• Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
      56·
      11 months ago

      Well then I guess I relate with Polly even harder.

      That being said, no worries to be had here. Birds not dead as bird wasn’t real. Not fully anyway. It’s from that godawful Sandler movie, Jack and Jill. The movie has a real bird but for this shot they put it in the fountain using CGI.

      Polly safe. All good.

      • infectoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        Looks like a sulfur crested cockatoo. The CGI sells it because this is the kind of shit they would do.

        Plenty of videos showing their real life shenanigans. (E.g. “cockatoo eating croissant” or “cockatoo opening bin”).

        I love them, but Jesus they can be a pain in the arse sometimes.

      • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        It’s from that godawful Sandler movie, Jack and Jill

        DUNKACCINO? DON’T MIND IF I DO-

      • JungleJim@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        11 months ago

        Stamets, you’ve been kinda making a lot of self harm jokes and I just want you to know that a lot of people here, we really like you, and you make us smile and we’d be awful sad to lose you or see you hurt. So if you ever need someone to talk to send me or one of these kind souls a message because there’s all kinds of friendships and you’re my Funny Internet Friend™ and friends listen.

    • Lojcs@lemm.ee
      121·
      11 months ago

      Why is chocolate bad for all animals except humans?

      • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml
        152·
        11 months ago

        It’s based on a dosage which is based on the mass. You’re heavier and therefore have more mass so the amount of drugs that affects your body will actually be less when you “dissolve” it inside of you. In order for you to overdose on chocolate you would need to have an equivalence of dosage which is around 700 chocolate bars. Pets are smaller and have less mass so the affect chocolate will have on them is more significant. Chocolate is still technically toxic were just too heavy for it to affect us in the same way.

      • TulipanJones@kbin.social
        12·
        11 months ago

        Plants’ main objective is to make baby plants. Some, like cacao, peppers, coffee beans, have opted to be bad for some/most animals so they don’t get eaten. Turns out that humans are pretty metal and like chocolate, capsaicin (the spicy compound in peppers), and caffeine.