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[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago

The molecule is called lignin. And yes, there was a good 60 million years before that particular problem was cracked.

[-] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago
[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 week ago

First, we bio-engineer bacteria and fungi to prefer plastic as food.

Second, these bacteria become a serious endopathogen in the human body while scavenging our precious bodily microplastics.

Third, we engineer a bacteriophage to attack the bacteria in our brains.

Fourth…

The whole human comedy just keeps going and going

[-] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

The beautiful part is that when wintertime rolls around the gorillas simply freeze to death

[-] jaded_genie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly the reference I thought of reading this

[-] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I know an old woman who swallowed a fly...

this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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