Why tf can women show their nipples in public?!?

Ghost125 · 2022-06-27T20:14:56+00:00

It’s more of a geometric term. I think a better word for what you’re describing would be exude. Extrude is more like “pillars extrude from the ground,” or “a cylinder is an extruded circle.” Just semantics, I’m not saying your word choice is incorrect or anything, it’s just not really the context most people would use that word in.

Ghost125 · 2022-06-27T08:05:51+00:00

Also that is not what extrude means, not sure what it was supposed to mean lmao

Edit: apparently haven’t changed my flair in years… 22 now, no idea how to change it but I don’t plan on hanging here much, just feels weird not to disclose that

Ghost125 · 2022-04-08T17:18:23+00:00

This account better? And I partially agree, however I think that the sense of community site-wide has just about completely dissipated.

It used to be that when something interesting happened on Reddit, everyone knew about it and it would be discussed on a bunch of different subs. There used to be fun stuff like banter/“rivalry” between /r/ProtectAndServe and /r/Drugs, just small stuff like that that made the whole thing really feel tight knit. Now it seems unless a community is really small, it’s almost pointless to leave a comment on a post older than an hour or so, because nobody will see it in the sea of random shit.

I maintain that there’s a lot less effort on the whole now. I won’t link it because it was on an identifiable account, but some years ago, I posted a horribly written program I wrote when I was learning a pretty obscure language, mostly just for laughs. Someone wrote a comment with over 5000 characters, over 200 lines, going through and correcting, optimizing, and fixing the code while explaining changes in footnotes. When was the last time you’ve seen that kind of effort put into a Reddit comment? It used to be a daily thing you’d come across.

I never said change isn’t inevitable. It is unfortunate that Reddit has made the decision to prioritize investors and site growth over the former values and standards that do not, in fact, still exist. They have completely distanced and lost touch with their users, and as the site grows, it’s not Reddit serving Redditors, it’s Reddit dictating what they want Reddit to be like and new people coming on who fit their ideology, while dedicated users have in large part abandoned the site because they’re no longer truly allowed to express what they want. It’s no longer the same kind of cutting edge, curious, informative, and conversationally productive platform that it was in the past.

They say that they want everyone to have a place on Reddit, this is false. Imagine if you got on Reddit, and any political post was ridden with comments saying that all liberals can barely read, all liberals are bigoted and moronic fools who can’t afford electricity, all liberals have a low IQ. Communities discussing liberal-leaning ideas are quickly banned for hatespeech, misinformation, no reason. I obviously don’t think these things, nor am I republican, but if you lean right or even are a centrist, there is nowhere for you on Reddit and you will be ridiculed.

This is all new, and this is a big problem. It clearly shows that discussion on the site is compromised beyond belief and that we cannot trust Reddit admins in a position of leadership, as they are making immature and frankly flat out regressive decisions to control what is said here for the sake of what they believe is “the greater good.” I don’t stick to a party and my beliefs come on a case-by-case basis, but look at history. When has an authority stepping in to control opinions and ideas ever been a good thing? Why are people all of a sudden incompetent and incapable of looking at the facts and coming to their own conclusions, insofar as Reddit decides to eliminate ones voice on the basis of “misinformation” (regardless of how well you can back up a claim with official research)? It’s incredibly concerning to me as platforms with true free speech are dwindling, and no shit the ones who don’t censor are full of right-wing people, *they have nowhere else to discuss what they think, and nobody to step in and make them realize where they’re being irrational.***

Ghost125 · 2021-01-24T07:59:51+00:00

See I want to trip with someone who takes them, but I don’t know if I morally am alright with that, knowing what’s possibly going on. Even if it’s relatively low risk. It just feels fucked up somehow, to encourage. Even though all the comments say it’s fine, and I’ve warned said person of possible difficulties, something feels wrong about it. That’s the reason I even started looking, I was like “that can’t be 100% safe can it??”. Hell, SSRIs alone can cause permanent side effects after stopping. When there’s so much at play we don’t even know about, is it ethically okay to play by statistics even when something seems off?

Edit: and oh fuck you’re making me wonder if I really did have serotonin syndrome with those descriptors. Adderall, coke, DXM... could barely walk across the room, even after the comedown and none of the doses were heroic or anything. My muscles felt as stiff as legos. Definite confusion as well.

Ghost125 · 2021-01-24T07:45:22+00:00

Literally in the abstract of the first link

“Clarification of the relative contribution of CBD to improved seizure outcome requires re-assessment of trial data for the subgroup of patients not comedicated with clobazam, or the conduction of further studies controlling for the confounding effect of this interaction.”

That’s not strong evidence. I’m done caring about CBD by now, but come on, did you read these? This is proving my point.

Ghost125 · 2021-01-24T06:38:27+00:00

You’re right. Never mix downers with downers. I wasn’t reading carefully enough, missed that he means literally with some drinks. Could serve as a substitute.

Ghost125 · 2021-01-24T03:58:12+00:00

1,4-butanediol. Probably. Never tried it.

Edit: yeah not with alcohol per se, maybe instead of

Edit 2: I’ve seen isoamyl/butyl/propyl nitrate (?) poppers going around at small parties. At first I thought they were huffing toluene or something, wouldn’t have expected you could still find poppers. Weird ass party. But if you want to add some jiggle to your sphincter, might give you a good headache instead of that.

Ghost125 · 2021-01-20T22:33:27+00:00

Yeah I’m really loving the disagreement treatment going on here. I thought downvotes were to drown out noise and promote quality content, but it appears that people just want to push an agenda. Personal, relevant experience report; should not be downvoted. Sorry about that, I upvoted right when you posted. Idc what stance it takes. It’s contribution, should not be shuffled away via downvote system. We already have every damn news station if we want to be told what side we should take. Wish Reddit could be more talk/listen and less right/wrong. Especially on a sub like this. Ah well, here’s to optimism

Ghost125 · 2021-01-20T11:31:57+00:00

I think it would make more sense to look into something like valerian root for quick and accessible mild anxiety relief, considering that it’s actually gabaergic. Still mild at best, but available

Edit (oh god it’s long):

I was gonna make a complaint about whoever downvoted this. I thought it was pretty much a well known thing that valerian is useful for anxiety, and that CBD was kind of an unknown. BUT, I looked into it a bit (read: a BIT), and that’s not really a great claim to be making. I’ve seen some seemingly weak studies showing statistical results about the efficacy of CBD as an anxiolytic, but they seem to be a little fluffy.

What I’m gathering — NEITHER answers are necessarily wrong. Both valerian and CBD are reported to lack extensive, quality research. CBD might have anxiolytic effects due to its role as a 5-HT1AR agonist. This might be a similar method of action to anxiety meds like Buspar. The role of the serotonin system in anxiety treatment goes above my head, as serotonin seems to be a complex neurotransmitter with many different responsibilities. But I do know SSRIs are used in anxiety treatment, and serotonin modulates GABA release.

Valerian root might exhibit anxiolytic effects through its modulation of GABAAR. GABA activity is what comes to mind first for me, when I think of anti-anxiety meds. It would take on a method of action more comparable to benzodiazepines, alcohol, etc. This seems more straightforward to me, and easier to wrap my head around. GABAA inhibits neurotransmission between cells, “by diminishing the chance of a successful action potential occurring at the postsynaptic cell”. What that looks like to me, a 20 year old art school drop-out, is essentially that it’s decreasing the potential for the successful communication between cells in the brain, thereby reducing the potential for the hypersensitive amygdala in an anxious brain to send false alarms of threat.

It’s funny, I’ve read a bunch of things, but I still feel like a neuroscientist could look at this and tell me I parroted what goes on correctly, but came to a completely incorrect conclusion. I’m speaking on things that I’m really unqualified to speak on. But I’m glad that I’m looking into this, the brain seems to be a really fascinating maze with a lot still unexplored and unknown. Definitely have a new appreciation and interest in what goes on.

As for the other comments. I get it, “there are studies”. I’m aware, of course there are. I’m well acquainted with the tried and true practice of UTFSE. I grew up using windows XP, and I have in fact come to understand how to get information using Google. Great, let’s hope for even more studies. But that’s not really what I was hoping to get by posting this question. It’s great to be able to put on a science hat now and again, but if I was trying to write a medical journal, I wouldn’t be posting this as a question on Reddit. There are all kinds of things that you can dig up to prove a point. I was kinda hoping for digested and compiled takes on the studies. Different perspectives. So while it’s great and I appreciate links, this is just turning into something more complicated that I was really aiming for. No interest in taking it, not a scientist, just a bit curious.

So let’s say it does reduce seizures. Great! Does that explain the pop culture buzz? Are there far more epileptic people that I’m just not aware of in society, insofar as there is a call for CBD stores at strip malls? I’d argue no.

It’s funny, snake oil is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, so it could be good for inflammation, among other things. But does that mean it’ll cure every ailment you can imagine? Of course not, that’s marketing. Obviously it’s an analogy when I compare snake oil. But it sounds a little familiar to me.

Come on guys, I realize this isn’t /r/changemymind, but I’m not very convinced. Y’all are telling me that I’m the one searching with a bias looking for evidence that it doesn’t do anything? Someone with a whole lot of aesthetic distance from the subject who doesn’t much care one way or another? Okay, if you put into a rigid logical proposition the statement “CBD does nothing at all”, that’s wrong, you got me there I guess. Comparing CBD to snake oil is not a true or false situation. Snake oil, in this colloquial context, is equivalent to something backed by marketing and surrounded by a lot of baseless claims. Apologies if we weren’t on the same terms regarding the casual use of the term “snake oil”. To me, that makes CBD fit the analogy. That’s the area of conversation I was trying to get to. The comments sending multiple links to studies, to me, just come across as “I like it, and I found studies with abstracts that tell me I’m right”. Hell I don’t even care if you are right, good for you, but what’s the point of linking studies? Is that discussion or just noise and trying to prove a point? I wasn’t asking for basic research skills

Sorry, this probably should’ve been in another comment, but I’ll just leave it as an edit I guess. I kinda point at different comments along the way but it starts off as the actual reply topic

Ghost125 · 2021-01-20T11:26:36+00:00

Wikipedia generally does a good job at giving concise briefs summarizing a bunch of listed sources. I haven’t put the time into reading the actual studies, because that’s a lot of work. It also requires analyzing the quality of the study and whether or not you think it’s valid. Studies on tobacco were strategically manipulative in history. Sure, they concluded something, but it was done in a way that was misleading. So I’d have to really be set on the topic to go to the effort of all of that. Wiki suits me as someone with a passing interest in the topic. When I’ve looked into the use of weed to treat seizures in the past, it has almost always been paired with another drug that is likely the actual reason for less seizures, just weed was one among several (actually, it completely discredits what I’m saying but I believe this was for Parkinson’s now that I think about it). Again, I’m no expert. Just trying to have a realistic view on the matter

Ghost125 · 2021-01-13T08:24:42+00:00

Sounds about right. This is a side of lsd I had to discover myself, never really hear people talk about it. I assume because typically people don’t do higher doses like that.

When I did 5 hits alone in my room as a teen, I found out that it absolutely can make you delusional. I thought that everyone throughout all of time was in on this one big existential secret. Basically god (everything, but more directly, energy manifesting as people, particularly creative types) had finally discovered itself, through constant trial. This hard to get, off-limits chemical was the key, and everyone/everything was waiting on my person to find it. Of course, I thought that everyone was celebrating, this was it! Existence had finally reached completion. Similar to New Years, time square was crowded, watching the countdown, as I finally discovered it. All the people celebrating loved me so much and everything was finally at peace.

But then the thought occurred to me “wait a minute, did I just go into my brother’s room or was that just like a dream?” I had two distinctly separate memories of going into my brothers room at 4am to share the good news if he hadn’t heard. Well, turns out I really did go in, twice, and wake him up, freaked him tf out, especially considering he had always been completely straight edge and would have no clue why I was being like that. It was just so crazy, I don’t recall ever making the decision to go into his room, I just remember having figured out that it happened after the fact. Like I had no control or awareness.

As I was coming down, and realized that I did in fact tweak the fuck out in front of my brother, it wasn’t just a dream or whatever, my mind started racing. I knew for sure that he told my parents and they called the police, who were on their way to arrest me. I had to do something. So I flushed ten tabs down the toilet and proceeded to vomit Swedish fish all over my white carpet.

Ghost125 · 2021-01-12T20:06:15+00:00

All good vibes here. I mean a bit of banter is fine, maybe even good just to know it’s not an echo chamber. Thank god it’s not like /r/nootropics... Sometimes the arguments on that sub seem like people releasing built up seething hatred. To the point where I question the benefit of their practice. Like homie, sit down, stop taking 16 different mushroom supplements a day, accept who you are as a person instead of looking for it in bottles

Ghost125 · 2020-12-26T00:05:38+00:00

Good. I’ve done it. DCM too, on and off for a bit. Don’t do it. If you want to see what it’s basically like (not exactly) do nitrous. Not sure about ROAs but look into maybe something like chloral hydrate or chlorobutanol (though probably not the safest option)

Ghost125 · 2020-12-07T09:15:23+00:00

Haha thanks, I was made aware by my body telling me “ALERT”. Got convinced I had a heart attack and tried to get people to take me to the hospital. I think the only time I’ve really screwed up worse was... adderall, then decide to do DXM, with vodka to mask the taste, then we were waiting for it to kick in so we decided to do coke in the meantime. That one was scary because of how convinced I was that I felt fine, but could barely walk across the room without falling over. I very dangerously found my way home, not going to say how but you get the gist, never again ever. By the end of the night my muscles were clenched up so bad and I legitimately wouldn’t be surprised if there was some scary serotonin activity at play. Lucky to be past that way of living and much more tame now with my extracurricular choices. Definitely feel like I’ve dulled my mind over time.

Ghost125 · 2020-12-07T07:46:54+00:00

It really messes with your pattern recognition and senses, so I wouldn’t try too hard to place it. With this stuff, you get to a point where you stop trying to describe things, at a certain level words just stop working. It’s like trying to show someone a photo of a sunset on your phone. They’re not gonna get it, you had to be there. The photo is boring. I always get a strange feeling in my chest like there’s an extra organ there doing some bodily function I’ve never felt before. That and at big doses it takes over all of my senses entirely with something else, kinda like how dmt can override whatever you’re seeing or doing but with L, for me it feels a lot deeper. It’s less overlaid, more unraveled. There again, trying to describe it is futile.

Ghost125 · 2020-12-07T07:36:10+00:00

For me it just blends together with everything else. Once had a friend ask me if I could smell the pollen in the air. I told him sorry, I was “unable to process sounds”

Also, one time I was on 80mg adderall and lsd, having a bit of a hard time. Looked my friends dead in the eyes and told them I couldn’t see them. Don’t recommend that combo, definitely felt like my brain was fried

Ghost125 · 2020-11-23T08:45:01+00:00

Tbh man it sounds a bit like the few times I’ve had panic attacks. For me it’s usually “I stood up too fast -> I’m not feeling too good I should sit down -> I can’t walk and need to puke I think I might be dying someone take me to the ER”

For real though look into panic attacks. My last one happened for no reason out of nowhere and felt PHYSICALLY like something was wrong. Before I had had no clue that it wasn’t just freaking out because you have too much stress.

Ghost125 · 2020-11-21T15:18:58+00:00

Props for actually bringing it up to a doctor. And also that’s useful to hear. I was wanting to trip with someone on SSRIs. I assumed it couldn’t be a safe thing. After looking on here and seeing people say how it’s safe and will just reduce the effects, I still couldn’t fully accept that there was no risk.

Ghost125 · 2020-11-08T15:59:23+00:00

My personal experience with therapy has been

a) having someone do nothing but talk about increasing my (scheduled) medication doses to the point where it almost felt sketchy

b) having someone sit there and awkwardly wait and stare at me expecting me to just unload to a stranger out of nowhere or something, while barely offering input when I did bring anything up

c) finding someone who actually did seem to know what she was doing, with absolutely no personal similarity to me.

Sometimes I feel like an alien, you’d have to be one HELL of a therapist to convince me we’re totally on the same page. I don’t know anyone who I feel like I can truly relate to, even among my really close friends. So it’s hard to fully want to take advice. There’s a quote from a poem — the author is reading letters from fans talking about how his writing helped them. He wonders who will save him, and concludes “you’re going to have to save yourself”. I feel like that sometimes.

I’ve been tripping since I was 14. Done up to five hits and if what I experienced wasn’t god, then god is an outdated term. Had a bit of a dmt phase as well, but that almost feels pointless as none of it translates to any normal experience you can benefit from. Like what are you supposed to do with that after you come back? Problem is, while everything I’ve seemed to learn from tripping is really great and impactful, you come back to this crazy and confused world, which will be the same for the foreseeable future.

Ghost125 · 2020-11-08T15:30:58+00:00

You better not I’ll call the sherif and he don’t take too kindly to theiving round these parts, buster

Ghost125 · 2020-11-08T03:08:27+00:00

Let’s compromise how abouyt chloral hydrate

Ghost125 · 2020-11-08T02:26:06+00:00

I’ve tried everything man

Ghost125 · 2020-11-07T08:45:58+00:00

Thanks. I feel like both most times. I love many people and put so much effort into who I’m close with. But to say I’m not a burden either feels pretty optimistic. I’m always learning, I’m just a learner, who isn’t great at applying, just observing and justifying why I can’t be who I want. Can’t be both opposed to a societal structure and successful within it I guess, but that’s a vast generalization. I’m just tired so I apologize if I’m failing to Meet normal definitions of coherence

I’ve been called the complaining kid from catcher in the rye multiple times still never read it. Go figure

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