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- Comment on Here’s how the U.S. military can trim its massive carbon footprint 2 days ago:
Step two, stop playing world police.
- Comment on A monumental 3,800-year-old warrior kurgan discovered in Azerbaijan 2 days ago:
The success of the excavation is also educational. Participants included students and faculty from Baku State University, ADA University, and regional institutions, along with local museum staff and history teachers. The project is praised as a model for integrating academic research, heritage conservation, and public engagement.
The whole article was a pair of pleasure to read.
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 2 days ago:
Not sure if sarcastic, but there’s a lot more to milk. Lactose, lipids, emulsifiers…
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 2 days ago:
And what you absolutely don’t want in beer is lactose fermenting bacteria. It gives it a cleaning rag stench.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 2 days ago:
There are billboards on the road using the event as advertisement fodder.
- Comment on Horny🧠 3 days ago:
I’ve recently had to start hormone replacement. Apparently my T levels were so low I was getting clinically depressed. So I went from half the minimum testosterone levels to slightly above the maximum. Now, I’ve always had a weirdly high libido, and I was afraid I’d have to turn into a recluse. In fact, the opposite happened. I had barely any libido left. I’d jerk off just to test if things even worked, and everything was fine, but it was like I was in constant post-nut clarity. I hated it. I didn’t feel myself anymore, and having focus and clarity while all this shit is happening in the world… Like, the hormones did help with the depression a little bit, but it was offset by the otherness I am feeling.
Anyway, this rambling is my way to relate, in a way. You went through puberty of sorts, and I’m going through a reverse one. I am having to get to know myself again, unsure as to what is happening to my body, and dealing with the occasional zit.
BTW, Instead of injecting T, the doctor attempted (successfully!) to kickstart my internal production with a drug that stimulates FSH production, which, in XY equipped hardware, boosts testosterone production. AMAB bodies normally deal with excess T by converting it to estrogen. To avoid that, another drug that blocked it was added. I found it curious how the same messengers are used by both sexes, sometimes with the same outcome, sometimes with completely different outcomes.
- Comment on Horny🧠 3 days ago:
I must not fap. Fapping is the little death that brings total ownage. And chafing.
- Comment on Common sugar substitute shown to impair brain cells, boost stroke risk 4 days ago:
Everything reminds me of her.
- Comment on Just say it gurl 5 days ago:
My first thought too.
- Comment on Amanita muscaria subsp. flavivolvata 6 days ago:
I don’t know the details. I do know that preparing it has a few steps to remove it through boiling. And even then, there’s residual content. Amanita is not to trifled with without proper guidance, and even then there’s risk and side effects.
Stick to psylocybe, as long as you are positive of the ID, you’d need to eat a gargantuan amount to have it actually poison you. And you don’t get the runs.
- Comment on Amanita muscaria subsp. flavivolvata 6 days ago:
Absolutely do not boof it. You need to remove the poison from it.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 1 week ago:
Jack-o-lanterns aren’t deadly, they’ll just send you to thee toilet with a lot of regret.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 1 week ago:
It looks like the chanterelle patch that I go to in the woods some 20 min from home. They keep showing up in the same spot every year.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 1 week ago:
BTW, jackpot! Chanterelles in your own yard!
- Comment on Chanterelle update 1 week ago:
Or cook a nice steak and deglaze the frying pan with it, sauté them in butter with salt, pepper and a bit of cognac, use it as dressing for the steak. Delicious!
- Comment on [meta] Petition to ban certain website links from three community 1 week ago:
Right. Banning would prevent people from being aware of the problem and would just cause frustration.
I have zero knowledge about Lemmy bots, the only ones I’ve seen are importing posts from other sites. Is there a project for an auto mod kind of Lemmy bot out there?
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- Comment on Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease 1 week ago:
Aye.
- Comment on Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease 1 week ago:
They use an egg of a donor, which is stripped of the nucleus, and inject the nucleus of the mother there to conduct IVF. The goal is to use the donor’s mitochondria and avoid a mitochondrial DNA genetic disease to be inherited from the mom.
So the title is technically correct, in a clickbaity sort of way.
- Comment on 4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an arrowhead from a brutal attack 1 week ago:
brutal
Based on what evidence? Could have been a hunting accident for all we know.
- Comment on My yard finds from today 1 week ago:
You should always use a guide and through every distinguishing feature. AFAIK their spores aren’t toxic, just allergenic. But you wouldn’t be getting then when they’re sporulating.
But you’re right, the fact that young amanitas are a lookalike is a good reason to avoid them. Giant puffballs don’t usually have that problem due to their sheer size.
- Comment on Depressed Hedgehog :( 1 week ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Depressed Hedgehog :( 1 week ago:
Oh, interesting. How do you call this kind of gills?
- Comment on My yard finds from today 1 week ago:
If you have chanterelles in your yard that would be so cool. They’re an excellent beginner friendly mushroom, easy to positively ID, and absolutely delicious.
Second may be a puffball or an earth ball (or something else, I’m still quite a beginner myself). Puffballs should be easy to positively ID too, just not as easy as chanterelles. A choice edible.
- Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 1 week ago:
Not a shock, to the point that I got to doing a little song and dance to suss it out when dealing with a new doctor. What the MD does is tell me that at least they didn’t have to actively reject part if their curriculum to avoid quackery.
- Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 1 week ago:
So they’re schools of medicine with just enough quackery sprinkled on top to receive a different name. And some of their alumni embrace the quackery while others reject it.
How would you know the DO you’re about to see is a quack? You don’t I guess. If you’re risk averse, you’ll just call them all quacks and find a doctor without the quackery pixie dust.
- Comment on Corn is a way of life 🌽 1 week ago:
You owe a bitch what?
- Comment on Study shows a link between obesity and what’s on local restaurant menus 1 week ago:
Gained 20 kg after moving to the US. 🙁
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
He wants to shave his pubes? You should teach him before someone else does. Also teach him how to don a condom and what can happen if he doesn’t.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 1 week ago:
How weird of you.