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submitted 9 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

I'll take the "talk to plants" potion since it changes LITERALLY NOTHING, and I don't want any additional powers myself.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Except now you're wracked with crippling guilt every time you mow the lawn, chop up veggies for dinner, or walk by some poor little scrawny weed growing out of a crack in the sidewalk.

[-] gobills@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ok thats a half empty glass of sunshine if I ever saw one. How you guna spend your time conversing with something that'll live less than a year, shit out a bunch of seeds, then die? Why not find out what the Oaks, Cypresses'ses', Hemlocks and Maples have to say about the day America was conceived, birthed, crawled, walked, flew, first fuck last fuck. Shit I'd retire and walk the trails listening to stories from something that has expierienced 3 life spans.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Except plant never developed language or even neurons to process thought. You drink the "Talk to plants" potion and the world is just as silent as it was before.

[-] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It was recently discovered that plants do talk to each other. It's still being studied.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

That is really old news. Whole forests do this. But that's still not talking.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

If that's what a "talk" to plants drink does, I'd love to get a "talk" to humans drink. Imagine the psychology experiments I could set up if I could understand the subconscious pheromone, posture, subvocal, and other various poorly understood methods of communication!