• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I always liked the theory that fungi are actually aliens that came from some asteroid from another planet and have just been around long enough that nobody bats an eye at them anymore. I mean, look at slime mold and tell me that not basically Venom!

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      1 year ago

      Have you ever heard about the blob?

      It’s a giant single cell intelligent organism that can move, learn, remember things, solve problems and teach others.

      Neither an animal, plant or fungus the blob favorite snack is oatmeal but it hate coffee.

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      1 year ago

      Slime mold is a protist not fungi :0. I’m just being a jerk here doesn’t matter lol. I love the slime molds they’re so cool I always liked having them in the lab each year as a teaching tool. Definitely venom

    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Honestly, I’m not a mycologist, so someone with more expertise feel free to correct me, but I’m pretty sure that’s BS.

      • Liz@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        The concept of a mushroom being generally similar to humans is total horseshit. What they’re probably referencing is a mushroom with some signaling protein (or saccride or steroid or something) that is coincidentally similar some human equivalent and your immune system (for some reason) freaks out about it when you eat it. Then, as is referenced, the response to the mushroom happens to also be able to target some of your own cells, and now you’ve got an autoimmune disorder.

        That behavior is not normal for your immune system to do, by the way, otherwise cannibals would all die from allergic reactions to their unfortunate meals. But, the immune system is complicated, so shit happens sometimes.

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    1 year ago

    one passage I read warned that anyone who got too deep into studying mushrooms very quickly started to sound like they had gone off the deep end …

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Can confirm. I’ve been curious about mushrooms for years and joined a mushroom pick. There’s another guy who is normal like me. But everyone else, I’m 90% sure are forest druids and like a slow zombie bite, I’m already seeing myself become a crazy kook.