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[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 84 points 1 month ago

if you ask me, mushrooms are a bullshit double standard. THEY get to show their genitals to passing hikers in the state park, but when I do it, suddenly everyone gets real prudish? What’s THAT about?

[-] four@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago

I don't want my genitals cut off and eaten, don't know about you

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you don't want people to eat your genitals, have you considered filling them with deadly alkaloids and neurotoxins? Alternatively, just make your genitals look deeply diseased and likely to kill anyone who breathes near them? These methods seem to work pretty well for most mushrooms.

If you're absolutely determined to make sure that no one eats your genitals, and you don't want to learn from the mushrooms, I would recommend registering as a Republican (or your local fascist party, as the case may be)

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 8 points 4 weeks ago

My problem is that I only want striped tree squirrels to munch on my junk. Any suggestions?

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

lol as if there aren't enough brainwashed fucking braindead females for conservative ideology...

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 weeks ago

Using the term females like that is kind of telling on yourself mate.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nah, only to weirdos more interested in projecting social stigmas more than communicating... I would've said "males" if talking about males, too.

This is a post specifically talking about genitals and getting some. OFC I'm going to use the terms for the sexes and not genders. Especially because we're talking about Republicans, where only the extremely misguided have a disconnect beteween their sex and gender.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 weeks ago

have you tried laying down and covering your body in dirt?

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

Wait til you learn about flowers...

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

My good person, its just hoomans vs the rest. You not human? Show them genitals. You human? You gonna need a specific type of park to have dem genitals out.

[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 49 points 1 month ago

You and me pretending to be individuals

The universe

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 17 points 1 month ago

In the way humanity can study the structure of the brain despite being inside one, consciousness is just the means by which the Universe discovers itself. Or something, I don’t know, I’m high.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago
[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I believe this is a depiction of Diglett, not Ditto.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

I think this is Diglett's older sibling, Digcinqo.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

And they are holding hands with tree roots

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

Can different species of mushroom be fruits of the same mycelium?

[-] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

Speciation of fungi in the first place makes a mockery of our futile, hubristic attempts at taxonomy. Fungus spits on the petty distinctions made by man.

[-] xav@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Mmh. Mushrooms don't really show their fingers. You know, the things you see and eat, that's their private parts.

[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

I wouldn't call those parts private if they're just flaunting them all over the place for the world to see. They're clearly very public parts.

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Pub(l)ic parts then

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Had a dumb coworker trying to tell me that cheese with a little mold on top was dangerous. She didn't know the word "mycelium", but that's the explanation she was going for. Fair enough, I guess? Anyway, I'm carving the mold off and eating that cheese.

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

She was right?

The mold is on the inside of the cheese, the visible stuff on the surface is just the fruiting body used to spread spores.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

Yep, how far the mold penetrates depends on the hardness of the cheese. Block of cheddar hard enough to play headbrick? Generally fine to just cut off a the outer layer. Anything soft, a good pizza mozzarella maybe? Garbage the whole block

[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

Mold isn't poisonous. Just eat it, I never had health complications after eating moldy cheese.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 weeks ago

things don't have to be acutely toxic to be dangerous, it can build up over time to hurt you

[-] fedditter@feddit.org -3 points 1 month ago

You just watched a Youtube Video and now you think you are allowed to post a meme?

[-] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

Yes that's how this all works

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Clearly they didn't watch the video, smh...

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