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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My co-workers call me weed I think it's because I'm tenacious. So much in fact I have a meeting with HR on Monday probably a pay rise

In Thailand, if you can eat it, it's not a weed.

[–] simulacra_procession@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How about honeysuckle vs trumpet vine? Both grow like hell, invasively, where I live. One is a tasty and pleasant treat when flowering. The other is just.. there, growing. A lot.

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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Another fun fact about plant naming conventions: all lettuces* are the same species

*except wild lettuce but nobody really considers that a lettuce. Still, I guess it would be more correct to say all of the food lettuces are the same species.

Irrelevant side quest that I went on while double checking this: DuckDuckGo now forwards some search queries to their chatGPT wrapper, which prompted (pun intended) the following interaction:

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[–] wolfrasin@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

Nobody's said it so I will.

A weed is any plant that grows on disturbed or compacted soil without cultivation. Their growth conditions are created by humans and their spread is caused by humans.

Our opinions mean nothing to plants

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

He's a bit slow on the uptake

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

Ironically, weed isn't a weed for many people.

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