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Description: A picture titled “Russian plants” in a 3 x 3 grid with one of the grid items being Jill Stein, the rest are flora.

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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Can't speak for many of the rest, but jade plants are from southern Africa. I demand geophylogenetically accurate memes.

[–] pftbest@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Jade plants were very popular as house plant in the soviet union, everyone had one at home. This could be a reason why AI got confused there

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

US Greens are damned traitors to democracy itself.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (18 children)

You can tell they aren’t serious by the lack of local political effort they put in.

(This post was accidentally edited in an attempt to reply to someone else, this is an in-exact re-creation of what the comment said)

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It sucks that common mugwort is still illegal here in Indiana. Thankfully, there's a dispensary about 30 minutes away in Illinois.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait does it have psychoactive properties? First I'm hearing of mugwort, sounds like a witch should use it.

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

I think you need to take a closer look at the plant labeled as mugwort.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh I see the joke lol. It doesn't really look that much like weed and other plants do have psychoactive properties too sometimes, tbf! Haha.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dude, that's literally weed.

This is mugwort.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, this is the weed I'm familliar with

and this is mugwort

No buds on the drawing, and some of the leaves go back down the stem in the drawing like the above picture of mugwort, not weed.

a scientific drawing of weed in a similar style would look more like this.

I guess I'm just too familiar with actual weed plants, so it doesn't look exactly right to me because it isn't.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh man! Making the russian flag out of her and using her hair as the white is golden!

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I sat on a stinging nettle a few years ago when I had a mostly outdoor job. Now I am an expert in identifying them.

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

And yet people eat them.

Imagine the indigenous person hungry enough to figure that out.

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

I hate stinging nettles so much.. They're always the first to pop up in spring and ruin an otherwise nice walk in the forest.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As a plant watcher, or whatever this is called, I can assure you that this chart will not help you recognised local flora.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

No one person, thing, or organization I regularly interact with has tried as hard as lemmy.world to convince me she is some kinda fucked up spoiler effect politics demon.

Maybe dems should actually try to make ranked choice voting happen for real, instead of lip service to the idea, if they want the people who prefer third parties to support them. And maybe dems should attempt to do anything at all to address the concerns of the third party voters, instead of just threatening them with trump some more. Just some ideas that might alleviate the problem more effectively than getting really mad at people on the internet.

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[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I must be too American to understand this one ^^;

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Stien is the nominee for one of the worthless 3rd parties we have here. The only people who vote for her are narcissists who call trump Hitler but are okay with letting him win by throwing away their votes so they can pretend to be extra liberal. In some ways they are just as bad as trump supporters.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Divide-and-conquer just enough to let bush win, then trump.
It's because of these bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL mY pUriTeH assholes that we got the Iraq invasion, the Kyoto Protocol global warming agreement being ignored and discarded, the indifferent federal response to the Katrina disaster in New Orleans, children in cages separated from their immigrant parents, the sluggish response to Covid, etc.

The world an objectively worse place via republican excrement policies, none of which would have happened if these narcissistic assholes weren't enamored of the stench of their own mUh PuRiTeH! flatulences to see a clear and present danger in front of our noses.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

In a way they're worse. At least MAGAs are open about being shitty people and don't pretend otherwise. Stein supporters will act smug and superior ("I didn't vote for Trump directly, so my hands are totally clean!") while they let Trump fuck everyone (Gaza included) over. They're so focused on what's happening across the ocean that they don't care about the dumpster fire happening at home unless they can use it as ammunition to push "BoTh SiDeS" bullshit.

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wish tumbleweed was on there, considering how it was used to undermine American farms.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Balsam & jade Russian plants? Where is Russia located in your opinion

I have no issues with bottom middle

[–] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Looks ai generated, so not too surprised it's wrong

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago
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