Getting Ken M vibes here
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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Yeah it's making me nostalgic for the days of good old-school trolling. Not the shit Russian "all your neighbours are evil" trolling they have now.
I hope. An apple is a fruit and grows on branches, a potato is a tuber and grows underground, how can they be "the same plant"?
Because they both have skin. Keep up.
They could be the same plant. They are not, but they could be. There's nothing stopping plants from having edible tubers and fruits.
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On the other hand tomatoes and potatoes are the same family. You can even graft a tomato plant on top of a potato plant.
My initial read of this was, "tornadoes and potatoes" and I prefer that read now.
Visualize whirled ~~peas~~ potatos
Mmmm, starchy tomatoes
Good point, I want this.
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Does this person know nothing.
What's a potato?
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE
I am among the aged ones.
I'll help you the dirt apple.
I don't speak French.
Potato's are just edible version of the poisonous nightshades, you also can't eat potato berries, because they are toxic
Say potato.
fun fact, in dutch a potato is called an earth-apple
I believe also in French, 'pomme de terre'.
That is correct.
Also, earth-pear, for some reason.
In Dutch Aardpeer is the Jerusalem Artichoke not potato
https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardpeer
Jerusalem Artichoke are a type of sunflower and potatoes are nightshades so not the same type of plant even though they both are grown for their tubers.
Some dialects of German have this, too.
yeah, austrian german is using the "Erdapfel" too, but over the last 40+ years of german TV the "Kartoffel" has become a lot more common
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Vegetable is a political (lower case P) term, defined by legislation for tax purposes.
Tomato is clearly a fruit botanically but classified as a vegetable in the United States (and most countries) and is taxed at a lower amount than fruits.
“This has been today’s lesson in talking about politics on Lemmy”
That counterargument is stupid. Apples have been known since ancient times (in the old world) while potatoes had to be imported from the new world. If they were the same, then their common ancestor would have to have traveled with the first Africans to leave for the Americas way before the invention of agriculture 10000BC.
Humans are just upright fish
It's not just stupid, it's false.
I know this is rude, but why are they using AI logic?
yudkowsky's an AI researcher.
I think he means pear 🍐