• yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    59·
    29 days ago

    I love chilli’s for this. They’ve developed spiciness to discourage getting eaten. We made an entire fucking menu out of it.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
          5·
          28 days ago

          nicotine in plants are poisonous to people too, because it has high enough concentration, it developed as a defense against caterpillars, which some bugs have evolved resistance. another one is aristholcia, some species are so toxic that a different butterfly not adapted to it will die eating it, even if the caterpillar is adapted to another type of the flower.

    • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      27 days ago

      And yet, it has proven to be an adaptation that has greatly increased their success as a species. In the end, it doesn’t matter to the plant whether it is eaten or not as long as it gets to reproduce - and we’ve spread it around the world.

    • MTZ@lemmy.worldOP
      38·
      29 days ago

      Yeah I didn’t realize that they were not technically plants until after I made the post. Ooopsie. I mean, I knew that they were fungi, but I thought fungi were considered plants. But I know now that I was mistaken.

    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      28 days ago

      We didn’t even formally classify the fungi kingdom until 1969. We still classified it under plantae kingdom.

  • BanMe@lemmy.world
    19·
    29 days ago

    I’ve spoken to the mushrooms about this several times, they get us all in the end anyway so they think it’s funny.

  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    29 days ago

    To be fair, it’s not something most people want to consume regularly. I’ve done shrooms multiple times and even with the best experiences I’ve felt like one a year might be too often.

    • MTZ@lemmy.worldOP
      17·
      29 days ago

      I was in a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins to treat PTSD with psilocybin about 8 or 9 years ago and I was basically cured of it. When I first went in, I was textbook with several symptoms. After the trial, no symptoms whatsoever. I had taken psilo several dozen times before that, but I had never actually thought about the therapeutic potential. After the trial, I had a completely different level of respect for them. I take them 4x per year now to maintain my positive mental health, no more, no less.

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
        7·
        29 days ago

        Psychedelic assisted therapy is incredible. Challenging. My therapist can only prescribe weed and ketamine so we use those. People think I’m in there having fun and getting doped up, and I mean, yes occasionally I do get fun sessions, but generally we have done a lot of heavy lifting, an interactive exchange designed to pin me into my body, where I have trouble wanting to go.

        I’ve heard one or two sessions with pure MDMA can resolve quite a lot of c-ptsd symptoms for good, but alas I am clean from street drugs and can’t go chasing it, and darknet seems too risky these days. So I guess I wait for the law to change.

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        29 days ago

        That’s incredible! I’d love to be able to take advantage of that (gosh, alcohol is such a shitty drug!).

        I’ve got nothing like PTSD however, so maybe I should keep counting my blessings

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    7·
    28 days ago

    Isn’t it a line of defense against insects?
    “Animals” would be broad enough to be true,
    “Mammals” zoomed in on the wrong kingdom.

    Which may be even better as a joke, here’s this thing smug in having finally found a technique to defend itself against a 100 million year foe, like Moe throwing insect Barney out of his bar, and here’s mammal Barney behind Moe again!

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
    5·
    28 days ago

    some will cause delerium, in the same genus, family that cause hallicinations, they can destroy the liver, hence the destroying angels.