I agree with everything you said. If you’re going to take drugs, having unbiased, scientific information is super important. Just don’t let it fool you into thinking you’re above getting fucked up. Every time you take something, you’re taking a risk. Which isn’t a problem per se (we all take risks, all the time), but well informed, calculated risks are still risks and you need to think real hard whether it’s worth it.
That’s great and I’m glad you have a good experience with it. But, at least in my experience, looking back, psychedelic experiences aren’t as special as I thought they were at the time. Certainly not so special that I would advise everyone to try them. I’ve seen more than one person try psychedelics because they thought they were these amazing, spiritual drugs and then they just had a bad time and got nothing out of it. I’m sure some people do have life changing experiences, but for some people it’s just meh and for others it’s straight up horrible.
People are different and drugs affect people differently (especially psychedelics). And while stories of people thinking they are a glass of orange juice for the rest of their life because they took acid one time are surely way overblown, I’m sure a small number of people do get unlucky and give themselves lasting issues.
Telling people to try all drugs is just bad advice and if people take it to heart it will go badly for some of them.
Try drugs. Do not get addicted to drugs. Seriously, all if them at least once.
I strongly disagree with this (apart from the not getting addicted part). Recreational drug use can be fine if done in moderation and responsibly, but there is absolutely no need to try any drug and some drugs are simply not worth trying at all.
No matter what people tell you, no you don’t need to try DMT or shrooms or whatever. Go for it if you really want to, but none of those experiences are unmissable and no drug can teach you anything you about life that you can’t figure out on your own.
Source: I have done a lot of different drugs and in retrospect none of them are as big of a deal as people make them out to be and plenty of them are straight up stupid or dangerous.
Edit: I should also add that some people absolutely should not do drugs. Especially people with certain mental issues, but also some people just don’t end up having a good time on some drugs. It’s not for everyone and that’s fine.
I’m almost the first (I run multiple VLANs and SSIDs using pfSense and Ubiquiti hardware) but my server is an old PC sitting under my desk and my cable management strategy is mostly “out of sight, out of mind”. I’m also heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, especially for smart home stuff, so not everything is open source. Basically I have a complex network setup because I actually make use of it, but I really don’t enjoy working on it and if there’s an easy solution, I’ll go for it.
If you’re interested, there is a great documentary on Youtube about it: https://youtu.be/eMmNy11Mn7g
you get it by stealing wages and time from the workers below you
That and turning kids into gambling addicts.
If you can share the cost of a VPN with one or more other people (most allow multiple devices to connect at the same time), it’ll be much cheaper. Or if you can’t afford that either, try to find someone who will let you use theirs for free. Maybe you can even find someone who isn’t tech savvy who will pay you a few bucks a month to cover the VPN in exchange for you downloading Linux ISOs for them.
Gamers think they hate video game companies, when they really just hate capitalism.
I have a name that is uncommon where I live, so a lot of people don’t know how to pronounce it or spell it. And if they do, they will spell it wrong anyway, because I have an uncommon spelling. It’s also a relatively long name, so spelling it out letter for letter is quite annoying and error prone.
I’m used to it though, so I don’t really care. From my experience I would say you are overthinking things. A “lifetime of correcting people” is not really a big deal and it’s worth it to have a cool name.
I agree with practicing harm reduction if you’re going to do drugs, but it’s still not worth it imo. I spent much of my twenties experimenting with all kinds of drugs and experienced a lot because of them. From party drugs to wild psychedelic experiences, none of it was actually worth a damn. With psychedelics especially it can feel profound and spiritual at the time, but it’s really not. It’s just your brain chemistry reacting to the drugs. Nothing special or worthwhile about it and you’re better off going outside and experiencing real things and forming relationships with people.
they’re taking pictures of a specific Bianchi model and asking what year it was manufactured
And the answer they get will probably be wrong, or at least wrong often enough that you can’t trust it without looking it up yourself. And even if these things do get good enough people will still won’t be using it frequently enough to want to wear a device on their face to do it, when they can already do it better on their phone.
iOS has this with “Guided Access”. It’s in the accessibility options.
To me it seems like a thing that sounds kinda cool on paper, but is not actually that useful in practice. We already have the ability to do real time translations or point the camera at something to get more information via AI with our smartphones, but who actually uses that on the regular? It’s just not useful or accurate enough in its current state and having it always available as a HUD isn’t going to change that imo. Being able to point a camera at something and have AI tell me “that’s a red bicycle” is a cool novelty the first few times, but I already knew that information just by looking at it. And if I’m trying to communicate with someone in a foreign language using my phone to translate for me, I’ll just feel like a dork.
Same. Lots of people like Star Wars. That means there are plenty of Torrents to choose from. I unsubbed a while back and it’s really no problem.
I recommend setting up Sonarr and Plex or Jellyfin for fully automated copyright infringement. It’s like having a free streaming service that has everything you want to watch as soon as it releases.
I thought the implication was that a muslim wouldn’t vote for a woman, because she is a woman. Re-reading it, I understand the comment to be an implicit reference to the last US presidential election and Harris’ stance on Israel/Gaza. Not being American myself, I don’t really have much to say about that particular dilemma.
That’s a terrible example. I was talking about having a choice between two evils and not an evil and a woman.
I mean I understand the cause and effect, but that’s not what the question was about. It was about morality. And I’ve explained how I feel about that.
What if fascist A plans to kill innocent group X and fascist B plans to kill innocent group Y, but group X is more people? Should I vote for fascist B then? How would you explain that to group Y, that is now being killed because of your choice, but would have been fine otherwise? Do you think they will be okay with your numbers argument?
That’s an extreme example, but I never said I would allow a fascist to win, because I disliked the other candidate’s policy on public transit, just that there is a line somewhere that I won’t cross, even if it means a somehow “less bad” outcome.
Yes. But what I’m trying to say is that whether you are an active participant in the outcome matters too, not just the outcome itself.
Your example doesn’t fit since it doesn’t involve doing something myself (as opposed to something happening to me) and there is no morality involved the choices.
The reason I wouldn’t do something evil to try to prevent something even more evil, is because I don’t believe in doing evil things, even with good intentions. Sometimes I think it’s better to just let the trolley do its thing, rather than getting involved, if there are no good choices.
We had the richest man on earth throwing hitler salutes at the US presidential inauguration. I think it’s entirely possible that the swastika will be acceptable again within the next two generations. But it will be for the wrong reasons…