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[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 86 points 3 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@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Eating chillies is sadomasochism.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 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 :)

[–] nop@lemmy.world 9 points 3 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.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

💙 You’re welcome and have a great day!

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Memory unlocked

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 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.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 9 points 3 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

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 weeks ago

wait, was I just bullshited?

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't this spider thing fake?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago

Yes it is an old meme.

[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] technohacker@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno if I wanna have 8 glasses of vegetables

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I drink this shit for breakfast, noobs

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

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 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

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago