• @[email protected]
    9•9 months ago

    Yeah, like, even as fungi best case you connect a vast rainforest and provide communication and transportation services (also for sharing forest memes) … only to be keenly aware at all moments of how pollution, deforestation, and climate change is damaging the forest in real time. Yeah, no.

    Even if I were an undead virus (a virus that is dead-ish, not a virus causing undead humans to pollute the planet even after death) I wouldn’t know how to (re)arrange my genome to target some apes.

    Bacterium is peak lifeform, just settle into a literal rock, sleep a few billion years.

    • @angrystego
      2•9 months ago

      Not all fungi connect rainforests. You could be a unicellular fungus like a yeast.

      • @[email protected]
        1•9 months ago

        Oj, yeah, gonna make some yogurt & get to see billions of my bros in someone’s gut! What acid swamp with no sunlight?? This isn’t Dank Souls.

        Or maybe I help make some bread. That will make someone really happy, they would never burn me alive. (Really, a lava lake level?)

        Maybe floating in the sky amongst my sky bacteria fellows. I’ll just get really good at rolling away from UV rays.

        Oh … there is also this … With my luck, I’ll be displaying porn the whole incarnation.

      • @[email protected]
        1•9 months ago

        Well, same for humans, there is no way we are this stupid. Just a bunch of natural algorithms and instincts.

        (Also you saying that bacteria are “conscious”? What does that even mean? We all make active decisions all the time.)