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Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by melagonster »

bragh wrote: post #17
franciscop wrote: post #3

> "at the time, he was probably mostly thinking of “white European cultures”, and while we can acknowledge how backwards and fucking goofy this is now, we can still admit that Linnaeus’ ideology was simply flawed like his time and NOT throw out the baby with the proverbial bath water" In the 18th century someone living in Europe making science books would definitely be using Latin, maybe French if you were a modernis…

It's an interesting topic, though. If Latin is backwards because of assocation with European cultures, what are biologists nowadays proposing to replace it with? Some kind of universal coding system like ISBN or DOI?

They just use any name can be spelled by Latin characters.

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by iammjm »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #18
dmos62 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better than PlantNet?

PlantNet covers everything, Flora is more central Europe focused and has a hard time with non-native plants.

I live next to a botanical garden which has climate-regulated glass domes with all sorts of non-native plants from around the world and it gets 90%+ of them right, but sometime you have to feed it different parts of the plant. PlantNet does look great too, I’ll have to check it out!

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by DonHopkins »

franciscop wrote: post #3

> "at the time, he was probably mostly thinking of “white European cultures”, and while we can acknowledge how backwards and fucking goofy this is now, we can still admit that Linnaeus’ ideology was simply flawed like his time and NOT throw out the baby with the proverbial bath water" In the 18th century someone living in Europe making science books would definitely be using Latin, maybe French if you were a modernis…

More scientific lectures should be delivered with a blue collar Chicago dialect and accent.

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by SirHumphrey »

gostsamo wrote: post #5
franciscop wrote: post #3

> "at the time, he was probably mostly thinking of “white European cultures”, and while we can acknowledge how backwards and fucking goofy this is now, we can still admit that Linnaeus’ ideology was simply flawed like his time and NOT throw out the baby with the proverbial bath water" In the 18th century someone living in Europe making science books would definitely be using Latin, maybe French if you were a modernis…

Because latin was common only for part of one continent where he happened to be and not to the rest of the world while english happens to be spoken all over the globe due to a big goofy empire that went places. However, let's keep out the culture wars from a post mainly about plants.

If in 17 hundreds you wanted to choose a language that could be deciphered, say, also in China, Latin was a much better choice than any native language in various vicinity.

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by asdfman123 »

bragh wrote: post #17
franciscop wrote: post #3

> "at the time, he was probably mostly thinking of “white European cultures”, and while we can acknowledge how backwards and fucking goofy this is now, we can still admit that Linnaeus’ ideology was simply flawed like his time and NOT throw out the baby with the proverbial bath water" In the 18th century someone living in Europe making science books would definitely be using Latin, maybe French if you were a modernis…

It's an interesting topic, though. If Latin is backwards because of assocation with European cultures, what are biologists nowadays proposing to replace it with? Some kind of universal coding system like ISBN or DOI?

Oh, and use your oppressive, colonial numbering system? /s

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by Schlagbohrer »

rib3ye wrote: post #15

Joey is also an amazing fine and graffiti artist (ALONE) https://www.publiclandstore.com/blogs/gallery/joey-alone-exh...

His interview with the old railworker and grease-pen graffiti artist Colossus of Roads was fascinating. Unfortunately I cant find it on youtube anymore with a quick search, otherwise I'd put the link here.

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by contingencies »

razster wrote: post #2

Slowly killing my lawn. Red bud trees will soon forest my property.

Congratulations! Add a water feature ... it will attract birds. And next to that some smaller shrubs. Then once the trees grow you can put climbers and ferns in them. And throw down some rocks for good measure. It encourages variant microclimates which encourages biodiversity.
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