cibritzio · HackerTrans

Living in Korea I purchased all necessary housewares for my studio apartment -- cleaning supplies, dishes, utensils, cookware, etc -- from the Daiso down the street. Truly a lovely place. Somehow I would never dream of doing the same, back here in the States, at a Dollar General or some such place.

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The name rung a bell, and I realized Michael Pollan also visited Stamets for his recent book 'How to Change Your Mind'. Pollan also recites the same anecdote of Stamets's climbing a tree while tripping on psilocybin and getting caught in a lightning storm. I suppose the man, even if questionably credentialed, has sufficient cachet among the mycological community to make him an almost required stop on any survey of the subject.

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But are not emoticons smilies?

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Just curious why you suggest emoticons are glyphs insufficient for the communication of intelligence re emotions. They seem an almost incredibly insightful development in orthography. What earlier alphabetic cultures expressed so clearly via visuals interspersed among lithographs the essence of ineffable universal emotions?

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'But now the fungicides were no longer working as they had. “La roya does not respect them,” Gabriel told me through a translator. One day, with no warning, the golden dots bloomed on a few leaves on a single plant. Gabriel sprayed them, and sprayed again, but the spots widened, then turned dark and dry and cracked through the middle. The leaves crisped, curling at the edges, and fell from the plant when breezes jostled them. The dust, the fungal spores, drifted across the field and infected another bush, or fell to the ground and splashed onto the next plant when rain fell. The cycle of slow plant death began again.'

I did not know that I would see the vision of Miyazaki expressed in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind realized in my lifetime.

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It is now corrected.

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> I don't dislike history, but the way it is taught, as a list of important people doing important things on important dates.

You might find interest in recent Howard Zinn thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24510079

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'All of these can occur in big rock deposits, but may also occur as ‘bog iron‘ where oxidation occurs in acidic environments (in swamps and blogs)'

Did anyone else catch this? Dunno if the faux pas pseudo pun was intended but it made me lol.

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