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the sensory biology of plants (mander.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Bro, not only are they sentient, the trees fucking hate us. Allergies aren't just something that happens as a quirk of evolution. Those trees are filling the air with their jizz in a coordinated effort to take us out bro. The trees are trying to kill us bro.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 8 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes. Is that dent where Vader’s executor crashed into it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You still deliver...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Pew pew

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

M Night Shyamalan did a documentary on this I think

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Name ?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I’m making a joke about The Happening, friend. It’s a movie where plants make people kill themselves. Sorry to disappoint

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Huh no prob

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Considering what we do to them, they have every right to defend themselves.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

As an asthmatic hay-fever sufferer, fuck yeah - you're onto something!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

There's a theory that allergies are getting worse due to an imbalance of gender selection when planting trees in urban environments. Here is some additional context.