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AI-assisted natural selection. Nothing to see here.

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Or... Was it intentional? Did the "AI" want this old guy dead because he refused Rokos basilisk?

Or, you know... It's not really AI and people are far too trusting...

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It's not really AI and people are far too trusting...

Or... was it pajeet powered AI?

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In my younger years, we used to go into the woods collecting mushrooms several times each fall. After a while, city folk started to plunder the area. We called them "forest-shitters" because once in a while we'd find white ass-paper and well, you know what, usually next to a tree.

No one ever got poisoned but we limited ourselves to like half a dozen easily identifiable variants.

It's a skill sons should learn from their fathers. Books can help only so much. There's subtleties that I found easier to learn by direct tutelage.

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It's a skill sons should learn from their fathers

In this case it needs to be a skill learned from their mother.

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> In my younger years, we used to go into the woods collecting mushrooms several times each fall.

I used to go mushroom hunting once every season except winter. There are great delicacies for each.

That being said, much like you I learned from elders. That is the way.

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There’s mushroom for improvement.

https://vid8.poal.co/user/webrustler/uTFDI3c

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CARLOS!!!

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Don't get that one... Hint?

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4chan meme when some anon makes a pun another anon posts a picture of carlos (some cartoon character) with the text carlos in all caps and exclamation points.

Sorry about that but I couldn't resist.

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We used to pick and eat puffballs, but that was it. They are a big white ball, and if you cut them open it should be pure white mushroom. If you see a cap or gills developing you throw it away because it's poisonous. I wouldn't fuck with anything else. Death caps and destroying angels will just flat out kill you, it's horribly painful, and there is no antidote.

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Trust the science!

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Mushrooms scare the shit out of me but here in my adopted country mushroom picking is a national pastime. I always defer to my wife about them, she grew up in the forest around our cabin in the woods and knows these things.

Even then, I will ask "what about this one?" and she will reply that she isn't sure. And it gets worse, last time we were out she mentioned that some mushrooms are fine in one season but become poisonous over the next few seasons.

It's basically a game of Russian roulette.

Trusting your life to some server farm thousands of miles away? That old Jap should have known better.

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Yep, don't fuck around with fungus 🍄‍🟫 it is different in every region and country in the world.

A place I lived near had a bunch of Asian college students all die because they went mushroom 🍄 hunting and picked up what looked edible (it would have been if they were back home). However... In the USA it was a type of death cap that caused them all to die a quick but extremely painful death.

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I had North American field survival books when I was a kid. They had color pictures of all of the mushrooms that you could find and little write ups about if they were edible, poisonous or had some other property. Anyhow, at the top of that section, they advised to just never eat wild mushrooms becauee even experts can misidentify them and get the big problems that go with that.

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Mushroom poisoning is very insidious like that. You can't boil or roast or dry the toxins away, nothing works. And when you thought it did, and you had great dinner with very tasty mushrooms, you won't wake up tomorrow because you just got lethally poisoned and you don't even know it yet. There are many stories like that.