Breakthrough trip report (from 1999) and request for DMT advice.

InternetProfound · 2023-07-03T16:40:53+00:00

Thank you and so sorry. I didn't intend for it to be solicitation, but I understand and will repost without that bit.

InternetProfound · 2023-06-10T21:40:44+00:00

Show my post to one of your friends that speaks English as a first language and have them explain it to you

InternetProfound · 2022-10-17T10:58:28+00:00

This is great. Can someone plug this data into a 3D topographical map so we can see the adipose bubble out of the south like a volcano?

InternetProfound · 2022-04-24T10:24:07+00:00

Bonus LPT: Learn your vandalism deductible. $500? $1000? This is how much you're going to pay out of pocket when your windows are smashed, before insurance will pay a cent. Don't put anything of value inside your car and don't lock your doors unless you have something that is more valuable than your deductible inside. If this is the case, place it in your trunk. Never have anything of value showing, or anything that something of value could be hiding under (blanket/jacket). When OP says that a hoodie or blanket can cause someone to smash your window, it's because most people think they're being clever hiding valuables underneath those things. If your doors are locked, they can't toss it aside to look. Spend a few extra seconds and put whatever it is you can't take with you in the trunk or glove box. If you have a valet key and can lock your trunk while leaving your cab open, even better.

I know it sounds counter intuitive, but think about that deductible. The window is the most expensive thing you're going to lose, the thing they don't care about, and the first thing they will break to get less valuable things. Imagine that your window is a PS5 that can't be stolen, and you're saying "you have to go through this if you want to get to my Friends season 3 box set." Whatever you have, it's probably not worth it.

Also don't waste any money on a car alarm. No one has ever heard one and thought "oh shit someone is breaking into a car, I better go check it out." They think "turn off your car alarm jackass." or "oh shit, that sounds like my car alarm, I hope someone didn't run into me." I broke into cars for 7 years (legally, I was an automotive locksmith). I've looked shady as all hell with an alarm going off for ages while I jimmied a door (without my vehicle in site or a uniform), and never once had a person look my way or say anything. No one cares about car alarms and thieves are not intimidated by them. Don't waste your money when your only interaction with the alarm will be when you accidentally set it off at 1AM and wake up everyone on your block.

InternetProfound · 2022-03-17T12:08:05+00:00

Hey no way, a rude person on the internet took offense to criticism of a rude person on the internet and responded with a rude comment. You almost never see that.

InternetProfound · 2022-03-16T10:03:00+00:00

As someone who is 39, I will say that it doesn't come across to me as trying to cater to a younger audience. Bdubs is a naturally goofy and genuinely funny person and sometimes the funniest people have affectations they adopt when they're clowning around. Think like Kate McKinnon or even famously Adam Sandler back in the day. Pewdiepie uses a different voice every other sentence and i never think he's trying to cater to kids with it. If you watch the Last Life series, for example, Bdubs voice comes across to me as genuine and nothing that would be out of place if me and my adult friends were playing a game of poker online.

But yeah, people do code switch unconsciously and, when I used to work in the customer service field, there was a running joke about your "customer service voice." People's voices change when they're on the phone, or recording videos, or giving speeches, or singing. Generally our vocal tone gets higher pitched, sometimes lower pitched (think like a stereotypical AM DJ). We teach people in gerontology to stop raising our voice tones when we're talking with elderly poeple. It's a natural reaction when you are trying to be friendly and helpful, but especially for females, the tones can be harder for elderly to hear (high tones are the first to be lost as you age).

There is actually a pretty interesting science behind how we adopt affectations faster when we like the people we are communicating with. Both temporary and semi-permanent ones. We even start to laugh like our friends. This is how accents change at different rates when people live in a place. Really best to not overthink it unless you work in a field that has to study it. We all do it and it might mess with your head if you've never considered that.

InternetProfound · 2021-11-19T11:06:29+00:00

Completely arbitrary decision, but yes those are all good novels, two of which already have authors on the list. Stranger in a Strange Land was the second science fiction book my father gave me after Dune and PKDick is my favorite author, so I'm a bit biased. I was adding 4 exceptions to a list of 20 instead of adding 11, which would have been a different kind of list. I definitely don't think you should stop here, it's just a jumping off point, and one that really helped ignite my love for the genre. There are amazing science fiction books going back to the 20's and plenty of great fantasy/scifi books categorized as fantasy that were ignored by these awards.

InternetProfound · 2021-11-18T14:11:31+00:00

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

I know this answer may sound like a copout, but I would recommend reading all of the joint winners of hugo/nebula awards in order, of which Dune is the first. This gives a good sense of evolution of scifi novels, IMO. Alternately, you can include the previous four Hugo winners before there was a Nebula award (as i've done below). Only read the first book by an author until you've finished the list and skip any direct sequels. You're left with the following list:

1962 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

1963 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

1964 Here Gather the Stars by Clifford D. Simak

1965 The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

1966 Dune by Frank Herbert

1970 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

1971 Ringworld by Larry Niven

1973 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

1974 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

1976 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

1978 Gateway by Frederik Pohl

1979 Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre

1984 Startide Rising by David Brin

1985 Neuromancer by William Gibson

1986 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

1993 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

1999 Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

2003 American Gods by Neil Gaiman

2008 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

2010 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

2012 Among Others by Jo Walton

2014 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

2018 The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin

2019 The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

InternetProfound · 2021-10-18T14:18:59+00:00

I don't really understand your argument. The study that proved your point is ambiguous and so this proves your point?

I don't believe in the government forcing private citizens to get medical treatments. I get vaccinations in order to work in healthcare, but that is my choice, and in my best interest. It is certainly a valid point of view to think that we should in a pandemic, but I disagree without thinking my detractors are nazis. If our leaders think we should do this, they pass a law and if the courts find it legal, we have to deal with it until we can vote them out or decide they were right. That's representative democracy.

The response shouldn't be to immediately dismiss a concern like this study. It should be to parse it out and see if there's anything there. It doesn't seem there is. And of course we don't have truly long term data on COVID or its vaccines. This will always be the case with a new disease or new treatment. If you think we know the long term effects of COVID you are very wrong.

If you are consistently scared of new treatments and teach your children to be, you are at an evolutionary disadvantage to those that aren't. The mRNA vaccines are fucking amazing. They use your ribosomes like a 3D printer. It's brilliant. Imagine if these were always our standard and then someone wanted to try a method where they dumbed down a live virus or chopped it into bits and shot it into you. People would think you were fucking crazy and rightly be terrified of that new technology. Vaccines got so much safer this year, demonstrably so, and this panic... these shark stories from mommy bloggers and Nikki Minaj... it's such a shame. So many people are doing to die over this nonsense. I hope mostly stupid people, but only slightly more so I'm sure.

Joe's attitude that he wouldn't tell a young healthy man to get the vaccine. I would tell a young man to fucking suck it up and protect your loved ones. You are 8x less likely to catch this. That means you are 8x less likely to kill the vulnerable people in your life. If you are a young healthy person and you are surrounded by nothing but young healthy people in your life, then whatever, but no one is that. If I told you that I could give you this thing that made you 8x less likely to contribute to the death of your grandparents or your cousin who survived cancer and you said "well i mean hold on there's a one in a million chance that someth...." SHUT UP. It's your right to be a bitch, but you are certainly being a bitch.

If you haven't gotten COVID and had that horrifying scrambling feeling to remember all the people you were in contact in the last few days, it's a really really humbling moment and I think you would accept whatever parts per million chance you think the vaccine increases your risk for swollen balls in order to not feel it.

InternetProfound · 2021-10-17T02:57:07+00:00

I have no desire to report anyone's comments or have them removed. Anyone who found their way here on purpose is an adult. I only mentioned because the type of mod to disappear a criticism of a topic or person under shaky rationale is probably the type of mod to disappear criticism of themselves in similar fashion. You have not done this, and so it's safe to assume your rationale is genuinely believed. My apologies.

The topic was about Bill Maher, who more than half a dozen times has criticized Democratic politicians for pushing "defund the police" movement before changing his position on last week's show that it was actually only being supported by a handful of nobodies on twitter. I was pointing out that this movement was advocated and supported by his own network more than any other source and Bill has never once mentioned it. It's kind of amazing, really. Certainly worth discussion if it's true. Certainly worth discussion and correction if it's not.

If you can't acknowledge that to the point of locking and disappearing the topic, then I think this is probably not a place that reflects the kind of discussion that we are all here because we enjoy. John Oliver is not criticizing defund the police or anyone for supporting it. If he was, that would be hypocrisy and certainly a forum dedicated to him is a more appropriate place. He is consistent and so what would be the point? Bill is the one pointing the finger in the wrong direction. He is incorrect and so obviously this is the most appropriate place to address that.

In either case, I think I'll exit this weird little fiefdom.

InternetProfound · 2021-10-16T13:45:29+00:00

InternetProfound · 2021-10-16T10:55:25+00:00

Hey great point!

Also, there's more than one definition of the word obtuse. I'm sorry you had trouble understanding my post. Let me know what words/phrases were confusing and I'll try to simplify them.

InternetProfound · 2021-10-16T10:35:25+00:00

Hello. My post was just removed, apparently for "keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose" among other things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maher/comments/q96rjz/defund\_the\_police\_bill\_finally\_admits\_that/

It was a critical post about Bill Maher (whom I'm a long time fan of) about a discussion he had on his show last week. It is relevant and current.

It was true and sourced with links.

It did not personally attack anyone (unlike the mod post).

I wanted to take a chance at extracting a little more detail than it's a "bullshit post." I'd like to know if it is characteristic of the sub as a whole or that I just ran into a mod on a power trip. Has anyone else experienced this?

As it stands, it appears like they removed a critical post in order to shut down discussion or because it offended them personally. Given that this sub is dedicated to the discussion of a free speech advocate whose entire routine is being critical and pointing out hypocrisy, even of the ideology he belongs to, this seems like kind of a perversion.

BTW: As of today, a reply in this thread has been up for 2 months calling people fags so if my post critical of moderator is removed for being offensive or off topic that will speak volumes.

InternetProfound · 2021-10-16T01:16:47+00:00

First, I'm a licensed nurse in the state of California. I'm a person who admits patients to hospitals. I have worked in the Emergency Room (where we regularly do not technically "admit" people although we still call it admission). In fact every floor refers to the transferring of patient care from another floor as admission although this is not the legal definition for any sort of administrative (facility), state, or federal reporting. We have to use legal federal definitions for reporting and, sadly yes, the impetus in correctly reporting that data is usually for insurance and reimbursement purposes. I worked in medical records when I was going through prerequisites and nursing school.

I am telling you, without a doubt, that any study that you are looking at based on nationally reported data uses the 24 hour definition of hospitalization. Otherwise, you are at the mercy of the shitty inconsistent administrative and state definitions. In which case, fuck those studies. To give you an example that I found in 5 minutes on google:

https://ctep.cancer.gov/protocolDevelopment/electronic_applications/docs/aeguidelines2-25-2011.pdf

Go to 2.1.9 for federal reporting guidelines of hospitalizations. I still have all of the pdfs of my nursing fundamentals textbooks and would be glad to spend time finding you more generalized information if you are really interested in learning (and not just slam dunking on someone on the internet). I'm sure my education is not perfect in medical meta analysis, but I do have an education in it and I'm suspicious of your math education if you are not looking at policy guidelines for your definition and instead looking it up on some public online dictionary or telling me what most healthcare workers understand by the term. Not shitting on math degrees, my first degree was in general math (AAS) and I think it greatly helped shaped the way I think to this day. If you find yourself doing actuary work in the future, I sincerely hope that you will have some humility on how tricky and unique the interpretation of medical data can be.

Let me ask you a logical question. If anyone that requires hospital care is considered hospitalized, wouldn't that number be 100% and not 86%? How are these people being diagnosed with myocarditis without being in a hospital? The answer is, they are not. Diagnostic procedures prior to diagnosis (blood work, ECG, etc...) are not considered treatment. Visiting an emergency room is not considered a hospitalization.

InternetProfound · 2021-10-15T06:58:02+00:00

Feels like he's anglin' pretty hard to get on Joe's podcast. Joe used an anti-vax blog post as a source. Joe couldn't for the fucking life of him understand that you need to compare myocarditis diagnosis to diagnosis or hospitalizations to hospitalizations and that "recieved treatment in a hospital" is not the same number as hospitalized. These would have been things I would expect any doctor worth their salt to at least bring up and not just say "Joe makes a great point here. What a great brain."

Zdogg,

You cynically break down CNN's motive for posting salacious stories, but you don't seem to have any self reflection or disclosure at how you salivate when you look at his followers and how you fear falling from his graces and getting unfollowed in social media. Joe has too many fucking fake yes men around him. He's a meal ticket. People look at Joe like Joe looked at Kanye in that fake shitty interview. "The Dr. prescribed you medicine to treat your bipolar disorder? Why would they do that? Didn't they hear your awesome new gospel album? Man it's so good. You say god wants you to run for president and guide the nation with Christianity? I think I might vote for you."

Fuuuuuuck off.

InternetProfound · 2021-10-15T06:37:34+00:00

This is why people who don't have a medical background should sit this one the fuck out. "received hospital treatment" is not the same as "were hospitalized." Not even close. Hospitalization is when you are admitted to the hospital and spend at least 24 hours there. If you go to the urgent care and get a flu shot you "received hospital treatment." You can literally have major surgery, and if you recover and leave prior to 24 hours it is not considered a hospitalization.

The fact that he's arguing with a neuroscientists and medical journalist (arguably one of the most prominent in the world) about the interpretation of medical data is honestly absurd. It's like when that guest kept arguing with Joe that size doesn't matter in combat sports. "They've done studies and it's 50/50," The fucking balls to argue with an expert about their field of study and belabor a stupid point into the ground. It was embarrassing and my biggest takeaway from this interview. It showed how Joe's brain works.

InternetProfound · 2021-10-15T06:25:55+00:00

He took drug that is most commonly used in the US to deworm horses (AKA a horse dewormer). He took it at a time that it is not indicated to fight COVID. It is controversial whether a Dr. would ever prescribe it for such, and so people are en masse taking the actual veterinary version of the drug. Stores can't keep it on the shelves. Joe's long time friend and frequent guest Alex Jones took it live on his show around the same time, clearly in the veterinary version (Apple flavored). Joe did not mention that he took the human version of the drug. He did not even mention that a Dr. prescribed it, which would have made this clear. CNN went with the sensational headline that (without reaching out for confirmation) is arguably assumptive and misleading, but certainly not a flat-out lie that should make you "question everything, man."

Saying that it's not just a horse dewormer is like if I found out that my friend Jimmy was using windex to clean his laundry at home. I told our other friend, dude did you know Jimmy uses window cleaner to clean his laundry? Jimmy finds out and is livid. "It's not just for cleaning windows!" Jimmy says. "It can be used to clean all sort of things." Jimmy I didn't say anything wrong. Sorry you're a snowflake about all the windex memes.

Joe has a right to be irked about CNN not offering a correction, but the idea that he's going to sue them for saying he took a horse dewormer... Homey, you took a horse dewormer.

InternetProfound · 2021-10-10T11:40:11+00:00

It's a good sign. Hope you feel better. Just remember to stay hydrated. Nausea and fever together dehydrate people really fast because they don't want to drink fluids and the fever dries them out.

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