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SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".
by candiddevmike 10mo ago
SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".
- neogodless 10mo agoSomeone Who Isn't Me?
- MrDrone 10mo agoYes, this was a common phrase in early psychedelic and other drug experience sharing forums. Like a verbal talisman people believe kept them from incriminating themselves. I haven't thought about it in years. Delightful.
- awesome_dude 10mo agoYeah - I was going to ask... for a friend
- mistersquid 10mo ago> Someone Who Isn't Me? Funny, I saw “SWIM” and reasoned “Someone Who Is Me”, thinking “is not” would be represented as “Is Not” instead of the contraction. :)
- Aurornis 10mo agoIn some online drug forums it was believed that if you used SWIM instead of I for all of your posts, the government was powerless to use any of the posts against you. You can still find threads on forums where everyone is saying SWIM did this and SWIM experienced that as if they have discovered a loophole to protect themselves from the law. It always reminded me of those FTP servers in the early days of the internet that had big warning banners declaring the law enforcement was not allowed to connect.
- culi 10mo agoI feel like most people didn't actually believe it would somehow grant them legal protection but still used it kinda tongue-in-cheek. I think it's kinda cute and still use "my friend Swim..." in a joking way when talking about legally dubious escapades
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- airstrike 10mo agoI always feel like they should bring along an artist for the trip so we can get a visual depiction of what it was like
- optimalsolver 10mo agoAnd a poet.
- rolph 10mo agoRide my Llama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMC3DjAFQEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMC3DjAFQEs
- optimalsolver 10mo agoExploring new mushrooms is more likely to end in agonizing death than piercing the veil of reality.
- attila-lendvai 10mo agono, statistucally not. but yeah, a warning is warranted.
- dekhn 10mo agoMajor in biology, do a grad program in medicinal chemistry, join a lab that already studies this. (I know folks who read PiHKAL and thought "Hmm, this would be a nice ML training/prediction exercise")
- rolph 10mo agosome breadcrumbs for your SWIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%27s_Pharmacopeia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%27s_Pharmacopeia