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That's great that you were able to enjoy them. I heard that the fruits can be incredibly astringent, so it's nice that the ones you found were good. Living in the Midwest, there are a great deal of opportunities for foraging. I'll have to post here with my findings as the summer continues on.

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Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this?

I've always joked with my coworkers that I'm so efficient because I'm lazy as hell. Why cut one piece of trim at a time when you can build a jig that allows you to cut 5 at once?

The upside: I look like a wizard with all the work I can get done and nobody wants to do my job, so I have plenty of security.

The downside: I get a lot of extra work and I can feel burnt out sometimes.

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You must be confused, or perhaps you're not talking about the same species that I am thinking about. Huckleberries, genus Gaylussacia, are definitely in the same family as blueberries, Vaccinium. They're both Ericaceae, in the subfamily Vaccinioideae. Gaylussacia is definitely not in Solanaceae.

Two species of blueberry as well as cranberry grow natively in a few bog habitats near my home, and huckleberries are also sympatric with these species.

ETA: I saw some context from other comments in this chain that somebody else already beat me to this. I, too, didn't realize that there were, if you were, "false" huckleberries in the nightshade family.

To add to both of our shared confusion, there is even a false huckleberry from within the blueberry family, but instead the Ericoideae subfamily: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/553849-Rhododendron-menziesii. I have no experience with this plant, or even really this subfamily, as it isn't exactly endemic to my neck of the woods.

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Sad to see Reddit go

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That's something I noticed a lot, too. I've used Reddit since maybe 2014 or so, I forgot when I made my first account, but even back then the hostility was so much lower. There are so many subs full of hate and I'm not sure where it comes from.