sammalloy

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by sammalloy 3y ago
> I think a lot of people were increasingly on edge before the pandemic, and the isolation really didn't help them with their mental health. This is my take as well. I personally viewed it as a challenge and a stress test for my ow
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by sammalloy 3y ago
Didn’t they break the krokodil story in the mid-2010s? That coverage was some of the best footage I’ve ever seen. I think they also did that crazy shoot about the drug that turns people in clubs and bars into zombies in South America and
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by sammalloy 3y ago
That was true of indigenous people all over the world who were forced to learn English to trade. It doesn’t change the fact that English went global because of colonization, not because of trade. The trading happened because of colonizati
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by sammalloy 3y ago
National Library of New Zealand: "During the period of colonization…Maori were banned from speaking their native language in public places including schools, and forced to speak the foreign language of English…Maori were deprived…of th
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by sammalloy 3y ago
Why do you think an irreversible binomial employed as a thought-terminating cliché in the form of an argumentum ergo decedo is an appropriate response?
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by sammalloy 3y ago
English is widely spoken because it was the colonial language enforced at the highest levels of society. This is still true today and is currently a primary plank in the political platform of US conservatives. https://en.wikiped
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by sammalloy 3y ago
What a strange hill to die on. English is the colonial language, and its global success was singularly due to imperialist hegemony. This is taught at the university system level and is in every textbook on the subject. I love a good myth
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by sammalloy 3y ago
> who have come to use English for one reason or another Pretty sure that singular reason was colonialism.
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by sammalloy 3y ago
Probably best to start with Richard Evans Schultes. The book list is at the bottom of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evans_Schultes
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by sammalloy 3y ago
There is no evidence for any neurochemical basis, as my follow up post later in the thread explains. It’s purely in the realm of psychedelic lore, anecdotal observation, and weak psychological surveys on testing participants. In other wor
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by sammalloy 3y ago
The problem is most people read "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" (line 3) and neglect line 46: "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."
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by sammalloy 3y ago
Interesting. Ayahuasca has been described as the archetype of the Amazon jungle, while DMT alone has the archetype of the circus.
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by sammalloy 3y ago
That’s correct, but each substance itself also has a similar, corresponding description or form. The "essence of womanhood" is often associated with the correct dosage of Salvia, for example, with people actually hearing the voic
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by sammalloy 3y ago
You don’t need to take any DMT (or any other substance for that matter) to explore and experience this subject. The interesting thing about Shanon is how he collected data about Amazonian archetypes unique to ayahuasca. Jeremy Narby and a
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by sammalloy 3y ago
Name one. The only controversial thing I said is in the choice of specific terms and descriptions, which I acknowledge below with the following sources. For example, there is a debate over the terms lone wolf, leaderless resistance, and
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by sammalloy 3y ago
I’m sad to say that I had never heard of her, but it sounds like she was influential and made her mark and had a way with words. One thing that struck me is how she was suffering from depression for years and committed suicide, leaving her
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by sammalloy 3y ago
I spent some time trying to parse your comment, but I’m afraid I just couldn’t do it. Right wing violence is the largest form of extremism in the US today. It is also largely based on the original values of the KKK, but operates on the le
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by sammalloy 3y ago
When you research the history of the KKK, you will see that they were purveyors of the original blocks and bans; whenever a non-Christian or non-white spoke out about equal treatment under the law or decided to move into their town and live
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by sammalloy 3y ago
I don’t agree, and it appears to me that those who embrace the facade of free speech absolutism always turn out to provide forums for blocks, bans, and threats of political violence against their opponents. Look at the demise of any so-call
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by sammalloy 3y ago
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by sammalloy 3y ago
You said up above that you’ve never done psychedelics, so it makes sense that you’ve never experienced it. This is not a simple example of hyperassociation, it’s a classical case of psychedelic apophenia. If you spend just a few minutes b
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by sammalloy 3y ago
I’ve been wearing an eye mask during sleep for the past year and I’m afraid I’ve become slightly addicted to it. Sleeping without it is terrible. I think this is one of those things that when you make the switch, it’s difficult to ever go
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by sammalloy 3y ago
The original context of the discussion was altering consciousness under the influence of psychedelics. The phenomenon of apophenia is well known in that context and has some unfortunate side effects that overlap with other communities, suc
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by sammalloy 3y ago
And strangely, they never replace CEOs, who earn more than 200 times what workers earn. One would think, that would be a priority.
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by sammalloy 3y ago
> very interesting, do you know the name of this phenomenon? Not OP, but they are describing apophenia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia Many things can trigger it, even high doses of caffeine (such as drinki
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by sammalloy 3y ago
> I guess medical ethical reviews were invented sometime in the late 50’s then. In the late 1970s, actually, and yet they weren’t put into standard practice across the board in every medical field until the 1990s in the US. https:/
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by sammalloy 3y ago
Before the light pollution got really bad where I live due to development, provided it wasn’t cloudy, I could see the Milky Way every night for about 15 years. Now, it’s gone due to lax rules and regulations due to commercial security ligh
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by sammalloy 3y ago
> Because people who are good and social with the group do not have a contrarian character That’s an interesting observation, and in my experience working in small businesses and large enterprise organizations, it’s entirely and totally
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by sammalloy 3y ago
> Storytelling computers will change the course of human history I realize that everyone thinks this is now THE moment, but I remember reading niche stories about this or that storytelling program changing the world back in 1994. Not mu
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by sammalloy 3y ago
During the height of the Great Recession, you could get your hands on used stretch limousines for fairly cheap. There was even a time when homeless people were buying them to live in, and it wasn’t uncommon to see them parked on the side o

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