#research #plants #botany #UNC #Duke
'UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University will unite their herbaria under the management of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill.'
https://www.unc.edu/posts/2026/08/31/carolina-and-duke-to-combine-plant-collections/
@MaryAustinBooks Trump 2.1b: "pseudomonas is good for you, only wussy soyboys are afraid of it, War Minister Pete Hegseth will be requiring all enlisted personnel to drink 1 qt of Clorox daily and test positive for aliveness before being allowed to Serve our Great Country, thank you for your attention to this matter."
@rnd Agreed. It also seems worth noting that ideas which today are being called "radical lefty" by some are very much in line with the US Republican Party Platform of 1956. <.<
@rnd Ahh, yeah, this is one of those things where a word has a pretty wide range of possible meanings, and it's not clear to me that there's really an official one (at least, outside of specific disciplines like economics or history).
My idea of "socialism" seems pretty closely aligned with your idea of "liberalism", i.e. that what ultimately matters is how people in general are treated -- evaluated by most likely outcome, using the best available data, because that's the best way to get the outcomes you want.
I agree that having the state as the only employer is problematic (making some reasonable assumptions about how that would most likely work). In a free society, people would want to have some collective control over how funds are allocated; in a society where people are "paid" for "work", that would include decisions about who gets hired to do what and how much they are paid -- or, more practically, who is delegated to make those decisions for any given project -- and projects come in all sizes...
@WizardOfDocs It looks like this one uses their data...
Does anyone know of a better answer to this question (i.e. does OpenStreetMaps have an Android app)?
@WizardOfDocs It looks like this one uses their data...
Does anyone know of a better answer to this question (i.e. does OpenStreetMaps have an Android app)?
I kind of see that as, ultimately, a defining principle of right-wing philosophy (which the Republicans began migrating towards in the late 1970s, and which the Democratic establishment seems to experience as an inescapably alluring siren call, perhaps because of all the money the sirens have contributed to the "escape Charybdis" project).
@rnd That is an interesting point, about which I will have to ponder some more. (I don't disagree; I guess I'm now thinking I need to re-examine my "radical" socialist ideas in the light of "liberal" values... which may mean figuring out what the difference is...)
@rnd Hard agree about democratizing large enterprises.
...and I suspect that the problem with the Debian vote is that most users didn't vote, possibly because they didn't know they could or because it was difficult to get set up with the voting system.
I only heard about the LLM vote after the fact, on fedi... and although I'm mainly an Ubuntu user, I do have Debian installed on at least one server.
@rnd To me, it makes sense for things like that to be a user preference, assuming there's no technical/logical obstacle.
...though with many more recent applications doing menus and the window-top-bar in their own weird ways, that does become more difficult.... but as long as apps had the option of doing it the standard way, and the desktop supported putting the menu in either place... it could be a user-option, where the window-manager would update the screen-menu whenever the focus shifted to a new window (i.e. that would still maintain the separation of control -- the app wouldn't be doing anything to the screen; the screen manager would be asking the app how to draw its menu, and then placing it at the top instead of in the window).
I'd say this (having the option to do it either way) would objectively be an "improvement", even if I never used it because I prefer the in-window version.
...and I guess I'm thinking that a lot of those subjective things could be turned into improvements by making them a user-choice...
...which is, to a large extent, what Linux does by providing a selection of desktop environments (although switching between them after installing the OS is another matter... but I digress).
@rnd I see it as being kind of like knowledge: we can't ever understand the universe completely, but we can always understand it better over time.
We can't ever have a perfect society, but we can keep making it better.
(...or like finding bugs in a large codebase... okay, okay, I'm stopping now...)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/117218444824347718
This essay is almost a year old, but a lot of the same territory is now being relitigated...
This seems like a particularly good definition:
Elected Republicans have an ought-to-be [which is basically] that some people matter and other people do not matter, and that life must be earned by generating profit for people whose lives do matter
@rnd [has a whole lotta thoughts about this in multiple different directions but can't come up with any kind of coherent summary of any reasonable subset of them that is both meaningful and on-topic]
@JuliusGoat I'm seeing a wee typo, about halfway down the page: "that abusive people what to force to to be" - thought you might like to know. ^.^
@rnd ..because BASIC is a gateway drug to... [shudders] ...becoming an IT professional?
