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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 hour ago

Let’s make sure to shame the people being bombarded by advertisements for 90% of their lives. That’ll motivate them to be more cognizant of botany

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

If the names of the plants would be spelled for me under each plant every time then that would greatly enhance my memory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

is the number 1000 based on anything? i'm curious if there have been any studies on the amount of logos most people recognize. 1000 seems high but also not, so i wonder if there's science to back it up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

It's obviously bullshit.

Could you imagine sitting through a survey with over a thousand logos and plants to be able to reach this conclusion?😆

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, bok choy, turnip, radish, collards and Mustard greens. 10 different plants, easy peasy!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I've got some bad news for you...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 hours ago

I choose not to acknowledge it!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 hours ago

If plants had their names on their leaves I'd recognize a bunch of them as well.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, corporate logos are specifically designed to take advantage of quirks in human cognition to make them distinct and memorable. Most plants pre-date human cognition, and the ones which don't tend to be the ones people recognize instantly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

while reading your comment I had a weird vision of flowering plants in a far off post-human apocalypse that looked like logos of companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

Don't give them any ideas.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 hours ago

Oh look, r/im14andthisisdeep finally migrated to Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

If you can't recognize most of the plants in the produce section, you really oughta be eating more fruits and vegetables. I don't really like veggies either and I still know more than 10 plants just in the category of food you can buy with a corporate logo on it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Vegetables are often the root of the plant. Fruits are the… well fruit.

I think the context of this meme is about the plant as a specimen in nature.

Below is a picture of a carrot plant and onion plant.

If not for survival video games i would not have known.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You R E A L L Y want to get your carrots/parsnips right when it comes to ID, though. Water hemlock is fatal if ingested, and several parsnips will give you gnarly blisters if you come into contact with their sap

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta be easier than mushrooms, right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yes, but don't go touching random plants

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum

And the carrot plant looks near identical to Giant Hogsweed because they're both in the same family. One has a delicious carrot underneath and will do you no harm, you can even eat the green tops. The other will cause you severe burns even just by brushing against it. The plant itself doesn't even burn you, it destroys the skin in such a way that sunshine is what burns you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

hogweed is hogwild. my wife has these strange white scars all over her legs, arms, and chest because she was weed whacking in shorts and a spaghetti top and hogweed juice sprayed on her. she has somewhat darker skin so the scars stand out. she does not weed whack in anything but full coverage now. the scars are slowly fading but it's been about 5 months and they're still very prominent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Don't fuck with the carrot gang

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Typically you'll have to break the stem, right?

Giant hogweed really is quite large, often more than head-height - you're more likely to confuse carrot with cow parsley or hemlock or maybe yarrow, I'd have thought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

onion flowers are my favorite type of flower. when they're in full bloom they get so pretty. i have a patch of bunching onions that i barely even eat, just keep them for the flowers each year. the patch is growing because each flower produces dozens of seeds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ever eat the buds? Very much a delicacy. Eat them before they start to open or they get papery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I had no idea, saving this for next year. thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

You can also cut the flowers off after they open, and submerge them in white vinegar for 2-3 weeks, then strain. I do this with chive flowers (packed into the jar, but not so much there’s no room for liquid) and it makes a bright pink garlic chive vinegar that is really lovely. Onion would do the same, but probs look and taste a bit different.

[–] [email protected] 174 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Plants rarely have their name written on them though

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I always felt that broccoli was spelt the way it looked

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think broccoli and cauliflower should switch names, broccoli looks way more cauliflower and cauliflower way more broccoli.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

If we're nitpicking, I always thought broccoli was spelt wrong.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago

just proof of the successful campaign by Big Broccoli and the DRAM video 🥦 kids even went with the haircut

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Do we do that here? Can we not? I thought we agreed not to.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Cause we don't live in a forest anymore?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I knew there was something wrong with my place in Phoenix, AZ. Dang Democrats stole the forest!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

And the golf courses and lawns have made it humid! I thought it was supposed to be a "dry heat," fucking over 100° and 70% humidity every single time I have to visit. Either that of freezing. One time it snowed.... IN PHOENIX! Well, technically Mesa, but that's just a suburb of Phoenix.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

How many of those plants do ppl use in their daily lives? vs How many of those corporate products do they use in their daily lives?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

It's a bullshit claim anyhow. Try only using logos that don't have the company name in them.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Because corporate logos are intentionally designed to evoke the brand they represent?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, stupid nature. Doesn't even know the basics of brand recognition.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago

Also most of the logos are just the name next to an icon. Plants only occasionally have thier name written next to them.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

To be fair, the Apple logo is also a plant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

And once you've eaten a rotten apple, you never forget.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If you know the name of the fruit you usually know the plant, cause more often than not it's the name of the plant. For instance, apple comes from an apple tree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

That's a fact, confirmed by Tim Apple.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Embrace the smug gardener and only use the latin names

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What’s the latin word for nike?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Gonna harvest my Solanum tuberosums.

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