back when LSD wasn't demonised by the US government and people were free to study it - scientists found out that after about a week of taking the same dose you'd feel 0 effects. our bodies build up tolerance to LSD crazy fast
idk how true that is but i've seen people online say that if you want the same effects day after you need to double what you took the day previous
depends on the dose, if someone chugged water to get themselves above 100ug then they'd notice. but if they stayed ~50ug for the first few days then indeed nobody would notice, especially because after said week they'd have enough tolerance for that amount to do fuck all
even if you don't plan on joining any organisations you do move the needle forward - if you bring up the topic of said organisation existing and speak of it in a good light others will look it up, and maybe join, maybe not - but the positive word will spread. and if many people see an organisation in a positive light, then it's more likely they'll join
nobody is useless, every kind person moves things forward, even if just a little, it'll all add up to a lot
and why must everything be effective? can't people just be kind?
it would be nice if we all got up and began fighting, but that won't happen. and you can't force people to fight when they don't want to. everyone has their role though, be they silent or loud - if you're kind, you'll help out in one way or another
i find the push to read theory quite annoying tbf, it makes me feel like i need to pass a test to care about others. to be a leftist all you need is your own brain and empathy at the basis. yeah it's good to suppliment that with sources but it's really not that necessary, just be kind - everything else will come later
from my understanding praxis in leftie circles just means– practice, as opposed to theory. so doing stuff aligned with leftist thinking instead of just thinking
placebo is caused by a strong belief, even if logically you know it's not real it can still work
but
you first need the strong belief. how do you get such a strong belief? with a ritual of course. not necessarily one with bubbling cauldrons during the full moon (though if you believe in that kind of magic that'd work as well) but one that has you going to a place you associate with health, and talking to a person in a special outfit that you believe will fix you, then going to a secondary health place, and getting the health potion pills from someone in a special outfit. also called - going to a doctor and picking up meds from a pharmacy.
this entire process sets up the right environment for strongly believing you're going to feel better now, and then the sugar pills supercharged with placebo will work like magic.
they will also work if at some point either the doctor or the pharmacist whispers to you "btw that's just placebo". that's because the belief you've already established is much stronger than your logic
but if you just go out and buy tictacs at a gas station then chant to yourself "this will cure my headache this will cure my headache" it won't work, because you didn't have an opportunity to establish any emotional belief about them ie. you didn't manage to convince the emotional part of your brain that it'll work
this is also why homeopathy, essential oils, charging crystals, and other purely belief bases approaches work despite the thing itself not doing anything. the rituals surrounding those things simply manage to build a strong enough belief that causes the placebo effect
the same is true for the opposite - nocebo - if you strongly believe something is going to make you feel bad - it's going to
the archetype you're looking for is "Anti-hero". a kind of hero with grey morals and questionable ethics - but whose actions still have a mostly positive result
typically - a hero will try to rehabilitate a criminal first, throw them in prison second, and only kill if they've exhausted all other options. killing is usually shown as something that the hero struggles with greatly
an anti-hero will often skip the "when will murder be my only option?" ethical dilemma regular heroes have and go straight to the killing. in their stories casual killing is either shown as normal, or serves as a plot point that'll come back to haunt them later ("i killed that man without thinking, but now he turned out to be innocent")
this is not the only difference between the two of course, but i don't want to type an essay
just having a bouncer at the door reduces the number of minors significantly. Same way a sticker saying "this area is monitored" will reduce crime in the area, even if no camera is in sight.
should a bouncer actually check people's IDs? yeah, that'd be nice. but a bouncer that just stands there and does fuck all is much better than no bouncer at all
looks to me like someone just kept their phone's camera on whatever default settings it came with and one of those settings happened to be an "enhancing" algorithm that makes a generic image "better" but give it two overlapping patterns and it gets a stroke
edit: upon further examination, there's a keyhole at the bottom of the door, it's just AI, ugh
back when LSD wasn't demonised by the US government and people were free to study it - scientists found out that after about a week of taking the same dose you'd feel 0 effects. our bodies build up tolerance to LSD crazy fast
idk how true that is but i've seen people online say that if you want the same effects day after you need to double what you took the day previous