By doing this they have effectively secured their survival. We will never stop growing them.
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.
I like mint in general but hate mint toothpaste, try children’s toothpaste, it often comes without mint.
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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.
dr bronners cinnamon toothpaste is the best
i don’t hate mint but i really want to try cinnamon toothpaste now
Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.
It’s called CloseUp, I’ve found it in most US grocery stores although it’s usually shoved to the bottom shelf
Thanks! I’ll see if I can find it
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.
You are NOT kidding!
I’ve got a stubborn patch of mint growing in a big ceramic pot with an endangered dune cactus, and they get left to fend for themselves 24/7-365 outdoors at a beach cottage… in New England!
Both plants have thrived in their pot for nearly two decades now!
Mint, peppers, and caffeine, the holy trinity of “plant defenses that did not work on humans.”
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.
Literally no quality will guarantee a species survival in the modern world more than being delicious to humans.
On the other hand, being useful to humans have made them some of the most widespread and successful plant species on the planet.
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 billion70. 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.Didn’t work out so well for the rhinos to be fair.
Rhinos aren’t super useful.
Being super useful has a few requirements. Elephants, for instance, are incredibly useful. They’re large, they carry burdens well, they can be trained and will behave well if they’re treated well, they’re social and understand commands.
But they have one baby every 22 months and it takes years before they’re fertile. So they’re not super useful. Rhinos, similarly, do not reproduce fast enough to check off the super box.
If the rhinos are not useful why do we need to hunt them so much they’re going extinct?
The animal also needs to be tamable if it wants to thrive.
go vegan :)
Grass: is useless
Humans: “Growing a nutritionally useless plant demonstrates that Im so wealthy I can afford to waste arable land”
Grass: is now one of the dominant species on earth
We made grains from grass. If you let most grasses get tall enough to seed, they look like green wheat.
Also I’m not certain, but wheat and corn may give grass a run for their money in acreage cover, if you count the wheat and corn as a single species, but count each specific grass separately.
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
Yang?
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.
Cilantro: best I can do is 20%.
Hallucinogens, nicotine, caffeine, all evolved for plant defense and all of them are used recreationally.
Also, don´t forget THC
THC is a heat shock defence. The fact it has such an effect on us is purely coincidental.
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.
It used to also be insect deterrent but since we’ve bred cannabis to have so much lovely THC that the globules are too large and dry to work. But that’s ok because cannabis has domesticated humans enough that we’ve invented climate controlled hothouses to grow them in.
HFY! or are Space Orcs.
“Can you make me spicy as fuck so no creatures want to eat me?”
“OK bruv flawless plan.”
Also humans: Imma smoke you too
And it would have worked flawlessly if it weren’t for humans, the single most metal species to have ever graced this planet, that likes to subject itself to mild and moderate suffering for amusement and recreational purposes.
A highly adaptative strategy. The plan failed very successfully.
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“But little did nature know that man loves to SUFFER”
What’s this now?
You got some explaining to do!
Shhhh. It’s ok. You have fresh breath now.
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
The Life Cycle of Memes. I’m sourcing some of these from the bottom of the troth.
Trough?
Based and SCRAPIN’-pilled
I guess it still works on me. that taste makes me wanna puke.
