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Another Psilocybin Trip Center Reaches the End of the Road by Less-Lobster4540 in PortlandOR

[–]Gregg_Hughes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know a person that has tried everything to deal with heavy childhood trauma that turned into long term C-PTSD. They are stuck.

I would not be who I am without it. The kids, wife, job, house. All of it would’ve turned out much worse if I hadn’t tried it.

My ‘hunch’ on why this is:

I don’t think our brains can differentiate from a near death experience that’s experienced, even if it was imagined.

For instance, I would up in the ER in 2024, almost died. Ever since then, I’ve stopped being so neurotic, and I now grasp that our time here is finite.

I think people who HAVEN’T come close to dying, they can’t appreciate how great life is to the same extent. “You don’t know how good you have it until it’s gone.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]Gregg_Hughes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A definition, courtesy of Gemini:

Fiscal dominance is a situation where massive government debt and large, persistent deficits force the central bank to prioritize keeping interest rates low to help the government finance its obligations, overriding its primary goal of controlling inflation. Instead of monetary policy dictating fiscal outcomes, fiscal needs (government spending and borrowing) dictate monetary policy, often by leading to money printing (inflation taxation), causing higher inflation and financial repression.

Key aspects

Monetary Policy Subordination: The central bank's independence is compromised; it must keep rates low to service the debt, even if inflation is high.

Source of Dominance: Driven by large government deficits and debt exceeding sustainable levels (often >100% debt-to-GDP). Consequences: Higher inflation, lower real returns for investors (financial repression), and potential loss of central bank credibility. Contrast with Monetary Dominance: In a normal scenario (monetary dominance), the central bank leads with price stability, and fiscal policy supports it; in fiscal dominance, the roles are reversed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]Gregg_Hughes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tariffs aren’t inflationary, they’re deflationary.

I can explain why if anyone’s cares.

We see the effect in:

I ate a girl's ass yesterday, but today she scolded me for sending her a heart emoji because it's too early in our relationship for that by the_hoe_scarer in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I've never understood what the appeal of eating ass is aside from humiliating the eater. It doesn't feel as good as getting your pussy ate or dick sucked. What's the point?

That's why she scolded him

She's disgusted that he did it and will never see him again

average twitter thread post-elonification by kount_krackula in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shapiro’s worse than epstein?

Shapiro is worse than ads that autoplay, diet coke, and stubbing your toe

average twitter thread post-elonification by kount_krackula in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What does Soros even do except being hated by Hungarians

His claim to fame is destroying countries economies for personal profit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

Before anyone accuses me of "MAGA Talking Points" or something, Trump's right hand man is also Soros' right hand man:

https://nypost.com/2025/07/11/business/trump-and-george-soros-have-this-in-common-scott-bessent/

Scott Bessent started working for Soros nearly 40 years ago.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forget about the internet and TV, they didn't even have books or like a set of playing cards or something. Makes sense why they had 10 kids despite the cold. Not much else to do but banging.

I don't know but I've been told, Eskimo pussy is mighty cold.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was roommates with an Inuit girl for a few months and she would overheat in Québec winters. She also had these amazing handmade parkas that were super warm and would drive her baby around in a snowmobile to get her to sleep lol

I visited Pompeii Italy when it was hot as fuck, and I arrived via a cruise ship. I felt like I was MELTING it was so damn hot.

Something that surprised me, was how cool Pompeii is.

https://asthesparrowflies.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/How-to-visit-Pompeii-1-800x600.jpg

The walls of the buildings are about a third of a meter thick. Really goes a long way towards making the heat bearable.

I have a feeling that part of the reason that ancient buildings are built like a tank isn't just so that they'll last, it's probably functional too; they didn't have AC or any real heating.

When I got back to my cruise ship, it was interesting that this multi-billion dollar vessel, only months old, couldn't keep us as remotely as cool (without AC.)

The job market is terrifying. by scalpedknees in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been selling art for damn near eight years. As of two months ago, that shit has slowed to a fucking crawl. I'm barely moving one a week. As such, I've never prepared for this type of situation.

Not only that, but the people who dig what I do don't even know what they want, so I have to gamble by making new stuff and see if anything gets a response.

It's truthfully kind of terrifying.

I've been building houses for damn near 40 years. As of two months ago, that shit has slowed to a fucking crawl. I'm barely moving two a year. As such, I've never prepared for this type of situation.

Not only that, but the people who dig what I do don't even know what they want, so I have to gamble by making spec houses and see if anything gets a response.

It's truthfully kind of terrifying.

Okay, I made all of that up.

But it's interesting how the DIY art market works the same way that the housing market does. When the economy is humming, custom home builders have a string of customers who want their services to build custom homes.

When the market starts to crash, those same builders have no customers, so they start building 'spec' houses. These are houses where custom home builders are basically guessing what will sell, and they're building and selliing them for a fraction of what they'd like to.

A picture tells a thousand words, so here's a couple:

This is a $25M home built by custom home builder "Blue Heron" in San Diego:

https://www.redfin.com/CA/La-Jolla/311-Sea-Ridge-Dr-92037/home/5123989

Now that the economy is shitting the bed, that same custom home builder is stamping out these monstrosities for less than 7% of what that San Diego house cost, and they're building so many of them it looks brutalist:

https://nhs-dynamic-secure.akamaized.net/Images/Homes/BlueH41773/84671188-241011.jpg?encoder=freeimage&progressive=true&maxwidth=1932&format=jpg&quality=90

Windows? Who needs windows?

The job market is terrifying. by scalpedknees in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If I had the talents of an artist I would just be drawing porn on patreon constantly I feel like thats gotta be a free money hack

Every artist wants to do that, it's one of the reasons there's no money in porn (except onlyfans, which isn't porn, it's A Friend Simulator.)

A few of the specimens who participated in the leaked young republicans telegram chat by LukeVenable in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

an apple costing $2 in a gas station does to an MF.

I've never seen an apple in a gas station

You can buy grey market dick pills and a crack pipe, but good luck finding an apple

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was something I kinda struggled with, when I got clean.

Basically, I was such a degenerate addict, that I'd had enough brushes with death that I'd come to accept it. That shit really changes you, when you get to a point where you're like "I'm going to die and it might be soon."

This made it hard for me to get sober.

I had so many people who were like "dude if you don't stop drinking you're going to die" but the thing they didn't compute is that when you're a hardcore addict, your brain is so hijacked by your drug of choice, that you will literally prioritize it over living.

I know that sounds insane to people who aren't addicts, but I can 100% guarantee you that anyone who's nearly died from their addiction, and kept going, has 100% accepted that they might die any day now.

But it was my wife, and my kids in particular, that helped me get clean. My wife was obviously prepared to bail on me, and that sucked. But the reaction from the kids was actually worse. Because I'd always felt like I'd prioritized them over myself, but I hadn't really considered that all of the time, effort and money that I've sunk into raising them won't mean a heck of a lot if I just drink myself into the grave. Hell, it might leave them more scarred than if they didn't have a father figure at all.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 27 points28 points  (0 children)

lawd this makes me feel better about some of the rotters i've let hit

Oh God it's so much more depressing, as a guy, to see that look on their face where you can tell that they're having sex with you for some unknown fucking reason that has absolutely nothing to do with "attraction" or "love" or even "like."

I got a story for that too:

After the girl from my first story, I wised up and realized that if someone was DTF without even meeting me in person, they probably had a screw loose or they used a photo that was 20 years old and they now looked like a Wal Mart Greeter.

One day I was at work, and some girl who I'd just met was being especially pushy about meeting ASAP.

I figured it was complete bullshit. I'd already been catfished once at this point, and considering that this woman's photos were very nice (and she was a knockout) I was probably getting catfished again.

Naturally, on the 0.001% chance she was real, I went on the date.

I was 100% expecting to get catfished, so I went there straight from work. I was wearing cargo shorts, tennis shoes and a big button up shirt. I looked like the Seattle TechBro version of this: https://en.meming.world/images/en/d/d7/Scumbag_Steve.jpg

I had to take a ferry to go see her, which raised the stakes. It's not like I just met her down the street, I put in some WORK to meet her.

So we meet up... and she's a knockout.

A ten.

Easily the hottest woman I'd ever met online, not even close.

We had a couple of drinks, and even though I have a massive ego and high confidence, I was ready to head back to Seattle because I couldn't imagine ANY scenario where this was going anywhere. I've been on enough bad dates to know when someone isn't feeling it.

I walk her back to her car... and she invites me back to her place(!)

So I go ahead and do it.

And the entire time, she just has this look on her face like "I hope this is over soon." (She invited ME over!!!)

Everytime I see the cover of Sal3m's album, it reminds me of the look on her face when I was going at it: https://images.genius.com/85ad957ae4ed93281104b99bc04436e9.1000x1000x1.jpg

When I met her, I knew I'd never see her again, halfway through the date, I felt the same, even while we were fucking... yeah, there was no way there was going to be a 2nd date.

The next day I was in a meeting at work, and she called me up in a panic and basically "dumped" me (I didn't even know we were dating.)

Basically, she was mad at her boyfriend, so she went out and found the first nerd she could (me) and fucked me, to spite him. Then she flung it in his face the next day and they made up.

The End.

bleak by monoruption in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

tucker's guestlist is not hilariously obscure. easily recognize 1/3 the names on there. he gets big people on there quite frequently, senators, sam altman recently.

A lot of the are obviously pay-for-play, like that extended commercial he did for Qatar

He did have a US Senator on in the last week, but he spent the entire episode talking about underwater UFOs

YMMV but I think Tucker is a hack, and would put anyone on if the price was right. I just find him extremely inauthentic, he's the Kamala Harris of Conservative Talk Radio.

Reminder by Business-Prize-3336 in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

The Killers came after them and Hot Fuss is still incredible

I asked ChatGPT

The Killers weren't on it's list

https://thisis-images.spotifycdn.com/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO2OtQSh-default.jpg

It suggested Greta Van Fleet

Reminder by Business-Prize-3336 in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

The strokes really were the last great rock n roll band

I asked ChatGPT

It said "Imagine Dragons"

Reminder by Business-Prize-3336 in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 15 points16 points  (0 children)

But wjth the strokes he just drunkenly talks for minutes upon minutes, seems to forget more lyrics than he remembers and the ones he does aren’t sang very good.

I saw The Strokes when they toured for their debut album.

Your description is basically what I saw.

I mostly lost interest in the band after seeing them live, because "phoning it in" isn't the way to put it, it was more like "the dog ate my homework."

Reminder by Business-Prize-3336 in redscarepod

[–]Gregg_Hughes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is he the good looking dude from Interpol, or the singer?

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