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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

To be fair, knowing 10000 things is far from knowing everything.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

So in Chinese traditions "10000" is just a stand in for "really big number". Kind of like how, at least here in the states, well say "there's a million of them". Not that there is literally 1,000,000 of the thing, but more there is just a lot of them.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

there's a myriad of phrases like that

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Just to spell it out for people: myriad means 10,000 but has been used as a stand in for "huge variety" for so long that people don't know that anymore.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, a ton

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Still pretty impressive for an owl.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

If words count as things, then most people know way more than that.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Even concepts can easily surpass that

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I know at least 8356 numbers alone

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Wow, I only know 8355 numbers. That's very impressive.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I can do ya one better...

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Well, this local mushroom is either the Taste Scrumptiouspuff, which is amazing is stews, roasts and stirfry..... or the murderkilldeathshroom. Would you say this fringe is curved with a swirl, or swirled with a curve?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Can't tell if my back hurts because random millennial moment after mushroom foraging, or because my kidneys are failing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some areas have mushrooms that are so similar the only reliable way to identify them is using a spore print.

Plants and animals tend to have more distinct identifying features like leaf patterns, bark texture or hair color.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

In my part of the world, there are at least a dozen+ culinary and/or medicinal mushrooms that are distinctive and easy to identify (even by casuals like me). These don't really have any dangerous look-a-likes that also grow in the same area. I stick to those and those alone. Granted, even at 12 or so species that I can ID, that's probably like a tiny fraction of the number of different species that exist in this area.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm the opposite, I can tell some really difficult mushrooms apart due to good ol' hyperfixation but I still know jack about plants and trees.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Well it's a white mushroom with gills so that narrows the possibility space to 1 mildly tasty shroom and eight gorillion super deadly poisonous liver failure shrooms

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So you're saying there's a chance...

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