Easy question. Big money wants, and needs to control the news for power and profit. Mastodon is not so easy to control.

Then too, the current EVs are going to evolve. We are just at an awkward stage of development.

Tendency to overwater (non-chlorinated) and little sun - lucky bamboo

A good example is Crisco, a 100% transfat cooking oil that corporations pushed for decades.

Also, there are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters, but no old, bold mushroom hunters.

This is my experience so don’t rely on it: Most mushrooms won’t kill you but some will make you so sick that you wished you died. Even a small bite of the deadly Destroying Angle will most likely not kill you. Only eat a very small amount of a new-to-you mushroom because even safe ones may trigger a fatal allergic reaction, also “safe” Morel mushrooms have killed people who really, really over consumed them.
Get a real “National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms”, book and download the “Seek” app for your phone. Find a person who experienced and go slow. NEVER get careless or over confident.

I like a cold glass of homemade pineapple kombucha - family love it too.

You are not wrong, but you stop short. These types are also very weak emotionally. As Adam Kinzinger said, MAGAs are too terrified to leave the tribe. They believe the lies because their tribe tells them to.

Things are going to change fairly soon. That’s why the GOP is so frantic about getting voter suppression and their agenda in place before the demographics change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4FqqVzH8-0&t=22s