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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • jumping spiders are also a about the perfect size for a spider: small enough that it doesn’t elicit a deep primal horror inside me, large enough to feast on other gross bugs.
    add to that their intelligence and not spinning webs, and hell yeah spiderbro.

    them and proper orbweavers (who spin their web and straight up stay there forever if they keep finding food in their web, you can trivially easily keep them as pets by putting them on a little U shaped contraption and putting a bug in their web every now and then) are so compatible with humans that i hope we borderline domesticate them.







  • i mean yeah evolutionarily we have a better setup, but i’m talking about how things are right now.
    right now most people are constantly stressed out and feeling like absolute dogshit, and it’s no wonder when we’re all so miserably isolated. Humans are absurdly social creatures, we need contact to survive, and yet society is built in a way that makes it extremely difficult.







  • i mean porcinis really are basically impossible to get wrong, presuming it’s the same as here in sweden there is like 1 species that will give you stomach issues and it’s fucking bright red. Again it depends on area but here it’s literally as simple as “if the underside of the hat looks like a sponge, it’s safe to eat” and a proper food-quality species will taste nice and nutty.

    IMO the best usage of mushrooms is drying them and putting them in stuff like stew and sauce, either in big chunks so it gets a meat-like texture or ground up to maximize flavour extraction.


  • my conclusion is that they’re a feature of our evolution that helps the species identify dangerous things, either they eat a mushroom and explode and the rest of the tribe can go “holy fuck don’t eat that mushroom” or they go alone on a run through the forest and get mauled by a tiger and the rest of the tribe goes “holy fuck a tiger time to leg it in the opposite direction while it’s busy eating Fred”