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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By doing this they have effectively secured their survival. We will never stop growing them.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Unfortunately.

I hate mint, it's been put into WAY too much damn stuff, and is 98% of toothpaste flavors. It took me way to long to find a toothpaste that was JUST cinnamon not "Cinnamon-mint" or "minty cinnamon" or "Cinnamon with a BLAST of mint" just plain cinnamon.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i don't hate mint but i really want to try cinnamon toothpaste now

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called CloseUp, I've found it in most US grocery stores although it's usually shoved to the bottom shelf

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll see if I can find it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I love mint, but cinnamon toothpaste is absolutely god-tier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It would make meal time so much better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Me, too. I haaaaaate mint toothpaste.

Just discovered coconut ginger toothpaste a little over a year ago. I'm sticking with this toothpaste for life.

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

I like mint in general but hate mint toothpaste, try children's toothpaste, it often comes without mint.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The other thing their evolution has done is make it so we can't stop it growing lol. Never ever plant that stuff in anything but a container. Maybe not even that. It spreads by wind and magic.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Mint, peppers, and caffeine, the holy trinity of "plant defenses that did not work on humans."

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Counterpoint; those plants are now cultivated in huge numbers, thus ensuring the successful and continued propogation of their genetic legacies.

From an evolutionary perspective, those defences worked too well.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Literally no quality will guarantee a species survival in the modern world more than being delicious to humans.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I bet we have vastly reduced their generic diversity so if humans disappear they will have more issues to survive without us.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On the other hand, being useful to humans have made them some of the most widespread and successful plant species on the planet.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Being useful to humans is the single most important factor in evolutionary success rates.

Sure, there's 8 billion of us, but we collectively KILL ~~30 billion~~ 70. 70 goddamn billion chickens every year, and there's always more of those fuckers. We kill more than double the number of chickens every year than are ever currently even alive. That's how many chickens there are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol pls.

That's the r-rated version.

The true trinity is nicotine, cocaine and opiates.

And also,

"Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced."

— Terence McKenna

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yang

the masculine active principle in nature that in Chinese cosmology is exhibited in light, heat, or dryness and that combines with yin to produce all that comes to be

It distorts the connotation, but it wouldn't be too far off to use, say, "macho" instead. It just feels weird to apply such words to plants.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Particularly peppers lol.

Ah, mild pain! The perfect addition to my diet.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Cilantro: best I can do is 20%.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Hallucinogens, nicotine, caffeine, all evolved for plant defense and all of them are used recreationally.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

THC is a heat shock defence. The fact it has such an effect on us is purely coincidental.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is one of the possible explanations for trichomes. However, In literature there are several potential reasons for cannabis producing THC listed, some of them are:

-deterring certain insect and other herbivores -Anti-microbial effects -UV light protection

Claiming that heat shock defense is the only reason seems like a simplification, considering that scientists are still researching the matter.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Can you make me spicy as fuck so no creatures want to eat me?"

"OK bruv flawless plan."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still a good joke as we're mammals, but peppers's spice is so that birds, and not mammals, eat their seeds and poop them out far away as birds aren't bothered by capsaicin.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lending purpose to an evolutionary trait is a mistake. It is possibly that mechanism by which they attained some degree of success, but evolution doesn't 'think' unless youre into predeterminism like that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Totally. Perhaps a better way to phrase it would be, the successful result of the adaptation was that birds spread their seeds instead of mammals. Until us.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

A highly adaptative strategy. The plan failed very successfully.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"But little did nature know that man loves to SUFFER"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got some explaining to do!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Shhhh. It's ok. You have fresh breath now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear I’ve seen this image before but without the laugh track at the bottom, and the bottom-left panel only had the top line. Brevity is etc etc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Life Cycle of Memes. I'm sourcing some of these from the bottom of the troth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sourcing some of these from the bottom of the troth.

9gag?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

why does it feel like i can breath better while chewing very minty gum? i mean i assume it's just an illusion but i've always wondered

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Menthol increases your mouth's sensitivity to coldness. The air you breathe in is generally cooler than your mouth, so the air moving by as you breathe is much more noticeable.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It may be some or other thing with your nose. For instance runny nose after eating spicy food is a known atypical reaction and happens a lot with people with deformed nose wall

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

affecting 80% of people

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I guess it still works on me. that taste makes me wanna puke.

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