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Seriously? Honeys are a favourite of mine. But I’m cautious about telling people they’re good to eat. They’re really not a beginner’s mushroom, and they have at least one deadly lookalike, altho with different coloured spores. .
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Deserves a whole chapter in Profiles in Cowardice.
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Same. I considered it in November, when they weren’t allowed to make a recommendation on the race, but this interference is even more blatant.
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Same here. Just cancelled.
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That’s correct. I just cancelled my subscription. I hope everyone does.
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More of this, please. It can be purely tactical and short term, with the understanding that we get election reform as soon as the Tories are in the minority.
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There is another resource out there, aiming to do the same thing: notoneseat.ca
I haven’t looked to see if they make the same recommendations riding-by-riding. I hope there are few or no discrepancies, or we’re liable to split the don’t-split-the-vote vote.
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Ringless honeys?
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If so, they could be growing off buried wood or tree roots.
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They look like ringless honeys to me. Armillariella tabascens. Other ideas?
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… which was enough to get under the skin of the poor and pious. Just enough to piss them off, not to change their minds but to weaken their allegiance. Pretty interesting premise, especially for a story written in 1948. I wonder if Elmo ever read it.
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… a fighting a theocratic government that ruled the US. One of the strategies the rebels used was a subtle form of propaganda where they would describe the ruling church’s lavish cathedrals and gaudy ornaments. All explicitly pro-government but they deliberately laid it on too thick… /2
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Yeah, important and disturbing! This is a fascinating innovation in the hoary tradition of political ratfucking. This Post article got me to go back to an old scifi story I read as a kid, Robt Heilein’s novella If This Goes On, where the main guy is part of a revolutionary group … /1
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They use different words and claims to piss off different audiences, none of them constrained by reality.
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Nope, this is different. Every pol has different messages for different audiences. You can say they’re equivocating, playing word games or lying— maybe so. This is an opponent pitching a supposedly pro-Kamala ad to people in a way that’s specifically designed to piss them off, so they’ll stay home.
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Yo, Marty. Nice picking on Tom Dooley!