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[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 84 points 10 months ago

if you ask me, mushrooms are a bullshit double standard. THEY get to show their genitals to passing hikers in the state park, but when I do it, suddenly everyone gets real prudish? What’s THAT about?

[-] four@lemmy.zip 33 points 10 months ago

I don't want my genitals cut off and eaten, don't know about you

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you don't want people to eat your genitals, have you considered filling them with deadly alkaloids and neurotoxins? Alternatively, just make your genitals look deeply diseased and likely to kill anyone who breathes near them? These methods seem to work pretty well for most mushrooms.

If you're absolutely determined to make sure that no one eats your genitals, and you don't want to learn from the mushrooms, I would recommend registering as a Republican (or your local fascist party, as the case may be)

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 8 points 10 months ago

My problem is that I only want striped tree squirrels to munch on my junk. Any suggestions?

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago
[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

have you tried laying down and covering your body in dirt?

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

My good person, its just hoomans vs the rest. You not human? Show them genitals. You human? You gonna need a specific type of park to have dem genitals out.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Wait til you learn about flowers...

[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 49 points 10 months ago

You and me pretending to be individuals

The universe

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 16 points 10 months ago

In the way humanity can study the structure of the brain despite being inside one, consciousness is just the means by which the Universe discovers itself. Or something, I don’t know, I’m high.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I believe this is a depiction of Diglett, not Ditto.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I think this is Diglett's older sibling, Digcinqo.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

And they are holding hands with tree roots

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 months ago

Can different species of mushroom be fruits of the same mycelium?

[-] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Speciation of fungi in the first place makes a mockery of our futile, hubristic attempts at taxonomy. Fungus spits on the petty distinctions made by man.

[-] xav@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Mmh. Mushrooms don't really show their fingers. You know, the things you see and eat, that's their private parts.

[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't call those parts private if they're just flaunting them all over the place for the world to see. They're clearly very public parts.

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Pub(l)ic parts then

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Had a dumb coworker trying to tell me that cheese with a little mold on top was dangerous. She didn't know the word "mycelium", but that's the explanation she was going for. Fair enough, I guess? Anyway, I'm carving the mold off and eating that cheese.

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

She was right?

The mold is on the inside of the cheese, the visible stuff on the surface is just the fruiting body used to spread spores.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Yep, how far the mold penetrates depends on the hardness of the cheese. Block of cheddar hard enough to play headbrick? Generally fine to just cut off a the outer layer. Anything soft, a good pizza mozzarella maybe? Garbage the whole block

[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Mold isn't poisonous. Just eat it, I never had health complications after eating moldy cheese.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

things don't have to be acutely toxic to be dangerous, it can build up over time to hurt you

[-] fedditter@feddit.org -3 points 10 months ago

You just watched a Youtube Video and now you think you are allowed to post a meme?

[-] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

Yes that's how this all works

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Clearly they didn't watch the video, smh...

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