Hey friends, just a reminder that if you're reading online foraging guides, then go for the ones published before 2020, or whenever it was that Large Language Models became popular.

You can also use "before: 2020" in many search engines to improve results in general.

AI slop is annoying at the best of times, but you *really* don't want to accidentally consume it when it comes to things that may impact your health.

#foraging

Mr 9 has been getting super into classic fairytales, and so the nightly bedtime story has genuinely been an excellent jumping off point for discussions on theocracy, classism, views on death, parenting, marriage, social justice, and family. Plus the old ones have sufficient gore to keep a 9yo's attention.

At the end of the 19th century, economists were arguing that poverty was caused by there being too many people for the surrounding land to support. Evidence for this was that one saw almost no poverty in frontier towns, and plenty of poverty in large cities. Limited resources could only be stretched so thin.

Henry George, in his book "Progress and Poverty", called BS on this. Due to specialisation of labour, he argued each additional person meant there'd be *more* to go around, not less.

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Here's Queen Felicia, happily lying in the sun.

#catsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse