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[–] [email protected] 136 points 2 years ago (39 children)

Mint, peppers, and caffeine, the holy trinity of "plant defenses that did not work on humans."

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lol pls.

That's the r-rated version.

The true trinity is nicotine, cocaine and opiates.

And also,

"Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced."

— Terence McKenna

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yang?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yang

the masculine active principle in nature that in Chinese cosmology is exhibited in light, heat, or dryness and that combines with yin to produce all that comes to be

It distorts the connotation, but it wouldn't be too far off to use, say, "macho" instead. It just feels weird to apply such words to plants.

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