mikelyons

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by mikelyons 7y ago
One of the most important aspects IMO is the attitude they take: > "While we at Microsoft have worked hard to be 'carbon neutral' since 2012, our recent work has led us to conclude that this is an area where we’re far bet
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by mikelyons 7y ago
It's really difficult from my arbitrary perspective to read it as anything other than click-bait sensationalism. Anything that can be cited as "the biggest" negative movement or trend since any point in the past can be used t
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Reminds me of "Bread and Circuses"
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by mikelyons 7y ago
It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
So then the greater holy war is to make control easier and more friendly so that more people desire it.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
How much time spend do you estimate you'd log logging the time spend of logging your time spend?
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by mikelyons 7y ago
I think that you're not acknowledging businesses that don't compete solely on price, like house-cleaning, cigarettes, alcohol, massage, SEO, etc. Many many businesses would want to keep the extra money that tax breaks afford them.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
If I owned a business, and suddenly paid way less in tax, I would want to just pocket that money as profit and increase my personal wealth, why would any other business do anything different? We're self-biased at the end of the day, it
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by mikelyons 7y ago
You're fine, I just wanted to be helpful :)
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by mikelyons 7y ago
6th paragraph > ... 89 healthy volunteers.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
IMO There is a much better case for: if you're not taking it in a spiritual setting you're doing it wrong. Anecdotally I've had the bad experience and the life-changing transcendent experience, all self-directed. In my experi
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by mikelyons 7y ago
MDMA, Ketamine and LSD sure, but mushrooms have been in use for spirituality far longer than mainstream clubs have even been a concept.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
> defunctionalization, a transformation that replaces higher-order functions with equivalent first-order ones. For anyone else who got nothing from the title.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
One day after enabling 2-factor auth for AdWords, all google services started to give the "this browser is insecure" error and I was unable to log into _any_ google services in Chrome. Things worked fine in Firefox, so I switched
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Sadism, addiction, domination, waste, these are all completely natural. Nothing that's unnatural exists. All existence is natural. What would make you believe otherwise? Just the fact that they don't align with your particular sur
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by mikelyons 7y ago
I don't know if this really answers your question, but seems to be relevant: > The particle pollution analysed in the study is produced by burning fossil fuels in vehicles, homes and industry.
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The keys to mitigating the harmful effects of endocrine disruptors(youtube.com)
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by mikelyons 7y ago
I'm surprised that none of the comments already mention this particular explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw44V15xgPo There have been individuals who understood consciousness for thousands of years, one pops
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by mikelyons 7y ago
maybe spend an hour ... every day!
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by mikelyons 7y ago
It makes such a difference, this and posture. I've had so many injuries and joint problems from not doing this, luckily I've made it a routine in my 30s
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Anecdotal, but a close friend told me that during a moderately high dose mushroom experience his tinnitus was gone for the duration (~4 hours). I was there with him while he was experiencing this.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Speculation: Americans elect Bushs and Trumps. It's also easy to absolve yourself when the person you're hating on is the strongest.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
How many petrol stations caught fire last year? I know one blew up in my neighborhood in 2018 ...
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Potentially: Someone who's unmitigated selfishness harms others.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
This echos what the Islamic state does with it's youth also. These are systems of control built to perpetuate collective egos.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Would demonizing and banning psychedelics not count as advancing one religious or spiritual tradition over another? This is getting way off topic, but does it stand to reason that new emerging spirituality that uses substances that are not
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Ideology is the exact opposite of what I would say is necessary. We need to hold deep ideals loosely, and aim to not be ideological. Political apathy, child-rearing as a primary objective of life, these things can be held ideologically.
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Do you think that it's possible to have your mind hijacked by apathy? Do you think that it's possible to have your mind hijacked by your identity? Morality is not what is being pointed to here, morality is relative and a projectio
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by mikelyons 7y ago
What can be done when the institutions that must be reigned in are the most powerful ?
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by mikelyons 7y ago
Leo Gura of Actualized.org has a really great lecture on what intelligence is that sort of breaks the bounds of other previous explanations of intelligence I've heard. It's available on youtube here: https://www.youtube

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