Comment on Compost

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Especially if the compost is used for mushrooms. They have tendency to absorb heavy metals from the ground so you have to be careful where you pick them from and what kind of compost you use if growing at home.

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  • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most plants that we eat are excellent at taking up heavy metals too - potatoes and herbs especially.

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    • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t know that! Thanks for sharing that info.

      I was really into growing culinary mushrooms for awhile was cautioned about my compost choices and to avoid fish based ones because mushrooms absorb mercury(and others like cadmium) particularly well. I didn’t know potatoes and herbs did that too

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• Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got it. Force the rich to eat each other until the problem solves itself.

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  • xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it would increase concentrations. You need to get the rich to launch themselves into the sun

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So.

      We force them to eat each other until their concentrations are high enough to extract the metals for industrial uses.

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    • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a feature.

      We force them to gorge on themselves until there’s one, inbred, leaded rich guy left. Then we put it on display as a warning to everyone else

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      • xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Unfortunately that’s all they want too. There method requires enslaving everyone until their rule and have us kill ourselves for their pile of wealth first

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    • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re halfway there; many of the rich want desperately to strap themselves on top of a million tons of explosives in the shape of a penis. All we have to do now is convince them that there are poor people with money on the sun, and they’ll trip over each other to be the first to steal from the poor sun-people.

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• farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  also doesn’t remove prion diseases

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not that I disagree with you, but it doesn’t make sense that they are stable in soil given that they are proteins, and those are relatively quickly decomposing in soil.

    (Don’t) Ask me how I know.

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    • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Prions are quite stable, and also they don’t need to stay in the soil for long, just enough to get reconsumed. Supposedly that’s how CWD (chronic wasting disease, not coarse woody debris), is spread among deer.

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      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you know the acronym CWD -> coarse woody debris? That’s not one most people are aware of

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    • farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      a quick look at wikipedia will show you are wrong

      “In 2015, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston found that plants can be a vector for prions. When researchers fed hamsters grass that grew on ground where a deer that died with chronic wasting disease (CWD) was buried, the hamsters became ill with CWD, suggesting that prions can bind to plants, which then take them up into the leaf and stem structure, where they can be eaten by herbivores, thus completing the cycle. It is thus possible that there is a progressively accumulating number of prions in the environment.”

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      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I said I don’t see how (mechanism). I’m not wrong about proteins breaking down fast in soil

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    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Proteins are also typically denatured by heat, and yet cooking does not remove prions. Prions are hard to get rid of.

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• BurningRiver@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll bring the magnet.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay but if we’re going to be that guy, “eat the rich” doesn’t mean consume their flesh.

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