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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Isn’t the reason that plants invented caffeine in the first place was precisely to ward off pests, particularly arthropods? And it’s just cool as shit that it does other effects to mammals other than killing us?

Don’t you dare try to take away my coffee.

[–] ryedaft 15 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, arthropods have some of the same neurotransmitters and similar receptor proteins but it's very different in their nervous system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I like it when my mouth hurts while I chew 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Eating chillies is sadomasochism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fun tingles? They're great and are required for some meals.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

For more information on the crack spider's bitch....

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

People who haven’t seen this are among today’s lucky 10,000.

People who have seen it should watch it again :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey thats me. Thank you i ternet and kind stranger for this. Not gonna lie, totally had me going at the start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

💙 You’re welcome and have a great day!

[–] gigachad 6 points 2 weeks ago

Memory unlocked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That 56 sparks street, Ottawa, right?

Mamadou Ndiaye - aka Casual Geographic - needs to come here and do so, so many new Hinterland Who's Who eps for us.

We should give him a new passport as part of the deal if he wants it. He's like a national treasure for more than a few nations.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Today I learned caffeine has a similar effect on spiders to what alcohol has on humans. That spider is drunk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm still trying to imagine the spider on LSD .

like whoa is that lady bug did it's back just open to reveal robotic wings whaaaa

wait whaaat do I have 8 of these things omg what is shooting out of my asssssssssss why is it so satisfying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine what it's like to be tripping balls with 8 eyes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't this spider thing fake?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Yes it is an old meme.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

It is a lot funnier if we pretend that it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

wait, was I just bullshited?

Are the other ones also not true? And I was so invested!

[–] someacnt 12 points 2 weeks ago

But complex analysis is surprisingly tame, at least any differentiable functions are locally infinite polynomials. Real analysis, on the other hand.. shudders

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

What about 8 glasses of water, eggs, milk, fruits, yogurt, vegetables and nuts?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

nah, that only happens when you add seeds, corn and roots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno if I wanna have 8 glasses of vegetables

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I drink this shit for breakfast, noobs

[–] unconsciousvoidling 1 points 2 weeks ago

And then get behind the wheel of a car to get somewhere as fast as you can ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Okay so I know I'm not a spider but like, where do I sign up for these trials?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I never considered that nasa might fund other forms of research besides just space. Or where they going to test LSD + no gravity next

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would like to offer myself as the spider in that experiment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I bet speed spider made like 3 of those and moved on to a new project that it didn't finish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago