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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Corn@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can think of at least one.

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  what are the changes and why?

  can’t post this and expect us to carry on

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  • ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah! I’m barely able to get mad about this with no information!

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This sort of thing happens all the time, and it’s usually subject to some level of debate. Just look at the ponderosa pine (pinus ponderosa. Some say there is one species with multiple subspecies, some say they are just different varieties, some say that they are different species, or some are and some arent, etc.

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• fishos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wasn’t this more about taking away the names from a bunch of people who in hindsight were terrible people? I remember something awhile back about people getting upset because some groups had decided that if you had a shred of negativity in your past, you weren’t allowed to discover and name things. I believe they were trying to change a bunch of names “to not honor the original person”.

  That didn’t feel like science so much as politics and I get why some would be against that.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Science is a highly political process.

    The real actual science, just ask petroleum, cigarettes, sugar, mosanto glyphosate, lysenkoism, grant allocation, DDT, lead gasoline and paint, amiante, IQ, operation paperclip, nuclear testing, SSRIs, opioid crisis, covid 19, gain-of-functionr research, psychology replication crisis, trans fats, usda food pyramid, even cold fusion and the latest entry in this list PFOA/PFAS.

    Scientific truths and regulatory actions often “become allowed” only when they are no longer economically threatening to the incumbents.

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  • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you ever been to a niche scientific community conference? It’s always been 90% politics.

    The Magellanic Cloud community collectively decided that they didn’t want to study objects named after someone who had subjugated the communities of ancestors studying it, so they agreed to call them the Milky Clouds. A pop science article went out about it and people complained that it wasn’t science, it was politics. But unless you’re a part of that community, you don’t get to decide on the names of the objects that these people understand better than literally anyone else alive or dead. They’re doing more science regarding these objects than anyone else has ever tried, they get to decide what’s best, even if it appears political.

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    • SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And that’s how you end up with Gulf of America

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    • fishos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “unless you’re a part of the community fuck you”

      I can see why it got heated…

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  From henceforth "trees" shall now be called "tall wavy bois" and "flowers" shall be known as "colorful stemmy bennies."

  I will not be taking questions.

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But what will the tree community be about then?

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    • binary45@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Weed. Like it’s always been.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Pussy willow will now be called cotton stick.”

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  • XOXOX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m Cotton Stick… Cotton Stick Galore.

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    • Crewman@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Had it not been for Cotton Stick Joe…

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  NPC wojak: “I love science.”

  “Science says sex and gender are two different things.”

  NPC wojak gets angry: “Science was corrupted by the Jewish cabal! See: John Money*!”

  * John Money is not Jewish, but is pushed by transphobes with the hope you’ll accuse him being one.

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• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pluto is a planet!

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The only reason Pluto is no longer a planet is because we discovered there were loads more planets and couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge their existence!

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i’ve spent 25 years on this blue marble fascinated by space, and only recently discovered there multiple long orbit dwarf planets going around the sun??? that is so cool why is this not widely known!

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s been like that for decades to be honest. Ceres used to be called a planet, but you don’t see anyone complaining about it’s demotion

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unpopular opinion: dwarf planets are cool.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      but so not?

      we used to have a handful of elements, but when we kept discovering more, we didn’t change the rules to have elements, and “steange elements” so schools only have to teach about 16 elements.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, a dwarf planet!

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    • _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And Jupiter is a Gas Giant, but we still count it as one of the planets of our solar system

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The most performative “hurr durr science” bullshit ever. Who fucking cares if Pluto was considered a planet when you were a kid?

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pluto is a planet plant!

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pluto’s not a planet, but he doesn’t care because he knows he’s hot shit.

    youtu.be/EuRjmzz6qL0

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  meanwhile,

  we still refuse to call Sonic th hedgehog protein anything else.

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  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, I’m ngl sometimes I do feel like I gotta go fast.

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    • SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So no one can see me because I’m so small

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cue in the guys about to get hanged meme. Paleontologist asking the Botanist, “First time?”

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• OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Potatoes are now called potatoes

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  • ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Soldier from Team Fortress 2 saying “No”

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• chrome_daddy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ll be damned if you expect me to start calling it a Brazil nut

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  • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brazil Deez nutz

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• LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Coleus amboinicus -> Plectranthus amboinicus and I’m back to having no coleus, I’ll never forgive

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• AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You hear what they did to Pluto?

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