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I see this happen a lot on Tiktok and Facebook where influencers post about using different plants for food or for skincare. They often either show photos that

I see this happen a lot on Tiktok and Facebook where influencers post about using different plants for food or for skincare. They often either show photos that are of a different plant that is dangerous to eat or they haven’t actually tried this and promoting the consumption of a plant that can poison people. It’s the Wild West out there on social networks.

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Obligatory PA Comic: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/05/27/a-very-particular-set-of-skills https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/05/27/a-very-particu...
- Freak_NL 2y ago
  Ouch. That web comic did not age gracefully.
  - throwanem 2y ago
    'Age?' It's three months old.
    - alwa 2y ago
      I read the parent comment to contrast the 3-month-old vintage of Penny Arcade with its first couple of decades: https://www.penny-arcade.com/archive/ https://www.penny-arcade.com/archive/
      - throwanem 2y ago
        Oh. Sure, I guess that's a take. Expecting the artist and writer to have learned nothing of their craft in the 26 years they've spent pursuing it as a profession seems extremely silly to me, but if someone finds that a sensible way to look at the work, I don't see what it would benefit anyone for me to try to gainsay them.
    - JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
      I guess OP is talking about the visual style of this comic which started in 1998. It’s very ugly nowadays.
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joe_the_user 2y ago
This feels just because while people who know just bit about plants might do some dumb things, mushrooms are a thing that anyone who knows a bit about plants knows not to screw with because it's easy to poison oneself and the results are horrible. My father was a moderately known evolutionary biologist and he advised his students encountering an unknown plant and curious whether it was edible to "try it and see". But this was for a flowering plant. Most mushrooms can't be dealt with that way.

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

Obligatory PA Comic: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/05/27/a-very-particular-set-of-skills https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/05/27/a-very-particu...

Freak_NL 2y ago
Ouch. That web comic did not age gracefully.
- throwanem 2y ago
  'Age?' It's three months old.
  - alwa 2y ago
    I read the parent comment to contrast the 3-month-old vintage of Penny Arcade with its first couple of decades: https://www.penny-arcade.com/archive/ https://www.penny-arcade.com/archive/
    - throwanem 2y ago
      Oh. Sure, I guess that's a take. Expecting the artist and writer to have learned nothing of their craft in the 26 years they've spent pursuing it as a profession seems extremely silly to me, but if someone finds that a sensible way to look at the work, I don't see what it would benefit anyone for me to try to gainsay them.
  - JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
    I guess OP is talking about the visual style of this comic which started in 1998. It’s very ugly nowadays.
    - deleted 2y ago
      [deleted]

joe_the_user 2y ago

This feels just because while people who know just bit about plants might do some dumb things, mushrooms are a thing that anyone who knows a bit about plants knows not to screw with because it's easy to poison oneself and the results are horrible. My father was a moderately known evolutionary biologist and he advised his students encountering an unknown plant and curious whether it was edible to "try it and see". But this was for a flowering plant. Most mushrooms can't be dealt with that way.