[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Around 100 registered over the last 10 years, that comes in to about 0.5 per ~~capita~~ 100000 per year

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Iirc it is the russula that is commonly confused for the deathcap and its variations (amanita) people usually report feeling like they have confused for amanita. The russula is a very common one to forage and I can kind of see the resemblance, but I also have not encountered an amanita that is too convincing at passing for russula, at least to me, especially if you actually look beyond the cap. So realistically you are right, I don't really feel like you could forage the wrong one with experience, but people from all different backgrounds still manage to do it with a certain regularity, which is why I say this is plausible as an accident. It feels like too much work and they would probably have to cook the medical record since he was probably in the hospital for a bit before he died (yea, two weeks).

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

As someone from East EU, this is actually plausibly accidental, though the timeline is suspicious.

Mushroom foraging is cultural, you can buy foraged mushrooms in farmers markets and in general it is a fairly popular leisure activity to go foraging in the woods.

I hardly know anyone over 50 who isn’t excited for the mushroom season, sometimes people do end up picking up a death cap as it can be mistaken for a couple different edible ones at its various stages of growth, though you have to be fairly inattentive to do so. That said we treat a couple of poisonings a year in our toxicoligy ward.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yea, well, there you go. Pretty much straight up supports my original claim. If they need to full on change the SoC why in the hell would they fork up to support thunderbolt on iphones.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

ITT people pretending this is a spite based move, when realistically it is probably cutting costs by reusing the same hardware they used for lightning ports just soldering on a USB-C port instead of a lightning one.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Because they are probably using the same controller, just rewired to usbc, there are videos of this modification being done aftermarket.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

If the reason is triggering, you are ill-informed. Discussing suicide does not trigger suicidal ideation, having open discussion about it can in fact push people to reach out. Now that is not to say that random strangers on the internet should be handling suicidal people, but refusing them an outlet to reach out is arguably more harmful as long as actually suicidal people are referred to the proper channels if they post.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Our history teacher would give anyone who submitted a good cheatsheet (meaning good info, small form factor) for the test beforehand an automatic pass (but no higher than a passing grade), though you can’t take the test for a higher grade.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

well it ain't no PG TIPS but it will make a gallon of oddly flavored water

Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Wouldn’t the price go up irrespective of which side you tax it on? Obviously if this is a megacorp, they could spread it out over unrelated products, but in the end its not like theyll roll over, take the corporate tax and leave the product at the old price. Is it being a poor tax even that bad of a thing? This is not a necessity and poor people are generally going to be the ones that suffer from poor diet / lifestyle choices in very big part due to the price/calorie aspect of junkfood et al. Lets be real, if you buy a bar once a week, 1.29->3.29 is not a big deal.

Also, we do have tax on sugarry soft drinks in the EU (atleast my country), it is just laughably small compared to EtOH and tobacco). I personally always have thought that anything with added sugar beyond a certain amount should get a heavy tax, conditional on this tax being funneled into healthcare / public health programs.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

WHO stance on alcohol - no safe amount that does not affect health meaning that no, people do not enjoy the net benefits. Also alcohol is not only implicated in liver cancers, but also stomach, esophageal, throat and mouth.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

And Sci-Hub while were at it

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