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[–] Resol 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] hydrospanner 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tattorack 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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!