Yeah your experience here is extremely atypical. A mildly inexperienced LSD user who has a smooth and pleasant trip on one hit will, 99% of the time, be totally obliterated by 5 hits, much less 10. Like going from a walk in the park to literal ego death where you forget your own existence as a conscious entity. Most people say it’s extremely non-linear, my own experience included.

For me, the length of the trip does noticeably scale with dose, but the potency of the trip itself at peak scales far faster, almost exponentially so.

Definitely, they are in no way a party drug. Two people doing hard opiates together is just two people sitting in silence next to each other while they nod out in their own little worlds. That said, when you both run out and have to go through the exact same demented set of withdrawal symptoms together? That builds real solidarity, unironically, but there is no fun/excitement in getting high on opiates. In fact, they sort of kill my ability to have real fun because they are taking up all the mu opioid receptor spots that could otherwise be occupied by endogenous opioid peptides when I do something rewarding.

I can’t even enjoy music on opioids, which blows my mind. Not even on my Buprenorphine maintenance dose. Once withdrawals start I can listen to my favorite songs and feel things again. Not worth withdrawing over, but it definitely helps pass the time if I have to go there.

Yeah so the problem with hard opiates is that they’ll hollow your soul out over time, and they are actively more addictive the more your life sucks when you start using them. People who have good lives tend to be more likely to say things like “opiates are too subtle/overrated”. But when shit sucks, opiates make you feel content. Obviously that’s real bad if you weren’t already somewhat content with life. When I started using them I felt like I found some sort of answer to everything wrong with me. But my problems didn’t go away, I just stopped being bothered by them.

The shittiest thing is that this effect isn’t reliable. It’s called the honeymoon phase of opioid addiction. Within a few months of active opioid addiction, you’ll stop feeling the effects, but you’ll still need to continuously use them to avoid horrific withdrawal symptoms.

I recommend LSD, Shrooms, or dissociatives instead. The euphoria can be vastly superior because it isn’t this kind of “ultimately contended, but empty” euphoria you get with opioids. Instead you just sort of feel really good about the actual positive shit that exists in your life and around you.

Yeah to put it into perspective, she was coming in behind Andrew Yang in her home state of California where she was the sitting senator.

For a moment I felt I had underestimated her when she started garnering wider support after picking the least ghoulish ghoul to be her VP, but now it’s clear she’s increasingly cooked the more people get to know her whereas Trump is a known quantity.

Makes me wonder about applying other physics metaphors to political economy

Best way to go about this would be to search for symmetries in the system, then you can make analogies to things like conservation laws

I have not been able to find a free copy of ‘The Worst-Kept Secret’

I think I found it on libgen: http://library.lol/main/37FFADF2809CDF16334BAECA638D92A6

Yeah the guy goes through a very well written radicalization arc. Starts the show being an insufferable liberal, ends it supporting the revolution he fought against. Don’t expect any kind of real leftist theory from this anime, but it at least wears genuine anti-imperialism on its sleeve.

Same thing happened to prison inmates in New Orleans during Katrina. They didn’t even put together an official death toll, 517 people remain “unaccounted for” to this day. This piece of shit country never changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orleans_Parish_Prison#:~:text=On August 29%2C 2005%2C when,for" by Humans Rights Watch

Here’s hoping some good comes out of Milton, maybe it’ll distract the US from supporting the entity at a critical point the resistance can take advantage of.

The stars we see with just our eyes in the night sky are mostly all incredibly huge, bright, short lived stars. Betelgeuse is only 10 million years old, having formed well after the extinction of the dinosaurs. It’s already on death’s door, and could explode at any moment now (speaking on geological time-scales)

My fear is less what they’ll be saying and more what they’ll be doing. The Israelis have shown themselves incredibly evil and petty, I can’t imagine they don’t have a particularly nasty atrocity in the works to dump on the anniversary of the flood.

Gonna have to say the presidents would be unalived under the Nuremberg laws next time

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I wonder what it’ll be like when the nukes launch. How many new comments per hour in the news mega before the internet infrastructure fails and we all get vaporized?

I’d very much hate for us to be caught off guard during another one of those quiet “sometimes there are decades where weeks happen” moments, resulting in only getting to see 100 new comments about how the ongoing end of human civilization is not-based

They love calling things genocide because they have this idea in their head that word means you can’t disagree with them. They see how holocaust deniers are rightfully reviled, and their lib brains come to the conclusion that all accusations using the word genocide are somehow indisputable by nature

After this, I will never again fail to mercilessly dunk on any liberal who blathers on about how DPRK, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela are rogue, irrational states. Not while Israel continues to exist in any capacity other than as a terrible memory. This apex reactionary state is the perfect definition of everything liberals complain about in US state enemies, yet Israel’s inalienable right to commit war crimes and genocide galore with US weapons and funding is forever unquestioned.

At what point does it become comical even to the unobservant libs who think Russia invaded Ukraine out of nowhere in 2022? How can one think that is a moral black hole beyond the point of no return, yet also apparently that the Israeli invasion of Lebanon is complex and nuanced?

I’m sorry, I hardly use non-Hexbear social media anymore, and day by day I get more incredulous that the garden variety western libs continue to exist like this with no sign of slowing down.

Lmao, he’s rolling over this soon? He must’ve gone into this with the mindset that Brazil was just totally bluffing when they said they’d outright block Twitter

Yeah I think that’s exactly what it is. These numbers on casualties probably won’t be final, but it seems like only a handful of people actually died, and only a few hundred were actually severely injured.

Israel would have known they were using on average a sub-lethal amount of explosives in each pager, so it wasn’t even about taking potential Hezbollah members off the board. Their goal was to cause Lebanese people pain and suffering and that’s it. They wanted that so badly they’ve hurt their standing in this war once again.

Another extremely evil move by Israel, but they can only really pull this trick once. Now Hezbollah is going to be thoroughly inspecting every vaguely electronic item that goes through their hands. For injuring a couple thousand random people, Israel has thoroughly burned their ability to infiltrate resistance organizations this deeply ever again. They could have injured the same number of people with conventional weapons easily, but they wanted their terrorism to be theatrical above all else.

The Republican was there

Choosing to interpret this as being present when this happened instead of Trump.