Parasitic plant with shrunken genome convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh

Re:Parasitic plant with shrunken genome convinces hosts to g... by BMc2020 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @04:38AM (#37713669)

"convinces" = my anthropomorphizing alarm just went off.

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Re:Parasitic plant with shrunken genome convinces hosts to g... by mattigames on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:06AM (#37714064)

"Fools" would have worked better in its place.

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Re:Parasitic plant with shrunken genome convinces hosts to g... by nextaccountic on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:34AM (#37714173)

I thought you were saying it "convinces" just like your alarm clock "convinces" you to wake up.

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Re:Parasitic plant with shrunken genome convinces hosts to g... by hombre_fatal on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:02PM (#37720796)

I don’t think anyone is confused about the usage, so you’re kinda doing the opposite where you make it sound like a word depicts something so uniquely human that it can’t be used to approximate anything else.

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