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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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Close your fuckin eyes (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Funny how looking at the face of some animals make people not want to eat them anymore, meanwhile it doesn't matter for others.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you drew smiley faces on vegetables, vegans would starve to death

[–] NaibofTabr 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's possible that plants feel pain, not necessarily the same way that we do but there's indications of chemical responses to damage and shared danger signals. And, well...

In a macabre turn of events, there's also evidence that plants can hear themselves being eaten. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that plants understand and respond to chewing sounds made by caterpillars munching on them.

Plants exhibit sophisticated abilities, sensing and reacting to various environmental aspects, engaging in communication and complex interactions with other species. While some behaviors are instinctual, others might hint at a form of cognition. Calvo's work focuses on identifying factors indicative of cognitive behavior in plants, such as flexibility, prediction and goal-directedness.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I'm gonna go photosynthesise and filter-feed. Surely thats OK right?

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Pain seems to be the mechanism that makes organisms avoid stuff. So it stands to reason that everything that grows and has to avoid stuff feels pain.

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know someone who can't eat goldfish crackers because they have smiley faces.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Lmao what the fuck

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago

It's really interesting. I've been vegan for a while and for mammal and bird meat I've actually grown a disgust to just seeing it because the whole process they go through to get there flashes through my mind but while i also don't eat fish i don't seem to have the same empathy in me for them