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i_drink_bleach [any, comrade/them]

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  • I have been working MEP engineering jobs for over a decade. If we ever got a job called "Bussy Lake" you would never hear the fucking end of it in your entire life. You would quit that company and move on and 20 years later one of your old work homies would call you up to go get some beers and I guarantee the Bussy Lake would come up. Get that bussy! You only have to refrain when you talk to the client. In-house, anything goes.

    Also: GOOD post. Get the fuck out of here.

  • Thank you. I appreciate it. That you typed and linked all this on a phone is impressive, but I'm fucking old and I probably don't know how to phone XD.

    I think what MAPS is doing is a worthy pursuit. I just think we need to have standards and competent medical professionals administering the studies. But here in

    that's not possible (I know the linked study was carried out in Canada.) If these drugs are so illegal that they can't even be tested, then how are we supposed to test them? It just frustrates me to no end. I was born with severe clinical depression. It runs in my family. It's genetic. One of the most therapeutic things I can do is every year or so I tell everyone to fuck off and leave me alone, take a big hit of mushrooms, and just think about stuff... and things, and also stuff. Somehow that staves off the massive depression for a year or so. I haven't done a double-blind study. I just know that it's something I need to do every year or two so I don't destroy myself. For me it's just a survival mechanism.

    I would love it if we could research things like this though. One dose every year or two. But of course we won't ever do that. We need you eating these pills every fucking day, and we need these pills to be extremely expensive. Your health and well-being is secondary to the bottom line. Selling cures is for chumps. We want you sick forever.

  • Sorry, I haven't kept up with any studies. I gave up when everything in the US stayed Schedule I or got rekt under the Analogue Act, despite research from other countries showing promising results, which meant there would be no meaningful progress. It would just be more "drug war" nonsense.

    I'm not familiar with the MDMA studies that you're referencing. I'd love a reference if you have one. Not doubting you or anything. Like I said: I just haven't kept up with it. If it's like you say, then that's wildly unethical. I can say from experience that MDMA makes people highly suggestible. I'm really not sure how you would design an ethical test environment, but I'm not a clinical psychologist. It surely isn't the only sober people in the room spooning and using overt suggestions though.

    I agree that likely the only way to even begin to test some of these drugs, things like MDMA, LSD, mescaline, etc. Things that have obvious and profound effects that break the blind of testing is like you said: vary the dose. Easy to double blind something like blood pressure meds. You won't really notice if you're on the actual meds or not. You take a hit of X you will absolutely know you are on something. IDK. It takes a lot of people that are all a lot smarter than I am. It also takes the backing of the powers that be. Can it be done? Absolutely. Will it be done? I have my doubts. The drug war is very profitable for a lot of people.

  • Retirement money? What fucking retirement money? I'm ancient Millenial and I don't have fucking retirement money. WTF? My retirement plan was to die.

  • Good.

  • Kind of this, honestly. I skrimpt and saved up my allowance for some expensive-ass LEGO sets when I was a kid and probably the most expensive one was like $150 which is around $350 in today-money, and it sure as shit wasn't anywhere near 9,000 pieces.

  • To be fair though, that's a hard blind. Even if you've never rolled before, you will know if you get a hit of X or a placebo. It's not subtle.

  • The problem is that LSD is a Schedule I substance in the US. This means that it cannot even be tested for medical efficacy, because it is totally banned. For reference, methamphetamine is a Schedule II substance and is legally sold under the trade name Desoxyn. We don't know if LSD, or cannabis, or MDMA, or psilocybin mushrooms are useful therapeutically because nobody is allowed to test it since they're all Schedule I.

    How's that "war on drugs" working out? Seems like the drugs are winning.

    Maybe people wouldn't be so keen to get fucked up and zonked out of their minds if maybe society wasn't a fucking hell world. Perhaps the escapism that drugs produce isn't really the problem. Perhaps the drugs aren't even the problem. Perhaps the problem is that people are objectified for their entire lives, used and abused, and made to be nothing more than cogs in a machine to make the wealthy even more wealthy. In return they get barely enough to even survive, while their bosses buy a third vacation home and a boat. Perhaps doing drugs is a necessary cope for how absolutely shitty life is for the average person. If we want to win the "war on drugs," then maybe we should make sure people have access to healthcare, housing, healthy food, and clean water. Or we could just do this shit, where fuck it, you're on your own, and then wonder why people get all fucked up on drugs.


  • Prompt jockies aren't "artists." Nobody is "going after AI artists" because there is no such thing as an "AI artist."

    People hire established and reputable graphic design firms to make their logo and style guide because the people that hire them are not artists, so they hire artists. They give the artists a prompt to go by. In exactly the same way AI prompt jockies are the client, not the designer.

    There is no such thing as an "AI artist."

  • I mean he is one of the most vile people I have ever seen. Musko doesn't have shit on Thiel. Dude is literally a fucking vampire. And not just in the old-timey "vampires are a metaphor for the wealthy draining the life-blood of the people by stealing their wealth" kind of way. Dude literally gets blood transfusions from "the young" so he can "live longer." Are demons generally described as wet though?

  • Yeah. Not a fan of the Discord overwatch. I'm just in small communities of friends though, so it's not terrible. I hate that people try to use it as a replacement for forums. Discord is basically unsearchable. Topics and threads don't exist. It's voice IRC. But nobody was trying to use IRC as a replacement for forums back in the day. So much knowledge that is just locked away and unaccessible because it's in Discord.

  • You forgot about "le epic narwhal bacon, lol so random!" Bunch of 50-something 14 years olds just like their hero Elon.

    "You can't politely disagree with me! You must be a bot!"

    "I'm not a bot! You're the one that's wrong, clearly you're a bot!"

    "NO U!"

    "NNOOO! UUU!"

    thread continues for 27 more replies, none of which have anything to do with the actual topic

    You scroll down several pages just to get past the off-topic replies that glom onto whatever the top comment is

    More idiots calling each other bots

    Close the window

    Fuck sake, reddit sucks so much.

  • Thank you. I'm glad too.

    Like I mentioned to another person: humans have a very strange relationship with alcohol. It's been with us for 9,000 years at least. I have no doubt that we have, by this point, developed genetic responses to it. Glad it missed you though, and I'm also glad that you got past the rest of the drug zoo. Stay strong tovarishch.

  • Exactly. Humans have a strange relationship with alcohol. Maybe just because it's been within our culture/species for so many thousands of years. It's good to recognize that in yourself, and say: hey... maybe I need to chill the fuck out before this becomes an issue. Props to you, comrade.

    And Edit: Props to your pops! Hell yeah!

    Edit Edit: Yeah. The people around me had at least a few drinks every single day my whole life. I just thought it was normal too, that's just how people lived. My grandma, that basically raised me since both my parents had to work, probably finished off half a handle of bourbon a day, and smoked two packs of unfiltered Pall Malls every day. She was a wonderful person and one of my best friends, but damn that was an unhealthy lifestyle. Alcohol and cigs didn't kill her though, Alzheimer's at 89 years old did. Though I don't have any illusions that the alcohol didn't contribute to that.

  • But Dickens, as long-winded as he was, was still a good writer. GPT/Grok.... yeah not so much.

  • As someone with experience in this field, it's not the speed, it's the staying up for days at a time and not showering or brushing your fucking teeth. But he doesn't have that greasy "I haven't slept or showered in three days" sheen. He looks positively wet. It's weird.

  • I have literally the opposite.

    I've done just about every substance imaginable. I can do rails of coke, crystal, oxycontin (when they still existed), benzos, ketamine, etc, all night long and have no craving for it at all the next day. Hell, shot morphine a few times and still had no craving for it later. If it's there, cool, let's party. If not, oh well, let's party. Didn't care either way. Honestly, still don't. Someone cuts a line and says "you want a hit?" I'll do the line first, then ask what it was after. Unsurprisingly, doesn't come up a lot anymore as an old fucker. XD

    Alcohol though... That one calls to me. It's not even a "craving." It's insidious. It haunts you subtly. You don't even realize it until you're pouring a glass of bourbon, or cracking an IPA, like "wait, what just happened?"

    Managed to wean off of it. I still do scheduled social drinking once, at most twice a week, but stay away otherwise. I come from a long line of functioning alcoholics on both sides of my family, so that probably explains a lot of it. Used to be a lot worse. Drinking to excess after work literally every single day. Get up again at 5am, go to work at a job I fucking despised with people I couldn't fucking stand, come home, drink myself half-unconscious again. Rinse, repeat. Getting a better job helped, but the problem then was the actual drinking culture at the company. You have to go to the bar after work with the big bosses. You want that promotion right? You want that raise right? That's how you move up in the company. Bigger problem was I actually liked those people, and they liked me. So it wasn't holding my nose and "enduring" the bar just to get a promotion. I wanted to go hang with them.

    Having a kiddo helped me a lot. I have to take care of a little person, so I just can't be drinking at all. I just do not have the option unless it's pre-planned and scheduled ahead of time so I know my partner will be able to take care of the kiddo. No randomly just "having a few beers" anymore. It is just wildly irresponsible, in my opinion, to be under the influence of anything stronger than allergy medicine if you're taking care of children.

    No idea where I'm going with this. I just wanted to share because we seem to have had the exact opposite problem. Maybe I'm just getting old. I don't know. I know with over two decades of substance abuse I've probably done a lot of damage to my liver, which is the other reason I am minimizing as much as possible the amount I consume. I would rather not drink at all but I think there is, like you were saying, some genetic trait. I mean I know there is. Look at the rest of my lineage: bunch of drunks that would show up at work on time every single day and do their jobs competently and skillfully, but still a bunch of drunks.

    I'm just hoping my partner has the dominant genes, and none of the shit in my lineage gets passed on to my kiddo. I could die happy if I knew my kid didn't end up with severe clinical depression and substance abuse problems like the rest of my fucking family.

    But don't get it twisted: my parents are excellent people. They dealt with their issues and rose above them, and did everything they could to raise me the same. They're why I'm a hard leftist that found my way to a place like this. They're why I can openly talk about shit like this, because it's valuable if other people can learn and benefit. We're here to help each other.

    Anyway. Old shitposter emo-rant over. Back to the shitpost mines.

  • A million words of long-winded, bloviating, gibberish that reads like something a high-schooler wrote to hit a word count on an essay about a book they didn't read? For just $6?! Wowee! Take my money!

    Alternate Copy: For just $6 you too can select any topic you want and get a million words of slop that nobody wrote and nobody can be bothered to read, including you! Such a great deal!

  • Seriously. Why do they all look so wet all the time? Countless millions of dollars spent on "anti-aging" blood rituals so this late-50's man can look like: a late-50's man who's perpetually damp. Money well spent, Pete.

  • People didn't hate it because it went too far. They hated it because it didn't go too far enough.

    Edit: Yes, the kerning and line spacing were done manually for the sole purpose of making typography-bears have involuntary eye-twitch. <3