If someone said “humans suck, but nature is a perfectly beautiful creation 😍” what examples would you think of that show nature being (1) independent of humans and (2) brutal and grotesque?

snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 2 个月前

If someone said “humans suck, but nature is a perfectly beautiful creation 😍” what examples would you think of that show nature being (1) independent of humans and (2) brutal and grotesque?

RagnarokOnline@programming.dev · 2 个月前

Cordyceps fungus. Prion diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease.

Both are horrible

snek_boi@lemmy.ml · edit-2 2 个月前

Cordyceps fungus

Holy crap. This gave me the creeps. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis This opened the door to the broader category of parasitoids https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid

Prion diseases

Truly scary stuff. I vaguely knew that genetic problems are a thing, but I didn’t know the specifics. Thanks for sharing this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 个月前

There’s currently a case being studied in the US south that looks like CWD jumped to humans.

TORFdot0@lemmy.world · 2 个月前

With RFK jr in charge of HHS we are probably doomed