The circle of life
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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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
Oh yeah plants? Eat my ass!
Wipes ass with toilet paper
I was going to sleep you know...
In reality, we are actually farming jpegs, by posting reencoded versions of them daily, until they all eventually decompose so we can merge with them.
It's like a circle
Fungus rules them all
What? Why does no one in the comments mention that plants don't decompose dead bodies? This statement is just utterly wrong.
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So deep!!
Because it's (eventual) cannibalism, or because they made you ponder these things?
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.
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Best overlords ever.