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Amanita Mushrooms are not the same as a Death Cap (or Death Angel) mushrooms. It would take a pretty poor macroscopic evaluation to confuse the two. Muscaria can be found in Fly Agaric mushrooms, but by drying them in a very particular way, the toxic effects can be nullified.

Despite the fact that Amanita Muscaria musrooms are psychoactive, most people who have taken them report that the experience is generally unpleasant, or at least not worth the nausia, fever, muscle seizing, or general feeling of insanity that presents with the ingestion of these particular species.
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The problems begin in two arenas.

1. Crap-bat Crazy people
2. Crap-bat Dumb people

I worry more about number 2. Dumb people... well... do dumb things. I once read about a guy who was cultivating edible mushrooms (reishi, maitake, and oyster) and got some mold infestations. He became so enamored with this issue that he began cultivating and sustaining various molds in his rental home where he was living, as to better understand them.

Yikes.

Now, if a guy like this starts genetically engineering things, problems occur. Big problems. Problems that kill people. There is a reason that people go to school and get degrees for this stuff. It's not just to educate them on how to do it. It's so that and institution can analyze behaviors in a controlled setting and weed out the number 1's and the number 2's.
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Hmmm... with all the ad homonym attacks going on here, it seems like the perfect time to go into a "reductio ad hitlerum"....

Seriously though, growing up, I knew a family of severely religious folks that stopped at 14 kids. It wasn't weird because they had fourteen children. It was freaking crazy because they had 14 socially-maladaptive, non-functional, thoughtless, zombie-drones for children, who were completely cut off from society due to their parent's belief in literalistic end-time religion. These kids were so screwed up that they thought it was normal for their parents to bruise their legs with a leather strap if they didn't answer within 10 seconds of their parents calling their name. They also believed that if someone called the police for this type of abuse, that the person would burn in hell because they were denying the "Will of God by interfering with the life situation that God gave them" -straight out of eldest daughters mouth as she told me I would burn in hell for not respecting her parents, one of "God's Laws".
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Oh, not to one-up this, but a really good friend of mine is in an even screwier situation for doing good.

As temperatures dropped in the PNW, he went with a small group and distributed thermal sleeping bags to the Seattle homeless population. Surely, when people asked for his name, he gave it. He is very compassionate and probably carried on conversations with many of them. Well, as it turns out, one of the homeless men decided to use his sleeping bag to hide the fact that he was sexually abusing a child with down's syndrome. Guess who got a visit from a police detective? Guess who went under legal investigation for being complicit in a felonious act?

Things like this sicken me. Perhaps the woman who pulled her friend out did overreact, and perhaps it complicated an injury which was already sustained from the accident. But suing your friend for dragging you out of a wrecked car that she (allegedly) thought was going up in flames? Well, you find out who your friends really are, I guess. I'll just stay away from that cesspool we call California, thank you very much.
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I may seem a bit anal retentive when I make this note, but it irks me (ever so slightly) when I hear "brains are like computers". It is much more accurate to say that computers are like our brains. Whatever. I know they're just using a microcosm to explain a more complicated system, but it just bugs the crap out of me.
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I just love it when people use the "times are a-changin'" argument to insinuate that we need more intrusion into our personal lives. It is a logical fallacy. It allows the individual making the argument to perpetually look to the past and say "VOILA! GOLDEN AGE, GONE!" The reality is that the world today is not nearly as craptacular as is projected by the media at large.
In America, for example, violent crime as a whole has been falling by 0.5% every year since the early nineties (read the uniform crime reports). However, reporting on violent crime by law enforcement agencies and news organizations has increased in staggering amounts.
On the flip side, violent crime, when it does happen, is more likely to be more violent than historical examples. Some would look at this and say that it's a sign of the decline of society, but let's look at it logically. If you have fewer people engaging in acts of violence every year, it is far more likely that those who do engage in those behaviors represent a deviant or antisocial population.
This is not to say that violent crime is not real, and that it isn't horrible when it does happen. However, CCTV cameras and other forms of government monitoring are a result of media and government projection that things are spinning out of control, and we need to realistically assess whether or not this is the case before we give up our freedom of privacy. Otherwise, we are simply letting the talking heads on the boob-tube do our thinking for us.
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On the contrary, I am not an "internet tough guy". In fact, I am a mild-mannered and polite gardener who you would pass on the street and say "Hey! What a jolly guy!". I could care less if someone is out there wasting their day putting pictures of breasts and scrawling L33T acrossed people's blogs. It's a pain to deal with, but doesn't cause that much serious disturbance.

But have you read the article? Did you go to "Weev's" blog? He espouses a philosophy of extreme malevolence toward his fellow man, believes that suffering and mass death are a critical element of positive societal propulsion, and in many instances talks about making people "fear for their lives". He's a power hungry individual who believes it is a positive thing (even heroic) to take advantage of system flaws to create panic, disorder, and cause pain to individuals he feels are lesser in value than himself.

Perhaps I made my point with a little too much fervor. Please allow me to rephrase it - It is easy to wish pain or death upon others and spout anarchist doctrine while posting photos of the recent Pho meal that some other person worked to make for you. If it is chaos, pain, and anarchy that these childish minds want, I say we put them into a position where they really have to suffer the consequences of their ideologies.

That said... yes. If I were interviewing some punk-ass, frail pasty twerp who casually noted that he had stolen my banking information, deleting it in front of me to show how much "power" he had over tiny little me (as in the NYT article), I would be apt to beat him into oblivion and dump him in an alley for someone to victimize. And that's not tough talking, that's just what he's got coming for being a priggish little candy-ass.
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I think that when we all need to stop and consider the reality of the lives these people live, especially when NYT glorifies their position by painting them as an anarchistic symbol.
Trolls are a group of completely null and void parasites. These vehement wastes of air cannot entertain themselves without inflicting, at the least, discomfort, at the worst, serious pain, upon individuals and society. But unlike psychopaths, these "people" are utterly spineless, reveling in anonymity as to enlarge their dillusions of grandeur. Lacking psychological development which empowers the self, they thrive on societal tolerance as a means of empowerment - the lowliest of parasitic beings.
Anarchists? More like fools. They'd survive for about thirty minutes before becoming prey, begging for someone to save them when they realized that delivery pizza was no longer an option. As a last note, if I were out having coffee with one of these guys and he copied down my debit card number, I'd bludgeon him unconcious and leave him in the alleys of deep New York city as to teach him a short-lived lesson about real chaos, anarchy, and pain.
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