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blackbrookreply
mander.xyz

Passing an avocado seed seems rough but doable. I don't know though, and I wouldn't want to find out the hard way.

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Jayjaderreply
jlai.lu

Have you seen the size of the average butt plug? If the seed stays smooth and slimy in transit (debatable), I don't think it would be too difficult to pass. I'd be most worried about getting it through some of the kinks in the intestine.

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Yeah that's part of what I don't know about. Or other transition points, like exiting the stomach. Not to mention actually swallowing it.

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literature.cafe

I've never thought to compare the sizes of those particular two objects... but now I'm sure there is someone out there considering some very kinky and unsanitary actions.

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I've taken enough up the ass to know I really don't want to pass an avocado pit. That said, I also don't really like taking it up the ass all that much

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I feel like the limiting factor is the small intestine

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lemmy.today

the great sloths are who we can thank, and some of the massive holes they dug for burrowing are still around

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lemmy.ca

Poor ginkgo trees.

Too old for their original friends, too young for the new friends after this wave of evolution collapses upon the banks of human wanton destruction of the environment.

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Warning: Reading this article may cause a whiplash-inducing paradigm shift. You will no longer view wild areas the same way. Your concepts of “pristine wilderness” and “the balance of nature” will be forever compromised. You may even start to see ghosts.

Damn, what a hook!

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lemmy.world

And the pawpaw :'( but I planted 3 in my yard anyways cause I'm native plant-maxxing. Interestingly, despite no longer being able to effectively distribute its seeds pawpaws are actually on the rebound in north America cause they're super poisonous to deer and as deer populations explode they're one of the few plants they won't eat.

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Zulureply
lemmy.world

They smell like cum though the very milisecond they ripen. (Family decided to collect a bunch. Kitchen smelled like a teenagers bedroom for a week)

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the bugs that pollinated their flowers no longer exist

Ginkgos aren't angiosperms; they're non-flowering. They evolved before flowers existed. What the fuck is this talking about? Am I missing something?

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lemmy.world

"Ginkgo is a gymnosperm and does not produce flowers; however, they are dioecious with separate male and female trees. Male plants produce small pollen cones with sporophylls. Female plants produce ovules at the end of a stalk. Fertilization occurs via motile sperm, as in cycads, ferns, mosses and algae."

https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/ginkgo-biloba/

So yeah they don't have flowers but they do have cones-that-hold-pollen, so idk that sounds kinda like a flower to me but I'm not a biologist.

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so idk that sounds kinda like a flower to me

Even if you incorrectly call ginkgos' unprotected seeds "flowers" (which are definitionally limited to the angiosperms), what I didn't discuss earlier – because the "flower" thing was a more obvious indication the writer had no idea what they were talking about and because my research turned up nothing – is that I did try to find any scientific literature about ancient insects pollinating ginkgos. I found nothing, and given they assert this entirely without evidence (or even identifying the insect), it seems like they misremembered or straight-up fabricated it.

We have evidence of ancient insects pollinating ancient gymnosperms. We have no evidence that I know of or could find that 1) ancient insects pollinated ginkgos and 2) died off such that ginkgos had to rely solely on non-insect means.

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lemmy.zip

gingko fruits smell like vomit. we have several female trees on my street & they dump a ton of the fruit on the sidewalk, meaning i track vomit fruit into my apartment when i walk to & from the grocery store.

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lemmy.world

I've seen this passed around before, but isn't it kind of weird that the bees didn't learn how to get nectar from these flowers?

Seems like a huge mistake on evolution's part to make the bees not collect this abundant resource of nectar when they were in the area.

Or if this nectar is somehow toxic to them, it's weird that none of them ever developed an immunity to the toxin.

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lemmy.world

Aren't Magnolia and Ginkgo two (very old, but) different things?

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davidgroreply
lemmy.world

I think they were saying that ginkgo makes magnolia seem young by comparison.

Magnolia: 95 million years ago
Ginkgo: 290 million years ago

Beetles: 295 million years ago. I'm sure they were widespread by the time of magnolias.

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