Significance is just a concept humans made up to make ourselves feel bad.

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Fungi only got its own kingdom in 1969, before that they were a phylum in Plantae. There are tons of people still around who learned “mushrooms are plants” in school, so it’s not surprising downstream vocabulary hasn’t caught up.

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.

And let those filthy aspergillus or god-forbid hypomyces have a say in how we run things? I think not, long-live King Muscaria of Amanitaceae!

Or slime molds which are, in fact, an ameoba.

Most molds are about as closely related to mushrooms as flatworms are to humans

Gamefreak definitely used this as the inspiration for the Snivy line.

That’s a Naga not a dragon, a common mistake.

It belongs in a museum !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world.

A feature that is consistently misused is a useless feature. Either get used to them being used to express disagreement or admit that they’re a failure and stop trying to make them work.

This page has a table of instances with a bunch of info including whether the instance has downvotes.

If it annoys you, you could consider moving to an instance without downvotes so your feed will act like they don’t exist.

is always interpreted as a True Scotsman

Only by people who don’t understand that NTS is about moving goalposts when a generalization is challenged and think it means “anyone who claims to be part of a group is part of that group”.