bryophile

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[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

I can confirm kimchi helps me poop, so I guess if I just got administered some nanoplastics there would be more nanoplastics in my poop.

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We are more of a symbiont than we like to admit with more than half of our cells being non-human.

Next step is to find a suitable photobiont and go find a rock to lie on

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 81 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Wait. Lab mice injected with the lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi had nanoplastic levels twice as high than those not injected... That's the opposite of the claim in the title.

I had to read this a couple of times.

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Obnoxious creatures they are, always trying to take the shine from mosses. Mosses don't need symbiosis because they're perfectly able to survive harsh conditions by themselves. There's been hardly a need to change their perfect designs for millions of years.

Lichens are just the result of symbiotic relationships formed whenever fungi and algae or cyanobacteria feel like doing it. They're a promiscuous lot. Promiscuous scabs on a rock.

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Link

That's debatable, most sources estimate mosses to have been there before lichens.

Mosses are true plants and have leaves with chlorophyll though! Way more interesting in the context of there being trees or not. Lichens are just scabs on a rock.

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Who are these people?

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 100 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Maybe it feels counter-intuitive to some that sharks were there before trees...

But I hope it is intuitive that there was water long before there was soil? Then it's just a small step to realize life in water has had a much longer time to develop.

Mosses were likely already there though

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

You won't live forever if you don't do drugs either, so no worries.

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't know, but when I started recognizing birds by sound I noticed it was working as a constant mindfulness exercise whenever I went outside. I suppose mindfulness has similar positive effects on the brain?

Then I'd say any hobby that encourages mindfulness could have a positive effect on your brain?

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What even was this article about? It reads like it is building up to something but then fails to deliver.

Studies conclude that set and setting is key in psychedelic therapy. So yes, priming is crucial and success depends on a lot of factors. But we already knew this. No one serious suggests psychedelics always work and always create a mystical experience in which all problems are solved.

This article does not add any more info on the question in the title "Can Psychedelic Experiences Really Improve Your Mental Health?". That's just clickbait.

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm no expert at this, but it seems to be the suffix here is 'tard' not 'ard', coming from Latin.

The root already has tard in it, from Latin retardare. It also has the word tard in it, French for late. Retard also means late in French.

Does anyone here know? This post also had me wondering about retard.

[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not commenting on people staying on topic, I'm saying the topic is always celebrities with you guys. No matter who started it.

And with your excellent ability to stay on this topic, the topic doesn't change much.

I just called this reaction to the post that was already about influencers the Americanest thing I read, I did not mean any offense.

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