The best way to never go extinct is to be usable by humans
Hemp / marijuana is arguably the most successful plant at this. It enjoys a high degree of biodiversity where as most plants we cultivate suffer from monoculture problems. Why is hemp / marijuana so successful? Probably because of its multiple uses. It makes strong fibers, you can make milk from it, you can make all sorts of consumer products like lip balm and hair conditioner, and you can get fucking ripped bro
See also Brassica Oleracea aka wild cabbage which we’ve cultivated into cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, collard greens, savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, gai lan… etc
Where did you find that about hemp? I can only find info about recreational marijuana and can’t find anything about agricultural or industrial hemp. And the recreational marijuana numbers I could find are all just like “top 30 strains to try today”
It depends, silphium was potentially an effective contraceptive that was harvested to extinction.
The difference in survival probably stems from a single hyphen.
Mint grows like a fucking weed. Silphium grew like a fucking-weed.
You aren’t kidding. I got four tiny spearmint plants this spring. They are growing kind of hydroponically because I have a pond.
In less than three months, those plants have exploded into huge nice-smelling bushes that are more than two feet in each dimension. They are planted in a line so there’s this walk of mint that’s almost 12 feet long.
But that’s not enough. The plants send out branches along the ground like freaking tentacles. They will spill out of a planter box, for instance.
The fast growth is why I chose this plant, but damn!
Humans aren’t the only ones to do this. Many animals eat plants that don’t kill them but are deadly to their predators / parasites.
The poison dart frog is like this!
When in captivity, they actually aren’t poisonous because their diet is different.
Lol what is this article?
First
Poison dart frogs are not poisonous in captivity because they do not have access to the specific insects that they would eat in the wild which contain the toxins that make them poisonous.
Also
It is a common misconception that dart frogs lose their poison in captivity. In reality, they only lose their toxicity when they are exposed to certain chemicals found in captivity, such as cleaners and pesticides
Later
They acquire these toxins as they eat certain insects in their environment that contain them. So if a poison dart frog is ever relocated to an area where these insects don’t exist, it will lose its toxicity over time.
Finally… it’s fine if you’re not worries about getting poisoned
Some people handle their poison dart frogs with gloves, but this isn’t necessary unless you have an open wound on your hand or you’re particularly worried about getting poisoned.
I’m seeing alot of these extremely low effort articles recently that are, for some reason, ranked very highly by google. AI spam probably?
Yeah I thought I was having a stroke reading that article. Looks almost AI generated.
Hot peppers: haha poor mint wait what the fuck
“Why would you eat me when I make you shit fire??”
Humans: Haha painfully burning mouth go brrrrrr
We failed evolutionarily to adapt an immunity to capsaicin. But peppers are super good for us, they are packed with vitamins. So instead we evolved a dopamine response to it that makes them more tolerable and slightly pleasing. This is why when eating something spicy, the heat gets worse after you stop eating, because you stop getting the little dopamine hits that dull the pain. It’s also why people love spicy food, you actually get a little high, similar to a runners high.
Not a chance. Peppers and the vast majority of humans still in existence did not interact for most of human evolution. Peppers are a new world plant and the humans who had the most experience and could have evolved along side them lost 90% of their genetic diversity when the Colombian exchange brought them a massive multi-disease plague. The return where peppers came to the rest of the world was in the 16th century. Not really enough time for evolution to guide people towards eating the plant. It’s a very short time on a genetic scale.
Haha one of the best uses of those wojaks I’ve seen
