• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    Ugh. I hate being that guy, and I realize it’s a meme, not science, but I can’t leave it alone.

    Composting doesn’t get rid of metals, so you’d need a way to deal with them if you wanted to be safe.

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      4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

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

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          4 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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          4 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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            4 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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          4 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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      4 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.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

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

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          4 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