A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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TBF, life's objective is to reproduce and keep its genetic materials continuing on. Even if humans propagate and consume said plant because they find it desirable, that is still a success for the plant. So even if it has toxic caffeine or fiery capsaicin to deter some pests and humans find it enjoyable, the plant wins.
Especially since many of the plants die after 1 year anyway so it's not even like we shorten their lives anyway.
They just want to propagate. The best chance a plant has to do that is by being tasty or useful to humans so we cultivate them.
Hot peppers anyone?
Caffeine is poisonous to us too, so I think it's more accurate to say that humans enjoy the side effects of that particular neurotoxin. It's generally not possible for someone healthy to drink enough coffee to die, but they sell pure caffeine (for research) and even seemingly small amounts of that will kill a person.
You can buy 200mg pure anhydrous caffeine pills at Walmart for like $5. It's abundant and as safe as coffee if you don't go nuts. The max daily recommended dose is 400mg, anything past that could cause harm
She looks so familiar, who is this? Is this from Veep?
Julia-Louis Dreyfuss.
She was also on SNL.
What does anyone have against "u", fucking fuck?
Americans have been trying to eliminate the letter "u" for centuries.
Colorado River toad: ₍𝄐 ̫͡ 𝄐₎
Humanity: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)