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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kampfkrapfen_Backup@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Thats so badass

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

How do magnets work?

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I love this post. Thank you.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 35 points 1 day ago

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

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 181 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.)

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

Popular myth

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Fair enough.

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days 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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[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 82 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.

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[–] newenlightened@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

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

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 78 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters

[–] MonkeMischief 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 22 hours ago

40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

  • mushrooms
[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's over, I have the low ground

  • mushroom
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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.

[–] atlas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

thank you for the gold reference. completely forgot about that post

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] hoch@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Why not ourcelium, comrade

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[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anyone knows what that allergic reaction thing references? Sounds interesting

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 152 points 2 days ago (9 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

[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 49 points 2 days 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.)

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 41 points 2 days 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.

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago

Our immune systems can tell the difference between human blood types. Let alone fungus vs human.

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[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

TIL Stamets is named after a real mycologist.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago

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

taps head

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

But he did just teach us about mushrooms!

[–] user134450@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago
[–] bahbah23@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is mushroom for research

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

They're just very exited, give them a break.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn't that easy to understand?

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