General Memes &amp; Private Chuckle

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[–] porksnort@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do not trust plant id apps to determine if anything is edible, for a start. The odds of a painful death are just too high. There is no substitute for actually learning plant id fundamentals.

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[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah absolutely. A few plant IDs I've tried have said very confidently that a plant is a specific thing, but then after reading descriptions and checking the scientific name it's very clearly not that. It does generally give a good place to start though. So maybe it's not black cohosh but it leads me to find out it's bugbane, for instance.

I have eaten some things I've foraged, but only things I've checked and double checked don't have any dangerous lookalikes. Thankfully it's hard to go wrong with a blackberry vine.

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[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone who dies trusting this shit with their lives was murdered by silicon valley grifters. Man slaughtered by grifters?

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[–] porksnort@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yes the tech bros have some culpability, but everyone is responsible for what they put in their mouths. If you eat a strange plant without double checking, I mean, you did it to yourself.

Go ahead and bag on tech bros, I will join you. But I will also save a measure of my scorn for those who believe them to be trustworthy.

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[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

They thought they were checking.

They thought they were asking fucking computer god. Because they were told that, and nobody pushed back but a few fringe weirdos who were shouted down from all sides.