A human pandemic like that would end up with at least half of the population resisting the cure.
Coincidentally, I think I might've figured a solution to the climate change.
63 2 ReplyInfectious magic mushrooms would be the greatest human pandemic. The last one, too.
23 1 ReplyThis same fungal infection causes the males to have sex until their butts fall off, so I'm pretty sure some humans would seek it out.
17 0 Replythis is assuming the cults haven't rolled out before the cure
it's so trivially easy to create a psychedelics based cult, and now suddenly everyone is experiencing the same? My friend it'd be a dawn of a new religion
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Step 1: tell the internet cicadas contain drugs.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: guy admitted to hospital with a can of Raid up his ass.
49 0 ReplyStep 4: Profit?
12 0 Replytiktok cicada drug #challenge
5 0 ReplyCicada3302 space boogaloo
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Just read the Wikipedia entry for that fungus. I saw cathinone was mentioned, but I did not see anything about psilocybin
20 0 Reply10 5 ReplyNeither of these links state psilocybin is in the fungus.
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Wait, where's the cicade recipe I saw a few days ago?
18 0 ReplyI'm not waiting around, thanks. Besides, if you start cooking while still looking for it, I'm sure something'll turn up. 🤪
2 0 ReplyPsilocybin is somewhat unstable as a chemical, so heat will cause it to break down pretty fast, so be careful how you cook them.
1 0 ReplyI don't really like rare cicadas, so I guess that's not going to work then.
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This is how I wanna go
7 0 ReplyAldous Huxley, renowned writer of Brave New World was an enjoyer of psychedelics. He wrote the book 'the doors of perception' about his psychonautic experiences, inadvertently christening a popular band, the Doors.
On his deathbed he had his wife inject him with a large dose of LSD. Leaving this world tripping. His death went unnoticed by much of the world as he died the same day JFK was assassinated.
15 0 Replythat's amazing. I want to go out like that too
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Party 'til you drop apparently according to the non-highlighted sentence.
7 0 ReplyDrug bug!
7 0 ReplyYou will eat the bugs
7 0 ReplyMother Nature's equivelant of drenching vegetables in honey. "C'mon humanity, they are sustainable! For the love of Gaia, eat them..."
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Not the worst way to go if you have to be slowly eaten alive by a fungus.
4 0 ReplyNot too long ago, I saw a (cruel) recipe for cicadas here on lemmy!
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