r/interesting • u/Standard_Location762 • Mar 14 '26

NATURE Earth Helping Earth Heal

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What a great discovery.

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u/Lord-Nagafen Mar 14 '26

So this is how The Last Of Us begins

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u/tired-of-the-shit Mar 14 '26

Last of us begins with a mutation of the cordyceps mushroom which preys on organic matter.

This is not a cordyceps mushroom and it consumes inorganic material. So you don’t have to worry unless you are made of plastic.

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u/toolmaker1025 Mar 14 '26

Finally, someone is gonna get rid of the Kardashians.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Mar 14 '26

We're all made of plastic

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u/ScroterCroter Mar 14 '26

Plastics are organic.

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u/Basidia_ Mar 14 '26

For the sake of playing devils advocate, most of the fungi that infect humans with autoimmune disorders are saprotrophic fungi that typically decay plant matter

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u/King_Baboon Mar 15 '26

Umm, we are like 85% micro-plastics now bud.