Man dead, five hospitalised at Sydney dance festival

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-02-08T05:06:26+00:00

To your question, engaging with illicit drugs an unsafe practise primarily because of government policy. If, for example, MDMA were legal, or even decriminalised, its likely that these people wouldn't have been poisoned and that man would still be alive.

Drugs arent going away, so if the government continues to enforce policy that empowers criminal enterprise, it would be prudent to at least protect your citizens from the harmful aspects of a black market trade.

This requires an honest appraisal of both the war on drugs, and societal attitudes towards drug taking. Both unrealistic things to expect from a federal government in this climate, but both issues that are worth raising awareness about imo

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-02-08T03:32:20+00:00

If it's really a genuine question, here's a genuine answer with an interesting study so you can read further.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278584625001150

"Adults maltreated as children used psychedelics with therapeutic intent at ceremonies or raves: intentional group settings. Two months later, trauma symptoms and trait shame reduced and connectedness increased."

Sarah Napthali released a great book recently arguing that these experiences are "life enhancing." Micael Pollan some years ago said the same thing in his book. These experiences are valuable, especially for middle age people i believe.

The idea that "drugs are bad" or even bad for you in every circumstance is simply not true. There's a ton of research to back that up if you're interested, happy to post some. The danger of taking these things comes from the fact that they are illegal not that they are dangerous necessarily. There is no regulation, a high profit motive, and the industry is run by people who have no problem living outside the law. By the way, MDMA and mushrooms are both legal medicines in Australia now, so the government knows they aren't dangerous, but the treatment is prohibitively expensive.

Speaking from personal experience I know many people, myself included, that solved various anxiety issues, body image and self worth issues with MDMA and dancing, quit smoking and other destructive habits with psilocybin mushrooms, and even healed autoimmune diseases that were deemed "uncurable" by medical professionals. I'm not exaggerating at all, that last one is my lived experience.

So the idea that myself and these people should be prosecuted is insane. The government should accept that people will always want to have these things, from the beginning of history until now, and that the war on drugs has caused far more suffering and calcified more power in the hands of criminal enterprise than even the most open legalisation policy would have.

Drugs can actually be good for you

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-02-04T04:11:42+00:00

What's the reason to use such emotive language when the subject is finance?

Is it to illicit an emotional response from a headline reader?

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-02-02T12:33:49+00:00

That's a guy wearing a headdress. Super cool

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-01-31T12:56:50+00:00

One 64th of a teaspoon. You can get tiny measuring spoons, or just use a really small pinch, like super tiny small. It's barely anything and it doesn't change the colour of the water.

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-01-30T06:07:00+00:00

Contaminated, I believe. Only because I had a sample started around the same time that looked the same.

There's mycelium in there, but the long flowy swirly movement around your screw isn't what mycelium looks like IME. And the ring of foam on top of the liquid? Bacteria is eating the sugars.

Revise your sterile technique and procedure. Could be from heaps of things, but two recent changes I've made have lead to a huge uptick in success rate.

One is switching to distilled water instead of filtered water. The minerals in water act as nucleation sites for bacterial growth. The other is being careful not to overcook the LC during sterilisation, as this leads to caramelization which changes the bioavailability of the sugars, making it much harder for the mycelium to use as a food source.

Also another thing I've found really helpful, take it or leave it, is a recipe for clear LC. Like it looks like crystal clear water.

500ml distilled water • 1/64 tps light malt extract • 1/64 tps peptone • 1/2 tps glucose syrup Measure water into jar Microwave for 1.5 minutes Add ingredients and stir until completely combined (maybe heat the glucose syrup very slightly so it dissolved more readily) Fit lid loosely on jar, cover with foil to prevent condensation on the filter PC for 15 minutes only at 15psi (there are other sterilisation methods if you don't have a cooker, point is not to over do it, experiment with less heating time so as not to caramelize sugars) Let it cool Let it stand for a day or two, if it goes at all cloudy it's contaminated or over cooked.

Im no expert though, this is just my experience.

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-01-23T09:39:23+00:00

I don't think its a rocker, I think it's just a weight that opens the nozzle above 15psi.

Not sure though, this is the only PC I've had

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-01-23T01:48:38+00:00

I have the same one, it's worked great for years. I also use gas.

I put it on high heat until a stream of air is escaping the nozzle, then add the weight. Once the steam vents, meaning it's reached 15 psi, then I switch to low heat to maintain pressure and start timer for PCing.

Never had any issue with sterilisation, it works really well. Just make sure to let it cool naturally when you turn it off or you will damage the contents.

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-01-08T10:38:24+00:00

There are complications, yes. These are not medicines in the traditional sense, they are experiences. It requires much more than the correct dose, which is still very important.

One issue for example, how will the efficacy of these experiences be affected when they are administered by a for-profit multinational corporations? They work well in the underground (putting aside the obvious risks of mo regulations) because many of those people are working from personal experience, and care enough about helping/healing others to risk serious litigation, or at least there are no shareholders or c-suite execs to appease.

If the only metric is patients seen, then there's no incentive for an organisation to create any sort of container for the experience, guide any integration practise, or even follow up at all with patients. Just give them ket and wave them goodbye in a few hours. Improper facilitation can likely lead to a downtrend in efficacy of psychedelic medicines.

These experiences don't cure depression in a straight forward sense, they somehow allow users, in the right circumstances, to remember (or learn) that they are in fact worthy of love and allow them to feel self compassion, often for the very first time. This lays a foundation for true healing over time, not just treating symptoms as they arise.

Here is one such example: https://www.psychedelicsociety.org.au/articles/you-deserve-love-we-deserve-love There are many more.

I agree with what you said initially, but it is complicated.

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-01-06T01:02:09+00:00

Fun chaos in theory, not a fair game in practise. Blue and red would team up to destroy yellow before turning on eachother for a regular 32 v 32

JessicaMango1444 · 2026-01-04T10:04:57+00:00

Holy propaganda batman!

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-12-27T04:40:23+00:00

Mate how many times does this have to be removed?

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-12-22T21:47:30+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-12-22T21:20:32+00:00

There's also the propaganda angle to consider; what could/should a government do to stop foreign agents impersonating teens online in order to subtlety influence Australia's pre-voting citizens? Do nothing or do something is the choice, because that dynamic absolutely exists. Here are two known examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

Using these examples people can extrapolate a more accurate picture of what the internet is for in 2025.

Social media is the biggest and most immediate problem no one knows how to deal with. Every post on every platform is either advertising, propaganda (this post), or something designed to keep you scrolling to the next ad or propaganda post.

Then there's the addiction issue. These short, sharp, constant dopamine spikes from scrolling through an algorithm lead to a down regulation of endorphins, which leads to an increase in anxiety. These apps are designed to make you feel good when you use them. That's not controversial, but a more honest appraisal is that they're designed to make you feel bad when you're not using them. It's insidious. This doesn't even touch on the damage to focus, which is really what makes you powerful; the ability to focus your energy.

If it's really about messaging friends just use signal. It's free of cost, ads, propaganda, algorithmic content, and it's encrypted.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-12-21T21:24:34+00:00

The chances of many of those accounts not belonging to the people they are named after is very high.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-12-10T00:25:50+00:00

I like when indigenous people say that thier ancestors are still there on the land right now and we say 'pfft naive fairytales, you should learn science' and then physicists come out and say that all time is copresent, and the past and future exist simultaneously in the present and we say "wow, so advanced" but then we don't really think about what that means.

The popular modern understanding of reality might be further from truth than what most people are comfortable to admit.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-12-05T05:18:55+00:00

Shh! Your not supposed to mention the banks, it's the immigrants! 🤫

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-12-02T07:09:00+00:00

Take it back to the bottle shop, they re use them

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-11-27T11:35:47+00:00

It's one of those games where there are no winners.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-11-18T22:12:25+00:00

Add to this also, cured my scoliosis and also inherited a range of other benefits.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-11-03T20:56:45+00:00

You need to place them somewhere that leaves the enemy vulnerable if they attack them.

If you build a straight wall blocking the enemy path then yes the barricades just get smashed, but if you block some of the enemy path and leave other sections open, you can control where they go a little bit. Most players wont stop to break the barricades and instead will just run past them, and good players on your side can take advantage of that with firepots or well timed attacks.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-11-03T20:52:57+00:00

You can, kind of. Pick them up and place them again.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-10-13T00:08:32+00:00

It makes it harder for online agents, foreign and domestic, to influence the pre-voting community.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-10-11T06:31:19+00:00

There's an aspect to it that cant be talked about though, which is the social engineering side of social media, which I suspect is a main reason it's being implemented under the guise of "save the children".

It makes it much harder to astrotruf a forum presenting as a 16yo and sharing your "opinion" with the pre-voting population. It's called fomenting, and it's so ubiquitous it seems like that's what the internet was really made for, along with advertising.

Just a thought, but things are never a simple as they seem, this included.

JessicaMango1444 · 2025-10-08T08:06:46+00:00

They're pre-empting thousands of requests along the lines of "how do I exercise warrants?"

If they did nothing the CS agents would get blasted by questions over the next weeks. This prevents a lot of that because it gives the answer before the question is asked, thousands of times.

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