The best way to never go extinct is to be usable by humans
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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Best way to go extinct is much the same.
Shrödinger's extinction
I actually thought about that and changed "enjoyed" to "usable"
Dodos were tasty and Vaquitas are cute but chickens, wheat, potatoes, rice etc. are a borderline infinite food glitch for humans compared to most food sources so they naturally get cultivated in huge numbers
Humans aren't the only ones to do this. Many animals eat plants that don't kill them but are deadly to their predators / parasites.
The poison dart frog is like this!
When in captivity, they actually aren't poisonous because their diet is different.
What's truly amazing is how the frogs learned to make and use darts.
Lol what is this article?
First
Poison dart frogs are not poisonous in captivity because they do not have access to the specific insects that they would eat in the wild which contain the toxins that make them poisonous.
Also
It is a common misconception that dart frogs lose their poison in captivity. In reality, they only lose their toxicity when they are exposed to certain chemicals found in captivity, such as cleaners and pesticides
Later
They acquire these toxins as they eat certain insects in their environment that contain them. So if a poison dart frog is ever relocated to an area where these insects don’t exist, it will lose its toxicity over time.
Finally...... it's fine if you're not worries about getting poisoned
Some people handle their poison dart frogs with gloves, but this isn’t necessary unless you have an open wound on your hand or you’re particularly worried about getting poisoned.
I'm seeing alot of these extremely low effort articles recently that are, for some reason, ranked very highly by google. AI spam probably?
It's almost certainly machine generated text. And I'm terrified of a future where I need to first sort out 10 poorly written AI articles until I find something that's actually written by a human and coherent.
Hot peppers: haha poor mint wait what the fuck
"Why would you eat me when I make you shit fire??"
Humans: Haha painfully burning mouth go brrrrr
We failed evolutionarily to adapt an immunity to capsaicin. But peppers are super good for us, they are packed with vitamins. So instead we evolved a dopamine response to it that makes them more tolerable and slightly pleasing. This is why when eating something spicy, the heat gets worse after you stop eating, because you stop getting the little dopamine hits that dull the pain. It's also why people love spicy food, you actually get a little high, similar to a runners high.
Not a chance. Peppers and the vast majority of humans still in existence did not interact for most of human evolution. Peppers are a new world plant and the humans who had the most experience and could have evolved along side them lost 90% of their genetic diversity when the Colombian exchange brought them a massive multi-disease plague. The return where peppers came to the rest of the world was in the 16th century. Not really enough time for evolution to guide people towards eating the plant. It’s a very short time on a genetic scale.