Also humans, including myself: willingly eats food containing high amounts of capsaicin, something chillies evolved to produce to prevent mammals from eating them
We are a weird species.
huehuehue
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Corno@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The human regularly exposes itself to solar radiation and consumes flavoured liquid toxin for recreational purposes, and yet it does not die, instead it develops a tolerance to these hazards. Science team is reminded to take extreme caution when studying this lifeform.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not all animals. Mammals (spicy, ow) and insects (insecticide). Birds are unaffected and are the pepper’s preferred “conveyance method” for their seeds. It’s neat!
Lennny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Plants, like frat boys, are just trying to plant seeds far and wide. Birds help with that, in the plants case.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Spice preserves, kills dangerous organisms in food. That’s why, the higher the average temperature, the spicier the food. Well, except maybe europe, it’s more olive oil and vinegar in the southern parts here.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At first, you had my attention, but now you have my interest.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And now you have…oh my fucking god you have my hands give them back!! Oh wait I forgot to cover the mirror.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Okay, noted… Read Dorian Gray on mushrooms…
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fucking mirrors are the worst.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It’s a funny way to put animals off - they might have the most sublime, healing and fascinating time or a completely terrifying one but the fact remains that because it takes the best part of an hour to kick in they will probably still have no idea what caused it.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Tell that to the reindeer known for enjoying Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.
Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would kill for an LSD source.
Shrooms make me feel so much more self-conscious when I’m tripping for some reason. LSD is more enjoyable, but much harder to source as you can’t just grow it yourself from an internet kit.
sxan@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
And there’s such a thing as bad LSD, which really sucks. Those quasi-legal, almost LSD analogues often sold as genuine LSD, but with glitchy side-effects.
Legalized drugs can be regulated and quality-controlled, and should be. Fuck Reagan for many, many reasons, including his “war on drugs.”
DogWater@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That is a bit older than Reagan, war on drugs is a Nixon thing, but I agree with the general sentiment. Fuckem both.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Since 1P-LSD has been available the chances of getting nBOMe’d are much lower.
One might think that easy access to drugs is actually safer.
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can you just go get a bunch of morning glory seeds and eat those instead? They’re packed full of LSA, which feels very similar.
Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Holy shit, thanks for the rabbit hole friend!
This looks promising! I haven’t done my six month mental refresh in 2 years. Might be a lovely weekend 🤞
Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you go to a music festival, it’ll probably come to you . I wish lsd didn’t last so damn long, I got stuff to do.
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
2C-B? (not that it’s as grandiose as an acid trip though…)
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s so sketchy these days with “designer drugs”. You never know what you’re actually getting.
AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
works for me tbh, I liked tripping for a while but lately (within the past 8 years) every trip basically turns into “wow I’m having a really unpleasant time hahahahahaa I’m going to just lay down and close my eyes and will myself through this”
melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Whatever is in the background looks like they have a nice arse
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s a homoerotic Greek statue of two men wrestling. Leonardo DiCaprio’s character traded in slaves who were made to fight hand to hand to the death, and a lot of the art in the house reflected that.
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Given that Psilocybe mushrooms are coprophiles (typically found growing in manure or pastures where manure is abundant), it’s unlikely that they mind being eaten.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Kinky
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
As far as I’m aware, we still don’t know why they produce psilocybin. Something that takes 30+ minutes to begin affecting you seems like a poor defense mechanism.
We know with certainty that capsaicin does act as a deterrent against consumption, and capsaicin acts immediately…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
GluWu@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Most of the ones with toxins strong enough to kill you won’t do so for months after you consumed it a single time. They know something about playing the long game.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
i wonder how a chemical that can distort perception of time and space could be a useful defense mechanism… harder to find the mushroom when you cant remember where you ate it.
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They produce psilocybin because Satan told them to
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s just a guess, but it’s probably protection against other species than mammals (psilocybin I mean)…
Regarding capsaicin, it’s protecting against (almost) everything that is isn’t a bird, birds don’t feel the capsaicin AFAIK.