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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 51 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

we're pulling up on Mojito 3

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing I packed limes for this trip. I’ve already got them loaded into the shuttle

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Love that this implies that it happened at least three times lmao

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And here comes bamboo with a steel chair!!!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'd have taken it for more of a kendo fan in the hc matches

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As long as it's not alien conscious bamboo as in the Semiosis trilogy

[–] Narauko@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

First time seeing a Semiosis reference in the wild. Excellent series.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Probably actually lichen. They can grow without soils and indeed are a precursor to soil. No alien planet without life is going to have soil in it because soil is a living thing.

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[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Somewhere there’s a joke about a Raspberry Pi running Linux Mint in there

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sir this is a ~~Wen...~~ Lemmy, so yeah okay, carry on then.

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 17 points 2 weeks ago

This is the Raspberry Mint planet, great for Kombucha

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Kudzu would win this fight.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Add horseradish and bamboo, and that planet is finished.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Add a single capitalist and the planet can be rejuvenated to its original barren state

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

"No it won't! Everything is better than ever! All that environmental disaster all around you is a Liberal/ Democrat/ Progressive/ Socialist/ Communist/ Ukranian/ European hoax! YOU'RE ALL OUT TO GET ME! I HAVE GUNS!" - That Capitalist

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sprinkle a little bermuda grass and we'll terraform this planet in no time

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Bermuda grass? Then we'll be needing Dandelions.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

The origin story of Mintberry Crunch

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mint planet would smell so good though

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

Authentic Space Mint.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Never bring English Ivy to another planet, worst mistake of my life

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Specialists poring over the first draft list of plants and animals to be ferried over: “Are you crazy?!”

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Fucking mint, never get rid of it.

However, thinking about blackberries, the only solution is fire.

I don't know which one wins, as long as they win far away from me...

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think there was ever a version of Mint that would run on a Blackberry.

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You want FEWER blackberries?

The heck is wrong with you?

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Himalayan blackberries are a huge issue here in the PNW. They are imported and invasive. Also delicious! But they annihilate native plants.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just outside of Portland, I got to take a field trip in my senior year eco-science class to go cut down blackberry bushes. They gave us machetes!

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

TIL about a PNW problem!

A few months ago I went to Portland for the first time and I was so happy to find a huge patch of wild blackberries just outside my hotel. They were delicious! I had no idea they were an invasive and bothersome problem!

I’ve lived in NJ and SC, and in both places it is kind of rare and special to find wild blackberries.

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

There are also native blackberries! But most of what you see in the valleys are the Himalayan variety.

The native blackberries do not form a hedge or grow on top of things. They're more of a ground cover. The berries are smaller, and in my opinion, tastier. They have much smaller stems as well.

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[–] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Always plant your mint in a pot. Preferably a suspended one.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Children Of Time Book 5 is going to be weird

[–] shevek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I guess there's gotta be some uplifted plants out there. They'll probably have to fight the grey fungus.

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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Having had both in my garden, mint will win.

Did they mean brambles maybe?

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Mint vs red raspberries - winner is mint Mint vs black raspberries - those stabby raspberries win every time

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably, I was going to say European blackberry but that is also known as brambles apparently.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Glass Shattering Sound

Kudzu struts into the arena

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

“Oh no, it’s cheatgrass with a steel chair!”

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[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Will they get along with my killer wasps?

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I get the sentiment IF you live in a place that has the right climate and conditions for raspberry. But from my experience, the right conditions and climate for mint are negotiable while those for raspberry are less so.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't grown raspberries, but if they're anything like blackberries once they're established it's a bitch to kill them.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you know there's this artist who is famous or something because he once put a bunch of oversized beach umbrellas all along this gorgeous spanish beach like every quarter mile for fifty miles or something idk. anyways the wind picked up as the wind does along the beach, and the beach umbrellas caught the wind as beach umbrellas do and they started rolling along the beach and they had these pointy ends where they were stuck in the sand and i think someone might have died and anyways art never says quite what you think it is going to say, even when you're making it.

anyways i was kind of inspired by this dude even though i forgot his name because i'm terrible with names and i would love to make an art project that is "accidentally" some kind of ecological disaster or something and you just gave me an idea: berries edit no berries mixed with that fuck evil grass. is anyone here a genetic engineer?

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

This is basically the plot of the game Eufloria.

[–] alt_xa_23@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For good measure, add Japanese knotweed and tree of heaven

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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Straight to all my veg ecologist friends

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lest plant some rum plants and mojito that mint into line!

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Almost a plot point in the Jenkinsverse, except the real winner was bacteria.

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