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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Dav09@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    289hjo-1314618980

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Featured there is Amanita Muscaria, which isn’t really that poisonous. White Amanitas are lethal, never touch those, but with Muscaria you could have some fun.

      Some even theorise that the reason Santa is red and white comes from Amanitas, basically a siberian shaman got fucked up on shrooms and climbed down the middle pole of the tent to give everyone else shrooms as well. Which is why Santa comes from the chimney and gives colorful presents. :) (Or so some people have theorised, I’m not asserting it as fact lol.)

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      • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I call bullshit on that one. Santa is red and white because Coca Cola drabbed him in their colors and it catched on. Before that Santa was usually portrayed in white and green.

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      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        White Amanitas are lethal, never touch those, but with Muscaria you could have some fun.

        These are my favorites because of their common name. Destroying Angel.

        Fun fact: the survival rate without treatment is about half, but that goes up to ~90% if you get treated quickly. However, it can still destroy your liver. The toxin is thermostable so cooking doesn’t break it down. It is excreted in urine so a lot of the treatment consists of pumping you full of fluids and making you pee a lot. There is no actual antidote to the toxin.

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      • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Few weeks ago I read up on A. Muscaria, picked up a couple of them, decarboxydized them in an oven and drank tea with 4g of (poorly) dried mushroom. 3 days before sleep.

        Holy mother of fungi, it’s like having an antidepressant that, you know, works. Deep sleep duration increased from 10 to 19%. Walking up in the morning felt normal. Weed consumption dropped roughly by half.

        Only after three evenings, effects are felt four days after, although waining.

        I’m just a noise on the Internet, my words are worth nothing. But read up on the mushroom, it’s definitely something different from what people think it is.

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  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m also curious as to what the symbiotic relationship with the genus Mustelidae is

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He just did!

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

      • mushrooms
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      • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s over, I have the low ground

        • mushroom
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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.

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      • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mycelium > yourcelium

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      • StellarExtract@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Throw it into the sun

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      • atlas@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        thank you for the gold reference. completely forgot about that post

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Burning them seems to kill them. As does fungicide.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reminds me: In the roguelike game Cataclysm DDA, there’s fungus monsters. Basically once they’re on the map, the best strategy was to just run and keep running until they were out of the game’s “simulation bubble.”

      They would spread fungal colonies uncontrollably, creating fungal towers, spawning more spores, and fungal versions of monsters, which would spread more spores…

      You could hack away at them or burn them sure, but all of them? Unlikely. They’d rapidly take over the entire game basically lol … Dunno if that’s been nerfed now.

      Spores are freaky. Really freaky…

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.

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  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anyone knows what that allergic reaction thing references? Sounds interesting

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    • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The part about them being too closely related to Humans sounds like BS, but there is a mushroom that is perfectly safe the first few times you eat it, and then eventually makes your immune system attack your blood cells.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxillus_involutus

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      • Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s a Paul Stamets video where he talks about how mushrooms are so closely related to humans that we both fight off similar pathogens and that is why they are so useful to us for medicine (penicillin for example.)

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      • Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What other great mushroom facts do you have, mystery man?

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      • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Holy shit. That’s mildly terrifying…

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      • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The ol’ bait and switch

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      • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        most of it was bullshit. soon as you start down a taxonomy road you’re fucked with stupidity. most things in nature are on a spectrum.

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      • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well new fear unlocked, thanks.

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  • bahbah23@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all

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      • soloner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ask Alice

        When she’s ten feet tall

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  • keepcarrot@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is mushroom for research

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    • JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      boooooooooooooo

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t teach about mushrooms, you get the mushrooms to teach you.

    taps head

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But we know what they are - they’re mushrooms.

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  • newenlightened@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    eat psychedelic mushrooms, kids. they’re good for ya!

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But he did just teach us about mushrooms!

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  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He sounds like a fun guy.

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    • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

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      • Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        (°-°)\ ┬─┬

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  • buh@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    shroomjak

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  • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “live saving”

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn’t that easy to understand?

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    • Stitch0815@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you think he’s refering to?

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      • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        1-up mushrooms

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re just very exited, give them a break b

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ever since watching the latest season of Clarkson’s Farm, I can’t help but hear him say ‘space penises’ any time I read the word mishrooms…

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    • stevegiblets@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hah yes what a wacky role model that man is. What a lovely avuncular figure in all of our lives. What a boon to mankind.

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are we really calling that racist homophobe who rails against road safety and assaults people a “role model” of any sort?

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t there a conspiracy theories that the shrooms are a hive mind secretly guiding humanity’s evolution into godhood?

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    • Kampfkrapfen_Backup@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you mean the stoned ape theory? Never have seen it interpreted in that way, but it’s weirdly comforting and I kinda want to believe it now. Makes humanity feel less lost when there could be some fungi buddies looking after us, secretly manipulating us into becoming better beings.

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do magnets work?

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  • user134450@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What are birds? We just dont know! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw

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  • asg101@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fun fact: Every mushroom is edible… at least once.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s an immortal mushroom look like?

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A web of mycelium that permeates the ground and constantly regenerates itself, occasionally producing visible fruiting bodies.
      It’s “immortal” only in the sense that an organism with distinct genetics doesn’t die of old age, but fungi aren’t really individual organisms like we are.

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re more like the Zerg than the Terran, or Protoss, that’s for sure.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It looks like dirt. Or, depending on your perspective, a forest

      How does it work? Imagine nanobots created to control nature. It connects to all the plants, creating little tubes to exchange nutrients and electrical messages between them, in exchange for a nutrient “tax”. Split the network in half, and now you have two. Put them back together, sometimes even entirely different species of mycelium, and you have one.

      How do they reproduce? All the ways. They range from 2-8 distinct stages of lifecycle. Sometimes they have haploid reproduction, sometimes they recombine their own genetics, sometimes they clone themselves. Sometimes they have more than 2 parents.

      Sometimes they have extra special forms like truffles that only come out in certain conditions. Sometimes they have multiple variants of mushrooms with the same genetics. Sometimes they possess multiple distinct sets of genetics

      Mushrooms are just the sexual organs of the mycelium… Sometimes they spread based on time, or based on moisture, or just when they feel like it. Sometimes they don’t have mushrooms at all

      Mycillium does everything in every way, their spores can literally call down rain and they choose what plants live and die. It looks like they have language based on analysis of the electrical signals running through them.

      The more you talk about them, the more insane you sound

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love this post. Thank you.

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  • bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thats so badass

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    so mycology is a made up science?

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