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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

To be fair, knowing 10000 things is far from knowing everything.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If words count as things, then most people know way more than that.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Even concepts can easily surpass that

[–] four@lemmy.zip 0 points 17 hours ago

I know at least 8356 numbers alone

[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

Still pretty impressive for an owl.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So in Chinese traditions "10000" is just a stand in for "really big number". Kind of like how, at least here in the states, well say "there's a million of them". Not that there is literally 1,000,000 of the thing, but more there is just a lot of them.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 0 points 4 hours ago

there's a myriad of phrases like that

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Well, this local mushroom is either the Taste Scrumptiouspuff, which is amazing is stews, roasts and stirfry..... or the murderkilldeathshroom. Would you say this fringe is curved with a swirl, or swirled with a curve?

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Can't tell if my back hurts because random millennial moment after mushroom foraging, or because my kidneys are failing.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 hours ago
[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

Some areas have mushrooms that are so similar the only reliable way to identify them is using a spore print.

Plants and animals tend to have more distinct identifying features like leaf paterns, bark texture or hair color.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 0 points 16 hours ago

I'm the opposite, I can tell some really difficult mushrooms apart due to good ol' hyperfixation but I still know jack about plants and trees.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 0 points 14 hours ago

In my part of the world, there are at least a dozen+ culinary and/or medicinal mushrooms that are distinctive and easy to identify (even by casuals like me). These don't really have any dangerous look-a-likes that also grow in the same area. I stick to those and those alone. Granted, even at 12 or so species that I can ID, that's probably like a tiny fraction of the number of different species that exist in this area.