USA announces plan to ban the buds of the cannabis plant

I would pay $10 a month (ongoing, MRR) to be able to fly their home base ship to different asteroids and occasionally have the bugs invade it. I would play the fuck out of that game.

Or start your own. I mean this entire thread is just reeking of obvious demand for a very easy to administer mutual fund

In other words, is an integral part of our society that we’ve all collectively invested a lot of money into, for a lot of benefit.

Almost as if the cars have value beyond a status symbol or signal of political allegiance.

Basically just defining addendums here

If society needs to all get along then it has already failed.

• Take screenshot of screen
• Send screenshot to Claude 3.7 or any other decent chatbot. Even GPT-3 is light years smarter than current Siri, but I don’t know it if can analyze images
• Run Claude’s response through a text-to-Siri-speech layer

There, now Siri can see your screen. Why can’t Apple accomplish this? Why are megacorps so inept?

That’s why they calling “paying” attention. Like money, attention is a limited resource.

Which rights are being taken away?

To kids, death is just a word.

Including the horrible angle of headrests these days. You’re right though: nobody gives a shit about the extra safety features.

Wow you guys even lost the ability to do syntax. I guess it was only a matter of time.

Pain in the ass?

Because Canada tariffs us.

Tariffs are reserved for those who tariff US goods.

It really helps if you pay enough attention to know what’s going on.

Kinda like the word “delicacy”, which only ever refers to nasty indigenous food you must pretend to enjoy to avoid offending them.

The polarity of evil has flipped so far that you can’t escape. Now anything good Musk does becomes bad in your view. Musk switches the polarity of the thing, rather than the other way around.

Musk kisses a puppy, you unfortunately must now hate puppies. Such a strong statement.

I would like to suggest a second comment as well

But they don’t treat the depression by simply forcing consciousness upward through the emotional landscape. They facilitate a restructuring of conceptual maps and perceptions, and lots of this is in relation to the world and to others.

The fact that psychedelics can do this, but only tend to when they produce this big restructuring, means it’s the restructuring that does it.

And the happiness often is associated with an improved relationship with the world, an improved approach to life.

I know the relief comes before the new approach manifests, but that doesn’t mean the relief comes before the mental identification and exploration of that new approach.

The person’s karma changes before it manifests into their life. Like, even though you couldn’t measure it with a video camera, the new behavioral program’s been written. The new path has been seen.

So I think psychedelics just further indicate how non-arbitrary happiness is.

Like a person might be happier in their poverty and disease, but that doesn’t mean their life didn’t change. Their life changed because they changed — instead of snapping at their spouse they see it coming and stop to take a breath. That’s a little micro-change they got from seeing themselves and reorganizing their perceptions with psychedelics.

But when they go to family christmas they aren’t going to tell their father-in-law “I stopped snapping at her so much. I was doing it all the time and then I became conscious of it and I do it a lot less”.

That’s a change in the person’s life, which slips past our notice when we conceptualize “what were his circumstances? Did the mood change come from a change in circumstances or some chemical thing?”

If those are the only two categories, taking a heroic dose of shrooms to explore one’s depression and anxiety might seem like it falls under “some chemical thing” being the change that happened.

But if we allow more categories, it’s better to say he changed his karma. It may manifest later in a higher paying job or a new house, but for now it’s only manifest in a change of the amount of tension in the room between him and his wife.

“We did it! An artificial 17 year old!”