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  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzCapsaicin
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    3 days ago

    We mammals, and only we mammals, have nerve receptors capsaicin triggers. Birds don’t have such receptors. They happily chow peppers and poop the whole seeds all over.

    Meanwhile, we mammals, who are supposed to hate the heat because we grind the seeds to death, have happily bred hotter and hotter peppers and spread them all over the planet.

    I know of no such evolutionary win-win as peppers have pulled off. Genius.






  • Those poverty levels are not remotely comparable. Haitian minimum wage is something like $150 per month.

    You can be poor as hell in MS and still own a gun. Hell, you may have not paid a dime for it if inherited. If you’re poor as hell in Haiti, you’re selling that gun to eat. If it doesn’t get stolen out your shack.

    And if you still think you have a “gotcha”, we’re talking about murder by gun. Want to talk murder in general?

    In 2023, the number of intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in Haiti was estimated at 40.85

    It’s half that in Mississippi, the worst in the US.