Dude... all I can say is that if two massive trees fall down right outside your house in the middle of a bunch of high wind and lightning and thunder and hail and torrential rain and are anything less than terrified, you are a hell of a lot braver than I am.

Men's tank tops never feel loose enough to me. I like tank tops women wear with spaghetti straps, but I don't think I'd like my look if I wore them.

It is basically impossible at this point to know. Elon loves giving people who give him shit blue check marks because he thinks it's an insult to them.

I wasn't suggesting a leaf feels pain or that it would be the leaf that would have some definition of pain and suffering if it were ripped from the stem. It would be the rest of the plant.

So why are you bringing up a part that, when separated from the whole, no longer has that capacity in any living thing?

Only someone who knows nothing about external female anatomy thinks "nards" could possibly be a gender neutral term. But do tell me what plural parts of her genitalia that would show up in a typical naked baby photo would count as "nards."

Believe it or not, I don't have a single photo of my daughter's ovaries or fallopian tubes. They're way too far up inside her for a camera to capture.

I'm sorry, I thought humor reached Australia a long time ago. Apparently not.

Category 1 hurricane speed is 74-95 mph according to my search.

I just lived through a relatively short, non-hurricane thunderstorm with winds measured a little above 80 mph.

Here's where I wrote about what it did at my home alone.

https://lemmy.world/post/17079709?scrollToComments=true

Believe me, it was terrifying.

Specific knowledge? My whole point here is that there isn't enough knowledge. Why do I need specific knowledge to say "this field is changing by the day and we keep learning plants are able to do all sorts of things we thought you needed a nervous system for, so it is not inconceivable that plants feel pain?"

You do know that I have never made the claim that plants definitely do feel pain, right? I never even claimed that they feel pain the same way an animal does. I even suggested that what they would feel could be described as pain even though it wasn't the sort of thing we would anthropogenically think of as pain because we do not have good definitions for the concept of pain or the concept of suffering.

I'm not sure why I need to repeat myself like this when I made all of this clear in my initial post.

I was so confused by their comment that I totally misread it. Not only are they saying that most people wouldn't change a baby's diaper in public, but that it isn't necessary sometimes. Like there's always a place to do it discreetly when they've just had an explosion?

You are asking me to sum up the entire science of plant cognition in such a brief window that I might as well have Wikipedia do it for me.

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

It's amazing that you got this far into the conversation and, despite my repeated mention of a daughter, you think my baby had testicles. And I never suggested she was anything but cisgendered, so I'm really not sure how you missed that. But based on the rest of your silly question, I have a few guesses.

I can handle insane Facebook. Quora is a whole other level of crazy I don't want to touch.

I know. I read the article. I was just making fun of the headline, which implies that there's a non-terrifying kind of hurricane.

Damaged plants can send out signals to other plants, and chemicals to repel what is damaging them (to the specific area where the damage is being done) and repair their damage. Some plants will avoid growing towards areas that they have been unable to thrive in before.

You still seem to be talking about things from a purely human perspective. Dogs will damage their feet and not even let you know sometimes. They will get a piece of glass in their foot and they won't stop walking on them or try to do anything about it until they literally can't do anything about it. My dog tore her CCL and the only reason we knew anything was wrong was that she wasn't limping and then she was a few moments later. She didn't make a sound, she didn't react with any sort of signal that indicated that she was aware serious damage had been done to her, she just was unable to use that leg. Are you going to argue that she felt no pain?

Fascists? Enriching themselves at the expense of the state? This happens?!

As opposed to the ones which are merely extremely scary?

But trees or mosses or whatever do none of this. A tree will keep trying to grow towards a fence that damages branches in a storm, a tree never starves itself to death making thicker bark after teens carve lovehearts into it, a tree doesn’t stop reproducing after 3 droughts kill all its children and so on. Leaves might change colour in response to periods of high or low sunlight but these changes are like tanning, they don’t modify anything about how the tree trees.

I don't know why any of this means that our nebulous definitions of 'pain' and 'suffering' cannot apply to plants.

If I stub my toe, it doesn't modify anything about how I human. But it hurts.

People say that sort of thing all the time when not from the U.S.