• blackbrook@mander.xyz
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    23 days ago

    i love when scientists take a swamp of arbitrary language terms and decide to impose some arbitrary specific meanings on them for purposes of their specific discipline and then convince people who don't really get how language works (i.e. most people) that the definitions are authoritative. it's fun to watch the cognitive dissonance when this collides with actual usage and people get all angry and righteous.

  • Moonworm [any]
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    26 days ago

    This is one of my pet trivias :) hard to remember the pH for bogs and fens though. It has something to do with rain vs groundwater.