it's basically a form of Mad Cow Disease but for humans. A specific protein in your brain can mis-fold, and in such a way that it causes other proteins to misfold in the same way. It accumulates plaques in your brain, full of proteins that aren't working right.
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but as long as you eat only small amounts of mercury at a time, it's not going to reach toxic levels... but it might accumulate. Then someone comes along and eats your rich ass, and WHOOPS now they have mercury poisoning.
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so yes. if you take away anything from this silly, silly thread: COMPOST THE RICH.
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Wikipedia has a fun diagram about how mercury biomagnifies up the food chain. Just imagine this little cartoon but with "rich dude" eating the halibut, and then "the revolutionaries" eating the rich dude, but with Xs over their eyes.pic.twitter.com/iImCn0jUwz
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in any case, I'd like to point out (because of recent events and, you know, the law) that this thread is in no way intended to suggest you should compost (or eat) the rich.
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This is primarily intended to take the (already hyperbole) call to "eat the rich" and share some science knowledge in a humorous way. Eating or composting a person is still murder, and yes they still count as a person if they're rich.
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so don't go out and kill any rich people because of this. that's not the point. But if you ever find yourself in the situation where you and your fellow comrades have just killed some capitalist pig and someone suggests "LET'S EAT THEM! EAT THE RICH!", say NO.
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instead, compost the rich. because your revolution should be a healthy and environmentally friendly one.
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I thought the mercury in fish wasn't in a bioactive form? Or does that break down on digestion?
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nah, it's methylmercury, the kind that's the most toxic for humans. It's only not toxic for the fish because they have so little of it, but bio-magnification means that the higher up you are in the food chain, the more you get.
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folksy logic, i like it
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