Or - get this - it is all a cycle.
We could call it the carbon cycle!
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Pfft, next you're going to be selling me on the idea that we're all made of carbon
Reminds me of this modern classic: https://youtu.be/Cf2Q-McO_Fw
Thanks so much for posting that. I hadn't heard it before and loved it
It's like a circle
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.
I was going to sleep you know...
So deep!!
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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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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Because it's (eventual) cannibalism, or because they made you ponder these things?
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