The circle of life

[arbitraryvalue@sh.itjust.works]

An interesting thing about atoms is that all atoms of the same isotope are fundamentally identical. In other words, they're not just the same as far as we can tell. They are absolutely the same. This challenges human intuition about identity, because while an atom can be said to have a specific history, there is literally no trace of that history in the atom itself and if God swapped two atoms of the same sort, only he could ever know and the universe would remain exactly the same.

Consider software. You got your copy of My Little Pony: The Movie from a specific source, but if that source turned out to be disgusting in some way (maybe he wasn't a sincere brony) you wouldn't have any urge to delete your copy and then downloading a new copy from someone else. Atoms are like software in this way.

[crackhappy@lemmy.world]

Poop shrooms my dude

[whuwu@sh.itjust.works]

Haha this is by a shroom shop called Wholecelium, that's their mascot. They are/were pretty active on reddit for a while.

[konstant@lemmy.world]

Some mushrooms eat live people. We just don't let it.

[zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works]

[psx_crab@lemmy.zip]

Technically you're being eaten alive by mushroom if you got fungal infection. It just not a very big bite.

[atlas_@lemmy.world]

That sounds like cannibalism with extra steps.

Tasty tasty cannibalism

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

What if we're constantly reincarnating between the two?

[triflingtoad@sh.itjust.works]

if I die I give permission for people on Lemmy to feed my body to their mushrooms. Or weed. That'd be pretty cool.

[sparrowranjitscaur@lemmy.world]

RIP to the bats that get eaten alive by fungus: https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2015/10/03/uc-researchers-combat-deadly-bat-fungus/

[goun@lemmy.ml]

Frequency Common[11]
Deaths 1.7 million (2020)[12]

Wait what

[jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de]

Welcome to planet Earth. Anything and everything can and will kill you given the chance. The dominant megafauna has evolved to suffer from congenital paranoia and hoarding to cope with it, which allowed them to conquer every part of the globe despite self destructive tendencies. Enjoy your trip.

[appletea@lemmy.zip]

depends. lotta places pump you full of toxic preservatives so you can have a pretty corpse at the funeral. Then all those chemicals get buried in the ground 🫠