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Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

BigTTYGothGF wrote: post #126
lo_zamoyski wrote: post #118

What an obnoxious post. Pro-tip: knock off the vulgarity and avoid making ignorant remarks that pander to presently fashionable sentiments. It doesn't "spice up" your text or make it more "fun" or "real", unless you mean "really bad". It makes it obnoxious, likely phony (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here), and base.

> (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here) Please expand on why you think it being phony is a benefit.

I didn't say being phony is a benefit. I was (in my view) charitably giving the author the benefit of the doubt by assuming that his vulgarity is feigned (posturing) and not ingrained and habitual.

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by ambicapter »

dividedbyzero wrote: post #91
giov4 wrote: post #46

I think nature and plants always interested me since I was a kid. For example I loved to plant from seeds, see them grow, learn and explore a bit with curiosity my mum or aunt plants and when being out in the forest, but not a lot more than that. Later, while growing up, I noticed my brain noticing plants or tree details, auto mapping them to possible genre, trying to find out, trying to memorize... but not always vo…

I don't relate to it myself, but I see it in people around me. It appears that's something that may not be limited to but is very prevalent in adults with very high functioning autism.

ah yes, whenever someone is sincerely interested in something, it's probably autism.

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by _whiteCaps_ »

smugglerFlynn wrote: post #54

> It is my firm belief that any of the authors listed below (unless they’re dicks) would not want anyone to be prohibited from reading their work Hot take - any book authors who want to chime in and share what you guys feel about a statement like that?

I'm an author, and don't have any problem with it - however my book is obsolete as it's computer related.

My publisher probably feels differently. :)

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by voakbasda »

graemep wrote: post #130
badpun wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I thought that was really interesting (and obviously wouldn't work in other countries). I don't know about other countries, but in Poland you're just not required to cut down your lawn at all, unless it's a fire hazard (you have a lot of dead and dried up plants).

I think legal requirements are a US thing. I had only heard of it in HOA run places though. Here in the UK there are no usually legal requirements, but it might be a social problem as your neighbours will not like it.

Not just HOAs. Talk grass allows insects and vermin to move more freely. In cities, this contributes to their spread, so some places have city-wide ordinances that require lawn maintenance.

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by nsvd2 »

voakbasda wrote: post #155
graemep wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think legal requirements are a US thing. I had only heard of it in HOA run places though. Here in the UK there are no usually legal requirements, but it might be a social problem as your neighbours will not like it.

Not just HOAs. Talk grass allows insects and vermin to move more freely. In cities, this contributes to their spread, so some places have city-wide ordinances that require lawn maintenance.

How terrifying that a bit of nature may be near a person! Better cover it with roundup so they don't have to suffer the horror of seeing a spider

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by amiga386 »

dahart wrote: post #131
amiga386 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's a real problem. It's a way that one group of humans agreed to label things, and that way is the currently dominant way. Even the agreed rules (whoever publishes first gets dibs on the name) are just an incentive for academics to publish. If there were another labelling system, it would have the same problems and would only serve to split the humans into multiple ways of doing the same thing. But, u…

> If there were another labelling system, it would have the same problems and would only serve to split the humans into multiple ways of doing the same thing. If that were true, then you’re saying Linnaeus has the same problems as before it, and it only split people up? Maybe we should go back to the previous names? Of course the system could be improved and solve some problems, the relevant questions aren’t whether…

Feynman's quote is distinguishing knowledge of the thing itself (e.g. its behaviour, properties) which he thinks is useful, from ontological knowledge (naming and categorising) which he cares less about. As a physicist he only had to remember 61 particle names and 4 force names :)

That's not to downplay giving things names! Obviously it's essential to get any collaborative work done that everyone uses the same name when they mean the same thing.

On applying my logic back to the introduction of the binomial naming system... very clever! But I think it was Linnaeus's peers liked the properties of binomial naming so much it had a unifying effect on them... and now they have unity, and there are many more scientists worldwide depending on this system to communicate, they don't need a challenger system to provide a different form of unity?

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by rafram »

Schlagbohrer wrote: post #24

He's great, I love his concrete botany videos about weeds thriving in harsh human environments. His tour of the Chicago River is great, and an NYC parking lot that has been taken back over by nature is fascinating. https://youtu.be/SRRbspvheRc https://youtu.be/AVPkBv-QQ6U

The NYC video was about Floyd Bennett Field, a former airfield that's now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, to be exact.

Re: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

nsvd2 wrote: post #157
voakbasda wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just HOAs. Talk grass allows insects and vermin to move more freely. In cities, this contributes to their spread, so some places have city-wide ordinances that require lawn maintenance.

How terrifying that a bit of nature may be near a person! Better cover it with roundup so they don't have to suffer the horror of seeing a spider

Rat and mice infestations are not fun. I have had enough trouble dealing with my pollinator and monarch butterfly habitats and mice. I actually TRY to get rabbits and squirrels but mice go after their babies.
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