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[-] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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.)

edit and also reindeer love chomping on amanitas, and amanitas are associated with feelings of "flying". and the way these people would get high is that the shaman would eat a lot of shrooms, then after he got high he'd piss in a bowl and that piss would get people really high.)

[-] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

White Amanitas are lethal, never touch those, but with Muscaria you could have some fun.

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.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I call bullshit on that one. Santa is red and white because Coca Cola drabbed him in their colors for a marketing campaign and it catched on. Before that Santa was usually portrayed in white and green.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Coke may have (re)popularised them, but they didn't originate them, so the Siberian shroom santa is still technically possible if not plausible.

Although it may seem a fortunate coincidence, the use of red and white colours for Santa's outfit was not a homage to Coca-Cola's brand colours, but rather was inspired by the Bishop's mitre clothing which may have been worn by the real St Nicholas

https://www.citma.org.uk/resources/the-story-of-santa-and-coca-cola-blog.html

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Few weeks ago I read up on A. Muscaria, picked up a couple in a local forest, 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.

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[-] [email protected] 85 points 7 months ago

Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I'm also curious as to what the symbiotic relationship with the genus Mustelidae is

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[-] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago

Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters

[-] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

It's over, I have the low ground

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Why not ourcelium, comrade

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Burning them seems to kill them. As does fungicide.

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[-] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago

Anyone knows what that allergic reaction thing references? Sounds interesting

[-] [email protected] 155 points 7 months 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxillus_involutus

[-] [email protected] 50 points 7 months 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.)

[-] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago

In the Paul Stamets TED talk, he never says that humans specifically are genetically close to fungi. He said that between all the different kingdoms of life, animals and fungi were more biologically similar than any other two kingdoms.

That definitely explains why we can borrow useful defenses from fungi, like antibiotics, but it's definitely not a reason to believe that our immune systems would have any difficulties differentiating between certain fungi and our own bodies, at least not for reasons related to direct genetic similarities.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

You're right, my word choice makes it seem like I was saying fungi and humans are genetically related. Thanks for clarifying.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

TIL Stamets is named after a real mycologist.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I was thinking, "he is a real mycologist," before I figured out to whom you were referring.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Holy shit. That's mildly terrifying...

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

The ol' bait and switch

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

What other great mushroom facts do you have, mystery man?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Most of my friends are also on a spectrum.

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago

One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago

There is mushroom for research

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

You don’t teach about mushrooms, you get the mushrooms to teach you.

taps head

[-] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

But we know what they are - they’re mushrooms.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

But he did just teach us about mushrooms!

[-] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

eat psychedelic mushrooms, kids. they're good for ya!

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn't that easy to understand?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Isn't there a conspiracy theories that the shrooms are a hive mind secretly guiding humanity's evolution into godhood?

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