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by slibhb 3y ago
The fact also makes you notice that no one is writing articles about how much water smelters use...
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by slibhb 3y ago
> The book's perspective on human condition is very cynical. My understanding, when I read it, is that by "unbearable lightness" what the author means is that we are absolutely irrelevant and the whole idea of "meanin
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by slibhb 3y ago
Blaming immigration into Europe on climate change seems like a stretch. It's about political and economic instability.
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by slibhb 3y ago
From a utilitarian perspective alcohol is obviously bad. But no one is a utilitarian all the time. I recommend Another Round, a Danish movie, that gently argues for alcohol (with caveats).
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's well known that ketamine is addictive. Just google "ketamine addiction". It's an effective antidepressant for many people but you can't take it long term because tolerance develops quickly.
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by slibhb 3y ago
No, I'm positing a 1:1 relationship between "holy shit I am a new person" in a good way and "holy shit I am a new person" in a bad way. That's not the same as good/bad experiences.
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by slibhb 3y ago
For everyone who has an experience like you, there's someone like this guy: https://www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/dmt-derealization-and-... Anyway, since you were dancing, I assume you used MDMA which is much &quo
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by slibhb 3y ago
You're posting hearsay and anecdote and passing it off as "thousands of years of spiritual practice". As I said, we don't have a good theory of why some people have lasting, negative side effects from using these drugs.
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by slibhb 3y ago
60% of posts in every HN thread about psychedelics are whackos peddling fake knowledge. To me, the interesting question is whether this special mix of new-age spiritual bullshit and two-points-make-a-line, post-hoc reasoning is caused by ps
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by slibhb 3y ago
> You could say that about any medication with side effects, so really that statement doesn't say much. No you couldn't -- it depends how well the medication is understood/how much research exists. > I think a better re
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by slibhb 3y ago
That dose/setting was the trigger here is pure speculation. Really, we should just leave it at: "sometimes, for unknown reasons, these drugs can fuck you up for years".
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by slibhb 3y ago
If colleges stop considering standardized tests in order to keep the number of Asians down, is that illegal? Could courts force colleges to keep using the SAT?
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by slibhb 3y ago
I quite like Junger. The Glass Bees is a really interesting parable about technology. It predicts parts of the modern tech industry quite accurately. Most of the potshots in the article are cheap. I like this quote from Jean Cocteau about J
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by slibhb 3y ago
Of course his willingness to take risks matters. It shows that he didn't value his own safety over others'. It also shows that he thought the sub was safe. Being wrong doesn't make you a sociopath. As I said, the interesting
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by slibhb 3y ago
Using a perspective projection works because our brains automatically understand the distortions caused by that sort of projection and account for them. Reprojecting on-the-fly is a way around it. Yes, you're still projecting to two di
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by slibhb 3y ago
I didn't mean to write off social conservatism. I just meant that it's unappealing to roughly half the country and it's unclear what liberals are supposed to tell men and women to discourage this behavior.
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by slibhb 3y ago
There's something to the idea that Americans tolerate devil-may-care risk-takers but the idea that Stockton Rush and Elon Musk are sociopaths is absurd. Hell, Rush went down with the ship (so to speak). What's of interest here is
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's 1962. "Negro" was the polite word, you don't have to asterisk it.
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by slibhb 3y ago
We've come a long way since Vera Lynn. Whether it's for the military or not, I find these women's behavior gross and their followers pathetic. It feels like we're veering into post-feminist territory where attractive, ch
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by slibhb 3y ago
Maybe all distinctions are arbitrary but "LSD/food" is possibly one of the least arbitrary...
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's immoral to search for meaning by playing with your brain chemistry instead of going out into the world and engaging with it in some way.
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by slibhb 3y ago
No have you checked out BILLIONAIRE RADICAL: GEORGE SOROS AND THE SCHEME TO REMAKE AMERICA?
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by slibhb 3y ago
Seems like the left wing version of the "George Soros is behind everything I disagree with"
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Countries closer to the equator—which happen to be poorer1—seem smaller than they are. Depends on the projection you use and its parameters. The "Web Mercator is racist" meme is just lazy. One way around the issue is renderin
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by slibhb 3y ago
I feel like you've turned friendship into a conspiracy theory. It seems more likley that a rich conservative might admire and want to be friends with a conservative supreme court justice (and have the means to arrange a meeting).
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by slibhb 3y ago
Does anyone actually think Alito (or Thomas) rule conservatively because of rich conservatives taking them on vacations? It seems clear that the causation is reversed. Which is not to say this behavior isn't ill-advised.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I read Taipei years ago. Similar to the reviewer, I experienced an initial revulsion towards the writing. But by the end I quite liked it. Tao Lin is an interesting guy. Among other eccentricies, he claims to have cured his autism (which wa
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's widely considered likely that affirmative action will be banned by the US supreme court in the next few years.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I'm opposed to DEI but I'm not sure if states banning it sets a good precedent. As much as possible, the government should leave the academy alone.
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by slibhb 3y ago
If you extend your "calling a spade a spade" logic, it will to lead to some ridiculous premise like "everyone born before x year was an evil bigot" where x keeps marching forward year after year.

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