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[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Bacteria be like: 🦠🦠🦠

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

That's so accurate.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ugch, fine, you can use me to feed a patch of mushrooms that's beginning to grow in the now-warming areas of the planet, ultimately to become a giant organism/network that covers Antarctica in white mycelium/mushrooms/spores to replace the albedo effect of snow/ice to save the future of all life on Earth.

But I'll need a ride there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Antarctic Substrate Location? I was thinking on a hill surrounded by antarctic pearlwort in bloom.

If you mean ADSL, yeah that's what I have. Just 6Mbps (7-8 if I'm lucky).

The other thing? Not sure how it's relevant, but

A: 3 comments (and days) ago, I referenced the Armored Core demo on a specific PS1 demo disc. And I with health issues, you may as well consider me even older than I actually am.
S: No. (G: ideally, a brain-in-a-jar hooked up to a computer or something like this)
L: Pretty fucking far from ~~OK~~ Antarctica. I'm in the-edge-of-nowhere in northern trickledown-land.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

You are a natural memer, I'm proud to have read this exchange.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You sound sexy. Let's go for a test drive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Just 6Mbps

I'm sorry...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wouldn't fungi all die out if it weren't for plants and bacteria? They're parasitic and feed on dead things no?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

plants and bacteria would struggle without animals and fungi as well, everything depends on like literally the entire earth's ecosystems to survive to some degree.

like fungi recycle dead things into an absurd amount of nutrients, without them trees especially would barely break down and just stick around until very very eventually they turn into coal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

like fungi recycle dead things into an absurd amount of nutrients, without them trees especially would barely break down and just stick around until very very eventually they turn into coal.

this is just such a cool thing to think about, there was a time when there were just dead trees everywhere in forests, like just laying there being logs or whatever, just piles and piles of dead trees and that's where coal comes from.

The people mining and dying and polluting the planet just digging out piles of dead trees.

Just like what? I get it, but what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

broke: digging up dead trees
woke: growing new trees

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes they would struggle, but eventually they would adapt.

If everything but plants disappeared tomorrow, many plants would die but some would survive and adapt.

If everything but fungi disappeared tomorrow, they would all die out.

Same with animals.

Bacteria would survive like plants would, with most of them dying but many surviving and adapting.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not plants and bacteria, many of them can survive off sunlight and minerals broken down from stones, such as lichen. Although I guess lichen is a combination of plants, bacteria and fungi

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm afraid I only eat alive food it's important for my internal vibration and helps me meditate more intensively to find my true self.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Some are parasitic, most are saprophytic (decomposers/recyclers), others are symbiotic and exchange nutrients with trees

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don’t feel bad, fungi. Lots of people informally lump you in with plants. It’s not personal.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

This title makes me more angry the longer I look at it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Can I just say thanks for using the meme template right

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm that guy growing magic mushrooms and telling people about how awesome fungi are in general now that I know more about them

I'm doing my part!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Teach me your nonspecific ways to grow nonspecific fungi

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So you can buy the spores online and have them legally shipped to your door basically anywhere in the US from a site sharing it's name with the garden humans first lived in before Eve ate the apple

Once you've got those they grow in a shotgun fruiting chamber, a type of fungus growing that is used for many kinds of mushrooms and is completely normal to talk about.

You take some vermiculite, brown rice flour, and some jars, sterilize the dirt (boil it), put it in jars, and squirt some spores into the jars

Leave them in a drawer to become a full cake, then into the fruiting chamber. Spritz with water 3x daily and in a month you've got more mushrooms than you can cook with

My first harvest was a little over an oz of dried goodness for an investment initially of about $150, and I can do it again at least 2 more times with current supplies

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Oh dont worry fungi get their fair share of appreciation from psychedelic enthusiasts

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's a theory.

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/features/fungi-are-responsible-for-life-on-land-as-we-know-it

In reality, life on earth is more like an engine borne of physics. Fungi is just another cog, a major one, but just a part of a greater whole.

https://mander.xyz/post/989747

https://eos.org/features/critical-zone-science-comes-of-age

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Interesting thing about fungi spores, they can survive in space. So maybe the aliens have already been here for ages...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well... Is Fungi a cute widdle baby meow meow boo that i want to hug? Didnt think so. Fuck you Fungi.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

You're not very fungi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Not with that attitude

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

We will remember this when our mycelial network grows through your body

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Don’t cry for them. They’re happy to do it. They’re fungis.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For manga/fungi lovers - feels appropriate given the meme.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

plankton spangborb

YOU BETCHA!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if humans are being subconsciously changed by fungus, giving us instructions that will provide fungus places to develop

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Some of them very do that lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Once I die, fungi will have the last word.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In this case I'm not confused. Fungi isn't foundational the way this meme implies. Monera and protista existed before fungi and would go on even if all fungi were to vanish. In fact were monera and plantae to vanish nearly all fungi would parish. It's pretty simple to tell which kingdom is more foundational. Β―\(ツ)/Β―

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

My mistake, I assumed you were disagreeing from a creationist sort of position, not a seemingly accurate scientific one. I retract my sick burn.

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