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I like the smell of dragons blood incense but I don't want to buy it if it's from an endangered species.

In before someone makes a joke about it being from real mythical dragons

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[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wikipedia is a marginally better source than the seemingly LLM written articles on the topic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_blood

It appears that the resin is harvested from a number of different plants, not just d. cinnabari or d draco the threatened ones. If you could see the ingredients of the incence you're getting it may say what species it's from...

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Can confirm, wikipedia is right about this one!

Also, not at all surprised to learn that the Romans didn't distinguish the plant resin from the mineral cinnabar because holy shit they just loved willingly consuming poison.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

they just loved willingly consuming poison.

Truly, we are all Romans

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can't relate, my diet consists of only homegrown hydroponic cannabis watered with reverse osmosis treated water.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Ty! I read your other comment in this thread too - very informative!

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Natopedia becoming one of the most trustworthy sources by default solely because you can be relatively sure it was at least written by a human