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treefrog,

Me either (non-fiction)

treefrog,

To be fair. My morning has been shit. But yeah, the planet is fucked and our species is to blame :/ Thanks for sharing your writing though :)

treefrog,

Even a cheap HEPA filter is good enough to filter COVID.

But, all contaminated air has to actually go through the filter.

This means you need to do several full air exchanges in the required space per hour really if you want to keep people from getting sick. Like a laboratory clean room would do.

And setting up that level of HEPA filtration, is fucking expensive.

I built a very small flowhood for mycology. The filter was $200. The fan another $80. And I’m only keeping a one x two space clean. I imagine it’s just not economical to really apply this technology to schools etc at this point in time.

treefrog,

Even clean rooms don’t stay clean because great apes are not clean, and they have to work in the space. So even the best spaces aren’t fool proof which is why lab teks wear masks and other equipment.

But yeah, work well enough to keep kids etc from being sick, would require lab level air filtration to make a difference. And we’d probably still have to dress the kids up like lab nerds even with lab level filters and fans.

treefrog,

Ahhh… I checked the size but thought microns and nanometers were interchangeable terms. Thanks for the correction.

treefrog,

There was a lot of stuff in that comment that was out of touch with what it’s like to have not or have little.

Should I add more chapters to my Fungiverse-Story, expand the story to a novel or retry in a completely new setting?

I wrote a short story about the Fediverse, called “Breath Taker” / “Lamella on My Mind”, which is set in a Solarpunk world, in which, with the help of mushrooms, the so-called Fungiverse replaces traditional social media. I posted links to the short story in this community. Now I’m thinking how to continue to make this...

treefrog,

I would suggest a series of short stories if you like the setting and are enjoying writing it.

I think something more relatable might get the solar punk message across. I only dipped into the short story you posted and it felt more fantasy than near future sci-fi.

And tbh, I opened it more because I’m a mushroom and sci-fi/fantasy nerd and saw your post in the sci-fi sub.

I generally only lurk here out of interest in urban mycology/farming

treefrog,

Study of fungus ;)

Mycelium etc. I’m mostly an amateur. Grow edibles for my partner and I and sell/share with friends and neighbors.

I can dig up some good podcasts. If you search your favorite podcast service for queer mycology you can learn some interesting things about fungi in a couple of hours :)

treefrog,

Lack of informed consent is reason enough.

treefrog,

THC does cause heart distress, regardless of consumption method.

CBD should be fine.

Either are better than nicotine anyway.

treefrog,

Could be that they’re not measuring substance abuse but the viability of smoked weed as a pain medication in people over 65.

My dad has heart and lung issues and I encouraged him to quit smoking and be mindful with the edibles. THC does bind to receptors in the heart and it is concerning with his health, regardless of consumption method.

CBD is relatively safe but can have drug interactions too because of liver substrate inhibition preventing other medication from being metabolized.

A lot of reasons to not assume weed is safe in 65 year olds who often eat a handful of other meds every day.

Starbucks announces higher pay, but union workers will have to bargain for it (www.cnn.com)

Starbucks employees are getting more pay and new benefits, but some are only going to baristas that haven’t unionized. A National Labor Relations Board judge previously found that similar moves by Starbucks violate federal labor law, with the company appealing the decision....

treefrog,

It’s $5 of milk and sugar with a splash of McDonald’s coffee.

treefrog,

The devil you know and all of that.

treefrog,

Amanitas are only poisonous if you eat to much.

No idea how much that is. But I used to know a guy that preferred them to psilocybin mushrooms.

MS Edge browser wants really hard to stay (www.theverge.com)

Look at that shit! Before it was here are your two browsers choose! Now it’s…how about for the letter A? Suppose a website starts with an A, would you choose Edge to be your default browser?.. then you choose chrome or Firefox, and when you click on a link Edge Pops up with some shit like…Are you really sure you wanna use...

treefrog,

I have Linux on my desktop but still use Windows on my laptop for some classes required for my degree.

Additionally, my partner uses software for her work that isn’t supported on Linux. And there’s not really a Linux alternative that would work because she needs file compatibility with other people in her career field.

So no, it’s not just for kids playing Roblox. It’s also for people that have to interact with the proprietary OS space when Linux alternatives won’t or can’t.

treefrog,

A few bags are. In fact I see about 1 lb of dry mushrooms in the large Ziploc bags, per bag (so less than a grand per bag). These are the close up bags on the washing machine or whatever.

Most of the bags pictured are full of substrate and water. (The lawn and on the shelves).

Additionally, cubensis, the mushrooms pictured, are easier to grow than button mushrooms. If not for Nixon’s war on hippies cubensis would cost about $5 a pound (or $50 a pound dried).

Not that it wasn’t an okay sized operation. Each of the other bags pictured would produce a couple ounces dry pretty easily. So eight of those makes a pound.

treefrog,

It’s actually a lie. The dog food sized bags comment.

The dry mushrooms are in large ziplock bags. The bags they’re growing in hold five pounds of substrate and water.

I grow edible mushrooms in those same bags. They’re not anywhere close to dog food bags.

treefrog,

Kid posted $250k bond. So, hopefully he’ll be able to afford a good lawyer.

Because you’re 100% right. Most of those pictures are from fruiting blocks in various stages of production. Mostly water and horse poop I imagine.

treefrog,

The FTC can fine them and I believe just about everyone who used Amazon during this time period could join a class action lawsuit.

Amazon ditched binding arbitration recently, so I think they probably will end up with a huge lawsuit.

treefrog,

Adam Smith wanted regulated capitalism.

Free market capitalism was never his idea. That’s robber barons like Jeff that promoted that shit and came up with the idea.

treefrog,

So, where do we sign up for the class action?

treefrog,

No.

Because I don’t trust the FTC fines to be enough to discourage Jeff’s actions.

An expensive class action would help hold him accountable.

Plus, he got rid of the mandatory arbitration agreement. So Amazon is open to a class action on this as far as I know.

treefrog,

Still the largest shareholder

Former NYC jail guards avoid prison time for 8-minute delay in helping inmate who attempted suicide (apnews.com)

Fullerton, Wilson and two other officers were charged in connection with 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano’s suicide attempt at the Rikers Island jail complex on Nov. 27, 2019. The other officers’ cases remain pending. Feliciano suffered permanent brain damage and needs long-term medical care....

treefrog,

They were fired and received probation. More accountability than I expected honestly.

2,000 children killed in Gaza, aid group says, as doctors warn fuel shortage is a death sentence | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

Inside Gaza, cut off from the world by a near total blockade, Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire neighborhoods, leveling homes, schools and mosques. CNN drone footage from Monday showed the level of destruction across parts of the strip, with whole streets flattened in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and a row of...

treefrog,

You’re forgetting that a lot of people in the West want WW3.

Fundamentalist Christians making the Apocalypse, Military Industry making money. etc.

But the hate you’re wrong about. The hate goes back 4,000 years.

treefrog,

People who don’t want to vote for Trump but can’t stand the thought of voting for Biden.

She’s never going to win and she’s smart enough to know that.

But she can spoil Trump’s bid if she runs third party. And she just might tbh.

treefrog,

It’s more like saying.

The only thing better than a hammer and nail is having wood that magically joins together all by itself.

Black Mom Becomes A Better Detective in Her Son's Death Than Cops (www.theroot.com)

Highlights: In the wee hours of July 8, 2020, 37-year-old Freddie Lee McKee was found dead in Columbia, Mo. Authorities say two 911 calls went out before his body was found. Earlier, around 2:45 a.m., a neighbor called reporting a shirtless man in her trash who told her he was looking for his phone, per the police report. Then,...

treefrog,

It’s probably racism but it can absolutely be both.

A not racist cop would identify with the victim and the family and will find the energy to help to the best of their ability.

A racist won’t empathize and will rush back to the station for coffee and doughnuts.

treefrog,

Since the bot removed the 69% that mattered.

It’s like if you’ve ever been in a smoker’s home, how tar builds up on walls and you can still smell it even if no one smoked in there for weeks.

Well, wildfire smoke produces gases that will stick to surfaces too. Overtime these particles release back into the air.

So, air purifiers are still good. They remove particles from the air. Bu you just to also wash down surfaces. Like in the smoker’s home.

treefrog,

Incentives work better than force.

treefrog,

Stress is the number one contributing factor to addiction. You know alcoholism is going up in much of the world due to climate change, and going up faster in parts of the world most affected?

Getting someone into housing is an incentive we haven’t tried. Okay, free housing if you get into treatment and take your meds? It reduces stress too, which makes treatment more likely to work. And demonstrates compassion, making therapeutic relationships easier to form and thus, makes treatment more likely to work.

Force doesn’t work. You destroy all trust in the therapupitic process before you even begin.

treefrog,

I agree mostly with what you’re saying.

In my experience force doesn’t work very well for actually treating people. It works well to protect society. And short holds can create a situation for someone needing help to seek it in the future (because they didn’t kill themselves or someone else.)

But as a means of getting people help that’s going to improve their mental capacity, it generally doesn’t help most people. It can help society and if it’s used as an alternative to prisons and jails, that’s an improvement.

My fear is that it will actually further stigmatize mental illness, and force people into the shadows. When using incentives could be a far superior option.

Plus, low income housing with a few staffed social workers is far cheaper for tax payers than prisons and jails.

treefrog, (edited )

I think you’re underestimating who this law will target.

Addicts it says. Yes, people with other chronic mental health conditions too. But it sounds to me like California’s plan to deal with the opioid crisis is to start locking addicts in rehab facilities until they figure out how to be treatment wise if they’re not already (this is a term meaning, play the treatment game with therapists without doing the work).

Treatment really requires people to be willing. And unless they’re an immediate danger to themself or others, I don’t agree with forcing people into treatment. On both moral grounds and practical ones.

If this is an alternative to prison or jail, for crimes aside from drug charges, then great! But from what I could gather from the article, this isn’t really what’s going on.

treefrog,

Hey now! If you don’t eat Steak and Eggs for breakfast, like the previous generation, how can you afford a home?

treefrog,

My girlfriend has facial ephasia. Basically her brain doesn’t easily break faces into the distinct parts the way most people do that allows for quick recognition.

She may as well be looking at butts with their lack of distinguishing features.

Not disagreeing with your point. The technology does not have adequate safeguards to prevent abuse by both individual and state actors. But it would legitimately help my gf feel less awkward socially.

treefrog, (edited )

She has strategies to recognize people. My help is one. Another is clothing styles, gait, posture, etc.

And she does ask. It’s just socially awkward and disconnecting. And people often assume you don’t care if you meet them several times and don’t recognize them.

Again, I don’t think technology like this is good without serious protections in place.

My gf in particular probably wouldn’t use this. But I can see it being helpful for other people in similar circumstances.

And honestly I didn’t read the article. I figured they had it built into glasses like Google glass. Pulling out a phone to recognize people would be super awkward.

treefrog,

I hear you 100% and I think people are getting better about it generally . A lot of people in our community are very inclusive and accepting of differences. And I’m helping her feel more okay about it and accepting of social interactions just sometimes feeling awkward.

treefrog, (edited )

Another reason to protect them…

The suffering climate change is causing is immense. To all life. Not just humans. And animals value living.

In other words, animal life is valuable in its own right. It doesn’t need to be equated to how their lives benefit us.

In fact, I think doing so can kill compassion. Animals are not a commodity here to benefit people and this sort of reduction of life to commodities for people to enjoy or exploit, stems largely from the same colonial capitalist mindset that is causing mass extinction in the first place.

treefrog,

Yeah, my hope is that the researcher feels like I (and apparently you) do. And that her intent was exactly as you said.

But I wanted to point it out. Because it’s easy to commidify life when we swim in an environment that reduces everything to a commodity. And I felt it fair to remind people of compassion.

treefrog, (edited )

username checks out

treefrog,

Apparently no one caught mine lmao

treefrog,

I don’t remember the exact number but I did see an article recently that said it was videos on social media like you surmised.

And it was a pretty minimal amount of data needed. Definitely not tens of hours. Less than one hour iirc.

treefrog,

I certainly am hoping so myself.

treefrog,

I remember it feeling this way as a kid. That coins tend to land on the same side they start on.

treefrog,

I read the beginning of the article. It confirmed my gut feeling. But I certainly didn’t run 300k coin flips to check lol

treefrog, (edited )

This is how we go after the oil corporations. Litigation by states and municipalities over real damages knowingly caused by their products.

Just like is being done now against the pharma execs over the opioid crisis.

treefrog, (edited )

I just finished the first campaign. And aside from what I mentioned about their not feeling like there’s any sense of character progress or customization (this is what I would tie to three starring missions) it’s really good.

Looking forward to Unicorn Overlord. Hopefully it hits all the right notes for me and not just 80%

treefrog,

So, Wargroove 2 has a few modes I’ve played in the last 24 hours that greatly increases the depth and replayability for me.

Played multiplayer with my kid and that’s good fun. Also there’s a whole rogue like subgame with character unlocks that are right up my alley.

So yeah, I’m sure I’ll get my $20 out of it. It does lock up, but infrequently. And I imagine they’ll fix it as soon as they can. Overall it runs really well though. Quick load times etc.

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