfunction win today

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I mean alright girlies we can't let the executive dysfunction win tomorrow

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Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

sea-salted-wolverine

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

sea-salted-wolverine

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

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"Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders?"

You mean, am I an owl?

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“Can you turn your head

to look behind you without

twisting your shoulders?”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

justonedayblog

A lo mejor yo no sé querer a nadie y no sé dejar que nadie me quiera a mi.

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Damn It!

mattstetsmis

awakening from a dream...

vacuously-true

You know how there's like some mathematician or something, who like did some useful stuff but is primarily known for overshadowing that work by going to great lengths trying to convince people to blow up the moon or something?

I wanna be like that but the hill I'm dying on is that the moon should be considered a planet

vacuously-true

Stop tagging this about the Unabomber it's not about the Unabomber, it's about time we give the other fucked up mathematicians some recognition, it's about this fucking guy

hereticalteapot

OP you're right and you should say it. There are 9 planets in the solar system and two of them are in a binary planetary system. I will die on this hill.

vacuously-true

EXACTLY. EARTH-MOON IS A BINARY PLANET SYSTEM. AND I WILL BECOME NOTABLE FOR MY FREQUENT POSTS TO VARIOUS TUMBLR BLOGS AND MY ADVOCACY FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THE MOON AS A PLANET.

hereticalteapot

Now, dear reader, you might say: "But three of the Jovian moons and Titan are bigger than the Moon!". And to that I say yes, but two of those are bigger than Mercury also and people aren't usually upset about that. Plus all of those are satellites of bodies that are completely incomparable in scale.

Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, is 0.008% the mass of Jupiter. The Moon is a bit over 1.2% of Earth's mass and a solid 27% of its radius. There's no other planet* in the solar system with a satellite anywhere close to the kind of similarity in size that the Earth-Moon system has.

You might also say "Fine but it's literally called 'The Moon' so that's a bit silly". To which I say that I've been calling it that to be more easily understood but it would be extremely easy to switch to calling it "Luna" which is what most people do when they encounter situations where saying "The Moon" creates ambiguity - like when writing sci-fi or a nontrivial amount of astronomical research.

In conclusion, lumping Luna in with the satellites of other bodies is unhelpful because it is geophysically distinct from most of them, and orbitally distinct from all of them. Luna is a planet and it's rad that we can see one so clearly in the night sky.

[*No, Pluto is not a planet, but yes Pluto-Charon is totally a dwarf planet binary]

kazoracht

I'll integrate this into my belief system but only because it's funny

asdfjasklfjdkla

hello???? hello??????????? have we walked into the twilight zone or something??????????? yes, the moon is a percentage (a percentage almost exactly) of earth’s mass, but that doesn’t magically make us a binary system! the barycenter is still well within the diameter of earth! what next, are you going to say that since deimos and phobos orbit mars, they’re actually a trinary planetary system?? you fucking better not!

hereticalteapot

Hi, I'm an astrophysicist, I am well aware of the IAU (International Astronomical Union) definition of a planet. It is a definition that is relatively controversial and doesn't really make a lot of sense - it was mostly written to prevent the list of planets from getting too long as we discovered more dwarfs. This definition does not include anything to do with barycentres - I'll get back to that.

The IAU definition of a planet has 3 parts:

1. Object in orbit around our Sun

2. Object has reached hydrostatic equilibrium (i.e. it's a sphere, not a potato)

3. Object has cleared its neighborhood around its orbit

Both Earth and Luna satisfy 2. I will accept that 1 is debatable, but the crux of my argument is that Luna is the size of a terrestrial planet (yes, ~1% of Earth's mass, but still huge and of roughly the same order of magnitude as Mercury, which is a mere ~5% of Earth's mass) and exceptionally large relative to its orbital partner compared to any other "satellite", a factor the IAU does not account for.

It's important to note that 1 literally does not permit binary planets - even if both bodies are identical, one must be the "moon". This is major criticism of the IAU definition. It also doesn't account for exoplanets or rogue planets, but that's another story.

3 is where this definition falls apart. You could easily argue that most of the planets in our solar system fail depending on how you interpret it, because it's so fuzzy. The Earth fails, because there's a planet-sized body chilling out in its orbit (Luna), Jupiter fails because it has huge quantities of asteroids trapped in its Lagrange points, etc.

In the latter case, we say that because Jupiter is determining the motion of these bodies, it still counts. For the Earth we simply ignore Luna and say that the rule is more about stray bodies than orbital partners. But by the same logic we can say that for Luna we ignore the Earth, and Luna passes.

So I would argue that the IAU definition is bad, but if you fixed it so that it allowed binary systems to exist, it would readily define Luna as a planet in my view (if you deleted the Earth from the solar system and left Luna, it would unambiguously meet the criteria).

Now let's talk about barycentres.

The barycentre of two bodies in orbit is just their overall centre of mass. People often point to the external barycentre of the Pluto-Charon system to indicate that they are binary dwarfs. However, this is a poor metric in my view, because it's highly dependent on orbital distance.

The centre of mass of the Earth-Luna system is inside the Earth at present, but if Luna simply orbited further away, the barycentre would be in the empty space between them, with nothing about the two bodies individually, or the qualitative nature of their orbits, having changed. In fact, given enough time and pretending the Sun won't consume both bodies in a few billion years, Luna would actually drift far enough away due to tidal interactions for this to happen - it would be silly for it to suddenly be a planet one day when it wasn't the day before.

To answer your question, no. I would under no circumstances argue that the martian moons are planets. They are minuscule space potatoes that are not even large by the standards of asteroids. If Mars were close enough in mass to them for the system to be considered plausibly trinary, it would be far too small to even qualify as a dwarf planet (and there's no way such a system would be gravitationally stable to perturbation by Jupiter regardless).

vacuously-true

@hereticalteapot Thank you so much for laying this all out! I totally agree. Something that's motivating to me is the fact that Luna is more gravitationally attracted to the Sun than to Earth- and by that definition is orbiting the Sun, not the Earth. This is not true of any other "moons" in our solar system except some which are not even large enough to become spheres- so this is another way in which it is different from the moons in our system.

It's really frustrating to me when people lash out and say "You're wrong because there's a definition, for the love of god look up the definition" about a topic where I think it's clear my point is that I KNOW the definition and I disagree with it. And that's allowed! Definitions are made up! "Planets" are made up, and I think we should make them up differently!

All the things in our solar system are just different kinds of rocks dancing to each other's gravity- they're all affected by each one's gravity, even in tiny ways. They do not fall neatly into subcategories "planet" and "not a planet" - we made this distinction up because we wanted it. We noticed that some of the bodies in our solar system seemed much more important and dominant than others and we wanted a name for that. But the planets don't know that- they don't have an inherent major distinction between them, nor are they obligated to. When we wanted to come up with a way to clearly decide which bodies were planets, we had to make something up.

What we made up is a little bit vague, and even if it were extremely clear cut, we could still debate whether it was a reasonable or intuitive or useful definition.

In science we have lots of definitions, and they aren't handed down by god, they're made by people, and they are made to be useful, and when they aren't useful or reasonable, they can be and should be and are changed. Knowing which things fit which definitions is part of science, but another part of science is thinking critically about whether things SHOULD be defined, how they should be defined, whether definitions need to be changed, and other things like this- and that's messier than just knowing facts. But that's science.

vacuously-true

I hate to say it folks, but my fondness for the "Luna is a planet" argument might not just be because it's silly and I like to be silly. It might be a really convenient training ground for thinking about definitions which are social constructs in other contexts. Like race, sex, gender, disability, economics. These things, like planets, are made up. They are very real, don't get me wrong! They are real because we made them up! But what, exactly, they are... we decided it. And we could decide differently. We have that power. If you don't like something because it doesn't fit a definition- that's not really an argument against it. Because the definition could be changed. Should it be?

pig-lota

This is all great points and you're so right.

Also for any barycenter definition fans - the barycenter of Luna and Jupiter is within Jupiter. I think we can all agree Luna is not a moon of Jupiter.

meme-space-nine

Something else to note is that IAU bylaws require a new definition to be voted on to be circulating for at least a year in the scientific community. The one voted on in 2006 was drafted the same day. Also, the vote was specifically and carefully planned such that most of the planetary scientists who were only there for specific parts of the conference relevant to their fields had left already. It was rigged and in violation of their own bylaws, so I think its well past time we stop listening to this absurd definition.

vacuously-true

What the absolute fuck I can't believe election rigging is part of this story lmfao

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Alexander Abian blogging from the dead

marvellouspinecone

Op i support you but i'm on my hands and knees begging to come up with a different name bc switching "Moon" for "Moon again but in a different language" is not effective for your purposes at all

vacuously-true

You aren't the first person to say this or something related so please understand I'm responding to the general sentiment as it's expressed here and in other responses-

Calling it Luna isn't something we're making up for the purposes of this post or even for the purposes of distinguishing it from "moons." Nor is it just calling it "moon in another language." Luna has been another name for the moon in English for a long time.

The book I learned about the solar system from when I was a kid talked about the moon and the sun like, "we call them "the" moon and sun when we mean *our* moon and sun but at the scale of the universe they're just *a* moon and sun. But they have their own names! Luna and Sol!" Luna is a moon (well. I disagree but okay) and it's our moon so we tend to call it the moon but its name is Luna. Sol is a sun and it's our sun so we tend to call it the sun but its name is Sol. I also learned these names for the bodies in my astronomy courses in college.

Luna and Sol may not be the most commonly used names for these bodies but they aren't new, they go back at least as far as Middle English, I checked Wiktionary. Because it has a bunch of Germanic vocabulary next to a bunch of Romance vocabulary, sometimes English has two words for a concept (Luna and Moon, Sol and Sun) which get used slightly differently. Here it's "the name of the body" and "what kind of body it is." But it shows up other places too, like how we have different words for an animal and the meat that comes from that animal. It's a little weird. But it's an existing feature, not something we're making up.

So I mean, I guess you can say we're just calling it "moon in another language" if your complaint is about Modern English evolving from Middle English which included Latin vocabulary, but you're going to need a time machine to complain to the responsible parties.

maybeunusual

I like that the moon is a planet but I don't think changing its name helps anyone. In the Latin derived languages (I know), Luna is very close if not the same to both the name of the celestial body and its definition. I think it's fine to say "The Moon is a planet", much like "The sun is a star", which I remember being crazy to me in 6th grade!

tothechaos

going into a bougie supermarket makes me feel like that one painting of the bolshevik standing in the russian palace

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"$12.95 for 8.5oz of Jelly are You Fucking Kidding Me"

Siver lining in the train tracks

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It’s Friday Fred! You made it! TGIF

thank goodness, it’s Fred

Nothing stops this train

It’s literally Friday

Happy Friday Everyone. Work is out. Time to get on the Party bus.

Time to get in touch with the weekend, it’s Friday Night

Happy Friday

@sodakickparty helped me finish this Friday Fred

It was SUPER RADICAL!!

Have a totally tubular new year

First Fred of 2023

Oh my god!! It really works!! I reblogged Friday Fred on Friday the 13th and nothing happened!!!

you know what day it is.

Happy Friday Fred. Soon every day will be Friday!

He grew into the hat…

Oh yeah it’s mid-march-ish

Sorry for reblogging twice in a row but I need to include “The Frides of March”

Happy Friday, everyone

Friday Fred IN 3D!!!!!!!!!!

Created by @docvalentine

Friday FR3D

Power still out so killing 2 birds with 1 stone

You were drawn by flashlight, actually.

Found these tags on my last hand-drawn post inspiring:

I’m so good at art.

This doodle made me laugh too much so now this is the Fred this week

THE ONE PIZZA…!

THE ONE PIZZA IS REAL!!!!!!

A scan of the old Friday Fred expansion from the GUYS system. I don’t think this is Friday Fred’s first appearance, but I could be wrong. It’s definitely an off-model design.

Fred is Going Corporate

He can’t stay this small forever…

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬Nu är vi här Fred♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬CaramelDansen♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

We need you to roll up a most radical Friday, Prince.

OK this week I am doing a roundup of the Freds which got lost in the shuffle.

“He’s coming to you from a lab table!” From @alter-ego-cole

“my friday fred fanart. happy april fools eve” From @seven-oh-four

“FRIDAY AGAIN BROSEPHS” from @neon-draws-sometimes

“🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟” from @vulturevomittm

“my horrible rendition of Angular Bitty Fred” from @sodium-bitch

And finally a PIZZA THROW Fred from @kawaiikitten96

We got stuck in traffic

My contribution to our lovable Fred the Friday Cat.

Another one for the day!

So I don’t miss this Fred from @bontonexthequizzical:

>Be Friday Fred

>Look inside Friday

>Saturday

Come on, you can do it. Keep reblogging Fred. Let’s smash this Ad Circus website on the ground like a tacky lamp.

Don’t worry he will turn back next week.

i met this lad last week but i feel like he’s been with me my entire life

stay funky, Friday Fred, and TGIF

And this Fred from @therealbrigeedarocks (Link)

“throwing my jam into the ring for @andy-jam-blog

meet Fraud Fred Jam!

he has a favorite day of the week and you’ll never guess which one it is

no really he is totally the real fred how dare you insinuate otherwise”

@littleguysdaily HAS APPEARED NO LESS THAN

GET 9’D, KID!!!!

RADICAL FRIDAY

Some freds for the post: from @marzipan-nosebleed “the venn diagram of things i’m supposed to do at school and things i actually do at school is just two separate circles”

from @talkingattumble “I’m honor of Friday, October 13 I’m gonna get into the holidays spirit and post….valentines Fred!”

From @linkyu

from @velcrow101

From @angrytreemarten “I’m bad at drawing”

From @disembark-starstruck “Friday Fred dnd statblock”

From @atethemango

And my humble addition:

issa spooky month!!

added by @brobietumbles:

Doodled in my notepad during a DND game.

have a happy friday from the garbage wastes : D

From @splorb

From @kitzenvoncatzen “frd frdy”

From @frostiecake “Okay, I can’t NOT add on to TGIF Fred!!”

scrolling through this made me so happy i physically could not not draw Friday fred

From @peekoo3

from @ccritterbugg

And this week’s Fred:

It has been a whole year of Fred. Here’s to many more (All on the same post, of course)

From @catatomicofficial

From @k1tty-wh1te

This week’s Fred:

Thank goodness it’s Friday!!!!!

you know i had to draw friday fred

From @maxwellpaws

& this week’s fred:

Do a flip or something…

u made it to friday! fred says good job

From @lucariwoah “Here’s my contribution. May God have mercy on all of us. I had to sit through this, and so should you”

From @pteracotta “my usual art program wasn’t working so i had to use ms paint”

From @thanatos-ghost

This week’s Fred:

I gave him a boy best friend who he totally isn’t dating cuz it’s the 90s

from @kenniex2

“Save me fred

fred save me”

from @rat-detector

This week’s Fred:

My small contribution to Fred Friday :)

From @zbitche

From @immushymellow

“its friday!!!1!! fuck yeah!!!1!11!!!!! dumping out all of my old markers just so i could find a blue one that looked kinda like the shade of blue of freds hat and also wasn’t missing its cap and dried out was totally worth it!!!1!!!!5!!”

“I drew this on the whiteboard at my scool it took forever becase i couldnt find any other pink or magenta markers.”

This week’s Fred:

From @muttmuttgoose “Tiny Fred”

from @immushymellow

“this weeks friday fred drawing(s)(whitch i started making last friday but couldnt finish on time):”

“totally definitly normal and finished version:”

This Week’s Fred:

Instead of doing finals I drew Fred

@meowmeowmeowimacat sent this Fred to me via my inbox: “My TGIF fred using a free base by charliesTea on DA: https://www.deviantart.com/charliestea/art/F2U-Kitty-Cat-Base-909802179”

This week’s Fred:

woahhhh friday with. Fred!

from @damascenedotjpeg

From @anaskunk

Today’s Fred:

I have a calendar that has a holiday for every day and today happened to be pizza day so I quickly scribbled up a friday fred with some pizza

From @anaskunk

“here’s friday fred thanks for the reminder !!” From @sillyfunny

“MS paint Fred upon ye” From @acornmaybe

From @i-likegamesbut-cant-playthem

“im so sorry for making this longer”

Today’s Friday Fred:

here, havve an incredibbly long post

have a really bad ms paint fred on this wonderful friday

From @burntowl25

“friday fred wid da ghos from @damascenedotjpeg” A Radical 3D Fred from @docvalentine

Today’s Fred:

From @th3dicesystem

“Drew him”

This Week’s Fred:

I don’t need this comparative anatomy cat skull diagram for class anymore so I put a hat on it. It’s Fred now. Happy Friday before my birthday.

From @pending-dope-username

“my edition featuring a human version of friday fred beside cat fred, starring a tumblr quote cuz im too lazy to crop.” This week’s Fred:

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Happy TGIF Friday, everyone! I made this to use as a Discord emoji. : )

the-real-save-point

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Anyone else feeling squashed this Friday?

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This fred is from @benatars-slut

“you cant really tell but i tried to turn him into a parappa the rapper character”

This Fred is from @sophiamoment

“trans + pan flags picked from my totally rad drawing” This week’s Fred:

I am so glad this week is over.

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I hope this Fred finds you well, and that you heed his advice

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From @bananamantallyhall

“there he is

was lookin for that fucker all day”

“anyways place ya bets” And from @kat0ninetails

“Drew the man of the hour. Radical, dude!”

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supercharged78

It’s friday!!

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From @too-high-for-captcha

Today’s Fred

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He’s making pizza angels

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It’s Puddle Friday

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Happy Single Cell Friday

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Bedazzled Fred from @foxxys-huzband

And this week’s Fred

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This Fred is from @koojinadethegilliard who says: Happy friday, dudes !! stay groovy And this week’s Fred:

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He’s aliens now!

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Does anyone remember getting this CD free with pepperoni-o’s?

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Happy Friday!!

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Friday Fred gives you permission to order a pizza

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From @tentakrule: “FRYDAY FRED: HEATWAVE EDITION”

And this week’s Fred, in honor of my busted foot:

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A cat is a cat

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Sunbeam

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asthedeathoflight

Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!

achillbeing

I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D

achillbeing

Amazing concept