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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.
Yeah, arthropods have some of the same neurotransmitters and similar receptor proteins but it's very different in their nervous system.
same for chillies
I like it when my mouth hurts while I chew 🤷♂️
Eating chillies is sadomasochism.
Fun tingles? They're great and are required for some meals.
For more information on the crack spider's bitch....
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
People who haven’t seen this are among today’s lucky 10,000.
People who have seen it should watch it again :)
Hey thats me. Thank you i ternet and kind stranger for this. Not gonna lie, totally had me going at the start.
💙 You’re welcome and have a great day!
Memory unlocked
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.
Today I learned caffeine has a similar effect on spiders to what alcohol has on humans. That spider is drunk.
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
Imagine what it's like to be tripping balls with 8 eyes.
wait, was I just bullshited?
Are the other ones also not true? And I was so invested!
Isn't this spider thing fake?
Yes it is an old meme.
It is a lot funnier if we pretend that it isn't.
But complex analysis is surprisingly tame, at least any differentiable functions are locally infinite polynomials. Real analysis, on the other hand.. shudders
What about 8 glasses of water, eggs, milk, fruits, yogurt, vegetables and nuts?
The spider would burst
nah, that only happens when you add seeds, corn and roots.
I dunno if I wanna have 8 glasses of vegetables
I drink this shit for breakfast, noobs
And then get behind the wheel of a car to get somewhere as fast as you can ?
Okay so I know I'm not a spider but like, where do I sign up for these trials?
I bet speed spider made like 3 of those and moved on to a new project that it didn't finish
I never considered that nasa might fund other forms of research besides just space. Or where they going to test LSD + no gravity next
I would like to offer myself as the spider in that experiment.