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I believe the caffeine keeps other plants from spreading when it gets into the ground.
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rufius posted:Ya. There’s the whole vape lung thing. The Gang Buys Vape Juice
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May 31, 2021 04:24
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The start of the vaping trend drove me nuts. If I wanted to have an inhaler for a medication, it needs to be prescribed by a doctor and subject to substance control laws depending on how dangerous and abusable it is. If I wanted to consume something with essentially no non-vice benefit like tobacco, that is regulated for sale and taxed as part of public health measures and is disallowed in many places. If I wanted to inhale the active addictive ingredients of tobacco with a special inhaler for entirely non-medically-necessary reasons, loving have at it citizen! Smoke your loving nuts off in a cancer ward, blow that strawberry gas right in a child's face. That's your right as a free American! I know it's changed in the last several years as public health infrastructure has finally caught up, but loving hell those first years were annoying. It's like when Silicon Valley re-invents the bus as The Lyft Shuttle, except drugs.
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May 31, 2021 13:37
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Fools Infinite posted:I believe the caffeine keeps other plants from spreading when it gets into the ground. That's correct, coffee plants drop leaves that poison the soil for most things besides other coffee plants. Coca plants, walnuts, evergreens, oaks, and many other plants do similar things with varying degrees of effectiveness
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May 31, 2021 13:59
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DarkHorse posted:That's correct, coffee plants drop leaves that poison the soil for most things besides other coffee plants. Coffee: I’m going to drop leaves that poison things, and the caffeine in my fruit can kill living things if taken in mass quantity. Humans: sweet, we’re going to collectively spend billions of dollars consuming you every year. Some of us will add a lot of sugar too.
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May 31, 2021 14:43
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Caffeine also gets into the marine environment and has impacts on marine plants and algaes. If I remember correctly animals like crab also bioaccumulate the stuff-so while it's kind of funny that we may get caffeinated crab, I think it's still up in the air regarding the impact of that.
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May 31, 2021 15:04
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speaking of caffeine plants, did you know that camelia sinensis, the plant that produces tea leaves, only grows in this small region of the world? wonder if climate change will also affect tea supply, it will certainly affect coffee
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May 31, 2021 17:51
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thats where tea is present naturally cultivation is also in india prc taiwan sri lanka japan hawaii some parts of the american south kenya tanzania argentina colombia and brazil
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May 31, 2021 17:56
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actionjackson posted:speaking of caffeine plants, did you know that camelia sinensis, the plant that produces tea leaves, only grows in this small region of the world? It absolutely grows in more places than that.  They grow tea in Scotland and Vancouver. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 19:10 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 18:01
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Don't worry some pharma company will call it a treatment for Alzheimer's and invent a pill that costs $3800 a month.
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May 31, 2021 18:40
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actionjackson posted:…snip… They just rediscovered a coffee varietal that is more like Arabica in flavor that likes heat. All is not lost as we proceed to burn this sumbitch of an Earth.
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May 31, 2021 19:49
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Democratic Pirate posted:Coffee: I’m going to drop leaves that poison things, and the caffeine in my fruit can kill living things if taken in mass quantity. Onions, Garlic, Leeks, etc: I'm going to store all the energy I collect from the sun in an underground bulb, and will fill it with irritating chemicals that vaporize when it's damaged to protect it from being eaten Humans: ima eat that Chiles, peppers, etc: I will create a chemical that simulates intense burning in mammals so that only birds will eat my fruit so they don't get destroyed during digestion Humans: ima eat that Mint, peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, etc: we'll develop a chemical that irritates and numbs to deter mammals from eating it. Human: ima eat that to cool off from the peppers Coffee: welp I'm boned Coca: tell me about it Cacao/cocoa: well, crap Horseradish, Ginger: hey guys sorry we're late what did we miss? Humans: [hunger intensifies]
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May 31, 2021 19:51
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horseradish can stay in the ground tbh
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May 31, 2021 20:04
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Yes, and grow easily spotted white flowers that I can use to find it, dig it up and eat all of it, off the ground like a animal
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May 31, 2021 20:30
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Bubblyblubber posted:Yes, and grow easily spotted white flowers that I can use to find it, dig it up and eat all of it, off the ground like a animal animals know better, as was just established
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May 31, 2021 20:58
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DarkHorse posted:Humans: ima
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May 31, 2021 21:08
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worst case, margins in coffee and tea easily can easily justify indoor growing ops
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May 31, 2021 21:13
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Bubblyblubber posted:Yes, and grow easily spotted white flowers that I can use to find it, dig it up and eat all of it, off the ground like a animal 
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May 31, 2021 21:22
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Humans: haha silly plants you tried to protect yourself so you could reproduce and failed lol how stupid r u Peppers, coffee et al, now growing all across the world in multiple regions and to lengths never before seen: o poo poo u got us
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May 31, 2021 22:32
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ranbo das posted:Humans: haha silly plants you tried to protect yourself so you could reproduce and failed lol how stupid r u
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May 31, 2021 22:39
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Cilantro: gonna taste like soap, but only to some people
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May 31, 2021 22:58
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ranbo das posted:Humans: haha silly plants you tried to protect yourself so you could reproduce and failed lol how stupid r u The plants that were native to those areas before humans showed up: (They can’t say anything because they’re gone)
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May 31, 2021 23:24
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Phanatic posted:It absolutely grows in more places than that. wtf loving wikipedia
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Jun 1, 2021 00:02
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I read a lot of science fiction, and the one dystopian thing that scares me the most is a future without coffee.
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Jun 1, 2021 01:19
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actionjackson posted:wtf loving wikipedia wikipedia lists the natural uncultivated spread. you gotta read poo poo dude
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Jun 1, 2021 01:33
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Yeah but probably not Wikipedia
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bob dobbs is dead posted:wikipedia lists the natural uncultivated spread. you gotta read poo poo dude i have a lot of other things going on with my life
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Jun 1, 2021 01:45
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Are you guys luddites or high school teachers from 2001 or something? Wikipedia is fine
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Jun 1, 2021 01:47
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FrozenVent posted:The plants that were native to those areas before humans showed up: fukken owned
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Are you guys luddites or high school teachers from 2001 or something? Wikipedia is fine Cites sources that wikipedia cites. 
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Jun 1, 2021 02:10
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Heffer posted:I read a lot of science fiction, and the one dystopian thing that scares me the most is a future without coffee. Good news! https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/a-rediscovered-species-brews-promise-for-coffees-future/article34364608.ece
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Jun 1, 2021 02:48
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Are you guys luddites or high school teachers from 2001 or something? Wikipedia is fine I have a scathing response to tea chat but my second disc of Encarta is scratched.
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Jun 1, 2021 03:10
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StormDrain posted:I have a scathing response to tea chat but my second disc of Encarta is scratched.
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Jun 1, 2021 03:13
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gently caress that Encarta garbage, I roll with the 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia gangstas.
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Jun 1, 2021 03:26
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Encarta Mindmaze was dope as gently caress. e. dammit now I'm going down the memory rabbit hole of Childcraft books and can't find them for sale in the western hemisphere. Guest2553 fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 03:44
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Guest2553 posted:Encarta Mindmaze was dope as gently caress. I loved that maze! Also where in the world is Carmen SanDiego
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Guest2553 posted:e. dammit now I'm going down the memory rabbit hole of Childcraft books and can't find them for sale in the western hemisphere. eBay seems to have enough sets that you can pick your vintage.
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Jun 1, 2021 04:22
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Yond Cassius posted:eBay seems to have enough sets that you can pick your vintage. They're also on Etsy. I used to check out Make and Do from the library all the freaking time when I was a kid, and a while back I found a copy in an antique store. Love love love that '70s art and photography.
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Jun 1, 2021 04:32
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Imaging spending a thousand dollars on encyclopedias when Wikipedia exists
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Switchback posted:Imaging spending a thousand dollars on encyclopedias when Wikipedia exists I mean, if I had powerball money (and a big fancy house with one of those big two story libraries in it) I'd totally get a print version of the encyclopedia for the shelves. Maybe not that one. Something classy like a leather bound edition or something. Edit: also the 2019 encyclopedia is on sale and it's not like a bunch of stuff has really changed in the last couple of years or anything. 8one6 fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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