jmill
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- Comment on Taste the flavor 2 weeks ago:
The chemical is capsaicin, and it’s a neurotoxin. That’s why with repeated exposure you can start to gain resistance.
Birds are less sensitive to capsaicin, which made having it around seeds beneficial for plants. Birds eat the seeds and then spread them after flying somewhere else, but mammals are deterred from eating the seeds and they are poor vectors for spread because most mammals that eat large amounts of vegetable matter have molar teeth that aid in breaking down small seeds for digestion.
Until a certain mammal decided they liked the burn, and deliberately spread those plants further than birds ever did.
- Comment on Gotta Catch 'Em All 2 months ago:
Yeah, drug names and Pokémon names are running into the same problem. They can’t reuse them, and there are so many already.
Actually, I suppose a name being used for a drug or a Pokémon precludes it from being used for the other, so it is a very shared issue, lol.
Wonder how far they have to reserve names in advance to prevent overlap. A Nintendo vs GSK court case for a name would be less absurd than many news stories this year.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 months ago:
They don’t add nicotine to tobacco, tobacco plants produce nicotine. That’s why people have smoked it for 100s of years.
I hadn’t heard of this, but as far as insecticides go, this sounds about as benign as possible.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 5 months ago:
A few months before. Theory checks out.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 6 months ago:
Your conversion took a wrong turn somewhere. BAC is just percentage, promille is parts per thousand. So to convert, multiply by ten. Making it 4,2 promille. Really shitfaced. Very potentially life threatening even if you are not driving.
- Comment on 'Climate change doesn't exist,' says Reform UK mayor despite third summer heatwave 7 months ago:
Well, I can understand the feeling, but it’s not true. Many of the states in between have a better ratio of relatively sensible people to fruitcakes than it looks like, but the fruitcakes have gerrymandered voting districts pretty severely. Which is a self reinforcing issue.