• @Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    821 year ago

    “Can you make me spicy as fuck so no creatures want to eat me?”

    “OK bruv flawless plan.”

    • @raydenuni@lemmy.sdf.org
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      221 year ago

      Still a good joke as we’re mammals, but peppers’s spice is so that birds, and not mammals, eat their seeds and poop them out far away as birds aren’t bothered by capsaicin.

      • @Ferris@infosec.pub
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        101 year ago

        lending purpose to an evolutionary trait is a mistake. It is possibly that mechanism by which they attained some degree of success, but evolution doesn’t ‘think’ unless youre into predeterminism like that.

      • @Dasnap@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Birds going to their local Mexican and complaining that the ‘Anus Scorcher Tacos’ are too bland

    • Iron Lynx
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      31 year ago

      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.