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Just Touching the World’s Most Dangerous Tree Could Send You to the Hospital
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchineel#Toxicity
Ignoring the stupidity and inhumanity of border walls, seems like we could be planting them alongside them and add some green. Let border patrol agents have to prune and manage them.
Fuck, throw out all the man made parts of the border wall and just have a thicket of these trees. if you're willing to pass through the forest suited up then you've put more effort into being a citizen than most citizens.
It’s such a powerful, stupid and inhumane idea that by the time I finished reading that paragraph I had forgotten that you had told me to ignore the stupidity and inhumanity.
It’s a good way to destroy any animals and unbalance the ecosystem
Ahh thank you Florencia.
I mean strickly speaking its better than land mines so I get ya. Also you can tell the border has been patrolled as they have to limit the spread.
Stickly*
Well, it's the sap that's harmful. I don't think touching the bark a little will hurt. You should be able to pass through a stand of trees without issue.
You could also plant poison ivy on the ground, but even just pants and shoes would be enough to walk through. You could plant thorny bushes, but anyone with clippers could easily make a hole that would go unnoticed for a while. The border is long. (And I doubt most of these plants would thrive there anyway.)
From the article.
Yes, I read the article. But mentalfloss is not a reliable source.
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FR370
This is indeed the tree I was thinking of, and yes it's the sap that's toxic. Dry bark should be safe to touch, but it does weep sap through its bark. The interior wood, leaves, and fruit all contain the sap, so you should absolutely not interact with those without protection.
Or you could just stop breaking international law and provide a proper way for people to apply for asylum
May I rather suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides ?
That's just plain evil. Totally different level of evil.
I... wow. Þat's really clever. Horrible, but clever. I suppose if we were to take it seriously,
Still, if you're committed to building walls, it's a natural solution which captures carbon and provides greenery... if you hate people, on paper it seems better þan wasting concrete or steel.
Drop the stupid typing. It's useless.
Someone can't read the þorn
It's idiotic.
Eh, they're just writing with their own flair. Some people do that by using thorns, some people do that by barking orders to other users.
Woof!
Someone doesn't know how to use the þorn
~~You~~ the commenter repeatedly misuses it. Thorn is voiceless, and ~~you~~ they used a thorn for the words "this", "that", and "than". Every modern pronunciation of these is voiced, and thus should contain an eth: ðat, ðis, ðan.
The only one of these ~~you~~ they used correctly is "Deaþ"
You're getting me confused wiþ someone else. Ðe user you're looking for is slightly above my comment.
I'll happily take ðe grammar advice, ðough.
Indeed I am. Apologies.