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And doesn't deter me in the least. Pass the hot sauce, please!

Most of the ones with toxins strong enough to kill you won't do so for months after you consumed it a single time. They know something about playing the long game.

i wonder how a chemical that can distort perception of time and space could be a useful defense mechanism...... harder to find the mushroom when you cant remember where you ate it.

They produce psilocybin because Satan told them to

It's just a guess, but it's probably protection against other species than mammals (psilocybin I mean)...

Regarding capsaicin, it's protecting against (almost) everything that is isn't a bird, birds don't feel the capsaicin AFAIK.

The human regularly exposes itself to solar radiation and consumes flavoured liquid toxin for recreational purposes, and yet it does not die, instead it develops a tolerance to these hazards. Science team is reminded to take extreme caution when studying this lifeform.

Not all animals. Mammals (spicy, ow) and insects (insecticide). Birds are unaffected and are the pepper's preferred "conveyance method" for their seeds. It's neat!

Spice preserves, kills dangerous organisms in food. That's why, the higher the average temperature, the spicier the food. Well, except maybe europe, it's more olive oil and vinegar in the southern parts here.

And now you have...oh my fucking god you have my hands give them back!! Oh wait I forgot to cover the mirror.

Tell that to the reindeer known for enjoying Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.

And there's such a thing as bad LSD, which really sucks. Those quasi-legal, almost LSD analogues often sold as genuine LSD, but with glitchy side-effects.

Legalized drugs can be regulated and quality-controlled, and should be. Fuck Reagan for many, many reasons, including his "war on drugs."

Can you just go get a bunch of morning glory seeds and eat those instead? They're packed full of LSA, which feels very similar.

If you go to a music festival, it'll probably come to you . I wish lsd didn't last so damn long, I got stuff to do.

It's so sketchy these days with "designer drugs". You never know what you're actually getting.

And now we are cultivating peppers. So the strategy still worked evolutionarily speaking, only not like the peppers intended.

And now I'm dropping them in the chipotle bathroom

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It’s a homoerotic Greek statue of two men wrestling. Leonardo DiCaprio’s character traded in slaves who were made to fight hand to hand to the death, and a lot of the art in the house reflected that.