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The double standards of naming things discovered by Europeans vs non-Europeans (spectreofcommunism.boo)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4976227

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Give some love to the Chandrasekhar limit!

(I'm actually off the opinion that people's names should not be given to scientific discoveries, because they are rarely discovered only by one person)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It also makes it bloody difficult to remember what everything is. Organic chemistry is chock full of people-named reagents and reactions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Audio issue

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The audio is disabled by default. You need to manually turn it on in the video player. (This is poor UX, Idk why Lemmy was designed like this)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's Chrome/Firefox/all modern browsers. They are so up themselves they refuse to autoplay videos when they are unmuted