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nugga
8y ago
I wonder if you've even consumed much or any of his works because Sam Harris has released plenty of literary and audio works of various kind where he espouses enlightenment values of liberty, tolerance, not lying, etc. He has on more t
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nugga
8y ago
Of course you didn't have stuff like White Widow or whatever in the 70s but getting better and stronger weed only requires you to grow enough plants and get enough variety that you can start noticing characteristics and then interbreed
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I can't believe you got downvoted for basically suggesting to people who think 50% ABV whiskey is too strong to drink shots of it, mix it down with something or just drink beer. Besides, it's leaving out a lot to say that today&#x
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nugga
8y ago
If you never let your cat out on its own you'll never find out if they'll come back.
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nugga
8y ago
It is factual to say that some cultures more than others are more conducive to the general well being of everyone, especially if we can agree on the baseline that the worst possible suffering for everyone is BAD, and everything else is bett
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8y ago
You are right in that games have latency inherent to the processing of game engine ticks and depending on when you press the button the server might have just advanced to the next frame when your input gets processed and you're looking
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8y ago
Sure, I'm using 4 G mobile internets now and occasionally have to play call of duty at around 80 ms and I can still kick ass. There's no place like LAN for hardcore competitive gaming but if the game's netcode is done well 80
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8y ago
Starlink could be a godsent for online gamers. Anything under 100 ms for fps games is quite playable and you don't need much bandwidth for those udp packets. Just guarantee some minimum bandwidth allotment of say 1 mbps and make sure t
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8y ago
James Damore, as far as I can tell, argued that people gravitate towards things that interest them and gender plays a role in this and that is why women are not 50% of the engineers and programmers. Bret Weinstein and Jordan Peterson for ex
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8y ago
There is a narrative being pushed aggressively by people who identify as left wing, liberal, 'equality above all else' types etc that seems to deny biological facts and human nature while championing for equality of outcome (bad,
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8y ago
I wrote this response because my experience so far is that, while not discounting his twitter antics, Elon is a force of good in this world and is mostly sincere and there seems to be a lot of fud (fear, uncertainty, doubt, often unsubstant
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8y ago
I've been occasionally following the team that continued Bussard's work and they claim they can prove they can make it work in a couple years for a few million or something. Interview with the project lead: https://www.
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8y ago
Bullies will be bullies and it is not uncommon for people wanting to belong to a group or take sides at the expense of someone else. This sort of behaviour seems to be common especially during childhood in schools where someone will be 
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8y ago
Be aware that not every person has your best interest at heart and occasionally you may come across people who will abuse your weakness if you put yourself into a vulnerable position or paint yourself as an easy target. This may be a fringe
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8y ago
Paul Stamets on the Joe Rogan Experience talking about Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus) and magic mushrooms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ Combining those two with Vitamin B3 (Niacin) supposedly does wond
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Yeah, sometimes I've been wondering if there's a natural unconscious resistance or barrier in ourselves or in the ego programming, that is averse or even hostile to loosening up or the very idea of there being something beyond it
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8y ago
It is primarily the FUD and dozens of high profile news outlets using, if not outright lies, then very close to deceitful headlines and reporting to paint a catastrophic picture which seems to be what causes randoms and people not keenly in
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8y ago
When there are hundreds of millions of dollars on the line betting for Tesla to fail someone might be incentivized to take action to spread fud and attack Tesla any chance they get. It is doubly weird in this case because Tesla's missi
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8y ago
The way I see it plenty people s seem to live in what The Bhagavad Gita (a book on yoga and consciousness) describes as 'animal nature', in that they do not necessarily know that they're thinking and that they are constantly
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8y ago
All the other references to seriously heinous and potentially more destructive things don't seem to bother not much anyone or at least can not be used to rile up controversy to the same degree as racist imagery or references. It seems
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This game's thematics are about war, demons, magic, killing, slaughtering, enslaving, pestilence etc and a silly card from a decade+ ago is a problem? Don't manufacture outrage please.
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8y ago
Remember that, no matter how commonly used it is, alcohol is still a neurotoxic solvent whose purpose is to diminish or impair cognitive function to various ends.
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I thought this was a sincere reading of the situation minus the typos. Is it too naive to trust Elon's word or is there something wrong here?
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You seem to be referring to the erroneus and hostile narrative on the thai sub thing. Apparently Elon was in contact with the people leading the rescue and seemed to be level headed and cautious and courteus in dealing with them and approac
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Same reason why there's plenty fud about universal basic income: it gives the workers leverage. When the people who do the worst jobs in terms of pay / working conditions / satisfaction could walk out any day and not be bankr
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Why is there still a prevalent knee-jerk attitude towards some drugs (or external catalysts that affect the body)? Are the lawmakers uninformed on the real effects the drugs have? Do they know but they can't take a 'pro sense
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When you became more aware of how what you do affects other people you can take note, step up your game and improve. I'd hope you aren't judged as harshly for things you may have done when you were in the dark so to speak.
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I wonder how wise it is to be with other people when you're on psychedelics. It's possible that on psychedelics you're much more susceptible and vulnerable to all sorts of visible and invisible outside influence that you may
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Jordan Peterson sums it up so that to win many sets of games you're supposed to be play in a manner that you're invited to play again and again. To win one game at all costs may not be the smartest thing in the long run.. https:&
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I think I meant to write a couple lines at first but the text just kept increasing and then I went into notepad to really put a spin on it. Oops. I can't say for the whole psychedelic using population what their motivations are but as
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