LurkingLuddite

That’s more Boderline Personality Disorder (BPD). That very basically means their emotional states are usually at an extreme no matter what the mood is. Bipolar is a general shift of mood over longer periods of time, and BPD means about every emotion becomes their current state of being, overpowering many logical ways of expression in the moment.

Of course I’m really simplifying it, but… well, not a psych.

I know this is a great joke and all, but I’ve had a friend like this and he was fucking annoying.

2/10, would not recommend for diplomacy.

How is this a shitpost? This is just fact.

For a serious answer, there’s a whole process you can follow. It’s basically going from minimum exposure up through eating a small bit of it and waiting multiple hours to days between steps. If any show signs of being irritating or worse, don’t eat/use that plant. It’s slow enough that if you had to rely on it for finding your sole source of food, you’re going to have a rough, hungry time.

Something like:

1. Rub a little on hardier parts of your skin, wait and see.
2. Break up the plant to expose more of it and rub that on a small patch, wait and see.
3. Try it on more sensitive skin areas, wait and see.
4. Try holding a bit in your mouth, spit it out. Wait and see.
5. Chew some up, spit it out and wait and see.
6. Eat a tiny amount, wait and see.

I’m probably forgetting some steps, too. It’s genuinely very slow.

Worse yet, there are plenty of plants/fungi that would still fuck you up or kill you doing it this way, so the OP still has a point.

Bold move to start there, but someone’s got to do it.

At leastmake them remotely symmetrical ffs.

Fun fact: You can figure out if a plant is poisonous/toxic without snorting a fat line of it.

No and yes.

It is definitely their entire world, but the point is it takes far more than a few cells to create actual human-relatable sentience.

That’s coming from someone who fully understands and knows that many more animals than most humans care to admit also have sentience.

Those petri dishes are not sentient nor conscious.

Anything above 0 is already entering unethical territory, so…

Slowly? Those things would ‘die’ in under 24 hours!

Not really. It’s not nearly enough cells to have any kind of consciousness as we know it. A few neurons learning to play a game is a far cry from tying a being into a simulation of hell.

In fairness to him, most politicians are both stupid and paid to make bad decisions, so he’s sadly probably still right…

Magnesium is definitely a part of the conversation. It helps neurofunction and muscle signaling, along with cell metabolism. It helps quite a few processes in the body. I wish I remembered more of the processes specifically so I could be more accurate! Most electrolytes have some very important roles, including calcium far beyond building strong bones.

One of many reasons I take multivitamins! Difficult to be too low on most anything that way. … and it supplements my poor diet choices…

Moreso potassium. Cramps are even often cited as a direct symptom of hypokalemia.

Global warming due to the co2 we’ve already dumped will destroy us anyways. The “AI” slop is just the cherry on top that will guarantee societal collapse instead of just mass migrations and water wars.

One byte is much larger than 15.

They’ve definitely cut back on flavor this past year. Not just on pizza flavor. I stopped buying any of them because they’re not worth it any more. Bunch of extra calories for no taste? They can fuck off and die.

That might be the words they said while completely ignoring the examples, but those examples made it abundantly clear that they meant gendered pronouns.

You can address someone without gendered pronouns… they even gave examples.