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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•The green lean mean killing machineEnglish
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    4 days ago

    That’s funny, you are like opposite me.

    There are a lot of exceptions, Morrells are actually one of the few mushrooms that can kill you or make you very ill if you don’t cook them long enough, so I wouldn’t even call them exceptions. They still require knowledge and prep. That includes chicken of the woods which can be dangerous depending on which tree it’s growing on.

    Oyster mushrooms on the west coast of the US are a fair bet, someone in this same thread made a good list, but it’s regional. A high percentage of the poisonings in California (Australia too as I understand it) used to be SE Asians who mistook them for paddy-straw mushrooms. A lot of these articles are saying that it’s more wide spread this time because of “naive” people harvesting. I hope it’s not like food insecure people trying to fill caloric gaps…

    There are plenty of amateurs who rise to the ranks of expert, but the consequences of error can be very high. I recommend anyone who wants to harvest to learn to spore print as part of identification. Harvesting any wild edibles requires a lot of research, mushrooms topping that list by a fair margin.

  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.worldtoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Iron Lung proves there's room for more indie game filmsEnglish
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    16 days ago

    It’s a very good movie. I am a non markiplier fan who went to the movie because my markiplier fan friend wanted to see it. Holy shit was i glad I went with him, cause this movie is legitimately good.

    After having had a week to reflect on it, I think the main problem was markiplier’s acting. I think he must be an excellent director and producer, there’s no reason he needs to act as well. The movie plays like a 2 hour cut scene in a good way. The bits of world building made me want more, made me want to play the game to seek it out. This was successful both as a stand-alone movie and as an advertisement for the game.

    It punches above its budget as well imo. Aside from some janky visuals at the beginning, once you’re inside the vehicle with Markiplier, it feels big. It doesn’t feel like you are trapped in personal sized submarine the whole time at all.

  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.org•Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addictsEnglish
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    1 month ago

    ITT: a lot of people not admitting they are American. I would fucking love to see a Xitter style country tag on some of these accounts.

    I’m American, I’ve seen these people in every state I’ve been to, I’ve seen every person who walks by them avert their eyes, I’ve seen even the most liberal of cities make homelessness illegal.

    Punching down is what America does to the world and to our own. The world making fun of how our incredibly wealthy society has a problem with extreme poverty and drugs of oblivion isn’t punching down. They not making fun of the people, they are making fun of the society that has normalized abandoning them.

    This is forcing our eyes open and making us look at ourselves in the mirror, and a lot of people consider themselves the victims in that mirror when they are moving the machine forward with their action or inaction.

    America is the only place where we say “We” and we don’t mean the other 50% of the country. Those people are mutants. No, they’re also us.