prokopetz:

acaranalogy:

thepioden:

It is 1 AM, I am super hella drunk, and I’m eating tortilla chips with hot-sauce spiked hot salsa. 

Homo sapiens is diurnal. 

Capsaicin is a toxin.

Ethanol is hella a toxin. 

And yet, what I am doing is not considered abnormal. Which begs the question: what the fuck is wrong with our species, jfc. 

#alcohol cw #we are the most trash species on the planet #how the fuck did we make it this long

Believe it or not, there’s actually a biological answer for that.

We tend to think of humans as weak and pathetic compared to most other animals, but there’s one area where nothing else on the planet has us beat: durability. Our toxin resistance is through the roof, we can shrug off injuries that would cause just about any other large mammal to die instantly from shock, and our endurance is so ridiculous that early humans used to hunt simply by following their prey at a walking pace until it died of exhaustion.

So really, all the stupid, dangerous stuff we do for fun – from binge drinking to extreme sports to living in Canada – is just playing to our strengths. We made it this long because our biology is optimised to let us get away with it.