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[–] 42 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I appreciate whoever took the time to find enough berries and pre-berries, and then arranged them so nicely

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    my question is how did they preserve the earlier stages long enough to still look good? i feel like i've never seen a blackberry bush with good looking flowers and fruit at the same time

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It might be shopped. Take a picture at each stage, then arrange them all on a background.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    I read an article several years ago that was arguing that blackberry plants should be classed as carnivores. The idea sounds absolutely absurd, but the more you squint at it, the more sense it makes. Blackberry bushes grow incredibly dense thickets of brambles, and those brambles snag and don't let go easily. Shepherds in areas with blackberry bushes often have to rescue sheep that eat the blackberries and get stuck in the brambles. If they don't get rescued, they'll eventually die and decompose, thus adding a bunch of nitrogen and other useful chemicals to the soil which cause the plant to become larger and healthier.

    So while they don't actively kill creatures like the venus fly trap or pitcher plants, they do grow in a way that can trap and kill animals, and they benefit hugely from the nutrients those animals provide.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I am the opposite. Things just like this make me happy for understanding them. I want to know how everything works. It's so gratifying and interesting.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    But you never will know most things in the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    That's what makes it so beautiful to learn what I can. I do sometimes feel overwhelmed by the enormity of it all, but what grounds me is taking the time to feel joy at each wonderful little thing I do have the opportunity to learn, as well as the opportunity to share my learning with others.

    Throughout my life, I have accumulated a heckton of random knowledge, all tied together by my subjective perspective. There are things that I know that no-one else can know — insights that come from a particular arrangement of facts and experiences. It gives me a sense of clarity because it reminds me that one of my duties is simply to just "hold the camera", so to speak — to be the anchor for my particular, situated perspective

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Every day I realize how education has progressively failed us in the United States over the years since I left school.

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  • [–] 77 points 7 months ago (21 children)

    are there people who dont know that flowers turn into seeds (which in the case of fruit, the fruit itself contains the seeds)

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    You forgot the step where it overtakes your yard and life.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Them? Are there untame breeds? Or is ours just self-domesticated?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Himalayan Blackberry. An invasive for sure. Love the berry, but hate the plant as they spread very aggressively.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Well, good morning and have an excellent day!

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  • [–] 66 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Yes.

    There are a shocking number of people out there who are so far removed from touching grass that they literally have no idea about this kind of stuff. People who think a factory made the fruit they see on grocery store shelves.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    like chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows.

    Wait....wut...???

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    Some people are underprivileged and grow up in inner city neighborhoods where they have no access to reliable transportation to wilderness areas or even urban greenspace. It's not always a "touch grass" situation.

    Me, I grew up eating dirt and berries that I was pretty sure weren't poisonous. I didn't believe in washing my hands too much because I thought it would weaken my immune system.

    The thing is, being familiar with nature didn't help me navigate social situations. Someone who grew up in a city and has never seen a real forest is probably wayyy better adjusted and socially-integrated than I'll ever be...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Look man, I don't know what to tell you. I tried growing plants, and feeding them Brawndo. It's not fault stupid plants don't want to stupid grow! I fed them electrolites and everything. Plants growing on their own is all a conspiracy. Factories grow plants. Everyone knows that!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    My grown ass colleague, 26 years old, thought store bought beef is made from industrial process from chemicals and only local butcher shops cut animals. I only learned that after working 4 years with him when we got to really talking about why I'm vegan. He thought since supermarket meat is from chemicals, my point of being vegan was moot.

    So I won't be surprised there are guys out there that don't know how fruit is made.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    that picture is funky because it gives the impression there's like 20 stages..there's only 5 stages for the plant, with 2 of them being directly related to the berry. (yes I'm aware that the plant growth is related to berry growth..)

    flowering, and fruiting. the rest is plant growth.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Including shitposts

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This is what people mean when they say "touch grass"

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Spending a lot of time outdoors as a kid then seeing this pic is kinda…yeah that’s how it works. Plus back in the day Discovery and other educational channels were actually educational, so you could learn about stuff you might not get to personally see.

    People stay indoors and the Discovery Channel makes crap like Ice Road Truckers.

    Yeah.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    dammit i know it won't be ripe for another month and a half and you're gonna make me go check the berry bush

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Uh, why? If it's about the pink one loking like a raspberry; no, it's not.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    2 sperm per sweet. Simple as.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Well, what did you expect?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Exactly. Like yes, this is cool, no doubt, but if a person truly had to stop and think about how this plant grew beyond just a quick knee-jerk reaction, surely this would have to be the logical conclusion... right?

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Oil go splooosh into bucket. No more oil splooshing? Screwy thing goes back on. Yell all set bay 2!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    The shape of the final fruit leaves me unconvinced that its not a black raspberry.

    Without leaves or an angle peering into the top from where the stem was removed, its basically impossible to confirm my suspicioms. But something in my gut says um, actually.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    TIL weed is just blackberries.

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