Can you actually eat dirt? Is it good for you?
Even worms don’t “eat dirt” they eat biological material like decaying plant matter. And it depends what kind of “worm” we’re talking about here. There are countless varieties that eat different things.
But animals that eat pure minerals directly from the Earth? Not many.
Yeah that whole niche was kinda taken over by the flora kingdom early on jokes on them though we have SpongeBob on our team! He lives in a pineapple showing the innate superiority of animals over plants.
I used to like it as a kid, I dunno why. Could be the body demanding minerals or just a kid being stupid
No they’re more like carrion eaters.
Also an amazing inventor once said “grass taste bad” pretty sure he would know.
Relax. With these economic trends, I’m pretty sure we’ll all end up there.
Except who tf can afford it? Granted, this is the organic stuff, but excuse me if I prefer not to feed my kids chemical-filled junk.
We’ve been eating shit for decades due to capitalism and parasitic billionaires, dirt is a step up.
Pretty much all of human history really. We cannot self govern without segregating into the haves and have nots.
We cannot self govern without segregating into the haves and have nots.
We can self-govern fine without this dichotomy, it’s just that the “haves” don’t want you to think it’s possible and they have the means of reinforcing their narrative, and the have-nots do not have a voice.
While yes, it’s been this way for a long time, it’s not the rule and no more required to our survival than a thousand other false essentialist ideas we’ve discarded along the path through history.
That’s a racist myth. White supremacists want you to think it doesn’t get any better than Europe, but it does. Google indigenous communism.
Theoretical a worm eat plants and leaf’s
A single gram of uranium contains about 20,000,000,000 calories of energy. That’s enough calories to keep you alive for about 27,000 years. Eat uranium to become immortal.
Instructions unclear, ate urine and became even more mortal.
You’ll only have to eat it once for the rest of your life!
Results show almost instantly
How’s your day going? Well I started shitting and puking my kidney out around noon, I’m fairly sure it’s not supposed to come up through my intestines, but it has
become solar panel
Do you have any mail-order companies where I can get ahold of phytoplankton that I can absorb into my body and form a symbiotic relationship with so they can convert sunlight to energy and supply me with excess?
Last time I tried I just got really bad gas.
…and eat mushrooms
Worms don’t eat dirt. They eat detritus and poop dirt.
Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
A compost pile (detritus, plant matter), with the help of worms, turns into dirt.
So what does fecal matter count as? For example my chickens eat the plants, then process it. Then the worm population skyrockets in the dirt where they live, and of course many of them get eaten by said chickens as well, but overall the population has still increased noticably.
Is the chicken’s digestive track just considered part of the composting process? Or is that only once it hits the ground and started getting rained on
It’s actually more complicated than I bet most Lemmy users can comment on, there are so many varieties of worms, different kinds of topsoil and interactions, and the idea that animal feces can vary wildly in composition and starts undergoing chemical changes as soon as it contacts air.
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Sometimes I wish Lemmy had awards just like Reddit. Here, take this instead: 🦭
I know it’s the most expensive liquid by fluid oz, but is it more expensive than gold by weight too?
Gold is 19.32 Kilograms per litre. 1kg is 35.274 ounces. One ounce of gold is currently 3429 USD. So one litre of gold is 3429 × 35.274 × 19.32 = 2325956 USD.
Printer ink is 23.05 USD per litre per bulk refill, but standard desktop cartridges typically hold just between 3 to 10 milliliters of ink, costing USD 20 to 50, so USD 200 - 16666.
So no. But ppl are definately ripped of depending on what ink packs they buy. Easy to check with gold.
Sources: https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/index/gold/density-of-gold/ https://goldprice.org/gold-price.html https://www.ontimesupplies.com/answers/5430427/How-much-ink-is-in-a-HP-printer-cartridge https://bchtechnologies.com/blogs/blog/how-much-ink-is-in-my-hp-cartridge-is-there-a-way-to-make-hp-cartridges-last-longer
Thanks for doing the math, also I haven’t bought printer ink in almost 20 years, after the last time it asked for yellow to print a b/w page. I still have my old wide format epson in my damn attic though, mostly since I was planning on using the motors and linear rails for a camera mount someday.
Reaction emotes like how wafrn and misskey do would be so fucking peak. They’re instance customizable too.
Phoque
Very helpful, thank you!
He picked off the decomposing organic debris from the word and pooped the letters out. Now if only we knew what detritus was.
Well, now that I’ve reviewed up the definition of detritus, not a whole lot.
😂 I would say that detritus is coarser and implies the sense being recognizeable as having been part of a larger whole.
I meant it in the sense of organic debris: leaf litter and such. I think of dirt as being finer and relatively uniform. Water + dirt = mud. Water + detritus = clean detritus.What I meant was that worms sustain themselves on organic material, and, after they break it down, it is more incorporated in to the soil.
Theres is a whole other discussion to be had whether dirt ≈ soil…
what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
They’re pretty similar but it seems:
Detritus - fragments of materials that have disintegrated or worn away.
Dirt - Unclean matter, soil or grime.
Close because I’m pretty sure soil is broken down rocks and stuff.
I’ll take a shot. “Detritus” is the easier part: it’s decaying plant and animal matter. So the worms are eating leaves and stuff after it’s started breaking down.
“Dirt” is a little more difficult because it doesn’t have as crisp of a definition. Usually when people say “dirt” in this context, they mean “soil,” but that’s only a little better. The relevant definition for soil is, “the upper layer of earth that may be dug or plowed and in which plants grow.”
That detritus gets broken down by bacteria and becomes soil even without worms, but worms do basically the same thing faster. Plus their moving around helps loosen the soil, which also is helpful for growing plants.
More available/easily digestible nutrients probably. Stuff like decomposing leaf litter, dead plants, other animal excrement.
Disclaimer this is a pure guess.
That’s actually a very difficult question. In the context if worms and the ops post I think the best definition would be one of energy availability. Detritus would have lower entropy allowing the worms to more easily extract energy. Dirt would have a much higher entropy as many of the complex molecules in the detritus have been broken down into more smaller fragments.
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirtBut the Nine Inch Nails version…
by doing this you become the worm.
chicken now try to eat you
If a chicken was bigger than a human and saw us as food that would be terrifying. I’ve seen a chicken kick the shit out of a Hawk, and another wreck a car Street fighter style. They are vicious towards food and threats. They’re just tiny dinosaurs.
The Golden Path
That would explain a lot : Leto II became a worm because he ate dirt (spice - and a worm BTW)
I’m already doing this my diet is mostly coffee… And before I hear all you say coffee isn’t dirt… I can assure you it was GROUND this morning 🤪
Me when my gf asks “would you still love me if I was a worm?”
No. You would be too powerful for me; mo way to make that ethical. Did you not read ‘dune’?
Let us all know how that works out for you.
Sometimes you just have to. Just not for too long.
And then lose 90% of that pure energy as heat
Worm no eat dirt, worm make dirt.
I mean eating only dirt would probably kill you, and (if you believe in that sort of stuff) then you can ascent beyond the corporeal.
