callmehippie said:

cronicr said:

I remember the good days when it told you who was ignoring you and you could spam bs 😭

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Ha
I could definitely see that getting outta hand.

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The damn pubbers ruined it for the rest of us.

Also, i think stipe made that writeup right before his last hiatus

Smellyhobbit said:

callmehippie said:

Hey stipe. While your here. I was reading your pasteurizing spores write up/experiment.


To help clean up an innoculant much as possible.


Just curious. Was this somthing you decided to keep in your repertoire?

And still utilize today?

Or did it turn out the number of spores damaged in the process outweighed the postitive benefits?

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I’m not Stipe, but I definitely will be doing this again. 99/100 swabs and prints I work with require zero cleanup. In my pan grows, I straight up send germ plates.

I have been working with some very very dirty wild prints lately, and the only thing that got them to streak clean was dehydrator pasteurization. Worked amazing. I will definitely be using it when I need to.

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cronicr said:

Perma ban I believe so , normal ban...no .
Ignoring a mod is strange , it's not like we can't still see you

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callmehippie said:

Forums are way better than social media.  Social media fucked with my head so much.  Not surprising How much my mental health improved When I deleted all my accounts.


This forum is the first thing I've participated in. in 6 years.


I was extremely reluctant to create an account here. But really glad i did.

Its Definitely different.

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IRC here, back when it was literally the wild wild west and running a box was pretty much the norm. Nowadays most users moved to discord meh.. I do agree with modern social media being cancer

ps,
Wondering if we met before 'round the topia perhaps

tree frog said:

Felt tired at 8:30 so laid down for the night.

Woke up at 12:30 hoping it was morning so I could start running plates.

It's now 1:30, PC is coming up to pressure for my media bottles.  Plates sterilizing in the oven, coffee brewing.

I don't even like making agar, but my little ones need fresh petris poured!

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I'd pour agar out of my ears if i could lol, Agar is therapy without the aroma oils. The act of pouring is an art itself. Gives me tremendous peace of mind.

ps,
Congrats on the tag yayy, atta girl

Stipe-n Cap said:

callmehippie said:

Beef is the one who created the thread and topic. And up to this point he hadn't had any issues with the things being discussed.  And im Not talking bout the whole cat debacle.

I know he's not a moderator. but figured if he wanted it to stay so super specific to only things that we confess we are or aren't doing specifically related to mushroom cultivation. He would have said so.

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There was no issue until cron asked for folks to cool it and get off the catnip topic, which is his prerogative as a mod.

Until then nobody cared wtf you folks got into. I only ever once asked for this thread to get back on topic when it strayed into speaking about a members personal life. Which was my prerogative. We don't intervene arbitrarily, that was my point as a whole with my reply above.

Mods moderate conversions and interactions, it's our function here. Whether you understand or agree with our decisions is irrelevant, but we will explain them if asked, and that's why we're responding now.

Does that clarify things?

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Thank you Stipe


ps,
Amish country sausages ftw

Smellyhobbit said:

callmehippie said:

Hey stipe. While your here. I was reading your pasteurizing spores write up/experiment.


To help clean up an innoculant much as possible.


Just curious. Was this somthing you decided to keep in your repertoire?

And still utilize today?

Or did it turn out the number of spores damaged in the process outweighed the postitive benefits?

---

I’m not Stipe, but I definitely will be doing this again. 99/100 swabs and prints I work with require zero cleanup. In my pan grows, I straight up send germ plates.

I have been working with some very very dirty wild prints lately, and the only thing that got them to streak clean was dehydrator pasteurization. Worked amazing. I will definitely be using it when I need to.

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raccoon_cat said:

Confession: my corporate tech-y job has taken a huge toll on my mental health over the past few years, and my efforts to find a new one have all been unsuccessful. It's really starting to wear me down and make me want to get out of this line of work. However, I would either have to take a much lower paying job or go back to school to do that. I have two young kids and a mortgage, so the idea of taking a barely-above-minimum-wage job just to stick it to my corporate overlords is an idiotic move. It wouldn't even cover the cost of daycare.

As the child of two educated professionals, it was always assumed that I would do well in school, go to college, get a white collar job of some type, work 30-40 years, blah blah blah. And I was fine with that. Went to college, did everything you're supposed to, but then really "fumbled the bag" after that in terms of career path. I eventually found my way into the tech field because up until 2022 the jobs were plentiful and the barrier to entry was relatively low. Well, now if you're not doing all the AI all the time (and also cheerleading about how amazing it is), nobody gives you the time of day. I am not an AI enthusiast, let me put it that way. I just want to punch the clock and work on my shit.

Confession: the idea of enrolling in an HVAC/R program at a tech school near me is pretty appealing. I feel like a lot of you shroomers are rough-hewn tradespeople. Is the idea of a 36 year old, college educated father of 2 preschool kids going to HVAC school ridiculous? Any time I take a career strengths assessment type thing it says I'm a pragmatic fixer type person and I think that's true. The idea of showing up to the job site, fixing/installing/etc the stuff, go home, do it again....that's SUPER appealing. And HVAC seems to be very in demand. But that's just my outsider's viewpoint bolstered somewhat by a glance at my local pipefitter's union website and the school's program descriptions. I don't want to be naive. I'm somewhat concerned that everyone else has this same idea and I'll come out the other side competing for scraps with every other white collar refugee who got replaced by AI or what have you.

So...TL;DR just looking for thumb-in-the-air shroomified takes on the trades job market and any advice. I enjoy lurking and reading all your conversations.

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callmehippie said:

Smellyhobbit said:

callmehippie said:

Hey stipe. While your here. I was reading your pasteurizing spores write up/experiment.


To help clean up an innoculant much as possible.


Just curious. Was this somthing you decided to keep in your repertoire?

And still utilize today?

Or did it turn out the number of spores damaged in the process outweighed the postitive benefits?

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I’m not Stipe, but I definitely will be doing this again. 99/100 swabs and prints I work with require zero cleanup. In my pan grows, I straight up send germ plates.

I have been working with some very very dirty wild prints lately, and the only thing that got them to streak clean was dehydrator pasteurization. Worked amazing. I will definitely be using it when I need to.

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Awesome. I have some dirty shit i definitely wanna try out. Which way exactly did you land on going about putting them in the dehydrator? And what temp/how long

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PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

I personally don't get the hate for discord. At its core, it's just a community. Some are good and some are bad.

I've been on one for the last 5 years. We all started playing Destiny 2 together, and even though most of us don't play that particular game anymore we still chat, play dnd and the occasional new release. In 5 years there has been very little drama.

Saying discord is full of drama is like saying a friend group is full of drama. It only applies if you pick shitty ones.

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Smellyhobbit said:

Swabs in baggies in the dehydrator. Just went back and read it, and it looks like I did 140° for 2 hours. I feel like you can do 150°.

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