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[-] [email protected] 88 points 5 days ago

Worms don’t eat dirt. They eat detritus and poop dirt.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago

Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?

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Sometimes I wish Lemmy had awards just like Reddit. Here, take this instead: 🦭

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Reaction emotes like how wafrn and misskey do would be so fucking peak. They're instance customizable too.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Very helpful, thank you!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

He picked off the decomposing organic debris from the word and pooped the letters out. Now if only we knew what detritus was.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

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…

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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.

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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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

…and eat mushrooms

[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

You'll only have to eat it once for the rest of your life!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Results show almost instantly

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Instructions unclear, ate urine and became even more mortal.

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That was beautiful 😭

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

by doing this you become the worm.

chicken now try to eat you

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That would explain a lot : Leto II became a worm because he ate dirt (spice - and a worm BTW)

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

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 🤪

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Relax. With these economic trends, I'm pretty sure we'll all end up there.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We've been eating shit for decades due to capitalism and parasitic billionaires, dirt is a step up.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Theoretical a worm eat plants and leaf's

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Can you actually eat dirt? Is it good for you?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

No they're more like carrion eaters.

Also an amazing inventor once said "grass taste bad" pretty sure he would know.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I used to like it as a kid, I dunno why. Could be the body demanding minerals or just a kid being stupid

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Worm no eat dirt, worm make dirt.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Me when my gf asks "would you still love me if I was a worm?"

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Let us all know how that works out for you.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

And then lose 90% of that pure energy as heat

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

it's also dirt cheap

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[-] Worx 3 points 5 days ago

Yes, this is genuinely why being vegetarian is good

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