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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

If we're branching out into possible non-life, prion diseases like mad cow or kuru have a creep factor. You could be terminally infected already, as you read this, and not know until you start getting clumsy and confused years from now. Also kuru is spread by long-term habitual brain cannibalism, so that's culturally uncomfortable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Prions - yeah, they're definitly creepy. They're also hard to destroy, so they can accumulate in nature over time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And while we're at it, I think Naegleria fowleri, the brain eating amoeba that lives in warm water and gets in through your nose should get an honorable mention!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank the decomposers, I guess.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, I'm clumsy and confused already!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Me too, bro. That's a mood.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was not a good thread to read before bed

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Good to know Lemmy is addictive enough to bait people into giving themselves nightmares, I guess.