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by loves_mangoes 1y ago
The visuals you get from psychedelics and the visuals from imagination are different. Psychedelics seem to affect your real visual field. You're not imagining textures melting with colors and walls turning into liquid, it becomes what
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by loves_mangoes 1y ago
That checks out. Years ago I noticed a vulnerability through the photography board. You'd upload your pictures, and 4chan would display all the EXIF info next to the post. 4chan's PHP code would offload that task to a well-know, b
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by loves_mangoes 2y ago
Maybe not, but it's okay to not be the very best, and it's okay to fail. And it's especially okay when comparing ourselves to one of the few dozen names from before the Julian calendar that everyone still remembers to this da
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by loves_mangoes 2y ago
You're right, of course. There is a difference between methylphenidate and other amphetamine-class stimulants for ADHD, but I didn't know what to call it. I should have said it's not a direct agonist. Instead of directly caus
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by loves_mangoes 2y ago
>Sorry for the slight divergence from the focus on ketamine, but more generally, does anyone know if this applies to other medications that alter the brain's function? Tolerance is a phemomenon where after using a drug regularly for
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by loves_mangoes 2y ago
It doesn't recognize Tor Browser as such, but in this case calling its anti-fingerprinting user agent a "desperate lack of personality" happens to be more a compliment than a roast! On the other hand, it's disappointed t
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by loves_mangoes 3y ago
More backstory: The ID assigned to posts is a sequential incrementing number. So it is possible to "aim" for a nice round number by posting at the right time When people notice that their post IDs start approaching a large whole n
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by loves_mangoes 3y ago
Ah, fair enough! I'm only trying to describe the state of things today, but certainly those uses of the word are not new
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by loves_mangoes 3y ago
For the record, that's not it. People calling each other "autists" is a WallStreetBets practice, from Reddit. It's not a thing on 4chan, not even on the interesting place that is /biz/. 4channers would use the
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by loves_mangoes 3y ago
I had heard that there's a community of people who insufflate caffeine on Reddit, but this one is news to me. Seems a little funny to go through all the trouble and extreme stigma of injecting yourself with an IV drug, only to pick gro
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
>But you wouldn't say the same thing to a diabetic who needs insulin, right?. Yes, that's where I'm conflicted. At the same time that I try to pretend using psychedelics for ADHD would be an addiction, I'm actively se
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
>As a ground-level example, you can have a task on your mind all day, to the point where you can't relax or do anything else productive, but still get nowhere with it. >I had some (limited) success with microdosing LSD, which I t
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
Thank you, I appreciate particularly all attempts at harm reduction, that's very thoughtful and kind of you. Narcan (naloxone) is a wonderful thing, that I wish was more broadly available. I would still worry that sometimes people are
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
You're right. I use it as a euphemism, I think because the stigma is so strong even I feel uncomfortable writing it. It is in fact mail-order "street" metamphetamine from an online reseller. My understanding is that the produ
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
I did a volumetric dilution of desoxyn crystals, in an attempt to find some alternative tool to manage my ADHD, as a complement to the very limited solutions available in my country. The scary thing about desoxyn is that it's thoroughl
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
That's mostly a myth, it's not very well absorbed through the skin at all. For a thumbprint, you still put your thumb on your tongue and lick it. But it's important to keep in mind that only very rarely have people actually d
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
A kilogram is a lot, considering LSD is active at microgram doses, although in practice there are labs producing and handling kilograms of it. LSD in powder form is readily available on the black market. Expensive (because you don't
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
Many people have tried to describe it and report their experiences. See https://www.erowid.org/ for a large collection
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
A lot of people in or around tech are furries, are into things like japanese animation, or are into My Little Pony. I don't consider myself one, but people often jokingly say that furries run the Internet. And it's not really spec
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
Opioids should require a reasonable bar, if we go from a really low bar to a really high bar, all we are doing is making the same mistake twice, but in opposite directions. The wildly excessive prescription of oxycontin & opioid is a cr
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
Okay, I see what you mean with the clean hands analogy now. I've definitely seen people on social media for example using OCD as an exaggeration for completely normal, even positive things. I agree it's not very useful to use labe
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
Autism is also classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder, and yet it is a spectrum. The fact that we, as humans, have to decide who gets the label of 'Has the Disorder' and who doesn't is just an artifact of how we like to
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by loves_mangoes 4y ago
It seems bitterly ironic that the people who need those stimulant medications the most tend to be those who will have the most trouble jumping through all the hoops, and continuing to perform the song and dance on time every month. The &#x2
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
That's entirely fair. I do the same, a lot. I like writing macros, using regexes, or even short awk scripts to automate any manual text workflows. I'm not trying to deny your experience, so I can accept your word for it that it wo
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I think you're right that focusing on group effects will be more productive, but I probably reach the same conclusion for different reasons :) I intuitively don't like the idea of the 10x programmer, my core argument is actually t
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I agree with you :) I actually like those little patterns a lot, there are problems where you might absolutely take 10x longer because you didn't know the algorithm or the right machine learning concept. The OP talks about becoming &qu
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Two answers to this. The first I sort of already touched on below is that gaining a whole order of magnitude productivity, not just on a single task where a cool pattern applies but on average, is a really big effect size. If your colleague
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Sure, but I feel like that's trying to argue semantics without really changing the nature of the problem. If the 'single thing' is really a whole compendium of integrated skills, then you can't easily teach it to people
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
All those little bits of knowledge are nice tools and patterns, they're definitely good to have. And if you have curiosity, you will naturally keep learning dozens of those over time. But they are not applicable everywhere, so you shou
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I'm very late (I don't check my alt account too often), but I figure I'll reply anyways. Even if just for myself. The truth is I was not a popular kid. I had food, but I've fainted once from hunger (my fault). My parent

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