• GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
      49·
      18 days ago

      These are cultivated nopales. They grow lots of new pads every year for harvest. This is like scratching a picture on a apple.

      • eltrain123@lemmy.world
        5·
        18 days ago

        The plants still take 6 to 7 years to mature. If you think broadcasting that you can fuck up nopales because they produce paddles annually, you’re not promoting an environment that’s sustainable for the nopales.

        You do you… but I think it’s not cool to fuck with them.

        • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
          18·
          18 days ago

          I appreciate your intentions my friend. But I guarantee to you that nopale graffiti is not a problem.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      18 days ago

      And DO NOT assume you can carefully touch them by just putting your fingers in between the big seemingly sparse spikes coming out of them. It turns out there are little tiny prickers all along the entire surface at high density. They will sink into your hand, are very painful, and very difficult to remove.

      • vale@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        17 days ago

        when I was a kid I had to retrieve a ball that went into a brush of prickly pear. I didn’t see any spikes coming out of it so I thought it was fine.

        it hurt so much just to move my hand

    • Batman@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      Meh. It’s prob pic OP’s cacti. Especially taking the grass background. I have these in my yard, from taking overgrowth pickings from my parents yard. I have to cut them back a couple times a year to keep them from over growing their boundaries or getting fat woody trunks.

      In general though, yes. Don’t mess with natural flora and fauna.

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
      3·
      18 days ago

      Is that a diagonal panel directly in front? (At the end of the wall on the right?) Did they have those?

      • einlander@lemmy.world
        2·
        17 days ago

        It could be. ID didn’t have diagonal walls until doom. But then the person drawing could have had an unsteady hand.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
      2·
      17 days ago

      You have to wait for a whole new cactus to grow per-frame.

      Still, faster than one of those $200 “Windows Laptops” with 4 gigs of RAM I see on Amazon and the like.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    2·
    17 days ago

    I know some of you-all know about the “Tamales” lady…a staple of the Mexican community wherever there’s a Mexican community.

    But have you heard of the “nopales lady”? That’s right, nopales are not only delicious, they are also delicious 😋.