Based.

a really locked down/limited system might not be a step forward at all

Depends what you mean. Locked down as in hidden from the public (I don’t think that’s legal anyways because of the GPL) would be bad. But locked down/limited from employees so that they can’t bork the system is good, imo.

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I’m wondering if they bruise blue

They do not — at least, not from what I can tell.

I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever.

First off, one must be very careful of generalizing to an entire group from the actions of a small sample [1]. Using the metric of whether there have been trans people who have engaged in mass shootings is quite reductionist, and is a faulty generalization — if I am to interpret what you said to mean that “conservatives” are “against” all trans people because they think that they are all responsible for “shooting up” schools and churches. Second, to address your belief, to my knowledge, there has been at least one instance of a school shooter being trans [2].

Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people?

I think it’s important to establish the validity of the claim, and the assumptions being made, since you cited no sources, nor did you provide any definitions, nor did you specify any assumptions; I will presume that by “conservative”, you are referring to American Republicans.

Why does it seem most people […][are] against Trans people?

It does not appear that “most people” (I assume you mean “the majority of people”) are “against trans people” (I’m not entirely sure exactly what you mean by this, so I will assume it means not being in favor of protecting trans people from discrimination) [1.2][1.1].

Why does it seem […] conservatives […][are] against Trans people?

It does seem that the majority of Republicans are against trans protections [1.1].

ADDENDUM (2024-11-23T06:49Z): Could someone who’s downvoting this please tell me why they are doing so? I’m rather confused about what the rationale could be. I didn’t even state any opinions; I was only fact checking. Was I perhaps too abrasive sounding? I wasn’t intending to be rude.

I know I can post and be the change I seek.

Imo, this is your answer. I’m not sure exactly other solution you want. Content will not appear on Lemmy without someone first posting it. Advertising the platform to help draw people in is also important.

Perhaps it’s a difference in communication experience, and effectiveness? Maybe the person who is already famous has lots of experience with talking to people and conveying information — perhaps they make more efficient use of a small amount of information — whereas the person with a lot of experience on the subject matter, but is poor at communication, is unable to effectively communicate the subject matter. One must be able to retain people’s attention to effectively communicate; this takes skill.

Furthermore, internet forums are not well suited to the kind of pedagogy and learning that getting experience with mushroom identification requires. You need continued experience watching others identify mushrooms successfully and to learn over the course of their identifications how to identify mushrooms yourself. There is a kind of learning from exposure that happens that way which isn’t replicated easily on a forum.

I sort of half agree with this. I think the important component that’s fundamental to what you are decribing is experience. Simply reading about mycology isn’t sufficient; one must also practice identifying what they find, and they must get constant feedback on whether the identifications are correct, and if they aren’t, one must learn why. Where we differ, I think, is that I think that one can do this via forums, it just might be less efficient. One must also be resistant to misinformation, and one must take a scientific approach to how the information is presented rather than purely a teacher/student approach.

Ah, yeah that seems to be it. I switched to all+hot and I’m now seeing a lot of cats. I wonder what other content I’m missing out on by sorting by “active”? When I sort by “all”, I’m trying to get the posts that are trending the most on Lemmy. Maybe active isn’t the best way to do this? Interestingly, the posts that I see when I sort by “hot” don’t have as many upvotes as those when I sort by “active” so idk.

I enabled logging in the Ntfy app, and, upon receiving a message in Element X, it showed the Matrix notification push message in plain text in the logs. If Ntfy indeed doesn’t know anything about Unified Push and is just the medium through which a Unified Push message travels, then I would think that it wouldn’t be the service decrypting the message, yet it is decrypted in the logs.

As others have pointed out, mushrooms are heavily local and the internet will have people who will easily misidentify a species because it looks just like something they are familiar with in a different region (this is the cause of many deaths, east Asian immigrants coming to the U.S. misidentify deadly poisonous mushrooms as a common edible from back home when they come here).

I certainly agree that this is a risk. I think, at least, a big chunk of it could be alleviated by people citing how they know the information that they are providing — eg if someone asks about a mushroom in Cascadia, then someone says they know what it is and then cites their source as knowledge gained in China, it should then raise some red flags, or at least raise the bar significantly for trust.

When you follow taxonomic keys it’s not uncommon that you need to evaluate mushrooms based on their taste (bitterness, piquancy, etc.), their smell, and other qualities that are impossible or difficult to describe objectively or photograph.

For clarity, are you saying that there are qualities that can only be taught by first having someone that can already identify the mushroom to then point out the quality that you must memorize for future comparison? Or is it simply a failure of proper communication — ie maybe it is possible to describe these qualities and one is perhaps lacking the sufficient descriptive skills?

but there are so many reasons to meet in person and go on forays with people more experienced than you.

I think that I would agree that it is at least very efficient means of acquiring mycological information. I went on a day course for morel foraging once, and I definitely learned a lot from that in a much shorter timespan than I likely would’ve by simply reading and asking questions on forums.

So… are you enjoying the cats flooding your feed now?:-D Or if you aren’t seeing them, it must be for some other reason now.

I’m not sure. Maybe the volume of cats has just been exaggerated? Sorting all+active only shows 1 cat in the first 80 posts that I looked at.

A photo of the spores taken with a microscope could help definitely rule out Psilocybe.

Yeah, I would’ve liked to have provided a microscopic image of the spores, but I don’t currently have access to a microscope of sufficient magnification to image them. Though I likely will soon, and, if possible, I will update with that information.

The breaking veil of a young specimen showing the web-like cortina of Cortniarius (like in the first image here) would suggest that genus.

I don’t currently have an image for proof, but, from what I recall, the baby ones did not have that.

I don’t think I would be able to identify them, sorry.

No need to apologize! I appreciate your comments nonetheless.

I usually alternate between subscribed+scaled, and all+active. In both I see pretty much nothing.

It looks like SJW is fine. See my comment here for more details.