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    So are avocados. The creature that was supposed to eat avocados whole is long gone.

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      I am very alive right here

      • Almacca@aussie.zone
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        You’re eating them whole? Impressive.

        • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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          Just make sure you defecate in the woods as nature intended!

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            Passing an avocado seed seems rough but doable. I don’t know though, and I wouldn’t want to find out the hard way.

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              I feel like the limiting factor is the small intestine

            • Jayjader@jlai.lu
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              Have you seen the size of the average butt plug? If the seed stays smooth and slimy in transit (debatable), I don’t think it would be too difficult to pass. I’d be most worried about getting it through some of the kinks in the intestine.

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                Yeah that’s part of what I don’t know about. Or other transition points, like exiting the stomach. Not to mention actually swallowing it.

              • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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                I’ve never thought to compare the sizes of those particular two objects… but now I’m sure there is someone out there considering some very kinky and unsanitary actions.

                • frostysauce@lemmy.world
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                  How do you add a flared base to an avocado seed? Asking for a friend.

          • __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Pope style

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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      the great sloths are who we can thank, and some of the massive holes they dug for burrowing are still around

      • Melobol@lemmy.ml
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        Thanks for this! Some article on this info

    • EndMilkInCrisps [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Millennials are still here though.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        It’d be a lot cooler if we weren’t this shit sucks

    • luciole (they/them)@beehaw.org
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      Evacuating the seed sounds fun.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        About as fun as eating an avocado whole, probably.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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        6 天前

        Avocacuation

      • AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        nature’s anal beads

    • MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah I haven’t been able to afford them for a hot minute

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    Poor ginkgo trees.

    Too old for their original friends, too young for the new friends after this wave of evolution collapses upon the banks of human wanton destruction of the environment.

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      https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/

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        Warning: Reading this article may cause a whiplash-inducing paradigm shift. You will no longer view wild areas the same way. Your concepts of “pristine wilderness” and “the balance of nature” will be forever compromised. You may even start to see ghosts.

        Damn, what a hook!

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    Apparently there’s a fungus that grows only on the ginkgo, and it’s also a living fossil.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartheletia

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    Ginkos are crazy because like, they were the last branch of a dead tree of life, secluded deep in mountain range in central China, likely to go extinct next time there was a significant climatic shift in the area.

    And then humans were like “damn, I like this tree, I will plant it literally all over the world” and in all likelihood this just massively improved their chances of surviving a few more million years, since now they’re not liable to get one shot by a single event in the area they’re native to.

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    Fern: hold my beer.

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    gingko fruits smell like vomit. we have several female trees on my street & they dump a ton of the fruit on the sidewalk, meaning i track vomit fruit into my apartment when i walk to & from the grocery store.

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      There’s a female ginkgo on the campus of the college I went to. We called it the “poo tree.”

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    Ginkgo Balboa, Rocky Balboa, what can you say its a tough genus

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