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Top Russian space scientist dies of mushroom poisoning
  • I don't deny that the timing seems suspicious, would be awfully stealthy compared to the case of the killer windows and literally blowing up a plane. But I do suppose getting some powedered deathcap into his food would not be too difficult.

    I do wonder if the motive would really be the recent moon failure, like would they really assasinate someone over something so petty? Maybe Putin was so desperate for a public win and he can't afford to try again?

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    Top Russian space scientist dies of mushroom poisoning
  • At leadt in my language, hunting is not generally used in other contexts, so I can see why someone wouldfind it funny, maybe.

    Also, chanterelles are an absolute staple, probably the most common one. Others are russula and boletes (this one being the favourite for people generally). Some others commonly picket are milkcaps and parasols (personally their resemblance to deathcaps makes me uneasy).

    Deathcaps could be confused for Rusulas, some milkcaps and parasols.

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    Top Russian space scientist dies of mushroom poisoning
  • Iirc it is the russula that is commonly confused for the deathcap and its variations (amanita) people usually report feeling like they have confused for amanita. The russula is a very common one to forage and I can kind of see the resemblance, but I also have not encountered an amanita that is too convincing at passing for russula, at least to me, especially if you actually look beyond the cap. So realistically you are right, I don't really feel like you could forage the wrong one with experience, but people from all different backgrounds still manage to do it with a certain regularity, which is why I say this is plausible as an accident. It feels like too much work and they would probably have to cook the medical record since he was probably in the hospital for a bit before he died (yea, two weeks).

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    Top Russian space scientist dies of mushroom poisoning
  • As someone from East EU, this is actually plausibly accidental, though the timeline is suspicious.

    Mushroom foraging is cultural, you can buy foraged mushrooms in farmers markets and in general it is a fairly popular leisure activity to go foraging in the woods.

    I hardly know anyone over 50 who isn’t excited for the mushroom season, sometimes people do end up picking up a death cap as it can be mistaken for a couple different edible ones at its various stages of growth, though you have to be fairly inattentive to do so. That said we treat a couple of poisonings a year in our toxicoligy ward.

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    Installed Krunner, executable not available
  • If you tinker with programming , you can look into ags - aylurs gnome shell. His dotfiles include an app launcher in it, adding this functionality should not be too hard.

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    Recommend me a game
  • Your Only Move is Hustle - Basically a TAS Fighting game, the game plays like chess meets a fighter game, you preselect moves at the same time as your opponent, then they play out. Sounds super simple when explained like that but there are so many complications to this basic formula (cancels, bursts, DI, parries, to name a few), that it is actually very interesting.

    Omega Strikers - Air Hockey meets MOBA, although the game is dying a little, but the devs are still active and they just released a new character, their design never disappoints and the OST is fire.

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    Good MMORPG on Linux
  • Are you running it on X11 or Vulkan. Lots of people reported crashes on Vulkan, seems to work fine with X11 on GTX 1660 for me, not a crash.

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    Display freezes leaving only the mouse movement
  • I had problems with 535-104, couldn’t launch into Hyprland, tried a quick install of Plasma (though with hypr XDG) and that was laggy as all hell. Dropped back to 535-98 and it runs smooth again.

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    Reflectacles to escape Facial Recognition
  • They most certainly do not, my FaceID worked flawlessly with all of my glasses, invluding sunglasses even when I did not set it up with glasses

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    iamlilfroggy
  • Just a really botched photoshop job i reckon. Like you asked your 10 y/o cousin Timmy to touch it up for you and he went to town.

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    Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report
  • Yes, the choice being the respective SoCs not needing 3.0 support because they were intended to be used with lightning connectors.

    I mean Pixel 6 still didnt have 3.0 support, so the 15 year old argument doesnt hold too much ground either.

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    Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report
  • Someone else commented that the SoC literally lacks the capability to run above 2.0. If this is the case it would be very hard to call this even scummy adjacent.

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    Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report
  • Yea, well, there you go. Pretty much straight up supports my original claim. If they need to full on change the SoC why in the hell would they fork up to support thunderbolt on iphones.

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