The reasons are complicated and evolutionarily symbiotic.
Lure a "pollinator" to protect and spread it. Avocados were the diet of some unknown animal that no longer exists. Avocados shouldn't exist except for humans preserving and exploiting them.
Well, look at capsicum. Birds can't taste it but mammals can. Even so, most deer and some humans sure do like jalapeños.
Some compounds are deadly poisons to particular predators while merely annoyances to others. Beyond deadly poisons, there are deterrents like emetics, anticoagulants, dissociatives, and paralytics aimed at defending from particular predators.
These are evolutionarily-conserved because they add to the fitness of a species.
Nature is a hacker: it reuses (mutations) a lot of pathways and molecules for different purposes. We just hack compounds out of nature intended for other functions that also happen to serve our purposes at therapeutic doses.
Human trials, not so much. Also, who would volunteer for depression + psychedelics before and after brain biopsies to prove this thesis? Maybe try it on the "before" sample in vitro first?
The only way I think would've been to be another village tough or a low-life posse supplicant. The dude was out-of-work, drinking, smoking, and not doing anything and taking out his angsty frustrations in life on everyone else, including his kid, his wife, the mailman, the apt manager, and anyone else that walked by who wasn't a part of their gang.
I agree. I think it's good to ask a neighbor if they seem the type to be amenable to it, otherwise better ask them if they've seen a cat wandering around.
I had a neighbor who was an out-of-work hot-head who shouted at everyone and had his own posse of low-lifes. The guy BBQed right next to the wooden fence (in violation of fire codes) using absurd amounts of lighter fluid and charcoal that seeped into my unit directly above. I tried asking them to move it but they just ignored me. I tried a second time and then him and his posse surrounded me, mean mugged me, and tried to start a fight. I asked the property management to do something, they tried, and they took out their bad experiences on me passive-aggressively. I finally got out of there because it was a horrible situation.
In a marriage, picking your battles is probably good advice. But being too picky about battles, in general, seems like passivity that tends to lead to resentment and explosive drama.
Yes! Invite them over and figure out what volumes are acceptable. If they're not aholes, they'll probably be okay with it. Get them a beer or coffee even.
I agree. Jumping to the nuclear option or being passive-aggressive/aggressive-aggressive isn't neighborly. It could be a loss of reasonable perspective, they're depressed/angsty/acting out, controlling, or don't understand how to negotiate.
Wouldn't a better option be to introduce ourselves and invited to go to their place to see how loud it is and calibrate so it doesn't bother them for the day and also the night?
Damn, that could be my problem too. Maybe I should move. Frighted/anxious, people-avoiding, phone addict, "let's do lunch" and exchange phone numbers but never call yuppies are such wastes of space. They should be called "nopeies."