Researchers at an international meeting will also consider how to monitor names that have problematic roots.
  • Finkler@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    My level of despair just keeps growing the more I see this complete nonsense going on.

    Stop the world this is where I get off ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Things that can reasonably make you feel despair: mass extinction, ecosystem collapse, crop failure, nuclear proliferation

      Things that have no business making you feel despair: a small number of plant species being renamed for social reasons when a larger number of species are renamed due to new discoveries in a routine fashion.

    • Rom [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Removing slurs and colonizers from plant names is a good thing, actually.

      • Kuori [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        that's not a personal attack mods, it's telling a whining bigot to shut the fuck up

        way to go to bat for the person crying about slurs getting removed from plant names