Do not trust plant id apps to determine if anything is edible, for a start. The odds of a painful death are just too high. There is no substitute for actually learning plant id fundamentals.
Yes the tech bros have some culpability, but everyone is responsible for what they put in their mouths. If you eat a strange plant without double checking, I mean, you did it to yourself.
Go ahead and bag on tech bros, I will join you. But I will also save a measure of my scorn for those who believe them to be trustworthy.
They thought they were asking fucking computer god. Because they were told that, and nobody pushed back but a few fringe weirdos who were shouted down from all sides.
Yeah absolutely. A few plant IDs I’ve tried have said very confidently that a plant is a specific thing, but then after reading descriptions and checking the scientific name it’s very clearly not that. It does generally give a good place to start though. So maybe it’s not black cohosh but it leads me to find out it’s bugbane, for instance.
I have eaten some things I’ve foraged, but only things I’ve checked and double checked don’t have any dangerous lookalikes. Thankfully it’s hard to go wrong with a blackberry vine.
Do not trust plant id apps to determine if anything is edible, for a start. The odds of a painful death are just too high. There is no substitute for actually learning plant id fundamentals.
Anyone who dies trusting this shit with their lives was murdered by silicon valley grifters. Man slaughtered by grifters?
Yes the tech bros have some culpability, but everyone is responsible for what they put in their mouths. If you eat a strange plant without double checking, I mean, you did it to yourself.
Go ahead and bag on tech bros, I will join you. But I will also save a measure of my scorn for those who believe them to be trustworthy.
They thought they were checking.
They thought they were asking fucking computer god. Because they were told that, and nobody pushed back but a few fringe weirdos who were shouted down from all sides.
Yeah absolutely. A few plant IDs I’ve tried have said very confidently that a plant is a specific thing, but then after reading descriptions and checking the scientific name it’s very clearly not that. It does generally give a good place to start though. So maybe it’s not black cohosh but it leads me to find out it’s bugbane, for instance.
I have eaten some things I’ve foraged, but only things I’ve checked and double checked don’t have any dangerous lookalikes. Thankfully it’s hard to go wrong with a blackberry vine.