#poison — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #poison, aggregated by home.social.
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Illinois Gardeners Warned Of Poison Hemlock, Other Toxic Plants – Taylorville Daily News https://www.allforgardening.com/1934334/illinois-gardeners-warned-of-poison-hemlock-other-toxic-plants-taylorville-daily-news/ #gardeners #GardeningIllinois #Hemlock #Illinois #plants #poison #toxic #warned
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Survival of the wittiest (not friendliest): The art and science behind human linguistic and cognitive evolution
Abstract
There are several previous findings, both theoretical and experimental, that have paved the way toward the view of human evolution as the “survival of the wittiest,” subject to sexual selection, offering better explanatory power than the “survival of the friendliest.” While research on language evolution has largely neglected the artistic dimension, the fitness in humans is correlated with linguistic eloquence, including humor. This is one of those cases where science can only explain a phenomenon by considering its artistic dimension, and in which linguistic creativity and genetics come into direct contact. My argument is that selection for quick-wittedness (using and combining words in a clever and funny way), specific to language and unique to humans, needs to be added to the complex picture of human evolution, relevant from the earliest stages of language/grammar. Wittiness is a trait that allows competition (by “outwitting” others) while at the same time favoring “friendliness” in that it provides an excellent platform for replacing physical aggression with verbal behavior and cognitive contest, the hallmarks of human nature. This proposal is based on a precise linguistic reconstruction of the earliest stages of grammar, providing linguistic detail (“living fossils”) necessary for hypothesis testing, including neuroimaging experiments.
A good deal of reasoning about humans requires considering its artistic dimension. Birth-control has surely negated the evolutionary advantage of being the wittiest, as overall, intelligent couples have been most likely to use it. Where there is wittiness and artistry, there is also nastiness and ugliness. The importation of civilization-ending numbers of nasty invaders whose behavior is known to be ugly is an example happening before our eyes. While the nasty humans at the top, those in positions of controlling the invasion, may be clever, even witty, they are ugly people. In human societies sh*t all too often rises to the top. As for, considering the artistic dimension of things human, I would like to emphasize two topics which, to be understood, require that of us: 1) FIML and 2) the covert war the West has been subjected to for over 100 years and especially since the nominal end of WW2. That covert war has been extremely violent, almost invisible, gruesomely successful, nasty and ugly, and, as of today, seemingly unstoppable. ABN
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The “Quiet” Chemical Killers – Chlorine
Started with the Doom Fogger , just one of the 100s of chemicals used extensively in the Game Lodges.
To write on every type of Doom like spray to prove it should not be allowed in ANY Reserves would be a mission on its own there are so many. Later I will just attack , ja attack, we not playing Painball here, every single shop in the Parks that sell any poisons. The “Quiet” ones will have to point out. Although should NOT have to point it out to ANY Lodge owner. The ALL say they support Nature Conservation, claim huge knowledge of the subject for the most part….
Every 5 Star Lodge has at least one , crystal clear pool, and every one I have seen, the runoff just goes into the ground. This is what the Greenpeace site told me.
Pool chlorine runoff damages the environment by altering soil chemistry, killing local vegetation, and introducing toxic chemical residue into natural water sources. In Bushveld and game-lodge settings, this contaminated backwash or overflow endangers localized wildlife, amphibians, and sensitive aquatic ecosystems.
Climate Change? Have a theory just recently about this. We all know it is a money making thing, but too many people believe the Trust the Science “facts”, still!! After looking at poisons for one month only, the Climate Change is Mickey Mouse, even if all we read is true. Recently the Bees got a bit of attention, they die , we die. This is biologically sound reasoning. BUT. Few things, first it is NOT only if the Bees go, we are at a point that the loss of even one tiny species of insect more and we take another big step towards …well, Armageddon. Then, I have just checked on all the insecticides/pesticides. I was sure they ALL kill bees, then I researched and found out this is 100% true. We have not even looked at herbicides yet!! That is another big issue I shall get to, as Agri Chems are just as bad. Time…. I will get there.
The reason that this chemical became the do all and end all of a clean pool is not a surprise……
The Post-WWII Backyard Boom & Mass Production
Chlorine production scaled up massively during World War I and II for industrial and chemical warfare purposes. When the war ended, chemical manufacturers had vast amounts of infrastructure to repurpose. [1]
A lot of things we EAT have a similar history!!!
I will make a quick post on that, but as you know, my concern for the general unwashed masses is not…. that great. It will be a just facts one.
Big Five Wars is my main mission for now and they also get updated regularly.
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If you have a licence (I don’t but my family do, so I have only just seen it), then this really worth watching. Companies such as Monsanto have polluted and killed for profit for many years. Governments across the world have condoned the behaviour or even covered it up.
From petrochemical companies (climate change) to other chemical manufacturers we allow them to kill us.
#Pollution #PCBS #Environment #Poison #Murder #Cancer #Politics #Coverup #Gowan #Profit #Monsanto
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Trust the Science Series - DDT
https://waynebisset.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/ddt-trust-the-science/
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More on banned poisons used in South Africa
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Busy researching for my attempt at writing a blog a day, at least about Poisons.
Here is a video about what I shall publish about today.
(My Wordpress is the free one right now and cannot put videos in a blog post. Warchest... empty)
https://youtu.be/ynwY2C5ikFY?si=X8OlkmauaT2_CJLu
#nature #biodiversity #poison #wine #CapeTown #southafrica #socialmedia #theartofwar #tsusun -
ポイズン雷花の哲学その一
「"揉めるくらいならモミモミし合いな"」https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n9b9c95f95efa
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#poison #philosophy #argue #just #rub #each #other #looks #like #get #into #argument #try #ease #tension #calm #situation #settle #peacefully #emotional
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ポイズン雷花の哲学その一
「"揉めるくらいならモミモミし合いな"」https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n9b9c95f95efa
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#poison #philosophy #argue #just #rub #each #other #looks #like #get #into #argument #try #ease #tension #calm #situation #settle #peacefully #emotional
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Every Rose Has Its Thorn 🌹
#Poison
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Poisons. Legal poisons. Big Five War against them continues.
Read and weep.
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The surprisingly connected origins of "poison" and "beverage".
#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #poison #potion #beverage
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Invisible poison: living with mercury pollution in the Colombian Amazon – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2026/aug/10/mercury-pollution-in-the-colombian-amazon-in-pictures #Colombia #GoldMining #MercuryPoison #PublicHealth #poison #AmazonRainforest #Indigenous
