I was wondering if plants can get high on other plants, and chatgpt (so take it with a grain of salt) claims that it might be possible:

Mimosa pudica, which folds when touched, responds to stimuli like anesthetics. It’s been shown to be affected by things like ether or chloroform. Some researchers see this as a sign plants may “experience” drug-like states—strictly as a physiological response.

Very related XKCD:

you’ll like today’s comic: https://discuss.online/post/19967402

Just about, I wrote up a strip-by-strip guide here which should answer your question:

https://discuss.online/post/19324945

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

The first version of this (upper) seemed just a tad grotesque, and I ended up eliminating the pig being swallowed. (On another note, I’m not exactly sure how these snakes are holding up their newspapers.)

Good catch, updated!

Good catch, updated it. I’ve got an ImageMagick command that tries to find each panel and rearrange them into a 2x2 grid, and it got screwed up because of the hole in bottom right border of the last panel.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

The seed for this cartoon all started with a simple T-shirt design. If T-shirts were as popular in the nineteenth century as they are today, I wondered what kinds of things they would say. The sketch above lead to this cartoon.

“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

Because “considered harmful” essays are, by their nature, so incendiary, they are counter-productive both in terms of encouraging open and intelligent debate, and in gathering support for the view they promote.

At any rate, they don’t have to break type safety anymore with PEP 612

Posting in ISO format now, we’ll see if there’s any objections

3rd panel is a great example of how brutal kids can be

Seems like it. Especially with the “blowjobs don’t count” guy from a few comics back

If anyone’s wondering why:

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I think @eleitl@lemm.ee gets it in their comment. The joke kind of misses because of a bad book title (maybe Larson was riffing on a popular self-help book series at the time?), but the general joke afaict is that he’s stuck in a catch-22 of not being able to improve himself with a self-help book because he would need to improve himself in order to read it.

Middle panel feels like a meme template. Can’t quite think of what to put there though:

Tempted to put this as the community logo

Thanks, finally got around to reading it! Posted it over in !shortstories@literature.cafe:

https://discuss.online/post/19377951

If you’re wondering wtf is going on, see the handy guide over here

“Current” as in “The old strips I’m currently posting to !oglaf@midwest.social”. You’re right that this is an old storyline in the overall comics

While the original poem is already full of sexual imagery, an alternative version makes this more explicit. It has a different chorus, referring to a phallic “staun o’ staunin’ graith” (roughly “an erection of astonishing size”), “kiss” is replaced by “fuck”, and Jenny’s “thing” in stanza four is identified as her “cunt”.

All of our big brains and art and math really are just increasingly complex ways of getting our freak on.