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This is so dumb.
Let people have their harmless fun. This hurts no one.
The mindset of "wah, science is wrong and bad because it changed its mind about something I learned about as a child" is not harmless, it's how we end up with anti-vaxxers in charge of the CDC
I've directly heard the argument from creationists of "they were wrong about Pluto being a planet, why would they be right about evolution?" Yeah, misunderstanding how all this works does matter.
It’s not so much this case in particular, but the idea of it and what it represents. Pluto being a dwarf planet or not is really just an astronomical categorisation, and that’s where the usefulness starts and ends. You won’t go to jail for calling it a planet, even though it doesn’t meet the standards.
The idea of using legislation on such an irrelevant thing is what rankles me. It’s frivolous and could be harmful. Perhaps not in this particular case, but legislating away expert opinion because it doesn’t fit with your personal narrative is a problem.
Right now it’s a planet, but this shit happens with peoples lives as well.
tax payer's money well spent
This is elder millennials bait
*Gen Y
That's what they said