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Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by vogre »

FridayNightTV wrote: post #126
vogre wrote: post #121

As an active mushroom hunter (living in Russia), can confirm that it is likely. Mushroom gathering is extremely popular here, so experienced mushroom hunters are looking for second and third tier mushrooms, which are not that edible and have nasty mimics. So there is a moment when you confuse a champignon to a death cap, or Kuehneromyces mutabilis(summer stump mushroom) to Galerína margináta(deadly as the death mushr…

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I am just Russian who live in Russia and have some local context here. You are free to call me a troll, but I think you are just devaluing opinions that you don't like.

At least I can speak about local mushroom eating traditions and dangers from first hands - I do it from childhood.

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by patapong »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #105
stevezsa8 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, after a few years of Reddit, I started calling this kind of thing "internet advice"... ok for a discussion, but often contradictory or wrong (if I happen to know the topic in depth). For example, people give advice to grown men and women about how to proceed with their divorce or financial planning. Lots of up votes to lend credibility.... but if you dig into their history, the advice giver is 14 years old acco…

Yeah absolutely! It's crazy and I think one of the reasons why I really need to cut down my internet and reddit usage down somewhat. For a topic like this, that I know nothing about, I am mildly curious and don't want to research it in-depth to get an answer as this would be a wildly bad use of my time, so i rely on others that seem more knowledgeable, but the problem is, who do you believe and what can you trust whe…

Same here... I also realize that over time I learn to predict what the top comment will be on certain topics. For example, in the AITA subreddit, I will always form my own opinion that is then "tested" by reading the most popular responses in the thread.

The problem is, just because redditors think that a response is correct does not mean that it is. But at some point, especially on topics you know less about, you may start to confuse this prediction with your own opinion. Scary stuff!

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by sebazzz »

dannylandau wrote: post #65

As an active mushroom hunter (born in Russia), can confirm that this is extremely unlikely and uncommon. People who have done this since birth know how distinguish between mushrooms, and usually stick to the variety that they love the best. In Russia, the mushroom of choice is the "White Mushroom" (or Porcini, King Bolete) or Rejik (Milky cap) and Chanterreles, and a few others, and that's it, with the top 2 being th…

Foul play usually means in people falling out of windows in Russia, no?

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by hackyhacky »

404mm wrote: post #93
dannylandau wrote: post #65

As an active mushroom hunter (born in Russia), can confirm that this is extremely unlikely and uncommon. People who have done this since birth know how distinguish between mushrooms, and usually stick to the variety that they love the best. In Russia, the mushroom of choice is the "White Mushroom" (or Porcini, King Bolete) or Rejik (Milky cap) and Chanterreles, and a few others, and that's it, with the top 2 being th…

> How did the he die? > From mushroom poisoning > But… there’s a bullet hole in his head.. > He refused to eat the mushrooms (Joke from 1980’s, Eastern Europe)

Sounds more like lead poisoning.

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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dannylandau wrote: post #65

As an active mushroom hunter (born in Russia), can confirm that this is extremely unlikely and uncommon. People who have done this since birth know how distinguish between mushrooms, and usually stick to the variety that they love the best. In Russia, the mushroom of choice is the "White Mushroom" (or Porcini, King Bolete) or Rejik (Milky cap) and Chanterreles, and a few others, and that's it, with the top 2 being th…

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Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by [deleted] »

vogre wrote: post #121

As an active mushroom hunter (living in Russia), can confirm that it is likely. Mushroom gathering is extremely popular here, so experienced mushroom hunters are looking for second and third tier mushrooms, which are not that edible and have nasty mimics. So there is a moment when you confuse a champignon to a death cap, or Kuehneromyces mutabilis(summer stump mushroom) to Galerína margináta(deadly as the death mushr…

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Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by ManuelKiessling »

api wrote: post #44
ManuelKiessling wrote: post #36

Is Russia running out of windows or what?

Prigozhin fell from the sky in a plane so at least that one was still a fall. This isn’t even trying. I’m just blown away by the gullible fools who see this dying totalitarian dystopia with statistics around birth and family life that are way worse than anything in the West as a beacon of resistance to decadence or something. Of course I guess this isn’t new with Russia. Back in the Cold War it was naive elements of…

> Prigozhin fell from the sky in a plane so at least that one was still a fall.

I’ve heard his plane fell from a window.

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by vogre »

chemodax wrote: post #130
vogre wrote: post #121

As an active mushroom hunter (living in Russia), can confirm that it is likely. Mushroom gathering is extremely popular here, so experienced mushroom hunters are looking for second and third tier mushrooms, which are not that edible and have nasty mimics. So there is a moment when you confuse a champignon to a death cap, or Kuehneromyces mutabilis(summer stump mushroom) to Galerína margináta(deadly as the death mushr…

This is definitely propaganda comment: eating mushrooms in Russia is never considered as risky.

Is it a sarcasm? We have tens of people dying from mushroom poisoning each year. Usually with stories like "grandma fried some mushrooms, whole family died, dad in coma".
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