It’s a meme pic, so I’m just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it’s the “mushroom” fruiting body that’s doing anything in this research. It’s almost certainly the mycelium or we’re dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don’t produce mushrooms at all.
Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.
I’ll have the grape or blueberry, please. No Cherry. No Lemon. But if I have to have one of those two I’ll take the lemon over the cherry. Also, I had alligator bites one time at a restaurant and while I don’t recall them being anything extraordinary or worthy of the cost, they were pretty tasty. Just saying.
I agree. It’s giving me vibes of one of my favorite “modern-ish” memes…
you wake up
you’re still a lizard sunning on a red rock
it was all a dream
the concept of selling “feet pics” to pay back “student loans” is already losing its meaning as you open and lick your own eyeballs to moisten them
time to eat a bug
My rescue pooch is sadly approaching end of life, as best I can tell. So, I’ll be going through this process again some day in the not to distant future.
I’m not in New York, but I will say that when I was last looking to adopt, there were aspects of it that were definitely off putting and demoralizing. Some of the rescues had ridiculous requirements that made me wonder if they were actually trying to place their dogs in a home. One of the most egregious that I semi-recall: It was a breed-specific rescue (ex: Norwich terrier), but most of the dogs they were trying to adopt out were mixes. They required you to have owned that breed of dog before. You had to be in a long term relationship (i.e. no single people). You had to agree to let them make a home inspection every 6 months. They had to be added to the list of approved contacts at the pet’s vet. They could take the dog back at any time and for any reason. Etc.
I do the vast majority of my gaming from November through February (i.e. “winter”). Outside of that window, I rarely have time to play, and even when I have time, I usually have other things I’d rather do. I probably have another month or so of my gaming season left. Things just didn’t work out this year.
On the flip side, I managed to get about 45 minutes of down time this afternoon unexpectedly. So I fired up Doom (2016), which is the game I’ve focused on this season. I managed to make it to mission 12 out of 13, so I’m pretty close to the end as far as I can tell! It seems likely I’ll be able to finish it in a matter of days, so long as I can find the time!
I ain’t playin’ shit. I haven’t had any gaming time in over a week. I’m very, very sad. Perhaps tonight will be the night? Probably not, but one can hope.
I finally got around to watching Deadpool & Wolverine over the weekend. While I enjoyed aspects of it and don’t regret watching it, the movie was a reminder of how and why I have Marvel / super hero fatigue.
Also finally got around to watching The Substance and that was much more my cup o’ tea. Maybe my standards are just terribly low, but I really liked brief but thoroughly creepy final act. It reminded me of the creature features from the 80’s and 90’s and their practical effects, even if it was CGI in part.
Instead of Canada, we’re going to rename it Canamerica. Instead of Mexico, we’re going to name it Mexigoingtoamerica.
But like so many things, I feel like this feature has gotten worse over the years. Seemed to be fairly accurate for some time, but it honestly wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve made it shittier with “AI”. Now I get more false positives than anything, and the one time recently I did actually forget to attach a file, the message didn’t even show up … I guess because I said “I’ve included the latest copy” rather than “I’ve attached the latest copy”?
From the perspective of the photon, this all happens more or less instantaneously. Or so I have been told. I was also told that my tongue has 5 or 6 zones where different aspects of flavor are detected and I now know that to be wrong. So maybe fuck your ice cream.
When I was a kid, we used to coax wild anoles into biting our ear lobes and wearing them around like earrings. Maybe the kitty is doing the same as a labret piercing.