It was only in 1969 (nice) that fungi officially became its own separate kingdom.

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The definition of planet is completely subjective, whereas the definition of mushroom is based on science and evolution.

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Some people believe the earth is flat, I don’t think whether the definition is scientific or not matters much lmao

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Planet used to mean wandering star, referring to ‘stars’ that didn’t stay in one place but moved around with the days, months, years, or centuries. Obviously not a useful definition these days, I consider a planet a rocky body big enough that it’s gravity makes it almost perfectly round.

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Pluto is a planet, though. It’s officially considered a “dwarf” planet, and as “dwarf” is just an adjective, it’s still a planet (just like a short person is still a person). The other 8 new dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Gonggong, Quaoar, Orcus, and Sedna) are also all planets - so we have 17 planets total.

Seriously, though. By the same 3 criteria that Pluto isn’t a planet, Mercury isn’t (as it isn’t in hydrostatic equilibrium).

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I mean Pluto IS a planet i guess what people mean when they say pluto is not a planet is that it is no longer part of our solar system

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The solar system is larger than you think and extends quite a bit beyond pluto

https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/how-big-is-the-solar-system/

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No, that’s just you. I’m genuinely curious why you’d think anyone would ever make the argument Pluto isn’t part of our solar system.

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No, they don’t.

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I overheard someone talking about veganism and said they only eat plants. I asked them about mushrooms, “of course it’s fine, those are plants”.
No amount of convincing worked.

So I’ve seen it once.

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Mushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.

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Separate culinary definitions? That’s nuts!

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But not peanuts, which are legumes.

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Culinary definition doesn’t differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.

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Yup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don’t exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don’t exist.

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If anything is close to having a consciousness and experiencing an array of emotion, including suffering. That’s a mushroom, much more than a plant.

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Actual animals are far more likely to feel pain that fungi. Do fungi even have a nervous system?

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Fungi are a nervous system.

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We actually suspect they do. They can also display intelligent behavior, from a certain definition of the concept.

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The mycelium, maybe. That is definitely not the part of the mushroom that you eat.

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so hang on, mushrooms are like uh, well not milk, but as if say a cow regrew its meat every season? or maybe like a lizard that regrows its tail?

mushrooms are weird, man

wild idea, would it be possible to hijack mycelium with animal DNA and make it grow mushroom shaped meat??

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Fuck you op. Mushrooms are plants, Pluto is a planet, and that’s the truth from one edge of this flat Earth to the other.

~disclaimer: this is a joke~

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What’s the worst that could happen if you didn’t put in that disclaimer?

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Annoying messages.

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Honestly? Flat earth? It’s not even funny as a joke. That entire movement has been so incredibly detrimental, and dangerous. It has shattered families, and been an instruction manual for other conspiracy theorists. And the worst thing of all is that it makes actual, real facts about how the earth is in, in reality, a hollow shell with a breathable atmosphere in its inferior, come across as just as crazy as flat earth. How are we supposed to spread the truth of hollow earth when flat earthers are out there making us look crazy? Just because hollow earth also points out that the government is lying about the earth doesn’t mean we’re the same! People need to know about hollow earth! Otherwise, we’ll never be able to heal the housing market by building condos inside the earth!

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Honestly? Flat earth? It’s not even funny as a joke. That entire movement has been so incredibly detrimental, and dangerous. It has shattered families, and been an instruction manual for other conspiracy theorists. And the worst thing of all is that it makes actual, real facts about how the earth is in, in reality, a hollow shell with a breathable atmosphere in its inferior, come across as just as crazy as flat earth. How are we supposed to spread the truth of hollow earth when flat earthers are out there making us look crazy? Just because hollow earth also points out that the government is lying about the earth doesn’t mean we’re the same! People need to know about hollow earth! Otherwise, we’ll never be able to heal the housing market by building condos inside the earth!

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flat earthers are weird. the earth is obviously bowl shaped or the oceans would fall off. and cats would knock everything else off, thats just common sense!

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That’s how we get morlocks, though

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Ugh. Morlock racism crops up yet again! The morlocks did nothing wrong

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I think OP is on mushrooms.

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