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I’ve considered it enough to have the this guide bookmarked but I haven’t read through it yet.

FYI, Mycota’s mycoblitz no longer has a limit on submissions. That said, none of my submissions have made it through the queue yet.

Mica caps are a type of inky cap, Coprinellus and Coprinopsis are close relatives and both can turn to ink. They only have the sparkly particles when they’re fresh, these are starting to turn to ink so it’s not surprising they don’t have it. Coprinopsis atramenteria is usually larger and duller-colored.

I can practically hear Cecil reading this in an overly cheerful tone on an episode of Welcome to Nightvale.

I wanted to get started without having to learn a bunch of Linux networking and docker stuff so I used this pre-built mediastack compose file.

Then I spent weeks fixing all the problems with it, upgrading the outdated packages that they pinned, sorting through the outdated/incomplete setup docs, and disabling the apps I don’t need (so many monitoring dashboards without config instructions). Now I know a bunch of Linux networking and docker stuff.

I’d still recommend mediastack as a reference just because it’s a good example of how to set up secure internet access (the diagrams of the network architecture are great) but their “full download vpn” config is overkill (most of this stuff doesn’t really need to be accessible from the Internet in the first place) and even their “mini download vpn” unnecessarily puts the Usenet download client (SABnzbd) in a VPN.

I’ve seen a few folks mention trash guides, while they’re great, their quality settings weren’t written for current hard drive prices so you might want to skip the part where you crank up all your preferred bitrates to the maximum.

One thing I added which is haven’t seen mentioned yet is Tunarr to create live tv channels for shows I like to have on in the background. It’s great when it works but it’s in active development so I frequently have issues with it. Thankfully the devs are responsive and helpful.

They said he didn’t have any justification that the ones he set before actually were necessary for national security. He’s actually got a possible justification this time, despite how nonsensical it is to use tariffs for this instead of sanctions.

Boiling and changing the water removes the psychoactive compounds as well as the ones that keep you on the toilet all day if you’ve done it correctly (both are water-soluble). At that point it’s just a culinary mushroom.

People who are “detoxifying” it to use as a drug bake it at a low temperature which does a poor job of removing any of the toxic or psychoactive compounds so they get a bad high and end up on the toilet half a day (seriously, just order some cube spores or something if IDing good actives is too hard).

There are edible mushrooms which are really hard to ID, but you just don’t try to eat those.

Most people don’t go after the tasty Sheathed woodtuft (Kuhernomyces mutablis) because the risk of confusing it with the deadly funeral bell (Galerina marginata)

I’ve occasionally seen some false chanterelles (Hygrophoropsis sp.) do a pretty good chanterelle impression but they’re not toxic, just bland and not well-tolerated.

I’ve heard some people use them as cocktail bitters.

This is very much not the case with mushrooms, most people who’ve accidentally eaten a deathcap (Amanita phalloides) have reported that they’re delicious. Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) which can be detoxified by boiling it and changing the water multiple times, is pretty darn good. I think it’s better than the average grisette (the non-toxic Amanita sect. vaginatae spp.).

Ok the other other hand, the destroying angel (Amanita ocreata) is said to taste pretty bad.

For a non-amanita example, I’ve spit-tested the toxic Agaricus deardorffensis and I thought it tasted pretty good. That one is an odd case though since some people are unaffected by its poison and it’s possible that’s correlated with not being able to detect the unpleasant sharpie-like odor it’s said to have, but I wasn’t willing to give myself the shits for science so it remains a mystery.

Bidets are cool but y’all need to eat more fiber.

That was the original gimmick behind the subscription service “imperfect produce”. I gave it a try for a while (back before they pivoted to being a normal grocery subscription) and found out that a lot of this “perfectly good” produce is also completely devoid of flavor. Another problem is that “minor cosmetic defects” often means the skin of fruits is splitting so they mold within 48 hours of arriving.

Most people get insurance through their employer and most employers at least partially subsidize the cost. This doesn’t show up on your paystub like a tax would so the only way you’d ever be aware of the true cost of your plan is if you got laid off and paid for continuation of benefits (COBRA).

It doesn’t occur to most Americans that their paycheck might be higher if they had universal healthcare.

So this?

It was circulating for a couple years before it was reviewed and officially published, the sites selling spores had already updated their nomenclature.

Apparently this paper came out a few years ago but the takeaway is that a lot of what vendors were selling as either the “Natal Super Strain” of P. cubensis or as P. natalensis turned out to be this new species P. ochraceocentrata which is an even closer relative of P. cubensis than (the actual) P. natalensis.

These are pretty sweet.

You mean MyCompany::Array, not using the word “vector” has gotta be their primary reason for changing all the names.

It’s been forever since I’ve written C++ at a place that didn’t have their own version of STL where they used different names for everything.