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  • I’m no expert, but Wikipedia says half of one death cap can kill. For some reason, they don’t offer an upper range for what will kill.

    That doesn’t mean you’ll have an OK time eating it in small amounts; it will still make you violently ill and cause damage to your liver.

    Before I continue, I want to stress that this is not medical advice or even a personal recommendation. Do not do what I am about to say.

    In the case above, the important part is spitting it out. The toxins enter the body via the intestinal walls (which is also why symptoms are fairly delayed), so a taste and spit–and probably some rinsing and even more spitting–will mean that relatively little poison makes it any further than your mouth.

    Again, I’m not an expert on mushrooms, medicine, poisons or anything else. All of this is from casual reading from the Internet. Don’t eat poison.



  • The ones in the comic don’t look like death caps, but those are responsible for 90% of mushroom-related poisonings, so we’ll assume artistic license.

    Death caps probably would go well with pasta. Here is an article from The Atlantic with someone who has tasted one.

    Britt Bunyard, the founder, publisher, and editor in chief of the mycology journal Fungi, has tasted a death cap. “Very pleasant and mushroomy,” he told me. “A nice flavor, and then you spit it out.”

    “There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”




  • So it’s awkward to make the distinction (“I think not being racist is the new racism”), but based on that article, it does seem to be the first romantic kiss–I know it’s mind control in the episode, stop picking at me mid-sentence–on US television between black and white people specifically. The previous examples were arguably less taboo for their time, being between Hispanic and white and Asian and white partners. They each represent their own milestones.

    I think part of the confusion probably comes from the fact that “interracial” is sometimes used specifically to refer to black and white pairings, so when people say it’s the “first interracial kiss”, that is what they mean. This is an incorrect usage and dismissive of other interracial pairings, but I don’t know if there’s a more specific word for different pairings and you sound like a creep drilling down into the subject this much, as you can see from this comment right now.



  • This is pretty common, especially when using petrol/gasoline as the accelerant. There’s two big mistakes people seem to make:

    1. they’ll start the fire then pour on the accelerant and the fire will travel back up the stream because it’s not a ghost
    2. they don’t realize that the fumes are also flammable, so the fire can easily jump from the pooled accelerant via the evaporating gas to them and the container of more accelerant they’re holding, resulting in an exciting light show if you’re outside of the blast zone








  • I get the argument, but email is also very different to the kind of open-web network that the fediverse resides in. There are problems the fediverse faces which email doesn’t like discoverability. The emails either come to you or they don’t. With federated social media, you have to find the content you’re looking for first. Maybe you use a search engine, or somebody gives you a business card with their handle and instance, whatever. Then you have to figure out how to view those posts from your home instance if you want to actually interact in any way. There’s browser extensions and stuff which try to make this easier, but that’s another thing that has to be explained and set up, plus not everyone is visiting from a web browser with extension support, or a web browser at all for that matter.

    It’s not fundamentally impossible to understand the fediverse, but there’s more of a barrier than email, which can be explained in a single sentence like “Your email provider gives you a unique address that anybody else can send emails to and vice versa.” I don’t think convincing ourselves that the fediverse is actually very simple is going to convince people outside the bubble that that’s true.


  • Rotschy, which routinely hired teenage workers amid recent labor shortages, violated the law when supervisors assigned tasks known to be dangerous and prohibited for minors to perform.

    L&I later issued significant fines against Rotschy for the incident, but has for years approved special “variances” for the company to hire minors despite its history of serious safety violations.

    For their part, Derrik and his parents say they do not hold Rotschy responsible. It was a fluke, an unlucky break — not the company being neglectful, they said.

    “I don’t think Rotschy failed my son in any way,” Derrik’s dad said. “All these events culminated into this accident.”

    I hope they were paid very, very handsomely to say that.



  • I do wonder whether the algorithm understands sarcasm. A while back, I watched a video about some movie bombing, something objectively bad like Morbius, and they joked that the movie wasn’t actually failing for all of the obvious reasons, but because it was “too woke”. They didn’t really believe that, they were just making fun of people who say that about movies. Still, for the next couple of weeks I had to keep marking channels as “Don’t recommend” because they were all unironic right-wing rage-bait about the woke agenda. I don’t know for certain that that’s why I suddenly got all those recommendations, but that was my best guess.