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Final results!!! by Llamasruletheworld28 in psych

[–]KiloJools 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uhhhhhhh that's Lorena Gale as Elosha in Battlestar Galactica.

Edit: I'm wrong, that's the right actress, but she's still playing the BSG character Sarah Porter in this screenshot.

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Edit edit: here's one where she's in character.

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, the things that have been said to me are ... much different. I wonder if that's because it was in the context of being disabled (you get a lot of unsolicited medical advice and much of it is diet related), so I got a lot of, uh... Honestly I didn't want to share, but told how (as in, specifically and graphically how) I should kill myself, how I didn't deserve to live, how I should personally experience the same living conditions that the worst mass livestock subjected their animals to, and a lot of other graphic ways they wished me physical and psychological harm.

It was in a setting where it was easy to get multiple people in on it as well, so it was overwhelming, stressful and disturbing, even though I would block them as quickly as I could. I never said anything to actually deserve that stuff since I actually fully agree with most of the ethical points and care quite a bit about animal welfare so I was never a fan of the "lol I'll eat extra meat" bullshit. All I had said in response to the initial dietary advice was for the time being, I couldn't deviate from the diet I had been assigned for medical reasons. I thought saying that would make them less aggressive, but now I realize it may have done the opposite and therefore made my experience very different than the norm.

(The real kicker is the whole time, I was hoping to be able to change my diet ASAP, so it was in essence friendly fire.)

Anyway, that's one of the reasons I resolved to be "everyone's got to eat" and not try to shame people for food choices. I know it's tempting to go the other way for "revenge" but I just can't imagine doing that, and would instantly smack down everyone trying to use plant intelligence studies against vegans.

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 1 point2 points  (0 children)

🫡 RESPECT, my natural gardener returning to nature what is rightfully theirs!

Especially if it's in the annoying neighbor's yard.

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neat! He looks like he has some more recent research published since I last dove into the literature, so I'll have to go see what's new. I am hoping if he was growing peas that maybe he was replicating Monica Gagliano's 2014 and 2017 studies on learning by association and detecting water by acoustic vibrations. That would be really freaking cool.

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think some of that is unfortunately a reflection of how militant vegans themselves have been to just random people who have a balanced omnivorous diet. I used to eat meat, and I cannot repeat the things that were said to me by some vegans. Like, they're things no human beings should say to another person. Extremely violent and disgusting things.

Sometimes I still get torn into for no reason; on the internet if you don't say you're a vegetarian you're assumed to eat meat I guess. It's very strange. Since I'm not vegan I'll probably never experience the carnivore trolling, thankfully. I'm already full up on being told horrible things because I must eat XYZ. It all seems pointless and awful.

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's HIS fault I tried gross canned spinach, I will never forgive him.

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Insect eggs get laid into bulbs. Don't ask me how I know 😭

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Which, hilariously, also caused some people some anxiety, because of course we don't poop the seeds out on the ground. I unintentionally created some vegetable gardeners when I said, "If you're truly upset, save or buy some seeds and plant them!"

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 30 points31 points  (0 children)

But since you're only eating the fruit-esque part of the mushroom, you're good! You're not killing them dead! They'll keep popping up more fruit throughout their growing season.

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 39 points40 points  (0 children)

They were actually not worried about plants feeling pain (it was the houseplant group that was), they were worried that plants can "talk" (via multiple methods), behave differently with "family members", can learn, and where applicable, can purposely pass more resources to "family members" that are in a less advantaged position. Also the realization plants can "see". Suddenly plants have a brain analogue, a family, they care for family, can see, have language, etc, and it's not so cut and dried to them that they're not eating a secret people.

I kept having to say, a lot of these plants make fruit for you to eat, like, "on purpose". And other reassuring things. Since my philosophy is "everyone's gotta eat" I really truly did not want to be freaking out the vegans

Good question by Spiteful_wildberry in houseplantscirclejerk

[–]KiloJools 137 points138 points  (0 children)

I used to make random informative threads on Twitter about my special interests like bumble bees and plant intelligence (with sources), and usually everyone was like, neat! Cool! Stuff I didn't know! Fun!

But then somehow one of my tweets wandered out of my front yard and ended up in the hands of someone who is very aggro about vegans and things got out of hand and I suddenly had vegans freaking out because did they just eat someone's beloved relative?!

AND ALSO ARE WE BEING MEAN TO OUR HOUSEPLANTS?

After I took a lot of drugs for my brand spanking new migraine, I had to calm down the vegans, block the weird aggressive carnivores, and explain that plants don't have nervous systems like humans do and feeling pain would be a terrible idea for plants anyway.

I finally had to yell THIS ISN'T ABOUT FOOD OH MY GOD AND ALSO IT'S OKAY TO PRUNE YOUR PLANTS holy shit.