bhtooefr on Nostr: thinking about how capsaicin in peppers (and how mammals, but not birds, are ...

thinking about how capsaicin in peppers (and how mammals, but not birds, are sensitive to it) was likely an evolved reproductive strategy to ensure birds would spread the seeds further

and instead we became mammals that like peppers for the pain that they cause, spread the things further than birds ever could, and even bred them to be more painful

this is the very definition of “task failed successfully”