The internet is so fucked. I just looked up how/when to tap birch trees for sap, and the article I found talked about how tapping birches is where maple syrup comes from.
This AI slop is like microplastic. It's polluting everything.
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@Shanmonster Sorry to hear that. Cornell University's Maple Program has a guide for beginners here. We have two research forests, a podcast, video guides, and education programs for anyone who wants to learn first-hand at our spot in the Adirondacks, both for backyard production and larger-scale operations
@natematias Maples are not birches ... 馃か 馃槑
Very true! I shared it in case Shantell was still looking for information on tapping maples.
Fun fact: I do have a bottle of birch syrup- Cornell's Uhlein forest has been tapping them as part of a project to explore and grow the market in the US. It's good on salads and grilled/baked fish!
@natematias Great! The cultural differences are astonishing. In my region (eastern France) as in eastern Europe, we don't heat it for syrup. We drink the fresh sap as a medicine (and it tastes like one). You can buy it in the supermarket but have to keep it refrigerated. It doesn't keep long.
People here believe that the important ingrediences for this "spring detox" get lost by heating. And we stop collecting it when the tree begins to open buds: a way of reciprocity to let the tree its
@Shanmonster Try AI free DuckDuckGo. No AI slop. Just the Internet as it used to be.
@Iveyline it's what I used.
@Shanmonster I'd say we need to rely on books, but the amount of AI slop books I've seen lately says we're even losing that
@sortius @Shanmonster It's going to be like the early days of the Web. Before search engines were really a thing, it was all hand-curated lists of good/interesting/reliable web sites. Those are going to become important again. Trust is going to be scarce and therefore valuable.
