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I'm genuinely afraid of fungi. I think the only reason they allow us to exist is bc they can't move around and communicate with us. As such, I think it's truly foolish of scientists to provide them with the means of locomotion via my other true fear, robots
they can't move around
Ahem, athlete's foot is a fungus. And there's a nail fungus too. They're walking a mile in your shoes...
Oh, and ringworm? Fungus.
they can’t move around and communicate with us
Cordyceps were the thing that initially sparked my fear of mushrooms before Last of Us was even a thing! And I never considered shrooms the fungi communicating with us. Much to consider. Did you ever hear about the guy that shot up with psilocybin and they grew inside him and almost killed him?
part of the multifaced aspects of fungi – cordyceps is both the zombie fungus and a performance enhancing drug
That's wild and I think it's running a long con