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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

This is why I don't eat edibles lol.

Eukaryotes likely evolved during The Great Oxidation Event which saw oxygen levels rise to levels that were toxic to the Cyanobacteria (which use photosynthesis). We evolved to save them!

[–] esc27@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Cue music: "It's the circle of life"

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

We all give back in the end one way or another.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

And yet we're here for it:-)

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] TangoNoir@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

It's mutually beneficial gardening.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or - get this - it is all a cycle.

We could call it the carbon cycle!

Pfft, next you're going to be selling me on the idea that we're all made of carbon

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh yeah plants? Eat my ass!
Wipes ass with toilet paper

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

It's like a circle

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Best overlords ever.

[–] Winterfrost@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Because it's (eventual) cannibalism, or because they made you ponder these things?

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is some Trump level zero sum understanding of mutual benefit.

OP is probably going to be appointed Secretary of the Interior to shoot all the DEI trees and end woke oxygen.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lmao perhaps, make breathing great again (note: I do not support trump, this is just a joke)

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fwiw, you are on Lemmy now: (virtually) nobody thinks that you support Trump:-D

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I looked up what "fwiw" means, was not disappointed

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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 2 points 1 week ago

Awesome, thanks for the heads up.

I just didnt want to have people think I am a trump supporter tho.

Ahhh, Semiosis had it right all along!

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