Haha, are you speaking from your own practical experience, in which you failed and decided to buy canned food instead?

It’s not easy, but it’s not impossible either. It depends on your circumstances.

And there’s an in between as well: grow some of your own food and buy canned foods as well. Or share a garden with people who know what they’re doing.

Yes I guess cravings are part of the “reptilian brain” (brain stem) in humans as well.

Funny to think crocs could crave banana’s. “Finally, gotta have some potassium after all these meats”.

So they go around eating plants they don’t know to see if they like them and get a craving for them later? Doesn’t seem very crocodile-like

Interesting! But how do we know the crocs eat the fruit specifically as mineral or fiber supplement and not just for general sustenance, for the fun of death rolling a pumpkin, or “by accident”?

The sentence “it’s not by accident either” indicates clearly observable behaviour. I.e.: A croc needs potassium, then eats a banana. But how did the scientists observe this?

And how do the crocs know which fruit to eat? I guess for them to eat anything with the intention of being provided with minerals or fiber they need to know their fruits?

I have so many questions. I know bears know a lot about plants and some apes are known to use specific plants (as medicine even), but this is indicative of higher intelligence so I’d be curious to hear if anyone knows about how this works in primitive reptile brains.

Good job! Now it is both a reply and not a reply

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

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.

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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.

Who are these people?

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

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.

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.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to comment on Americans always making things about celebrities and influencers, even if there is many facets to war.

This is the facet on the war, of which there are many, that the posts and the commenter highlight and I’m commenting on it because I find the talk of “bloodthirst” and “sad there’s innocent people killed, better take some of those influencers with them” appalling.

Yes you’re really turning into a caricature of the US

You hate influencers, but you guys still make this about the US and its influencers. “Sad there is a war, but please kill our influencers”.

That’s about the Americanest thing I ever read. Not everything is about you and your celebrities.