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something I explained to my brother yesterday that rocked his world: it’s not that scientists can’t decide whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable, nor is it that it’s “really” one or the other. It’s both, because we’re talking about two different categorization schemes.
Botanically, a tomato is a fruit. A fruit is scientifically defined as the part of a plant that develops from the ovary after flowering and surrounds the seeds. It’s defined by its structure and function. In botanical categorization, apples, peaches, grapes, tomatoes, bananas, avocados, pumpkins, peppers, and corn kernels are fruits.
Culinarily, a tomato is a vegetable, because it’s a plant food that is neither starchy nor sweet and you usually don’t just eat it raw. Vegetables are culinarily defined by their flavor and how you cook them. In culinary categorization, any part of a plant can be a vegetable: roots (carrots, parsnips), leaves (lettuce, kale), stems (celery), seeds (peas, lima beans), and yes fruits (tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins). In culinary categorization, “fruits” are usually botanical fruits, though occasionally they are other parts of the plant instead, as long as they’re juicy and sweet (strawberries are actually the stems of a plant; the ovaries surrounding the seeds are the little seeds on the outside! Pineapples and figs are a weird flower-ovary fusion called multiple inflorescence!)
These are simply two different categorizational schemes that through the weirdness of historical linguistics use the same word “fruit” to mean different segments of the totality of plants. Neither is incorrect, because they are two different ways of categorizing plants for two different purposes.
Categories aren’t “real.” Categories don’t exist in nature. Things exist in nature, plants exist in nature, rocks and animals and genes and hormones and human experiences exist in nature. And humans look at the totality of everything and we come up with names and categories to sort and understand them. A category is not real; it is only useful or not useful. Botanical categories are useful for different reasons than culinary categories are, but they’re both useful ways to break up and understand the world. And they are useful in their own contexts, and may not be useful in other contexts. Botany has no use for defining what is and isn’t a “vegetable” so that’s just not a category in scientific botany. It’s a useful category for low-sweetness low-starch plant parts you cook in order to eat, though.
And we put everything into categories, and we have reasons for categorizing things the way we do—but we choose what traits are important to group by, and what traits aren’t. Vegetables, nuts, fruits, and grains are culinary plant food categories. And some categories are silly, like “is a taco a sandwich?” That’s a categorization game: what traits do we decide make an individual item part of the category or not?
But we categorize other things too. Sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, DSM diagnosis. Age categories such as senior/adult/teenager/child/toddler/infant, or age categories like adult/minor. These are all categorization schemes where humans decided what the categories are and what traits make an individual count as one thing or another. And then we decided how to treat people based on the category we assigned them to. The traits (such as hormones, genital shape, number of years having lived, brain neurochemistry, place where you were born, desire for a romantic relationship with people of a certain gender, desire for a sexual relationship with people of a certain gender…) are real. The categories are how we prioritize, classify, and understand them. Are the categories useful? Or are they not useful? In what contexts are they useful and in what contexts are they not? And what are the effects of playing “is a taco a sandwich? Is a tomato a fruit?” type categorization games with people?
All models are broken, but some are useful
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Dead wife but it's a flashback to an amazing sandwich you had 3 years ago
sick fuck ate his wife
sick fuck married a sandwich

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something that’s really struck me is how much of a nothingburger nonentity the individual Revolutionary Council members seem to be, based on the utter lack of their involvement thus far. Like we’ve met maybe (?) one? And that was barely a throwaway line which was immediately overshadowed. Like if you were gonna start a revolt a good idea might be scouting out individuals already in power who might be sympathetic to the cause? Maybe they’ve got their own subterfuge brewing in other parts of the city idk? I do not believe for one second Brennan is not up to something here.
There’s nothing worse than having hot milk on a gross summer day
cw unreality
could be worse. could be hot salty milk.
azune never attempting to dance around difficult questions or topics has endeared me to him so much. ask julien if he has a death wish and ask bolaire if he’s a person or a thing. tell murray you worry she might start to hate you because of the institution you work for and tell hal you think thjazi’s life was worth a thousand of yours. get to the heart of the issue and tell everyone how you really feel regardless of whether or not those feelings are easily palatable. every chance for honesty is a privilege. don’t ever take it for granted.
Lying Man who lies and is a lying liar surprisingly very honest.
no other pair could be more found divorced than them đź’€
like. ok. you have smart people who are not very curious (fine but boring) and you have smart people who are curious (cool) and you have dumb people who are not that curious (fine but boring) and you have dumb people who are curious (fun). and then you have to add an axis for superiority complex. we're in a cube now. smart people who are not very curious and dont have a notable superiority complex - fine. smart people who are not very curious and have a superiority complex - infuriating. etc etc. dumb people who are curious AND have a superiority complex are gold. ideal coworker. ideal internet observation subject. love these people so much. i will go wherever you go. does this make sense. i wish i could draw this

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Thoughts on Leclerc's lament
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." - Aldo Leopold
Thinking about Leclerc's lament in Antarctica and this quote from conservation writer, Aldo Leopold. I do not envy Leclerc, most of us live in that world of wounds, but to bear witness to the greatest one of his lifetime, a last ditch effort to somehow counteract yet another of those wounds. He saw with his own eyes one more wound to the planet, so monumental, so preventable, so deliberate, so destructive. I do not know any in our field who could do anything but weep in his situation.
since eridians use exclusively external fertilization, do you think they're absolutely horrified of human internal fertilization. like they probably think about it on equal terms as we think of the whole Xenomorph queen thing, speaking of which, I wonder what they'd think of our literary use of "penetrative allegories" like vampires or xenomorphs.
And please no one tell them how bed bugs reproduce.
maybe i will performatively go to the farmers market and performatively buy some flowers to performatively let stick out my performative tote bag and performatively have a nice time
performatively? Maybe. but ya know what? That’s ok. The performance is for me.
why do people keep saying "community" when they mean "demographic".
i dont know all those people.
the town crier keeps announcing increasingly dire news and then immediately saying “but do not panic” which feels contradictory
He still has yet more urgent tidings to bear! You may panic when he’s done.
there will be little else you can do.

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the town crier keeps announcing increasingly dire news and then immediately saying “but do not panic” which feels contradictory
like many of us, I have a tendency to collect books, especially ones that contain useful information (imagine that!), but even more so, I like to imagine that my dragons hoard of written information as the foundation of a post-collapse knowledge base for the improbably utopian collectivist pastoral village that surely will rise from the ashes. Will this happen? Probs not, but it does bring me to….
world building idea:
Post-apocalyptic monastery
(in repurposed facility such as):
Firehouse
remote hunting lodge
abandoned summer camp
national park service visitor center
highway rest stop (I dunno maybe like a bigger one?)
etc etc etc
Yall see it though? Like heck yeah, diy shelves full of attentively tended collections of revered tomes from the before times; electrical wiring for dummies and stacks of gardening magazines and such ilk…
anyway this is probably at least a little bit Thomas Cahill’s fault