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What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?

Mycology is full of them which are mostly the result of genetic sequencing and the good old "where do you draw the line between species" question but a recent and high visibility one is the Collybia shift.

Before genetic testing, Collybia was a genus characterized by smallish pale-spored mushrooms with convex caps, no ring, and gills which are broadly attached to the stem (the simplest shape the average person would imagine for a mushroom), this became one of the classic "statures" of mushrooms "Collybioid". As we sequenced Collybia species, they were slowly moved into other Collybioid genera like Collybiopsis and Gymnopus. Eventually this resulted in most of the Collybioid mushrooms being moved out of Collybia, leaving only the earliest-discovered mushrooms in the genus which were tiny parasitic mushrooms that weren't really Collybioid at all.

Here's an average "Collybioid" mushroom Gymnopus sp.

Then things got worse, a recent paper did a study on genus Clitocybe which is another genus which has a classic stature named after it, "Clitocyboid" which refers to smallish pale-spored, funnel-shaped, mushrooms with gills that run down the stem. This paper discovered that nearly everything we had been calling "Clitocybe" actually belonged in Collybia meaning that most mushrooms in Collybia are now Clitocyboid instead of Collybioid. This has resulted utter chaos which has some mycologists considering invoking the "common usage" rules in taxonomy to put the new Collybias back into Clitocybe to make things less confusing. This chaos has been compounded by the fact that iNaturalist has already accepted this name change, but only for the mushrooms explicitly studied in the paper and not their known relatives which has resulted in the Blewits being split between Collybia and Lepista (which itself was a recent name change from Clitocybe that everyone was still adjusting too).

Average nondescript Clitocyboid (no ID because these are nearly impossible):

A Blewit, AKA Clitocybe/Lepista/Collybia nuda:

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TIL there's a fungi that looks like a bird's nest.

There are a bunch, some have the "eggs" attached with little strings to make them fling in different directions, some keep the eggs in jelly until they're ready to be splashed out, some are weird little balls that burst open instead of cups with lids that pop off.

You usually find them on twigs, they're hard to spot because they're all pretty tiny.

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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)

I got started with jellyfin and never used Plex but there's a bunch of rough edges:

  • No apps on several smart tv/streaming stick stores, Vizio has an app for plex but not jellyfin so I would need to buy a new streaming device. Yes smart tvs spy on you but the alternatives people recommend either spy on you just as much or are expensive (Nvidia shield) and most of them still require side loading so it's a major obstacle for sharing with anyone else.
  • Casting from the mobile app won't play at full resolution, you can get around this by using VLC as your player and casting from that but that causes it to frequently lose watch progress. Also stopping casting or playing the next episode doesn't work properly with VLC and you need to rapidly mash "back" to get into the jellyfin app again and queue up a new episode.
  • The current release of Jellyfin desktop won't play audio for iptv streams, this is fixed in the dev branch but I have yet to find a build without other critical bugs so I'll likely need to wait for the next release which currently has no target date.
  • The browser version has spotty controller support that stops working constantly. When it does work it lacks any way to access context menus to mark shows as watched etc. If you're using a flatpak browser to run it on steam deck or whatever, you'll have codec and passthrough issues (Chrome is the only flatpak with decent codec support).
  • Others have mentioned the security issues which you can bypass by putting authentik or something in front of it but then you can only share with people using browser.

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If an American president fixes the healthcare, they can win every other election right? So, why does any of them not fix it?

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Most people get insurance through their employer and most employers at least partially subsidize the cost. This doesn't show up on your paystub like a tax would so the only way you'd ever be aware of the true cost of your plan is if you got laid off and paid for continuation of benefits (COBRA).

It doesn't occur to most Americans that their paycheck might be higher if they had universal healthcare.

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California Democratic Party chair calls for governor candidates without a 'viable path' to drop out

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The problem is if five Democrats who people want to vote for are in a jungle primary with two Republicans who people want to vote for, then there's a decent chance the general election may end up with two Republicans on the ballot.

Jungle primaries are dumb, the only way they would make sense is if they used approval voting or something.

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Let's ask this AI app!

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This is very much not the case with mushrooms, most people who've accidentally eaten a deathcap (Amanita phalloides) have reported that they're delicious. Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) which can be detoxified by boiling it and changing the water multiple times, is pretty darn good. I think it's better than the average grisette (the non-toxic Amanita sect. vaginatae spp.).

Ok the other other hand, the destroying angel (Amanita ocreata) is said to taste pretty bad.

For a non-amanita example, I've spit-tested the toxic Agaricus deardorffensis and I thought it tasted pretty good. That one is an odd case though since some people are unaffected by its poison and it's possible that's correlated with not being able to detect the unpleasant sharpie-like odor it's said to have, but I wasn't willing to give myself the shits for science so it remains a mystery.