Pluto is a mushroom
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Fuck you op. Mushrooms are plants, Pluto is a planet, and that's the truth from one edge of this flat Earth to the other.
~disclaimer: this is a joke~
I bet they don't think Atlantis existed, either...
I overheard someone talking about veganism and said they only eat plants. I asked them about mushrooms, “of course it's fine, those are plants”.
No amount of convincing worked.
So I've seen it once.
Mushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.
Yup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don't exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don't exist.
If anything is close to having a consciousness and experiencing an array of emotion, including suffering. That's a mushroom, much more than a plant.
The mycelium, maybe. That is definitely not the part of the mushroom that you eat.
Actual animals are far more likely to feel pain that fungi. Do fungi even have a nervous system?
Fungi are a nervous system.
We actually suspect they do. They can also display intelligent behavior, from a certain definition of the concept.
"GET MY PLANET'S NAME OUTTA YO MOUTH!"
From what I've seen, dudes that care that much about mushrooms are really fun guys.
Pokemon
Similarly plate tectonics - not fully recognised until the 60s apparently.
...this would trigger a friend of mine so badly (fungi enthusiast and Pluto stan). I want to send it, but at the same time... I'm not sure I'd hear the end of it.
Well they use chitin not celulose for structure so definatly closer to animals than plants.
Fun fact: mushrooms are closer to the animal kingdom than to the plant kingdom.
I have family in Streator, IL, home of Clyde Tombaugh, so we're die hard planet pluto.
I've never even considered whether they're plants or not. I guess I always assumed they were, but now it makes sense that they're not. But I can't imagine anyone having a tizzy over it either way.
Yes, I've encountered a few people like this. Also, no one has ever heard of Archaea.