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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

So they decided to lie about not foraging for mushrooms?

Doesn't really make sense to me.

Honestly, a professor of mycology not being able yo to forage mushrooms? Just where do these people live that there's no solid edible shrooms which have no fatal similar looking ones, like chanterelles or winter chanterelles?

Idk, maybe in the US there's similar species in areas with them so it's kind of a gamble, but we don't, so foraging is a-okay.

As long as you know how and what to forage for in the specific area you are, you should know whether you can or can't forage edible shrooms easily.

I wouldn't be certain I've found penny buns although I know how to ID them, roughly, but because of the phenotypical variation and not remembering all the strains which are similar, I wouldn't confidently forage those. I don't recall there being anything too poisonous that's close to it, but still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Wearing a toga was an actual bitch.

Like white tie but 10x more complex. There were slaves who's sole purpose was putting on their master's toga.

Putting on a toga was difficult, not to say burdensome activity. The strip of fabric was folded lengthwise, one end was thrown over the left shoulder, a toga was placed over the back, the other end was passed under the right shoulder and thrown over the left shoulder from the front. To facilitate this extremely careful activity, richer citizens had a special slave for this purpose, called vestiplicus.

https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/toga-typical-roman-garment/amp/

Also... Zeus is Greek, the Roman equivalent would be Jupiter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I didn't known the name of Jason Mantzoukas, but seeing you're comment, I instantly recognised him from just guessing who you meant based on the meme provided.

For reference

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

walked baked as a local "celebrity"

I'm sure he's baked, but did you notice he's also naked

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Your mycology professor sounds like they've not really experience outdoors as much as in a city (and specifically a classroom).

I was picking shrooms around the same time I got my first puukko, so idk, four to five years of age.

https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-137224

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

One report stated that it "was a mixture of used engine oil and highly corrosive brake fluid" but was not able to ascertain its origin.[4] The most accepted theory is that La Mancha Negra is the result of countless leaky, old cars spraying their fluids over the roadway.[2][5]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

They are.

On 21 November 2024, following an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two senior Israeli officials, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, the former Minister of Defense of Israel, alleging responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts during the Gaza war. The warrant against Netanyahu is the first against the leader of a Western-backed democratic country for war crimes.

125 ICC member states are now required to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they enter their territory, including France and the United Kingdom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Israeli_leaders

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Probably has some Canadian blood or something.

"Sorry I was so much better, I know you guys worked hard, here you go I think you deserve this more than me..."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do they like role-playing?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I wish someone gripped my husk.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The float yeah and that's how they spread, but the coconuts were mostly brought by ships.

A coconut is really good on a ship 500 years ago, you have fresh water, some nutrition, etc.

Some ship gets destroyed with a load of coconuts on board and so it began probably.

Then when even the first ones have taken root, they start floating from isle to isle themselves.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Ugh, market socialism exists.

Not all socialism has planned economies. That's communism. A specific subset of socialism.

Capitalism doesn't have a monopoly on market economies. badumtssh

 

I made a joke about how Russia was a bit behind in video game tech in the 90's and got banned, lol.

 

I'm listening to Stromae, Pomme - Ma Meilleure Ennemie (from Arcane Season 2) Lyrics w/ translation.

And one line is "Mais comme dit le diction: Plutôt qu'être seul mieux vaut être mal accompagne."

French (sorry for butchering some of the letters, I've a Nordic layout), roughly for "But as the saying goes: Better than alone, is to be in bad company."

Reading that, I remembered a Spanish line from last weeks episode of "The Day of the Jackal": "Mejor solo que mal acompañado."

"It's better to be alone than in bad company."

A difference in views between the French and the Spanish, eh? Anyone here who's got some view on it? I'd be interested to hear a view from someone who intimately understands both cultures.

 

Also, from the lyrics: "Team by team, reporters baffled trump"

 

I had more screen space for reading with my Nokia 3310.

 

Just something MAGA-people seem to have a hard time with sometimes. Probably not as much when Americans are speaking to themselves, but as a non-American, sometimes it's challenging to get "those people" to admit that there is indeed anything wrong with the US. As in they won't accept a single criticism, and will loudly proclaim "America is the greatest country in the world", while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, which for me pretty explicitly means America isn't great, if it has to be made to be such again.

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