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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“That is not dead which can eternal lie…”

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let it cook.

Humans need need some dread to take our minds off from all the other dread.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

“I am not the guy that gets you high. That’s my cousin

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get your hand off my penis!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see you know your fungi quite well

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is mycology manifest!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent mycelium meal?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can I have a link to the actual article/paper?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

University of the West of England’s unconventional computing laboratory

The "unconventional computing laboratory" was definitely founded in partnership with Miskatonic U.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reading the introduction of the study (first link), they completely fail to explain why they call this language. Like, first they explain that fungi also have action potentials and that this seems to work like neurons and then they immediately jump to talk about how this could be a language. Am I missing something here? This seems like a legit paper, but why don't they even attempt to explain or discuss this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It just is establishing something is happening that needs further investigation. Language is used because it's the closest possible parallel we have so far. Papers like this present ideas to legitimise further investigations. It's a starting place.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

This came from the New York Globe on April 1st, that's all I know.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. And again, and again, and again…”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

So say we all!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just started watching Last Of Us, don't fuck with mushrooms

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fun fact, global climate change is actually changing the temperature ranges that many fungus can exist in. Last of Us probably won't come to pass because the cordyceps fungus evolved to zombify ants and other insects that it existed alongside with over millions of years, and we haven't had any kind of constant contact with a similar fungus strain, so the chances of it being able to interact with our physiology is really, really remote.

But we can absolutely get really harsh strains of Valley Fever in areas where the infectious fungus doesn't usually exist, and fungal infections are incredibly hard to treat.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11034633/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Usually ends in "wheep ni ni grah". But my universal greeting is rusty. Maybe a regional dialect of universal greeting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

May need Weird Al to confirm with some party music.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

“Humans did their job. Time to finish them.”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

We've been trying to reach you about your car insurance

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Too late. It already clicked.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

"Anyone got a lighter?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

"Oh no. Not again."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This further reinforces my theory they fungi are an alien species that is trying to guide humans towards a better future

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

lenin was a mushroom, so this checks out

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

did it tell them the name of god???

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

There is no god, only Cthulhu

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Bantha Poodoo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I want to join the Mushroom collective amd trip for all eternity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

For the first few words I thought it was in Klingon.