AM = morning, PM = afternoon/evening/night

Like 7AM or 7PM

AM people are most awake and productive during the morning hours, and get more tired as the day goes on.

PM people are tired in the morning and more alert later in the day/night.

It depends on your chronotype. It messes with PM people much more than AM people.

If you’re tired in the evenings and wide awake in the morning, then going to bed slightly earlier and getting up earlier is easy.

If you’re alert in the evenings and tired in the mornings, going to bed early is counter-productive, you just lie there awake getting less tired. Similarly getting up earlier is even harder than normal.

If you’re an AM person, then you’ve drawn the lucky straw - the world is built for people like you. But there’s lots of PM people who struggle daily, fighting against their body clocks just to show up to school/work on time.

Hey, if we find something bigger than Pluto, then by all means let’s call it a planet.

By any reasonable person’s definition of a planet, Pluto is a planet. It’s a rocky spherical mass that orbits the sun, with a varied terrain of mountains, plains and glaciers. It has days and seasons. It has its own system of moons.

An additional grievance I have is that, by the IAU’s stupid definition of a Dwarf Planet, Charon should really be called a dwarf planet too. It isn’t a satellite of Pluto in a meaningful sense - both Pluto and Charon orbit a point between them. The other moons also orbit this space between Charon and Pluto.

So, want to know why it isn’t a Dwarf Planet? Because the IAU class it as a planetary satellite. What’s the formal definition of a planetary satellite then? There isn’t one. It was discussed, but a formal definition was not decided upon. Charon is literally a moon now because it was called a moon before the definition of a planet was changed and dwarf planets were invented.

I’m all for formal definitions, but the IAUs current rules are just really sloppy. It’s maddening.

I’d be happy with:

Pluto = planet

Anything smaller than Pluto ≠ planet

Nine planets. Now with clear non-stupid rules.

Maybe Batman observes the Sabbath?

I’d tell a reduction reaction joke, but I want to stay positive.

You can call me et al