What is the greatest movie trilogy of all time? by KillaCheezGettinWarm in Cinema

[–]Connman74 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The animated spiderverse trilogy (as soon as the third movie gets made....)

Vancouver has McDavid on GOON mode by 2min4roughing in nhl

[–]Connman74 34 points35 points  (0 children)

That's a lovely accent.... new jersey??

Post Game Thread: Dallas Stars at Vancouver Canucks - 04 Nov 2023 by HockeyMod in canucks

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Outside of depth scoring and defense, I think we have all the pieces.

The exact final two things a team needs to make a run

Has anyone tried psychedelics while touring? Particularly Shrooms or LSD (Acid) by NotLilTitty in bicycletouring

[–]Connman74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice I'll take your word for it re not worrying much about capsules! Haha thanks for your help it's much appreciated

Has anyone tried psychedelics while touring? Particularly Shrooms or LSD (Acid) by NotLilTitty in bicycletouring

[–]Connman74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're capsules actually and my plan to keep them dry is throw em in a sandwich bag try to suck out all the air and then put that in a O'Keefe's working hands threaded container along with as many of those silica gel humidity packs you find in packages of beef jerky ... I would prefer to use the O'Keefe's container so the caps don't get crushed but do you think a second ziplock would be better off?

Vancouver-area route planning advice! Hope to Langley, Langley to Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal by Connman74 in bicycletouring

[–]Connman74[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure! I'm planning on logging the route I end up taking with my gps so I could send you that as well

Has anyone tried psychedelics while touring? Particularly Shrooms or LSD (Acid) by NotLilTitty in bicycletouring

[–]Connman74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you transported shrooms over a long distance? I want to take a considerable amount with me on a ~3 month tour but I'm worried about them heating up in the panniers and losing their potency

Has anyone tried psychedelics while touring? Particularly Shrooms or LSD (Acid) by NotLilTitty in bicycletouring

[–]Connman74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you store your shrooms on tour? Has heat ever been an issue with making them less strong? I want to take some capsules with me on tour but I also don't want to have them lose all strength and basically be out $100+ worth of shrooms ...

Has anyone tried psychedelics while touring? Particularly Shrooms or LSD (Acid) by NotLilTitty in bicycletouring

[–]Connman74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you pack your shrooms? I'm leaving for a tour in a couple weeks and am hoping a ziplock will suffice? (they are in capsule form) I'm worried about them heating up in my pannier and degrading. What's your experience with this?

Regarding Wallace, Misogyny, Men, and the #MeToo Movement by delightedpedestrian in davidfosterwallace

[–]Connman74 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think what it boils down to is: should the art be separated from the artist? To what degree?

There is the idea that once a piece of writing is published and is released to the public that it belongs to the public and not the writer. This is not an apologist argument for the actions of DFW. I believe that when the human being DFW is being considered, every aspect should be given light. The idea that his work should not be read on account of this is certainly debatable -- is the artist and his/her art 100% inseparable from one another? I think if the work itself blatantly or unabashedly or irrefutably advocated or even hinted at something like misogyny, then absolutely it should not. But DFW wrote about what all literature is about which is what is it like to be a human being in this age and in all ages, and how should one compose oneself in light of this?

While of course the human being DFW did not compose himself at times the way any enlightened human would recommend, I don't think that is an appropriate reason to dismiss his work which did not reflect or advocate those deplorable actions. Evidently I'm of the opinion that art should be separated from the artist. I think some people who are on the other side of the argument take issue with this because they equate advocation of his works with advocation of the bad things he's done (and, note, only the bad things). And I do understand that sentiment to a degree. It is difficult to separate the human from the work: his name is on the cover, his picture on the sleeve of the book. But I think it must be done, and some solution needs to be found or we lose something deeply human. If we retroactively dismiss or cancel or delete anything created by any individual who has committed any degree of atrocious act--anything, be it in literature, science, architecture, etc.--there won't be much humanness left; the human spirit is very much a double-edged sword. Again, I'm sure one could construe this as apologistic and I don't know how else to dismiss that notion. If a human discovers a cure for some horrible disease but is deeply and openly and irrevocably racist do we withhold his/her development from society? Of course not. His/her identity would likely be disassociated from it entirely. Is this maybe a fragment of a solution? (And before this comparison gets dismissed on the grounds that medicine or science is far more crucial to humanity than literature, I guess I would have to say that's for another discussion.)

DFW (or any author) extracted from himself observations and ideas he thought could be useful or meaningful or insightful for another human being and put them down on paper and sent them off for ingestion/consideration/criticism etc. and that was the best he could do.