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[–] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn’t the reason that plants invented caffeine in the first place was precisely to ward off pests, particularly arthropods? And it’s just cool as shit that it does other effects to mammals other than killing us?

Don’t you dare try to take away my coffee.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For more information on the crack spider's bitch....

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    People who haven’t seen this are among today’s lucky 10,000.

    People who have seen it should watch it again :)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That 56 sparks street, Ottawa, right?

    Mamadou Ndiaye - aka Casual Geographic - needs to come here and do so, so many new Hinterland Who's Who eps for us.

    We should give him a new passport as part of the deal if he wants it. He's like a national treasure for more than a few nations.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Today I learned caffeine has a similar effect on spiders to what alcohol has on humans. That spider is drunk.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn't this spider thing fake?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    wait, was I just bullshited?

    Are the other ones also not true? And I was so invested!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    But complex analysis is surprisingly tame, at least any differentiable functions are locally infinite polynomials. Real analysis, on the other hand.. shudders

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    What about 8 glasses of water, eggs, milk, fruits, yogurt, vegetables and nuts?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I drink this shit for breakfast, noobs

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Okay so I know I'm not a spider but like, where do I sign up for these trials?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I never considered that nasa might fund other forms of research besides just space. Or where they going to test LSD + no gravity next

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I bet speed spider made like 3 of those and moved on to a new project that it didn't finish

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