They used to cast actors of appropriate skill nepotism

FTFY, they still do, but they used to as well.

It’s already established and a lot of highly knowledgeable local mycologists already hang out there and have no interest in switching to another platform.

I share that hope, I’ve been trying to post to !mycology@mander.xyz pretty regularly.

They have a stiff chalky texture that’s easy to recognize if you know it but throwing them at a tree to see if they shatter like a snowball is a great way for beginners to confirm that they’ve found a Russula.

In addition to the reasons for given for Russula in the other comment: LBMs tend to be deadly poisonous and aren’t that interesting to look at so nobody cares about figuring out which one is which except professional researchers.

Russula at least have colorful caps, choice-edible species, and are fun to huck at trees.

When there’s so little functional difference between the species, groups become more useful for identification.

I don’t blame you if you don’t want to chew on raw Russula long enough to tell whether or not it’s eventually spicy though.

Mushroom species have different geographic ranges and it’s hard to identify species from a photo unless you’ve seen it in real life so global groups tend to be less useful than local groups.

Also the accessibility of the fediverise as a platform is an issue. The best place to go for PNW mushroom identification is a Facebook group as much as I hate to say it.

Thankfully we can bypass the politicians and implement a better voting system via citizen ballot initiatives in most states. Maine and Alaska have already adopted ranked choice voting via ballot initiatives.

Thinking quickly, Generative AI constructs a playable version of Doom, using only some string, a squirrel, and a playable version of Doom.

She’s not normally like this

If there’s no situational cause for this change in behavior, there’s a chance she’s experiencing paranoia from an undiagnosed mental health condition. Look up the signs of mania (bipolar disorder), borderline personality disorder, and schizophrenia. If it looks like it might be one of those then you need consult professionals and family because it’s not something you’re going to be able to help her with on your own with advice from Internet strangers.

Take care of yourself, of she continues to behave abusively you need to get away whether this behavior comes from untreated illness or not.

It will make the air behind your fridge warmer in exchange for making the air around your body cooler. There’s usually not great airflow behind the fridge so it won’t affect the rest of your house much.

If you’ve got an open kitchen or something you can still freeze the bottles at night and use them during the day.

Disagree, without IP laws whoever has the most money can crush all competition. An example of this is how the first pump hand soap softsoap couldn’t patent the hand pump design because it already existed so they just bought all the existing stock to prevent anyone from releasing a competing product.

If you get rid of IP laws you’ll just further entrench the existing winners.

Write a good book? Without copyright, Penguin random house publishes an exact copy at a higher quality and sells a million copies while you sell a handful to discerning fans.

Build a quality product? Without trademark, proctor and gamble flood the market using your brand name and nobody can distinguish their products from yours even though their quality is much worse.

Invent something revolutionary? Without patents you have to keep your process a secret so you don’t get copied. If you get hit by a bus your invention is now lost to society forever unless someone manages to reverse-engineee it.

Not before abolishing capitalism or you’re just making things worse.

A feature that is consistently misused is a useless feature. Either get used to them being used to express disagreement or admit that they’re a failure and stop trying to make them work.

This page has a table of instances with a bunch of info including whether the instance has downvotes.

If it annoys you, you could consider moving to an instance without downvotes so your feed will act like they don’t exist.

Tablets are cheaper and lighter than laptops so if someone just wants to watch videos while traveling or commuting, a tablet is often a better option than a laptop.

Takes up less pocket space and the primary screen is more protected.

Background dancers are often called a chorus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorus_line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_(musical_theatre)