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by Nursie 1y ago
Prior to those there were LSZ (lysergic acid dimethylazetidide) and AL-LAD doing the rounds in the UK. Very briefly PARGY-LAD too. 1P-LSD was something of a breakthrough IIRC (never tried it but I was still following the scene at that point
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by Nursie 1y ago
I disagree, I think it is effectively unknown, vanishingly rare considering how many millions of doses have been consumed over decades. Let’s not pretend it’s 100% safe and foolproof, but that’s very far out of the ordinary.
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by Nursie 1y ago
I would have said that was both horrific and unusual, rather than ‘classic’. Let’s not pretend it’s perfectly safe (what is?) but this is hardly ‘normal’.
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by Nursie 1y ago
For my part I probably could benefit from studying philosophy and contemplating inner life a little more. It’s also fair to say I’m disillusioned with psychedelics - not that I don’t think they’re pretty amazing, but that time in my life ha
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by Nursie 1y ago
> I'll think really hard about philosophy when on drugs, you go do your thing ;) Yeah sounds great. It's the imputation that it's the only way that got my back up. I don't imagine 5% of people who've taken and
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by Nursie 1y ago
Offensive to good sense, not aggressive. Mysticism usually seems to me to imply a poor grasp on reality and can be accompanied by all sorts of baseless claims to knowledge and (often naturalistic) fallacies. It often goes hand in hand with
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by Nursie 1y ago
> there is no unsafe dose of LSD Other than being a psychedelic, LSD is a stimulant and vasoconstrictor, so while physically unsafe doses are quite high (yes I've read about 'thumb print' doses), it's probably not wis
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by Nursie 1y ago
I think this notion that one must engage in philosophical study or appreciate "the goddess" to survive, enjoy and appreciate psychedelics is ridiculous. There is no special 'truth' in LSD, certainly no truths outside the
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by Nursie 1y ago
> If you do not have any inclination towards that mystic space, you will not get the ego death I am as agnostic-atheist as they come and would go as far as to say I find mysticism offensive to good sense. But I've experienced the eg
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by Nursie 1y ago
> FSF hated Microsoft because they released binaries without source code I think that's a bit of an oversimplification - FOSS-leaning people had a pretty large set of reasons to dislike and distrust MS back then. "Embrace, Exte
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by Nursie 1y ago
It's all good information in the bmj paper, and there's a lot to take in there. But reading this bit - "Compared with non-consumers, higher consumers (unadjusted comparisons) tended to be younger, have a higher body mass inde
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by Nursie 1y ago
> No artificial sweetener seems to be safe Are we at that point yet? AFAICT aspartame seems to be pretty safe and well-researched, and the IARC listing it as "possibly carcinogenic" itself seems to be controversial. In that cat
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by Nursie 1y ago
It's not terrible, I've used it in hot drinks (fruit green teas) to give some sweetness. Doesn't immediately taste horrific like Stevia.... I'm glad the fashion for shoving that in everything has passed.
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by Nursie 1y ago
I’ve played fewer hours but gone through the whole story and about eight trips through the unity. I don’t think it’s a failed game so much as one that’s not lived up to what it could be. The story is occasionally great but not always so. Mo
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by Nursie 1y ago
Starfield (and I speak as someone who put in a couple of hundred hours to the game) has a wealth of problems, but one of them is that they messed up the distribution of even the small-ish number of points of interest that they have. They pu
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by Nursie 1y ago
There’s been a lot of rattling of nuclear sabres of Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Ukraine managed a pretty effective attack on a few days ago, which is the last time it was brought up in a “you should probably stop supporting Ukraine with mone
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by Nursie 1y ago
> hilarious little jerks. We had a galah chewing our hosepipe the other day. I pointed and said "oi!" and the little scamp stopped, straightened up, looked me right in the eye and ... did it again. Oh and not to forget the kook
738.
by Nursie 1y ago
NO YUO. I had fun there but overall I'm not sad it's gone. A weirdly utopian idea that went very sour.
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by Nursie 1y ago
How well did that one work? There was another one in the US called "PolyHeme" which did not go well - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=PolyHeme The controversy around that one was not only that it did not work as w
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by Nursie 1y ago
Yep, I was looking up a hint for the Blue Prince game the other day for the (spoiler alert?) casino room. Google’s AI results proceeded to tell me all about the games available at the Blue Prince Casino down the road from here, where I know
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by Nursie 1y ago
There was an opinion piece in The Guardian a few years ago expounding the idea that 'awareness' and particularly the medicalisation of minor cases of things like anxiety and depression may be counterproductive, may lead more peopl
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by Nursie 1y ago
Australia too, though you are be allowed to sell at face value plus 10% here in Western Australia. YMMV by state.
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by Nursie 1y ago
> The more interesting question is: what do we do with the art of people who were revealed to be terrible? It's an interesting conundrum isn't it? H.P. Lovecraft is a case in point - Lovecraftian horror is a special sort of lit
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by Nursie 1y ago
Their theories appear not to be incredibly well accepted amongs people who take an interest, and appears (like other 'translations') to grant the translator so many degrees of freedom as to be effecitvely unfalsifiable.
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by Nursie 1y ago
Seems not - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgVZZrZ1eqY There's also a very long thread about it here - https://www.voynich.ninja/thread-2318.html - that seems to go from "that's really inter
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by Nursie 1y ago
> Sure it was striking given the position That's the clue to the outrage. It was well known and enjoyed by the general public, and a pair of morons decided they were going to ruin it for everyone, for no clear reason. > Compare f
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by Nursie 1y ago
This is going throught the courts in New South Wales, Australia, right now. The police have been using drug dogs, which are known to have only a 30% hit rate, as an excuse to strip-search teens on their way into music festivals, despite the
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by Nursie 1y ago
> What percentage of consumers do you think consider privacy as a feature in their car purchasing decision? What percent of users understand how much data is being collected about them?
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by Nursie 1y ago
Mine was "I want to be experiencing life, not recording it", and recently when a large group of acquaintances were sharing memories of a particular period, I had nothing to share. I too wish there were some more photos from my lat
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by Nursie 1y ago
If we're talking about certain derivatives of ergot fungus ... It's something I experienced as well, this sense of profound realisation of something important, life-changing maybe. And then the thought evaporates and (as you disco

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