“Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t” crosses citizen science with environmentalism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFQouwqbe8
>Join us as we take a look at some of the ethnobotany in the woke-est grocery store in the bay area. Educational content is virtually non-existent as we explore what exactly it would take to make passive-aggressive woke citizens attack a person. Who can do a better job of tokenizing marginalized people? Who wins the most points for having more TRANS-POC friends? Taking a break from the inherent joy of trolling climate-denying obsolete grandpas here to throw some jabs at the other side, as well!
you might just not be part of the target audience
Also, totally not related, cant wait for next regular HN thread about how liberals are not polite enough and how their incivility is cause of all evil.
I am not a botanist, but I always loved plants. When I was 5 years old I had guerilla gardens growing all over the neighborhood (mainly beans and flowers) and my grandparents taught me how to forage for plants and fungus. Eventually, I began memorizing plant taxonomies on my own. As a more self-taught plant person, I identify a bit more with Santore, than I do with others.
He could do the same show without the poopy words and the sex dungeon jokes and it would be just as good because he has a contagious enthusiasm for the subject. Well almost as good, anyway.
From article:
And that accent? When the camera is off, Santore dials it back. “That’s just for laughs—I can code-switch to a professional-white-guy voice when I need to,” he says.The occasional “ya prick!” or “asteraceae dungeon” remark and the signature sign-off are the icing, not the cake, and the poster is not suggesting that Joey should scrape off the icing. They’re just calling it the icing.
Have a lovely evening, you know the rest.
I just wish he'd give some more love to the bryophytes...
It's interesting to see how "I stand up to the woke mob" is becoming a common marketing tactic to demonstrate authenticity, no matter the context.
The only thing I find on twitter is Santore trying to start flame war threads with unprovoked complaints about "woke" people, and a bunch of people asking him what the heck he's going on about.
Patreon/YouTubers straddle the boundary.
> In 2006, Santore enrolled in a few classes at a community college in San Francisco. He left shortly after. On a whim that same year, he was hired on by the Union Pacific railroad, working as a brakeman, and later, an engineer. For the next 13 years, Santore studied the geology of railroad cuts as the trains traveled through them and stocked his railroad bag with botany research papers from the website Sci-Hub.