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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
That's where it started, but they're entirely separate banners now. It is actually not allowed to organize raids or other Anonymous-style hacktivities that are against US law on 4chan. So, calling for cyber war may just net you a
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Glad to hear it :) I think you're right in general that there's usually no point acknowledging good things, there's no lesson to learn or corrective action to take from things being good — that's just the expected state.
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
The problem I'm having, dear reader, is that I don't understand why I seem to be the only happy person on the Internet. My twitter feed collectively has depression. Hacker News is a crowd that seems to feel okay on the best of
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Absolutely. If you're looking for examples of things going wrong, the researchchemicals forum unfortunately has more than a few cases of people showing symptoms of serious nerve damage after experimenting with NPS ('novel psychoac
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
The way to test these things is by starting with an alergy test, a dose low enough that it definitely won't have any effect, and also definitely will not kill you. If you feel fine, you wait several days and try a bigger dose, then see
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
That's fair enough. I did hear it repeated a lot that 2C-B's dosage curve seems to be particularly steep and non-linear. I don't know that it's been studied very scientifically, but reportedly the difference between 40 a
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I'm surprised, because you don't often hear that particular criticism of 2C-B. Mostly, people complain about nausea, or the fact that it burns very painfully when people insuflate it Purity and accurate dosage is a function of y
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
The honest answer is that we don't know. Experimentally, it works. There are theories (google will give you a couple vaguely plausible mechanisms), but it's too early to say. And it's likely that the antidepressive effect of
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Congrats on beating your drug addiction! Even if it's "just" caffeine, it's never easy. Methylxantines are a tool, and like every other chemical it's best enjoyed in moderation.
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Ketamine (as its S-isomer) is approved by the FDA for treatment-resistant depression. Note that while the evidence for Ketamine's antidepressant effect is actually strong, that does not mean you should get into the habit of snorting a
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
If the buyers are engineers that understand the concept of storage space measured in bytes, this 'estimate' does not help them. If they don't, it only serves to mislead. The fact that buyers may talk to salespeople is really
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Taking away the option of perpetual licenses is an interesting business decision. Jetbrains makes the subscription model work, but they also do give you a permanent license to older versions after 1 year of subscription (which is a great in
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
That's a tough question to answer, and I think people should make that decision for themselves, with all the information they have about their particular situation. Negative side effects of note with usual ADHD medication (amphetamine
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Screen readers work great, for me it's my phone. On my desktop I'd be getting distracted and bored in about two paragraphs. Even if I try to come back to the article, there's invariable 3 other things that I'm switching
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
If we're posting playful town-style meeting spaces with cute animals, can't forget about this one: https://pony.town/ (2016)
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
You should honestly ask yourself why this is not a popular comment. If you start by assuming everyone else is arguing in bad faith ("people who just wanna be seen looking like they care"), then it's easy to dismiss any critic
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
With the rise of online shopping, the big suppliers are a lot more visible than they were before. I like to read stories on forums sometimes. It turns out there are more than a couple LSD labs, some having a bigger internet presence than ot
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I'd like to pedantically miss the point. I love things that work well, and I think that despite the world of computing being criminally suboptimal, we seem to be making progress! Slowly. And I'm grateful for it. The world is a sur
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
That's too short a thought, it detracts from the point. It is bad to post passwords, not just because you lose privacy, but because you'd lose control of important accounts. Asking people to post their passwords is not reasonabl
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Devil's advocate: It may not be mostly big organized crime. It may be hard to fight, because it's not groups. It mostly comes from people close to the families, or the families themselves. Here's a relevant extract sourced f
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I think you're assuming bad faith from someone who has proven very competent, technical, and coherent. It might simply be truthful. And if the author is proud of that, it is both irrelevant and perfectly okay. Let's focus on the f
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
>I used that example because it seemed most appropriate for this forum Any example you pick is going to be complicated. Because they're people. They're doing their best. Assume good faith. It's not a law, but it helps.
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
That's hard to want to believe. The problem is if you assume they're not trying to help, then either they need help (too), or there's not much we can do about it. I feel like a whole lot of people are trying to help, they&#x2
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Thank you for trying to explain their thought process — I appreciate that, that's very kind! I appreciate that you're very empathetic, and I feel like not everyone else is. There's a whole lot of people who probably can'
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I don't like how people, still, treat lazyness as a root cause, not as an effect. Lazyness is a bug, it's a failure state, it's a medical condition. Much like depression, psychology cannot treat it in all cases, but taking th
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
>But is it unpopular just because it's a communication problem? Maybe. In the sense that if you figured out the right way to present any policy idea it might become popular, I guess. That's a good question, and I'm absolut
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
>The most recent study I've seen suggests that roughly 90% of tweets are posted by 10% of its users That seems in the right order of magnitude, for social media and web forums in general. >Only about 20% of the American populatio
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
If I may play devil's public relation for a second, >Even among the far-left, the idea of actually defunding police is essentially offered only by a fraction of pseudo-revolutionaries. My twitter feed paints a different picture, I h
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I've had an object appear huge once (right after an LSD trip), so might as well share my anecdote. For me it was in a dark environment (bedroom), but I was looking at my phone, without glasses, and holding it pretty close to my eyes (I
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by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Absolutely, that sounds like very good advice for 5-MeO-DMT specifically.

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