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I dont think it's that bad all things considered, as far as stimulants are concerned it's certainly less harmful than most. though I often get the vibe from "coffee is healthy" articles that it's people who love coffee confirming their biases. I do drink coffee every day because I like the taste and if I dont have one or two cups I'll be really sleepy mid-day and get withdrawal symptoms pretty quickly. But I don't like being overcaffeinated, especially when I'm not doing anything that requires so much extra energy. I used to drink more than twice as much as I do now, and back then I'd have to go to the bathroom way more frequently than is normal, there's no way that can be good in the long run. Plus being over-caffeinated on a regular basis increased my baseline anxiety by a lot, and that also can't be good every day. My current living situation has me in a place where I get high quality coffee for free so it does require some self control, eventually I wont be living here anymore though and I'll probably quit at that point since I can't be bothered to invest in an expensive coffee maker like I have access to right now.

I'd argue almost the opposite of this. In order to have a conversation on discord you need to be constantly engaging, checking what's posted to keep up with what's going on. Rapid fire chatting like discord allows for is great for small friend groups or real time events and many other things, but intellectual conversations among multiple users, anything requiring depth of thought, long considered paragraphs ect, becomes far more difficult. And the larger the discord the more of a clusterfuck it becomes. The most frequent and enthusiastic posters become seen as the "leaders" of the community, but these people are the ones who are also the most addicted to posting and are more likely to lead less healthy lifestyles if they can afford to be posting nonstop on discord all the time. It's antithetical to the purposes of this forum.

Even though these videos are super cool, and often decently accurate, it always feels like there's something missing from replications like these. Probably because the visual effects are only a small part of the psychedelic experience.

Interesting how "he made Graduation" has become the meme, when MBDTF was his most widely praised record. Maybe it's going down in people's opinion over time because it was the beginning of the end in terms of him starting to lose it. (or maybe it's just got too long of a title to fit the meme)

I walk around my neighborhood on lsd and mushrooms often. I definitely have to gauge my level of highness before leaving the house though. I want to be able to come across as "normal enough" if I were to encounter people who want to engage me in conversation (which has happened on multiple occasions). on most trips its possible to act normal, but sometimes it very much isn't. I've not done 5-meo (yet) but that would be my main concern about doing it in public. I don't really want to accidentally do something that gets me in a troublesome spot that draws unwanted public attention. What do you feel like the risk is for that with 5-meo compared to other psychs?

Outside of his current shenanigans one thing that's really rubbed me the wrong way over the years is how little respect Kanye has for his audience. The whole release cycle for the Donda album is a prime example. Endless announcements and changes to release dates, livestreams where literally nothing happened for hours, tickets for huge stadium events where he'd play tracks without performing, not bothering to give the album any artwork, selling both the main album and "Donda 2" (which turned out to be unfinished) in the form of an over-priced "stem-player". The guy does not give a single crap about how much of his fans time and money he wastes.

A) Just take more. or B) smoke some weed, it potentiates acid a lot. Careful not to overdo it unless you have a good reaction to weed normally tho.

part of me kinda wonders if Kanye did have an "all is love" awakening type experience at some point in the last few years (whether brought on by a drug or by his own mental instability is anyone's guess), but because he is so undeveloped, egotistical, lacking in any grounding whatsoever, easily taken advantage of, traumatized by his mother's death, severely mentally ill (and the list goes on), that this disaster ended up being the result.

When even Alex Jones thinks you've lost it, whooooooo boy.

Don't force negative experiences just for the sake of them (well, unless you really want to i guess). Really I just mean to practice being in that altered state of mind in a variety of contexts and situations (activities within reason for your dose level of course), and you'll gradually learn how your mind works in that headspace and be better equipped to handle more intense experiences.

LSD for sure, gotta get the dose right though. Too high a microdose and you'll be spacing out a bit too much. But in terms of mood lift, access to creative thoughts, and increased energy and motivation it's hard to beat. Plus the 8-12h duration makes LSD ideal for the effects to last all day. I microed with San Pedro for a while and thought that was pretty effective too. similar to LSD in duration and stimulation and mood lifting effects, without the spaciness, and the dosage is far more forgiving.

From the research I've done I kinda feel like benzos are WAY over-recommended as trip killers. The potential downsides of benzos are larger than the upsides. Same goes for anti-psychotics which can also apparently kill trips but again i feel that isnt a good option either. Both of those options feel like they do more harm than just riding out the trip would do. (maybe the exception being some overdose situations where someone becomes a danger to themselves or others because they didnt know what they were doing). Ketanserin seems like a potentially ideal trip killer (it's an antagonist of the 5ht2a receptor, blocking the receptor that psychedelics use) though i dont think it's widely available currently. Maybe more effective trip killer drugs will become available now that some states have legalized psychedelics and will probably need to use trip killers in some situations. I think better than trip killers would be to purposefully put yourself in uncomfortable "bad trip" scenarios while on LOW doses, and then as you gradually increase the intensity of the trip you'll learn how to handle yourself.

Weed and LSD can get me unbelievably horny, no problems cumming either. Shrooms can as well just not to the same extent with the same consistency, still it would increase intimacy regardless so that would make things better no matter what.

He acts like a literal child. I can't remember the last time I saw an interview or a twitter post or whatever from him that didn't feel like it came from somebody with the emotional intelligence of a 5th grader. years ago I used to be able to occasionally give him the benefit of the doubt before his public persona became unavoidable, but it's just so hard to do that now. It's like his entire personality is constantly daring you to slap the shit out of him. He's like that obnoxious kid in school who would annoy other kids just enough to get them to get a reaction from them, but not enough to get in trouble with the teacher himself, and as soon as you try to report him to the teacher he acts like you were the one who started it.

Interesting! More testing definitely needs to be done. Possibly Hamilton just didn't elaborate much because the sample was so small the results couldn't be considered significant enough to say whether the church actually achieved it's claims or not. he didnt say if he tested for normal psylocybin either which would be important to know, since the church people could just be microdosing on normal mushrooms and believing the claims that it's different. I hope to see this investigated more because if the church is a scam people should know, but if it's not a scam and psilomethoxin has real value people should know that too!

AI is consciousness in the sense that everything is consciousness, but AI is not conscious in the sense that it has an inner world, perceptions, ect. When AI reaches the point of flawlessly imitating human behavior it still wont be conscious, it'll be a P-zombie.

Dont know the timestamp without listening again but it was the most recent episode on his Patreon (episode 61 "DIY Gene Editing"). He doesnt elaborate much. He pretty much just says "someone sent me a sample and I tested it", I was disappointed he didn't say more. Maybe he will talk about it in more detail in a future episode, especially if this becomes a more popular thing.

Heard on Hamilton Morris's podcast that he tested a sample of these mushrooms that was sent to him and found no psilomethoxin present. So yeah, these church people are just eating overpriced normal mushrooms.

In a sense I don't think there is much of a direct solution really. The movement has enormous momentum and I think it will continue to play out for as long as it has the steam to continue playing out. it won't go away until either a different model of gender-non-conformity supplants it, or the treatments evolve to something entirely different (both are inevitable, just a matter of the time frame). In many respects actively resisting it or trying to brute force a solution is the most surefire way to create more problems. Pointing out and raising awareness of these issues in a respectful manner while showing compassion for the individuals involved is probably the best we can do on an individual level. Of course there is also the Actualized™ solution. improve epistemology, promote awakening, legalize psychedelics ect. I'm actually quite optimistic that more widespread use of psychedelics will be of enormous benefit to people with gender dysphoria. Helping to reduce self-deception and undoing cultural programming will sort out many confused minds. That could significantly reduce the number of people making the wrong choice, increase the confidence of those for whom it is actually the right choice, and promote more empathy in general for those struggling with these issues. Further still, with the right intention you can have an opposite-sex experience on psychedelics (for some this could "scratch the itch" that their mind is preoccupied with). With a different intention you can see your own body as beautiful exactly as it is regardless of birth-sex or any perceived physical flaws (this kind of experience would benefit anybody with low self esteem). With yet another intention you can experience the interaction of masculine and feminine energy, how to incorporate them into your life in a productive non pathological way. Knowledge that things like these are possible to experience (these examples come from my own trips) is not widespread. Most people have no idea that gender can be explored to such an extent in such a non-invasive way, but they should!

i never claimed that, i responded in jest to your comparison with a sarcastic hypothetical (if surgery regret for trans people was as high as it is for spinal surgery would you consider that rate acceptable?). a hypothetical question which I rephrased and posed again in a more thoughtful manner in my next post, which you continued to ignore. the ISSM study you responded to me with literally includes a paragraph about people who regretted their decision. The size of this population will only increase over time regardless of what percentage of the overall population they are. is this a good thing? is this worth it? how will this group of people affect culture and the transgender dialogue once it gets too large to continue ignoring? are these people not worthy of empathy? Imagine struggling and being confused your whole life with something only to finally get the treatment you've convinced yourself will be the solution but even that doesn't fix you? Imagine feeling as if you failed at being a man AND a woman, like you cant even fulfill a basic qualification of being a human? And now you're stuck with severe physical consequences (which may turn off potential intimate partners adding insult to injury) and have to life the rest of your life with that. Besides, throwing around a bunch of stats is almost completely meaningless when: a) not only is there is tremendous social pressure to respond in a certain way ("will i be shunned for admitting this view?" "will all my lgbt friends hate me?"). but there is an enormous risk of self-deception. people rationalize their extreme decisions to justify them all the time. and plenty more will just never admit they were wrong about something because its too embarrassing, or they're already in too deep. There is no way to know how many "false positives" there are from a study like this. b) Speaking of false positives, there are many different reasons a person might seek out these treatments and claim to not be regretful which are *not* equivalent. For example, a male-born person who grows up acting naturally feminine and claiming to be a girl all their life without outside influence and decides to transition is a completely different situation from somebody who desires to transition because they've developed strange sexual fixations due to a traumatic personal history. or what about people who have no real gender issues but are just really into body mods and self-experimentation? all of these people would have equal access to the same treatments and would respond as "not regretting". c) hormone and surgery treatments have existed for a while but never on the scale like we've seen over the last decade (or two at best). So it is not possible to have accurate data on how these treatments affect large populations of people in the long term because the majority of people receiving these treatments have only done so relatively recently. This is the kind of thing that needs to be researched over much broader time scales with much larger and less biased samples (the cultural landmine that the issue had ended up becoming makes it extremely hard to eliminate bias so even that is pretty tricky). d) these treatments are not static procedures, like the entire field of medicine they are constantly developing and changing. EVERY culture in history has had gender-non-conforming people, and different cultures dealt with it in radically different ways, this implies the obvious eventuality that the way we think about and treat non-cis people will NOT remain as it is now. What if by 2040 there's some kind of AR tech or psychedelic or something that allows the user to alter their perception of their own body to feel like the opposite sex for as long as they want, eliminating the need for medical intervention? That would make the way we deal with the issue now seem almost barbaric in contrast wouldn't it? and e) Science doesn't fully understand how the brain works, science doesn't fully understand how the endocrine system works, science doesn't fully understand how gender and sex work. yet when it comes to this particular issue people start shouting "trust the science!" as if we know with absolute certainty that the current theories regarding some of the most complex systems in our body are completely 100% accurate and that we can manipulate them as much as we want with no ramifications. even cis-men and cis-women who receive hormone therapy with their own gender's hormones can and do have long term negative health impacts of a wide variety depending on a multitude of factors and must decide if the trade-offs are worth it. but if trans people decide to radically alter their endocrine system for the rest of their lives we shouldn't be concerned about the increased risk of dementia, blood clots, heart disease, stroke, bone fractures and whatever else that these people will experience as they age from decades of hormone supplementation?

you're not even trying to engage with the point i was making. Detrans people both with and without surgery with various levels of regret exist, it doesnt matter how many there are (besides, it would obviously be underreported since it's a socially embarrassing thing to admit). The more widespread gender-altering surgeries and treatments become the more detrans people there will eventually be regardless of what percentage of the population it is. is this a good thing for society? I don't pretend I have the answer to this but that's the kind of concern a lot of conservatives have that many stage green types seem to want to pretend doesnt exist.

I was thinking Musk would just bleed money behind the scenes and leave the site mostly untouched for a while. Seems that won't be the case. I had a huge addiction to twitter for many years and gave it up a couple years ago. So I wouldn't be too upset if the place collapses into nothing.

so it would be totally fine if 21% of people (more than 1 in 5!) who had reassignment surgery regretted it because that's within the typical range of surgery regret?

extensive psychological screening by who exactly? Are they trustworthy? do we place full trust in the authority of whoever "unambiguously determined" something so subjective? "literally no harm is done" by puberty blockers... How does radically interrupting the natural hormone system of a child equal no harm? How do you know that putting kids though such stressful and confusing circumstances at such an important stage of development won't have long-lasting psychological effects for the rest of their lives? it's also an undeniable fact that de-trans people are real. that is far more than "some nebulous unforeseeable consequence". Imagine being convinced for years that you should be one way only to realize you were wrong after you've already made numerous irreversible alterations to your body. Is a growing population of de-trans folks the collateral damage that we have to accept if we want to be trans-inclusive? Is that trade off worth making?

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