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treefrog,

Exactly. Conservative activist? LMFAO.

No, activism is fighting against political violence and oppression, not for it.

I don’t give a fuck what wholesome sounding names you call your organization. Fascists are fascists.

Unless you’re a conservative trying to reform your own party. Then I might reconsider my position.

edit: And fuck nbc for kowtowing to conservatives. May as well be Fox propaganda.

treefrog,

and 75 large business partnerships that have assets of roughly $10 billion on average are targeted for the new “compliance efforts.”

From the article.

Anyway, I think billionaires are millionaires. Have to be to have billions. Which is to say, I doubt they’re not targeting billionaires too and that I’m thankful that AI will help the IRS keep the rich accountable.

treefrog,

I hear you my turtle friend.

I guess I’m saying this is a step in the right direction and I hope that the IRS is operating in good faith in regards to billionaires too.

But yes, the gop is corrupted by greed and have a long history of betraying their constituents for campaign donations.

treefrog,

I get that.

But I think it missed the point of what I was saying.

Millionaire includes Billionaires. If you have 999 million, you don’t stop having millions of dollars because you rob people of one more million.

It’s an inclusive term of billionaires, and was probably chosen as the title of the article to save on space rather than to imply billionaires are somehow excluded from these new procedures.

treefrog,

We need to take over all oil, gas, and utility companies.

It’s existential at this point.

treefrog, (edited )

Psilocybin mushrooms have been used medicinally on this continent to treat mental health since before colonialism by white people.

And the LD 50 on it would require you to eat about fifty pounds of mushrooms before you might die (of course, your stomach would burst before this happened).

Do people freak out when psilocybin is taken unskillfully? Absolutely. Psilocybin is a powerful tool. And like a surgeon’s scalpel, it can hurt when used poorly. And heal when used skillfully.

So no, it’s not good because it’s natural. It’s good because it’s good. And when applied mindfully, it has the potential help heal a lot of people.

treefrog,

Psilocybin is medicine and Nixon outlawed it as a political weapon. It was never a war on drugs, it was always a war on personal freedom and the voting rights of people who might threaten Nixon at the ballot box.

Sorry you don’t believe in liberty and personal freedom. Or the right to bodily autonomy, especially when it comes to medicine. That really sucks and I hope you work on it soon!

treefrog,

Re: Microdosing

Unless something recent came out that I missed the few studies on micro dosing suggest it’s no better than placebo. Which isn’t to say it’s not effective, we do need more studies here.

Macrodoses of about 20-30mg (which is between 1g and 3g of mushrooms depending on potency), in clinical settings, have shown very strong evidence in the treatment of treatment resistant depression and end of life anxiety, and good evidence in treatment of anxiety disorders as well as alcohol and tobacco addiction.

Personally, I like 10-20mg once or twice a week for habit change*, and larger doses for getting out in the woods by myself and just being. I guess you could call it ego dissolution but I’ve done it enough times that when I’m in the right headspace it doesn’t feel like I’m losing anything but becoming part of everything. Listening to the birds and insects, it’s easy for me to completely forget myself on tryptamines like psilocybin and DMT.

*Psilocybin helped me quit smoking.

treefrog,

Huberman Labs podcast has done a lot of episodes on psilocybin and psychedelic research. The current understanding of the main mechanism of action is really cool.

Basically, psilocybin helps different parts of the brain communicate better. Of course, this can be undesirable if repressed trauma surfaces and their’s no one there capable of helping the person process the trauma.

But it’s also amazing because it can help us tune back into how children process information, openly and innocently, because that part of the mind is still there. Hiding under our egos (which we develop mostly as teenagers). Assuming we feel safe enough of course, to let our survival mechanisms (ego) go for a bit.

treefrog,

And arsenic is legal and all of the drugs in reference are non-toxic.

So thanks for proving that the drug laws are about political violence, and not about keeping us safe.

treefrog,

I agree with most of what you’re saying aside from the part about making all drugs illegal.

The drug war is more about political violence than it is about keeping America safe, for one. A Nixon aide is on record describing how the drug war was about disinfranchising people who may stop his reelection.

For, two. Bodily autonomy is a right. Remember, the bill of rights is not meant to be all inclusive. And it’s not our job to prove our rights but the governments job to justify its power.

In this case, the government has utterly failed to justify this power. We’ve criminalized medicine that can cure addiction and consumerism. And put people in prison, destroying families. Both hippies just trying to grow some shrooms to share with friends, and suffering addicts who need medical help.

And for three, prohibition doesn’t work. We’ve seen this proved again and again in multiple countries and now over a full century.

It’s time to end this civil war that destroys families, and robs people of their political power. A war started so the second most corrupt president in history could angle for a second term.

This issue isn’t about safety. But control.

treefrog,

They should be consistent for sure.

But drugs is a word man made up. Kids get high on sugar and social media can be as addictive as meth.

So, we should make it all legal. And regulate it so people stop dying of fentanyl.

Full stop.

Because trying to police dopamine rewards that come from things outside ourselves is a very slippery slope.

treefrog,

It’s horror but I think It is some kinda extea diminisional being.

I guess what I’m saying is a lot of King’s stories are horror but with a bit of sci-fi (Under the Dome and Dreamcatcher for instance probably cross the line into being Sci-fi tbh).

treefrog,

Install Firefox?

That was my solution anyway.

treefrog,

Anyone who thinks they’re not anti union isn’t paying attention.

treefrog,

How will they tell the difference other than people lodging complaints?

And will this include YouTube?

Carbon markets are 'bogus solutions' as rich world keeps polluting, African Climate Summit is told (apnews.com)

The summit has sought to reframe the African continent, which has enormous amounts of clean energy minerals and renewable energy sources, as less of a victim of climate change driven by the world’s biggest economies and more of the solution....

treefrog,

They use propaganda. They don’t have to read minds. Just have to distort the picture enough to subvert the will of the people.

The democratic deficit, that’s the gap between what people want and what representatives do, is very high in the U.S.

It’s lobbyists that have the ear of politicians, not the people.

treefrog,

They’re arguing their bing devision and some others should be excluded.

Windows is still a huge market share of OSs. So, the law is capable of saying this part of Microsoft is a gatekeeper, and this part not, is what I’m saying.

treefrog,

Not my browser history. I use private browsing… and Firefox!

treefrog,

Firefox

treefrog,

Brave is a marketing browser masquerading as a privacy browser.

Just use Firefox. Mozilla is a nonprofit and Firefox is open source. It’s really not hard to switch.

treefrog,

I just checked. Mozilla has both a non-profit and a for profit division.

Both support Firefox.

treefrog,

I have a penis. My partner a vagina. She’s way better with money than me and uses trig every day for her work (lighting design is math intensive).

Meanwhile, I yell at my computer trying to get my remedial fraction homework figured out.

Disney tickets, PS5s, and big-screen TVs: Florida parents exploit DeSantis' school vouchers (popular.info)

Florida parents are taking advantage of an expanded school voucher program championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R), according to messages from private Facebook groups obtained by Popular Information. The private Facebook messages reveal how parents are using the new

treefrog,

This was what was going through my head too. Isn’t this welfare for DeSantis voters?

treefrog,

Damn, Florida is going to have to ban half the Bible I guess.

There’s a bunch of slavery in the Old Testament.

treefrog,

It is classical bigotry.

And we do it in the U.S. through classism too though it’s much less apparent (mostly because Americans like to believe in ‘upward mobility’).

How you talk, what you eat, what kind of music you like. All of this can betray caste (or class) and keep you out of job positions or even schools if the person interviewing you has conscious or subconscious biases.

The rich have a term, new money, which is a way of saying, you don’t belong in our caste. Or class. Pick your term for bigotry.

treefrog, (edited )

If being a bigot was socially acceptable here we’d see more abuses in broad day light like Asia

But people still get murdered and tortured for being different in the U.S. And there’s still tons of covert and overt bigotry in every level of society from housing, to work, to school, to medicine.

So, I get you. In Asia it’s acceptable to treat people this way which means there’s fewer legal protections. It still happens in the U.S. And I’m sure the victims and their families couldn’t care less if we argue about where it’s worse.

treefrog,

Honestly I learned it from books that take place in New Orleans. Families that have had plantation houses and estates in their family since before the civil war.

I don’t hang out with old money people to first hand know how they talk behind closed doors. Just have read some authors that do.

treefrog, (edited )

I kept a dream journal for a couple of years.

Subjectively there was no way for me to know if it was memory or just my tired brain making a story out of the left over bits of sleep.

It did fuel a lot of creative writing though (both in and out of the journal). And helped me be more in touch with my emotions.

treefrog, (edited )

Also kept a dream journal.

The trick is not to focus on the story (what the dream is about or means) and to recall the emotional energy in the dream.

Learning to meditate and tune into my emotions was both aided by dream journaling, and an aid to dream journaling.

Plus the emotional content probably has more meaning than whatever story we tell ourselves.

treefrog,

Most people at Burning Man aren’t rich. I hung out with a bunch of people who go regularly last night and I imagine less than half even own their own property.

So yeah, you sound pretty callous tbh

treefrog,

The cost of living here isn’t very high. The people I mentioned in my comment as not owning property probably make less than 50k.

A lot of them camp together to split set up costs, gas, etc. So, they make it work, and I know a lot of them make sacrifices to make it work (living in a shitty apartment the other 51 weeks a year so they can afford the lifestyle for example).

It’s not for me, personally. A fun crowd. Like carnies on LSD. But chronic pain and a history of interpersonal trauma make the desert sound like a really horrible time. Plus I’m poor poor (like on disability poor).

I do enjoy the regionals though when I feel up for them.

treefrog,

The South Park games load so slowly on switch I found them unplayable.

The bits I played were phenomenal. I just don’t have the patience for long load times anymore

treefrog,

Thanks for the heads up! It has at least six months since I tried playing Fractured.

treefrog,

What’s visible with the naked eye. If using a dog outside an apartment door to smell weed is unconstitutional, I imagine doing a flyover with a drone is too.

treefrog,

Police are not allowed to use anything other than the ‘naked eye’ (their own senses) without a warrant.

If this includes police dogs (it does, the SC ruled on this and a conservative justice wrote the majority opinion), it includes drones (with or without thermal cameras).

NYC will see a lawsuit out of this for sure.

treefrog,

It excluded people’s stereotypes about homeless people and showed how much of a difference $7,500 can make in the lives of most homeless people.

Tackling stigma is an issue but really wasn’t the purpose of the study.

treefrog,

Most homeless people have employment lapses that make it hard to find work, even with an address and fresh clothing. Aswell as possibly still having debts that led them to lose housing in the first place.

In other words, $7,500 is a great start, but as you said, $7,500 doesn’t go far with recent cost of living inflation. And as I mentioned, getting back on your feet isn’t easy because employers aren’t quick to hire the recently homeless.

treefrog,

This is going to get easier and easier for states to do as AI becomes more common.

treefrog,

I see a huge class action in the near future.

treefrog,

The other 34% of adults surveyed were middle management.

treefrog,

Fun article.

Taking oral dmt while engaged in Buddhist practice taught me a lot about how conscious experience is formed. At least experientially.

What’s going on in the nervous system I’m no expert on. But it’s more than brain chemistry. Without the rest of the nervous system, including the second and third minds (the heart and gut are packed with nerves, and “mind” in Buddhism should be translated as heart/mind), we’d just be a brain in a box.

treefrog,

This isn’t about a public servant. It’s about a cop.

i.e. a class traitor.

treefrog,

“Flamer” is a graphic novel about a boy who is discovering he is gay and how he is treated at summer camp. “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” contains some discussion of sex and a lot of profanity, but is mainly about two high school boys who befriend a girl dying of cancer.

From the article.

treefrog,

If the message is understanding for gay children it stands against their whole fascist agenda.

treefrog,

right, 2000*12 is 24,000. The missing 200 amounts to about 2400. So, 26,400 take home.

Means this person is losing 50k in taxes if their take home is 2190 a month and they make 78k

treefrog,

median here is 57k and there’s gross giant houses like two blocks away so it’s a pretty nice area

but the cost of living here is reasonable. or was prepandemic

treefrog,

Seems like it huh

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