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Explicitly useful literally, describing a "ton" of concrete is an ambiguous linguistic expression and by using the word literally they denote an actual unit of measurement. Unfortunately they didn't specify which ton they mean, but regardless the order of magnitude is generally conveyed in a properly useful way.

Republicans literally want many of the closest people in my life to be dead for being trans. The only possible way they can win elections is if people don't vote, I don't care if democrats aren't doing themselves any favors, encouraging voter apathy is directly beneficial to Trump and his goons because their base always votes. Cope however you want though.

on Anon is 23 · c/greentext · 3 pts · 4d

Character in those books named Adolin Kholin

If you described yourself as only doing anything all day I would say it's probably unhealthy and not the path to success

on Anon is 23 · c/greentext · 6 pts · 4d

1: is your name a reference to the stormlight archives

2: the person self describes their life as jerking and TV watching, don't think OP is being unfair

on Carenheit · c/memes · 1 pts · 8d

Yeah but this does double duty of normalizing °F

on Which is it Lemmy? · c/lemmyshitpost · 4 pts · 8d

There's a guy on YouTube with excellent portal simulations that's been working on the theory of portal physics for a while named optozorax

Recent studies show that plants literally respond to anesthetics in a way that is indicative of them preventing "pain" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6215046. Similarly they also recently showed that plants can be desensitized to negative stimuli, here they drop a plant that physically reacts to stimulus and record the expressed atp. By a thousand or so drops the plant is no longer reactive to the minor stimulus, but still reactive to other similarly impactful stimuli. This could suggest that the plant is able to remember the consequences of the dropping and is no longer inciting a stress response, whereas new/known bad stimuli are still demanding of a defensive stress response.

I just don't think plant life is as clear cut as people make it out to be. There are more studies showing things like related bean stalks grabbing the same poles but unrelated stalks avoiding sharing a pole together, or trees using root systems to provide nutrients to neighboring trees that would otherwise starve out.