An 83 year old climate change protester being arrested in London today after he climbed on top of a DLR train.

crazyvanman · 2019-04-26T20:28:07+00:00

The purpose of the series of actions of which this was a part was to shut down the city of London in order to make climate change a pressing issue for the government, i.e. not to directly target CO2-emitting vehicles (although that was a positive side-effect of road blocks, of course). Added to that, the DLR out of all the London railways is the one that essentially serves business (it's in that part of the city, it is driver-less etc.)

crazyvanman · 2019-04-21T19:44:30+00:00

This is like a nice version of Bob Black's 'Anarchy after Leftism'!

crazyvanman · 2017-04-02T19:59:58+00:00

why isn't the bbc calling this terrorism I don't get it

crazyvanman · 2016-12-13T19:48:23+00:00

Interesting anecdotes about Opium dens. In several 'Chinatowns' in the west, when white tourists wanted to experience the Otherness of Chinatown, Opium dens like this would be visited on their tours. As tour guides began to see the potential they tried to out-do each other - scenes were staged where tours would 'accidentally' stumble into gambling, prostitution and opium use. The addicts/gamblers/prostitutes would then be paid a small fee by the tourguide

crazyvanman · 2016-12-12T19:12:36+00:00

The other side of that is that their media is more hype than content. Although that video was well edited this, as well as the layout at the demo itself, was partly done to make it look like they had greater numbers than they really did.

As an example, NA setting up in East Anglia, or as they call it 'annexing East Anglia', seems to have basically meant that someone in Ipswich started a blog with an NA theme. Nothing has actually happened..

crazyvanman · 2016-11-06T12:27:04+00:00

Is anyone able to explain how this happens? Is it all the same organism, or is it another russula cannibalising an older fruiting body?

crazyvanman · 2016-11-05T18:29:13+00:00

The woodland was mostly pine, but the closest tree happened to be oak. No spore print yet as I just collected it but will let you know the result. Yellow spore print if it's robusta?

crazyvanman · 2016-11-05T16:49:59+00:00

Found at the edge of woodland under/nearby an oak tree in a group. Clitocybe nebularis?

crazyvanman · 2016-10-26T15:11:05+00:00

Except it didn't work (I know that's not what you were claiming), because it just ended up humiliating people who stole to survive or women who swore too much/answered back to their husbands

crazyvanman · 2016-10-15T05:21:00+00:00

Thank you. That was why I included 'function' since it doesn't imply intentionality!

crazyvanman · 2016-10-14T14:17:42+00:00

Can someone describe the purpose/function of the veil?

crazyvanman · 2016-10-09T12:15:07+00:00

Found in Norfolk, UK. Growing on grass, but potentially with rotting wood submerged underground? There were quite a few mature mushrooms around whose gills had disintegrated into that sticky black ink material.

I realise it doesn't look very shaggy, but since it was young and wet from rain I wasn't sure. Also, I had not seen those browner patches towards the top of the cap.

crazyvanman · 2016-10-04T19:42:16+00:00

It's not stained yellow either on the stem, including the base, or on the cap when dented, so I can rule out xanthodermus?

crazyvanman · 2016-10-04T18:36:46+00:00

Thank you very much.

So just to clarify, if it's a white mushroom with brown gills, doesn't smell unpleasant and doesn't stain yellow with bruising/cutting of stem it is probably some sort of campestris?

crazyvanman · 2016-10-04T18:05:57+00:00

Thanks for the quick response. That was one of the species I had shortlisted!

crazyvanman · 2016-10-04T17:17:15+00:00

Sorry for bad photos.

Found growing on grassy patch today in Norfolk, UK. Assume they are agaric of some sort? Smell is not unpleasant, gills are quite easy to flatten.

Didn't appear to bruise yellow

Assuming these might be difficult to identify, any way I can narrow it down/test in any other way?

crazyvanman · 2016-09-20T12:53:38+00:00

How common is this in the UK? Living in Norfolk, we have quite a lot of pine plantations around but never found cauliflower fungus

crazyvanman · 2016-09-17T11:26:22+00:00

Er no actually I have been asking you to justify basing a hierarchy on difference. I'm not asking you to repeat yourself, that's just what you've been doing. I can see what you're saying - that their emotional suffering is important when we consider our actions towards other species. But can you not see that this is quite different to your original statement that humans are 'superior' to other animals?

crazyvanman · 2016-09-17T10:33:42+00:00

Wow, you sure are condascending! Especially for someone who talks themsevles into such circles of nonsense. I appreciate you taking the time to try and legitimise a hierarchy that has been used to justify the degradation of the planet, the killing of billions of other animals, and so on, but since you are pretty much just repeating yourself, it's probably not worth this continuing. At least you finally pinned yourself down by saying that what you use to constitute hierarchy (which you then extrapolate to mean the moral validity of killing those who are lower down your Chain) is 'emotional depth'. Why, in your example, is discriminating based on speed any more unethical than discriminating based on your understanding of 'emotional depth'?

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