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[–] 184 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 85 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.

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    [–] 81 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters

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    [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Anyone knows what that allergic reaction thing references? Sounds interesting

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  • [–] 155 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is mushroom for research

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago

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

    taps head

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    But he did just teach us about mushrooms!

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ever since watching the latest season of Clarkson’s Farm, I can’t help but hear him say ‘space penises’ any time I read the word mishrooms..

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hah yes what a wacky role model that man is. What a lovely avuncular figure in all of our lives. What a boon to mankind.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are we really calling that racist homophobe who rails against road safety and assaults people a "role model" of any sort?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    What's an immortal mushroom look like? And how does it, like... Work?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A web of mycelium that permeates the ground and constantly regenerates itself, occasionally producing visible fruiting bodies.
    It's "immortal" only in the sense that an organism with distinct genetics doesn't die of old age, but fungi aren't really individual organisms like we are.

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