To be fair, knowing 10000 things is far from knowing everything.
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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
So in Chinese traditions “10000” is just a stand in for “really big number”. Kind of like how, at least here in the states, well say “there’s a million of them”. Not that there is literally 1,000,000 of the thing, but more there is just a lot of them.
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Still pretty impressive for an owl.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
If words count as things, then most people know way more than that.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Well, this local mushroom is either the Taste Scrumptiouspuff, which is amazing is stews, roasts and stirfry… or the murderkilldeathshroom. Would you say this fringe is curved with a swirl, or swirled with a curve?
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Can’t tell if my back hurts because random millennial moment after mushroom foraging, or because my kidneys are failing.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Or both!
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
In my part of the world, there are at least a dozen+ culinary and/or medicinal mushrooms that are distinctive and easy to identify (even by casuals like me). These don’t really have any dangerous look-a-likes that also grow in the same area. I stick to those and those alone. Granted, even at 12 or so species that I can ID, that’s probably like a tiny fraction of the number of different species that exist in this area.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Some areas have mushrooms that are so similar the only reliable way to identify them is using a spore print.
Plants and animals tend to have more distinct identifying features like leaf paterns, bark texture or hair color.
the_artic_one@programming.dev 17 hours ago
I’m the opposite, I can tell some really difficult mushrooms apart due to good ol’ hyperfixation but I still know jack about plants and trees.
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well it’s a white mushroom with gills so that narrows the possibility space to 1 mildly tasty shroom and eight gorillion super deadly poisonous liver failure shrooms