And what about being gay or trans, or even modifying race-associated traits?

I’ve made wine out of dandelions, and I have eaten the greens and used the roots both as a vegetable and roasted to make a tea. The greens are really bitter, but can be harvested early enough in their growth and with a technique of boiling and pitching the water that helps make them more palatable. Overall, dandelions are not the greatest food plant, even if they’re common where I am.

I don’t know enough about the flora in Brazil to be of much use there, but yeah - don’t eat lamb’s ear, that’s gross lol.

Hey, that’s cool and all (big fan of non-conventional and wild foods) but lamb’s ear is the wrong plant to be eating even in a zombie apocalypse - you’re going to waste more energy chewing and trying to digest it than it will give you.

You might be more interested in ditch lilies, a common ornamental and invasive that produces starchy edible tubers, and it produces edible and tasty buds and flowers.

Yucca filamentosa is another common landscaping plant that produces edible buds and flowers, and the flowering stem can be cooked like squash. The roots have so much saponins that it can be used as a soap substitute.

Lamb’s ear is useful as toilet paper, maybe as a menstrual pad (don’t quote me but I heard it might have some antimicrobial activity maybe?), but it’s not a useful food.

Realistically in a famine scenario, you should hopefully know how to harvest and make acorns edible because they’re a staple food and oaks are so common lots of places. Also being able to identify and harvest nuts like black walnut would be useful. Much more practical, and something you can go ahead and get practice with now.

what a madlad - I see no reason to eat lamb’s ear, what has you interested in eating it?

I mean, that looks like lamb’s ear, but I wouldn’t suggest eating it - it’s only technically edible, lol. It has a nice pineappley smell, though!

that is, once you have the degree

I do think people underestimate how significant “who you know” and the social aspect of getting jobs. Just make friends with people and seek opportunities to meet and get to know people relevant to the field and places of employment where you want to work.

No one has mentioned The Tomato Effect yet: https://imgur.com/a/suOzNGP

A quote from the article to get a little taste:

[C]olchicum was one of the most clearly efficacious medicines ever discovered [for the treatment of gout]. How could it be discarded after centuries of successful use? As Copeman has said, “this is a strange page in medical history.” He also suggests an explanation. The abandonment of colchicum coincided with the Renaissance. “Then came the Renaissance and the dominance of scholars who, with all this written and practical evidence before them chose to see none of it - their learning seemed like a bandage round their eyes.”

Sleep paralysis may include hallucinations, such as an intruding presence or dark figure in the room.

Had this happen when I was a teenager, and it was terrifying. I started to scream and woke everyone in the house up. Of course my parents decided it was caused by what I liked to read and banned my pleasure reading.

Have to sign in to listen on Youtube as “age verification”.

Have to sign in to listen on Piped.video to prove I’m not a bot.

Guess I won’t listen to it. :-(

Yeah, though supposedly SEO could actually penalize articles for something like this, the SEO requirements keep changing but I bet there is a balancing act between keeping SEO happy and keeping up your ad impressions.

Articles are often made intentionally too long (ever notice recipes that force you to scroll through loads of irrelevant copy about the ingredients before you can get to the ingredients list and directions at the bottom?), this probably has to do with advertisements which will fire off when you scroll far enough down the page, it counts like an additional page view and the site makes more money.

exactly; there will always be piracy as long as piracy is needed, a post-piracy world is a utopia, even in the worst dystopia people find ways to “pirate”

thanks for this info, I was wondering why PIA isn’t recommended anymore