Slowly killing my lawn. Red bud trees will soon forest my property.

> "at the time, he was probably mostly thinking of “white European cultures”, and while we can acknowledge how backwards and fucking goofy this is now, we can still admit that Linnaeus’ ideology was simply flawed like his time and NOT throw out the baby with the proverbial bath water"

In the 18th century someone living in Europe making science books would definitely be using Latin, maybe French if you were a modernist, as that was the language of science publication and communication. I don't see how this is either backwards or goofy?

It's similar to use English on an internet blog post nowadays (as the author does), since there's many more Chinese or Spanish native speakers than English, but English IS the language of international communication.

Watch this guy's YT channel - have been for years now. I think what originally caught my attention on his channel was a video specifically about the flora around run-down Oakland urban-industrial areas.

I can strongly recommend the mobile app Flora Incognita for quickly identifying plants. It’s made by one of the German universities so it’s free, don’t have ads, and don’t collect your personal data. I even showed it to my mum and she loves it

A friend from my youth always had an encyclopedic knowledge of plants, could identify them effortlessly just as we were walking around. I always envied him, but despite a love of plants, gardening, et cetera, I never went beyond a surface level until I started casually following Joey and CPBBD during COVID times. A big theme of what I've learned from him is how deeply geology is intertwined with plant evolution. Seems obvious once you hear it, but I genuinely never considered it until then.

At some point he taught an online course called "Blue Collar Botany" that went through plant ecology, evolution, identification, and other topics. It was fantastic, and finally got me into learning about the plants around me more rigorously. Years later, I still hear his voice in my head when I see certain parts of a plant like a laminar stamen. His affect is so unique that it actually helped me remember the content easier.

I don't know if he still teaches it or sells the videos from those sessions, but I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the natural world around them.

Woke Grocery Store (Whole Foods in Berkeley)

https://youtu.be/PUFQouwqbe8?t=180

Now this, this is the bargain, this is the bargain section.

Now shit gets a little hectic here, 'cause you get people, you get a bunch of hippies clubbing each other with the cucumbers, throwing shit, fighting to get, you know, the cheapest avocados.

But you get, like dollar thirty-nine for eight of these. They're about to go bad but, they're not bad yet. So good, all kinds of good stuff.

You got little papayas and shit. Maybe a little soft, but still edible.

Okay but again, sometimes you gotta wear a helmet when you come in there. Because it does, it gets hot.

There's people, just, it gets, I mean, you've seen, you know, on the outside they're soft, and they seems like they got nice soft liberal values.

But then they just start attacking each other, the claws come out, you know. I've seen a couple knifings in that room before, it's absolutely...

Oh look the berries! Physalis species. All right, who doesn't like solanaceae right there.

Golden goose berries. I don't know what the fuck a goose berry is, but that's a physalis. There you go, $3.25 for a basket.

Ok, so overall this is a wonderful spot to get talked down to, condescendinly lectured by a college student with a septum ring who can explain to you how you should think and behave and uh, and uh, you knowl police your language.

Very uh, there's a lotta, there's a lotta lessons you can learn here, ok? You know. And if it wasn't for this spot, I don't now what I would do.

The article actually is about botany, but the title reminded me there is a whole field of "criminal botany".