Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.
Mushrooms
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hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I’m also curious as to what the symbiotic relationship with the genus Mustelidae is
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He just did!
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters
ignotum@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
- mushrooms
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.
atlas@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
thank you for the gold reference. completely forgot about that post
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Burning them seems to kill them. As does fungicide.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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…
frezik@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Anyone knows what that allergic reaction thing references? Sounds interesting
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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.
Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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.)
Potatisen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What other great mushroom facts do you have, mystery man?
Shard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Holy shit. That’s mildly terrifying…
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The ol’ bait and switch
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Well new fear unlocked, thanks.
bahbah23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
There is mushroom for research
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
boooooooooooooo
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You don’t teach about mushrooms, you get the mushrooms to teach you.
taps head
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
But we know what they are - they’re mushrooms.
newenlightened@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
eat psychedelic mushrooms, kids. they’re good for ya!
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But he did just teach us about mushrooms!
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
He sounds like a fun guy.
catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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buh@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Default_Defect@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
“live saving”
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn’t that easy to understand?
Stitch0815@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
What do you think he’s refering to?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
1-up mushrooms
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They’re just very exited, give them a break b
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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…
stevegiblets@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Are we really calling that racist homophobe who rails against road safety and assaults people a “role model” of any sort?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Isn’t there a conspiracy theories that the shrooms are a hive mind secretly guiding humanity’s evolution into godhood?
Kampfkrapfen_Backup@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How do magnets work?
user134450@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
What are birds? We just dont know! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw
asg101@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Fun fact: Every mushroom is edible… at least once.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 weeks ago
What’s an immortal mushroom look like?
superkret@feddit.org 2 weeks 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.Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re more like the Zerg than the Terran, or Protoss, that’s for sure.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks 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
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love this post. Thank you.
bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Thats so badass
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
so mycology is a made up science?
ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.)
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.