• @Shou
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    1412 hours ago

    And yet, it is a much more common plant now, whose offspring comes in many new forms. It has gained the care and protection by a mammal.

    • @HowManyNimons
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      109 hours ago

      Joke’s on us. We’re being farmed by capsicum.

    • @[email protected]
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      6417 hours ago

      I was gonna say; not a lot of other creatures setup industrial farms… If you want to survive as a plant species, making humans like you isn’t a terrible strategy.

      • Nougat
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        4017 hours ago

        Just know that you’re never going to be good enough for the humans and they’re going to “fix” you.

        #PlantsNeedTherapy

        • @ikidd
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          36 hours ago

          Brassicas have entered the chat.

    • NONEOP
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      2317 hours ago

      When your plan fails successfully

  • @[email protected]
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    2516 hours ago

    Humans are largely human because we are terrible “one-trial learners.” We twist the tiger’s tail until it turns on us. We don’t learn. We come back to twist the tiger’s tail some more.

    • @[email protected]
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      1616 hours ago

      Twist the tigers tale 10 times and get bitten.

      Most creatures: don’t twist the tigers tail.

      Us: …what about 9 twists…?

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      413 hours ago

      That’s not the only toxic thing humans eat, drink or smoke. Chocolate, coffee, alcohol and probably many more.

    • @[email protected]
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      816 hours ago

      Speak for yourself. I never twisted any tiger’s tail but neither do I judge you for your kink

  • @BallShapedMan
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    2517 hours ago

    I saw a video saying that this was so that birds would eat instead of mammals. Something about spreading out further.

    • @shalafi
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      2816 hours ago

      Yep!

      Only mammals have the nerve receptors to feel the heat.

      Herbivores grind the seeds up. Plants don’t want that.

      Birds, who can’t sense the heat, happily eat the pods and poop the seeds everywhere.

      • kbal
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        616 hours ago

        Has anyone checked for correlation between having a taste for capsaicin and not chewing your food thoroughly?