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.)
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.
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.
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
Fair enough.
Popular myth
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.
Hope you addressed that to people in general.
I’ve dried and made tee as well. Was rather soft. But it’s very hard experimenting when you’ve no idea of potency or dosages. For me at least, even though I tried getting a good buzz and drank quite a large dose, the effects were rather mild. Noticeable and pleasant, but not too strong.
At least for one there was not a similar sort of anxiety liberty caps give. They are really potent though, so it’s a bit different.
I might collect an amanita or two actually not that they should be somewhat in season. Although I might be late already.
… it’s very hard experimenting when you’ve no idea of potency or dosages.
This.
Fun thing I bumped into a few weeks ago: the guy who’s credited with inventing LSD tried a bit to see how it worked and how it felt. But he had no idea just how ridiculously potent LSD is. I forgot the exact numbers, but I do recall the ballpark. So he had a Fermi-estimated 100 μg while he only needed like 10 μg for a good time, so not only did he have the first known LSD trip, he had the first known bad trip.
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Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
- mushrooms
It’s over, I have the low ground
- mushroom
The shaggy mane mushrooms like growing on a hillside in my yard and not at the bottom!
They ARE the ground.
Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.
Mycelium > yourcelium
Why not ourcelium, comrade
Throw it into the sun
Then the sun develops a fungal infection, and don’t scratch that itchy rash, it’ll only make it worse.
thank you for the gold reference. completely forgot about that post
Reminds me: In the roguelike game Cataclysm DDA, there’s fungus monsters. Basically once they’re on the map, the best strategy was to just run and keep running until they were out of the game’s “simulation bubble.”
They would spread fungal colonies uncontrollably, creating fungal towers, spawning more spores, and fungal versions of monsters, which would spread more spores…
You could hack away at them or burn them sure, but all of them? Unlikely. You could also get infected with spores! They’d rapidly take over the entire game basically lol … Dunno if that’s been nerfed now.
Spores are freaky. Really freaky…
40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.
Anyone knows what that allergic reaction thing references? Sounds interesting
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.
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.)
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.
You’re right, my word choice makes it seem like I was saying fungi and humans are genetically related. Thanks for clarifying.
Our immune systems can tell the difference between human blood types. Let alone fungus vs human.
TIL Stamets is named after a real mycologist.
I was thinking, “he is a real mycologist,” before I figured out to whom you were referring.
Yeah, I don’t know if @Stamets@lemmy.world is a mycologist but he’s certainly named after one.
Holy shit. That’s mildly terrifying…
The ol’ bait and switch
What other great mushroom facts do you have, mystery man?
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.
Most of my friends are also on a spectrum.
are they fun guys?
probably.
Well new fear unlocked, thanks.
One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.
Ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you’re going to fall
Knee deep in the hoopla
Smoking from a hookah
There is mushroom for research
boooooooooooooo
You don’t teach about mushrooms, you get the mushrooms to teach you.
taps head
But we know what they are - they’re mushrooms.
eat psychedelic mushrooms, kids. they’re good for ya!
He sounds like a fun guy.
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“live saving”
They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn’t that easy to understand?
What do you think he’s refering to?
1-up mushrooms
They’re just very exited, give them a break.
Isn’t there a conspiracy theories that the shrooms are a hive mind secretly guiding humanity’s evolution into godhood?
Do you mean the stoned ape theory? Never have seen it interpreted in that way, but it’s weirdly comforting and I kinda want to believe it now. Makes humanity feel less lost when there could be some fungi buddies looking after us, secretly manipulating us into becoming better beings.
How do magnets work?
What are birds? We just dont know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw
What’s an immortal mushroom look like? And how does it, like… Work?
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.It looks like dirt. Or, depending on your perspective, a forest
How does it work? Imagine nanobots created to control nature. It connects to all the plants, creating little tubes to exchange nutrients and electrical messages between them, in exchange for a nutrient “tax”. Split the network in half, and now you have two. Put them back together, sometimes even entirely different species of mycelium, and you have one.
How do they reproduce? All the ways. They range from 2-8 distinct stages of lifecycle. Sometimes they have haploid reproduction, sometimes they recombine their own genetics, sometimes they clone themselves. Sometimes they have more than 2 parents.
Sometimes they have extra special forms like truffles that only come out in certain conditions. Sometimes they have multiple variants of mushrooms with the same genetics. Sometimes they possess multiple distinct sets of genetics
Mushrooms are just the sexual organs of the mycelium… Sometimes they spread based on time, or based on moisture, or just when they feel like it. Sometimes they don’t have mushrooms at all
Mycillium does everything in every way, their spores can literally call down rain and they choose what plants live and die. It looks like they have language based on analysis of the electrical signals running through them.
The more you talk about them, the more insane you sound
