PetDinosaurs @ PetDinosaurs @lemmy.world

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That's such a weird and Lemmy thing to say.

Where is the evidence? Just because it's liberal doesn't mean you should believe it.

The rest of that site is complete propaganda.

It's hard to communicate with pithy texts only. I misunderstood.

I agree that the renaming effort is an over reaction trying to be more DEI for no apparent benefit.

Correct.

The sc is supposed to defend democracy, but I don't think they will.

There is that bs everywhere.

Deplorables are able to travel.

Raleigh (and all the cities in North Carolina, really) is quite liberal. This area included. RTP, in particular, is very highly educated.

You don't get the deplorables until you get to rural areas, which is what happens in, like, every place but Vermont.

This was probably just high school kids trying to be edgy.

It screams undeveloped cortex.

This is an extremely valuable comment.

Do you think artists should be able to name their works?

Why shouldn't scientists also be able to name their works?

that is so incorrect that it has a Wikipedia article

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I'll warm up the probulator.

You actually seem to have got it.

Here's a better source that suggests that they are interested in changing birds named after people, rather than birds named after slurs. It's linked in this article. I really hope that shames op. We need to be better.

Whether or not those people were bigots, they were probably white and male. Same as the anatomists that named the lady parts.

There's just a tradition of the first person to scientifically describe a "thing" getting to name it.

It's not great, but people that get to travel the world describing species and knowing enough to scientifically describe lady parts, etc are not poor people, at least until post war science. They still would have been mostly white and male, but they wouldn't have had to be as much independently wealthy.

This is a terrible source, as is Lemmy tradition.

Here's a better source I really wish that op would have been better about that. It's linked in the article they linked.

It appears that they are concerned with the tradition that the first person that scientifically describes the species gets to name it.

And, well, those people have been white.

I'm not even really a sports fan, but

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(Did that work here? It was always a chair with him.)

Exactly. Convert your size to the seller's size and buy that one. You may need to experiment. Shoe sizes are not scientific units.

Honestly, as toxic as Lemmy is about refusing to accept personal criticism, I'm surprised that you (the person I replied to) haven't been down voted to oblivion.

Agreed.

Leap seconds are even worse. And time zones.

Thoae are for a different discussion, imo.

Because people would start showing up earlier or later depending on whether we decide solar noon is 12:00 or 1:00.

It's about the change being important.

If we stay on a single "time" (say standard work day starts at 4 hours before solar noon), we'll drift the work time to start/end the work day at some appropriate time.

The issue is that what that time is that most socially useful changes greatly over the year unless you live close to the equator.