Alex M

I wonder if Mike Tyson is next in line. Or maybe YouTube's policy only relates to hearsay. Perhaps you should send the powers that be at YouTube a link to your Explicit vs. Implicit Understanding video.

Absolutely. It's a total shit-show. It falling into this very unhealthy cancel culture. I suspect YouTube are just winging it and going with the most popular media narrative or like you said succumbing to user backlash.

Yup. This is what can happen when you put your monetization in the hands of a larger entity. Especially when they have loosey goosey terms of policy ("creator responsibility policy"). I suspect others will follow suit.

There’s been many from Mike Tyson to most recently Danny Masterson.

I guess it's where you put your attention. Sure, in the UK, he's a lot more well-known. But elsewhere It's likely a different story. I know many people outside of the UK who wouldn't have a clue who Russell Brand was. Either way, we could debate this all day long. Aside from is addiction issues, not sure if they mention it in the docu (not watched it) was the environment he grew up in. The mid 90 - early 2000's culture in the UK was pretty toxic. Plus his parent (dad) didn't present the healthiest of examples towards women.

Was this investigation, not years and years in the making? I don't think The Times / Channel 4 decided a month ago that Russell Brand would destroy them with his YouTube rants and felt he needed to be taken down. He's a tiny fish. The vast majority of the population is not interested in his videos.

Of course, if you are in such a position and you behave in a very immature fashion. Getting intoxicated and swinging your dick around, trying to stick it in anything that moves. You are asking for trouble (this also applies to non-celebrities). If you are mature and engage in non-toxic relationships, you should have much less to worry about, which is why most celebrities have no issue with this kind of thing.

Absolutely. That article also said that on one occasion, her mother drove her to Brand's house and pleaded with her not to go in. That alone seems very toxic and enabling her and not what I would put down to good parenting.

In the original Times article (the link is unfortunately behind a paywall now) it did mention that a driver was sent to school to pick the girl up and deliver her to Brand. But like you said from a legal stand point it's fine. Just highly immature and toxic and I'm sure it comes into the grooming territory. Getting involved with Brand during this period would more than likely turn into a total shit show. Even his current wife should hardly be surprised by this. It's like getting involved with a reformed mobster and that acting surprised if stories surface that they'd killed people in the past.

From reading the stories coming out. They were not all drunk and high. One of the supposed victims was 16 years old and picked up from school. Im guessing you don't hear about this at the time because these type of people would be easy to manipulate especially if you are in a position if power like Brand. This is why we hear these stories time and time again. I can't say I'm surprised if it does turn out to be true. Brand seemed to have replaced his drug addiction with a sex addiction, rather than getting to the route of his issues/trauma.

Just read The Times article. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russell-brand-rape-sexual-assault-abuse-allegations-investigation-v5hxdlmb6 If this is true, it’s some serious shit.

This might be of some use to you. Plenty of videos and information on this link. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_t0_dr7YYe9uw8SyHaYWKGugKsVsuUVx

Do you feel that car manufacturers are training you to be car mechanic illiterate? Or would you prefer to break your car and fix it yourself?

Yes, you can. Stop talking nonsense. Unless this is some tongue-in-cheek joke.

@MuadDib My chart is exactly the same as yours. You point about becoming more conservative with age. For me, personally is the exact opposite. I'm 44 now and become much more open with age. I was way more conservative in my 20s. I guess what you are into plays a big part in this. From reading more books, doing psychedelics & contemplating life, I find you become more open to things.

Some interesting replies for me to digest. Thank you all. Regarding the comment above. At times our dog shows traits of selfishness, jealousy and shame, among others much like a human. Isn't personality developed from ego?

I'm mainly focusing on dogs (but open to all animals). We have a German Shepard in our household, and it would seem like he does have an ego. I have heard some spiritual teachers talk about animals not having an ego. Thoughts?

https://actualized.org/phpinfo.php, PHP 5.6.4 & https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.actualized.org%2F&followRedirects=on Leo, you are asking for trouble. I'd get this looked at asap.

Although it may seem clear that Russia blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, this is still very much an assumption.

Exactly what I was thinking. 80-90 mg On an e-mesh ?

Another good example for studying some cult dynamics. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06qc33m

I’ve purchased from https://www.reagent-tests.uk/ in the UK. But only for DMT / 5-MeO. Maybe get in touch and ask them the best test for psyilocybin?

I've got myself 1g of 5-MeO-DMT Freebase. I don't fancy vaping it, so I'll convert it to salt and plug it. I've read so much and watched so many videos related to 5-MeO-DMT (But still have questions). I guess my main questions are related to dosage and a rough idea of what to expect at each dosage ramp up. I believe it's very powerful stuff, so I want to take this nice and slowly. Am I best starting at 10mg (or less, maybe 5mg?) and ramping up in + 2mg amounts? I'd like to start with a little tastier (if that is possible), rather than getting blasted to infinity from the get-go. I'm sure it's a difficult question to answer but what can I roughly expect at 10mg? e.g. body load, I generally get a very heavy body on psychedelics and feel nauseous. Even on 2g of mushrooms (lemon tek), I can't move a great deal. What about headspace? and then the same when I ramp it up. From what I've read there can be great differences between very small amounts. e.g. 10mg - 15mg. I've had mushrooms / nn DMT / LSD (although a long time ago), so I'm not new to psychedelics. But again I'm sure 5-MeO is a different animal altogether. Any help is greatly appreciated.

? ok I’m already doing that. I was thinking you had some highly technical lab way of doing this. It’s actually a reasonably accurate way of measuring.

Just out of interest, do you have any links/literature to do this? I don't want to come across as lazy, I have had a search around, but it's tricky to find any information. Don't worry if not; I'll need to get a bit more creative with my searching.