People legit do die from mushrooms though. We had an incident locally a few months ago involving a restaurant that served a kind of mushroom that needs to be cooked, but didn't cook them (allegedly).
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not common at all. You have maybe several people dying every year, which is in the "hit by lightning" territory. It's very well-publicized whenever it happens, which probably helps keep the numbers low. But this is a very unusual way to die.
It's like few cases per season per million people eating wild shrooms.
How many millions of people go mushroom hunting?
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#83This is not really suspicious. I regularly went foraging for shrooms in Ukraine with my gram gram, but I was not allowed to pick anything, of course. It requires expertise. In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it. If you can't relate - think of all the "gun people" who think they are experts on gun safety and then they…
In Finland it’s pretty common to go mushroom hunting. Between 1969-2006 eight people died because of mushroom poisoning. Three of them died 20-30 years after the initial poisoning due to kidney transplant issues. So at least here it’s not very common to get killed by mushrooms even though many people enjoy foraging.
And to add: in spring time many Finns pick a deadly poisonous mushroom (Gyromitra esculenta) and boil it 2x5min to remove the poison and cook it as a delicassy after that. Never heard anyone get poisoned by it.
Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
#84This is not really suspicious. I regularly went foraging for shrooms in Ukraine with my gram gram, but I was not allowed to pick anything, of course. It requires expertise. In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it. If you can't relate - think of all the "gun people" who think they are experts on gun safety and then they…
The people I feel for are the ones that change countries and mistake a deadly lookalike for what is an edible mushroom in their country.
Google is letting me down but I believe something like this happened to a Vietnamese family in the UK.
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#85The thing about the mafia — and the Russian government today is more mafia than anything — is that you can’t continue to make empty threats. Even if everyone in your protection racket is paying up, and no one is squealing or making waves, you still need to remind people _why_ they keep paying you. So it’s absolutely in Putin’s interests to keep assassinating his adversaries, and not to disclaim credit even if the dea…
This is a relatively new trend in recent times following a failed coup.
putin assassinating people who displease him is not even remotely a new trend
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#86Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
At 77 years, he certainly knew what he's picking up, it's not that hard to learn edible mushrooms, poisonous mushrooms and ignore the rest which may be edible but also not.
At 77 years old, he's long past his mental prime and could easily have made a mistake despite his experience.
Huh? 77 is not 97.
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#88I love the internet.
The first two comments for me:
1) "As an active mushroom hunter, this is extremely unlikely and uncommon, this sounds like foul play.
2) I regularly go foraging in this region, this is extremely common and nothing suspicious.
Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like few cases per season per million people eating wild shrooms.
How many millions of people go mushroom hunting?
Given approximately everyone's heard of it, and warnings about it, but also that I don't personally know anyone who tells me that they personally do this, my guess is in the order of 1% of the population. Might be more, might be less.
1% of Russia would be 1.5 million (and given this thread, 412k for Ukraine).