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One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it. (lemmy.today)
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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, there are various other animal species that specialize in eating so much poison that they become poisonous themselves, so we're not very impressive in this regard.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

How many of those species poisoned the entire ecology so they could accumulate said poison inside themselves no matter what they ate? (microplastics)

Humans, fuck yeah!

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We're still nowhere near these guys:

a decrease in the size of the biosphere of >80%

Life as we know it exists in their post-apocalypse.