▲ 501 ▼ Truth hurts! (mander.xyz) submitted 9 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 88 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago* (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) The problem is that the current definition makes no sense and is, frankly, bad. 400 people, for a huge scientific community like astronomy, is bad. Heck even if they were literally all the astronomers in the world, the fact that it was proposed and voted on basically the same day should be noteworthy at the very least. And no one here is angry. I was just pointing out that name calling for no reason doesn't really add to the discussion, even a low stakes one like this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) The problem is that the current definition makes no sense and is, frankly, bad. 400 people, for a huge scientific community like astronomy, is bad. Heck even if they were literally all the astronomers in the world, the fact that it was proposed and voted on basically the same day should be noteworthy at the very least. And no one here is angry. I was just pointing out that name calling for no reason doesn't really add to the discussion, even a low stakes one like this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)