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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Infectious magic mushrooms would be the greatest human pandemic. The last one, too.

[–] phobiac 17 points 7 months ago

This 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.

[–] shneancy 1 points 7 months ago

this 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

[–] spittingimage 49 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Step 1: tell the internet cicadas contain drugs.

Step 2: ?

Step 3: guy admitted to hospital with a can of Raid up his ass.

[–] littlebluespark 12 points 7 months ago

Step 4: Profit?

[–] niktemadur 5 points 7 months ago

tiktok cicada drug #challenge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Cicada3302 space boogaloo

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just read the Wikipedia entry for that fungus. I saw cathinone was mentioned, but I did not see anything about psilocybin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massospora_cicadina

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/19/cicadas-fungus-mate-more-massospora-cicadina

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-zombies-hyper-sexual-sexually-transmitted-fungus-expected-to-emerge-this-year-massospora-cicadina/

[–] disguy_ovahea 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Neither of these links state psilocybin is in the fungus.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Actually you're right, but I found a better source: https://www.science.org/content/article/psychedelic-keeps-cicada-flying-even-after-fungus-has-destroyed-its-abdomen

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/375105v1

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

From your second link:

Here we report the discovery, through global and targeted metabolomics supported by metagenomics and proteomics, of the plant amphetamine, cathinone, in Massospora cicadina-infected periodical cicadas, and the mushroom tryptamine, psilocybin, in M. platypediae- and M. levispora-infected annual cicadas.

It appears that the two chemicals come from two different fungi. Or I could be misinterpreting that.

Edit: PS. I appreciate all of the content that you post. I just thought this was an interesting subject.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

No worries. I am half distracted tonight :)

[–] disguy_ovahea 5 points 7 months ago

There we are. Thank you for your diligence!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wait, where's the cicade recipe I saw a few days ago?

[–] littlebluespark 2 points 7 months ago

I'm not waiting around, thanks. Besides, if you start cooking while still looking for it, I'm sure something'll turn up. 🤪

[–] Dasus 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Psilocybin is somewhat unstable as a chemical, so heat will cause it to break down pretty fast, so be careful how you cook them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I don't really like rare cicadas, so I guess that's not going to work then.

[–] Thcdenton 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You will eat the bugs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Mother Nature's equivelant of drenching vegetables in honey. "C'mon humanity, they are sustainable! For the love of Gaia, eat them..."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is how I wanna go

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Aldous 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.

[–] shneancy 1 points 7 months ago

that's amazing. I want to go out like that too

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Drug bug!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Party 'til you drop apparently according to the non-highlighted sentence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Not the worst way to go if you have to be slowly eaten alive by a fungus.

[–] cosmicrookie 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not too long ago, I saw a (cruel) recipe for cicadas here on lemmy!