Create a global network of Tomato sensors. Correlate Tomato sentiment with Bitcoin price. Buy and sell Bitcoin based on the feelings of the Tomatoes.

And perhaps a fellow Italian will invent the first non-fungible, blockchain-powered pasta sauce, Moneronara, or even its Roman cousin, Carbitnara.

I’m working on getting my mining rig to run off of clean renewable tortured tomato power already

Lol this made me chuckle

Profit by selling shovels.

You forgot to insert AI somewhere

I think the tomatoes is the AI, or FI to be exact (fruitful intelligence)

That's a fun idea. Although over time this might select for plants that complain more. You could end up with an entire garden screaming for attention all the time.

Or you’d just be evolving the plants toward communicating more clearly, ala cat meows (which don’t exist in adult cats for any other reason than to allow communication with humans.)

I've heard adult cats meowing to each other, whether to display aggression or to indicate they are in heat.

Now, it is possible that certain other types of meows are only used to elicit human behavior.

I believe the hypothesis is that they evolved as a "thing domestic cats can do" for communication with humans, but adult cats that know how to meow, don't just use their meows to communicate with humans. They see it as a general communication tool, and will also try to use it with other cats.

The supporting evidence for this hypothesis, I believe, is that meowing has been observed to be a learned communication technique gained only if a cat interacts with humans during development; adult feral cats, living only around other cats during their development, never learn this technique or its social meaning, and so don't understand the social signal being communicated by domestic cats when the domestic cat meows at them, nor do they try to use it in response.

(Same goes with the domestic cat's social signal of keeping their tail raised when standing to express trust. Feral cats don't develop that habit, either.)

References on the cat evopsy claim? It’s interesting.