But the government does its best work when its shut down.

Adrian Lamo was a poser.

I love star trek, so I love that instance, but Lemmy.world feels like its replicating the toxic discussion style from reddit. I'm not here because I loved reddit but hate what they did to it. I have hated reddit for years, I am here for a completely different thing from reddit. The slrpnk instance and the Lemmy.ml are the main instances I want to interact with. If there are other anarchist instances in the future, I'd like to interact with those, but ideally keep the toxic bullshit to a minimum.

Need to replace them with the SRA stat.

This one goes by a bunch of different common names from pheasant back to hawks wing, to dryad saddle(depending on geography, but all refer to the same mushroom) Polyporus Squamosus or if you prefer the nomenclature based on modern genetics: Cerioporus squamosus. I call it watermelon of the woods because of the smell. It is edible when very, very young and not too woody yet. It kind of cooks up like king trumpet, but not nearly as delicious. Some say the watermelon flavor comes out when you cook it, I've never found that to be true, but never-the-less, perhaps seasoning with mint would be a good way to go to get the watermelon flavor to come forward.

I would say it is either a black staining polypore: meripilus sumstinei or maybe a Berkeley polypore: Bondarzewia berkeleyi. I'm kind of leaning towards the latter if it is not staining black when bruised, which would be an obvious tell for the former.

Because of how dehydrated these are I am reluctant to agree that it is for sure a honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea). It doesn't look like any honey mushroom I've seen in the woods, though it bears certain resemblances, namely the annulus and the habit (growing from a tree root). It could well be a honey mushroom, I just don't usually see them that dry looking. And usually in much bigger clusters around Oak trees where I live. I just personally don't feel sure enough to say it would be safe to collect and eat and to me they are certainly not anything to write home about anyway. I prefer when they interact with entalomas to create the aborted entaloma.

They could be pluerotus Ostreatus, or oyster mushrooms, but the best way to tell would be to see how far down the stem the gills run. They should be fully decurrent(or run all the way down the stem, essentially right up to the mycelium). Another ID point is the smell. They should smell uniquely like the oyster mushrooms at the store, which is to say kind of savory, somewhere between chicken soup and scallops. Depending on the type of wood it could be kind of sweet smelling as they often taken on characteristics of maple syrup when growing on maple trees. If you can't positively ID these as Pluerotus Ostreatus, please put aside the FOMO and the pressure from other inexperienced mushroom hunters to eat them. You should never eat anything you can't positively identify. That goes for mushrooms, plants, anything. Think of it as any other unknown item you picked up off the ground. Would you just pick stuff up off the ground and put it in your mouth? No. Furthermore, don't trust AI apps, they are notoriously bad at identifying mushrooms. They hallucinate their own facts and I could show you numerous examples of them being dangerously wrong. Especially in the case of a mushroom growing outside of its usual context. Oyster mushrooms, generally grow on trees. They have been known to colonize a compost pile or wood chips, but its not the usual. There are a lot of things these could be from the picture. As always its best not to eat something that you are not confident about. The best way to gain confidence is to get used to the process of IDing mushrooms until you can look at it with certainty and know what it is.

I can remotely inject an ad into thw timeline... Its called a post. And they could flood the federated timeline with ads simply by posting ads from various accounts. Its really not a hard thing to imagine and thats only one of many possible issues with allowing threads to federate.

It could easily be forked if they start fucking around, but that is a real danger.

I modified my searxNG to basically look through the results for anything on a ban list and exclude those items. But out of the box its just pulling stuff from a bunch of unreliable sources. I think you have to do a lot of tuning by using their built in tools to add sites you want to index and get rid of stuff you don't. The cool thing is that you can fine tune it though.

I think its really well done, which I guess puts me in the minority. I don't think nihilism and hope are incompatible inherently, but also I don't see desert as particularly nihilistic. Also I don't think saving the climate is a thing humans are going to do. All humans have an impact on the environment, but most people I interact with are not interested in environmentalism at all. I would write that off as anecdote, except all the polls bear this out in the US at least. In polls I've seen over the last few weeks anywhere from 3-8% of people think the environment or climate change is our most important issue, while anywhere from 12-60% of people feel its's the economy. So those are pretty dismal numbers given the IPCC's latest report. Furthermore most of us can't make hugely effective choices. We can go vegan, ditch the car for the ebike, etc. Those things matter, but a lot more so in aggregate. This is why population matters. If roughly 5% of the population is willing to modify their own behaviors to help save the environment, then 1.5C is just the tip of the iceberg. Furthermore, more modern studies show that the earth cannot support 8 billion people sustainably no matter how we live and we blew past that number last year. The world desert imagines is actually inevitable. Mass death and suffering is inevitable. That doesn't mean we have to succumb to the despair. I think it means its a matter of cruelty to have a child given what little the future holds as far as hope goes, but that doesn't mean it's not worth trying to make life better for those of us that are here and will be having to live through this cursed timeline. There are going to be opportunities to live according to mutual aid as governments collapse in the wake of what's coming. Creating ways to survive this is crucial, but wwe shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking there is actually a future where humans don't destroy the entire earth. We are at a point of accepting and reducing harm.