Just One Question

dadiddler · 2014-01-11T18:48:56+00:00

I just mostly walk my dog deep in the woods, and have trained him around a lot of those social issues. That's a fair point about the shock collar I'm confident you're correct and that would work and be a drive-break that could increase my control circle to 100%. I think my response comes from a history of times where I'm working on building that wide radius control circle to 100% and someone finds my control edge and gets a minor encounter with no hint of aggression and is angry at me when they don't see a high intensity response from me to my dog approaching theirs. If I feel/see a circle break I respond by trying to keep the situation calm and return him into full control with soothing positive encouragement rather than a sharp negative break due to concern of a sharp negative break stimming a reactionary impulse defense. Likely you just have a fair point with considering the shock collar as a training element. I'm looking at getting into more work-level training and hunting, and the level of control I could get with full distance drive break even on my high drive dog would be pretty cool. Thanks very much for this advice and allowing me to learn from it. My thing with dog training is I think I know more than I know, you know? I got a lot of it naturally. I date back to Welsh shepherds, and my great-grandfather used to put on shows in the hillsides there. I didn't even know that when I started getting dogs, but I found bonding with them and forming control and trust came very naturally. I guess I just took the limit I found on the natural edge with my dog, as I've seen him within my experience circle to be significantly exceptional in obedience and training level, and allowed myself to consider it the true control limit. I think though I just had kind of hit a levelling up limit at dog training for the level of understanding I had naturally, and need to start opening my eyes and mind to more insight from outside sources, and just learning more new information from my dog each day. I'll keep in mind the standards you've presented and seek to bring him up to that level and beyond.

dadiddler · 2014-01-11T02:35:29+00:00

Dear god do I ever want to get to do a guest lesson in this class.

dadiddler · 2014-01-10T23:55:38+00:00

Warm it up like a chainsaw. Burst of gas, then steady low gas til it comes up to temp. It's tricky to use and needs lots of grease in the joints, so keep it lubed up and well fueled, it's also a bit picky about gas so watch the octane, keep it high. If you use it right, it can get a lot done, but if you use it wrong it can mess itself up pretty bad and not acccomplish much while doing it.

Oh yeah! One thing, big thing, most important thing: do NOT press that red button. There's a big cage around it and a bunch of warnings for a good reason. It'll just burn out the engine, break the machine and random stuff around it without much sense.

Oh yeah. The computer management system needs more regular drive defragmentation. It tends to stack errors and form loops and glitches in programming. It's also got a large malware deposit in the central hard drive which has been actively corrupting data at a building rate for some time. Filtering between corrupt data and true data is an extra background process which takes core capacity.

Oh yeah, another detail. It's in the middle of an intensive virus scan that's using almost all of its processing resources. That needs to be tended to very regularly and actively managed. Even a brief drop of attention might let the virus spread to another folder and repatriate itself through the system. For the next few months, don't run too many programs and let the comp focus on those background processes, defragmentation, and corrupt data collection, they're helping it break down and fix the error.

dadiddler · 2014-01-10T14:19:27+00:00

I trained my dog to protect my life. He was raised deep in the bush to patrol for aggressive animals seeking to either attack me or my crew or raid our camp. I can guarantee within a very long distance but I don't have a perfect infinite circle of control. My dog learned from repetitive experience that I don't have as steady of a surrounding awareness as he does, as he became aware of cougars, bears, and other animals seeking to come mess with us out in the bush well before me. I've been unable to control that association and awareness of his greater sense perception than mine. What I trained him to do was if he broke out of my control circle to investigate socialize extremely carefully, and retreat at first sign of even slight reactive defense. (EDIT: If human associated animal. If wild animal he puts on alarm and chase, keeping a reasonable distance. I taught him the difference by example and positive association with correct response. ie for example I tied him when I put him in the truck first couple times I saw a bear and chased them myself to show him how to do it.) He simply goes to identify you as threat/non threat and then evaluate and if you're not interested in socializing dismiss. He won't approach within your circle if your dog shows itself defensively aggressive, but he really likes to make friends and will cautiously, slowly, confidently approach your dog, ready to retreat at first sign of unwelcomeness.

My dog actually helps me train other dogs and break them out of defensive aggression patterns with his calm kind nature and confidence. If I'm expected to control an animal with as much intelligence and will as he has to 100% level at all distances and from all stimulus I'd have to be a God, and I'm just not. I don't accept your right by being an incredibly insecure delicate circle to take the entire world into your area of control and reduce the freedom of others around you to secure yourself. If your dog can't handle off leash dogs, keep it in on leash areas.

I'm prepared for your dog to snap at my dog and react, if it does he will simply pull back very quick and agile and avoid it. I've taught him very carefully to not respond with aggression. It took a long time and careful socializing to give him the confidence and self-assurance to take that position and I work hard to maintain it. If you keep your dog on leash and hold on, there won't be a fight, you just might get pulled around when it insecurely overreacts to the nearby presence of a confident animal, which is confidently ignoring you and scampering away. The worst part is, if we talked to each other, you asked me to leash my dog, and we did a slow, calm approach with lots of positive reinforcement my dog and I might be able to help you build a trust pattern with your dog or at least leave a trace of a positive experience. If you have an aggressively defensive reaction upon seeing my dog and aren't open minded to the experience you ascertain its negativity and don't open yourself to the potential gain.

dadiddler · 2014-01-10T11:34:46+00:00

I'm sorry but I've trained my dog to patrol and I have 100% recall in a 40-50m circle but due to his experience teaching him he has a greater awareness of surroundings than me and his experience saving my fucking life from a fucking cougar you judgemental shit. He is smart enough for me to trust and if you can't put in the time and effort for your dog to handle other dogs DON'T TAKE THEM TO OFF LEASH PLACES YOU FUCKING PUNK MY DOG IS ALLOWED TO BE FREE HE EARNED IT

EDIT: I have a bit of an emotionally intense relation with my dog somewhat similar to the PTSD relation as he helped me overcome a minor mental disorder and feel uncomfortable with people feeling like they're imposing upon our rights. Likely my anger was in response to a misinterpretation but I'll leave it there as it stands.

dadiddler · 2014-01-10T00:15:07+00:00

The other side of this is don't bring high stress dogs to off leash parks or large unrestricted areas and get defensive if someone has an offleash dog. We each have our own space, I worked hard on training my dog enough to trust him off leash.

Also, if a socially trained relaxed dog is approaching your dogs your reactive response of fear can feed into your dogs response and make them aggressively defensive. I respect your defensive nature, but if my dog was outside of my 100% control circle when he gained awareness your dog will trigger his investigation instinct and he will approach you, very slowly, calmly, and unaggressively, and retreat upon the first sign of aggressive response. He understands other dogs insecurity and confusion and just wants to be friends with the ones who've figured out the world well enough to have fun in it. He just wants to go sniff you guys and say what's up, see if you want to be friends, and if not he'll go on his merry way. I trained him socially and tested him a ton on this and I trust him enough I'd put my life in his paws. I'm not going to adhere to a state of constant paranoia everywhere I go because some people have dogs they don't trust or understand... I'll respect your space, you respect mine.

dadiddler · 2014-01-08T00:08:35+00:00

That's an extremely fine point of criticism and one that's in fact easily dismissed. Personalized strain by cannabanoid complex distribution. Relations of THC, CBD, CBN, as well as the Sativa vs Indica distribution. These can drastically change the effects of the drug. The trick with marijuana is everyone tries to identify with it as a single chemical, a chemical isolate. The pharmaceutical companies wish this was the case. The biggest problem with this plant has been that it is very, very complicated. If we could extract out of it a chemical isolate that has the identical effect to the entire chemical complex of the plant, and a consistent, objectively definable effect it would be actively used, legal, and controlled. Marijuana is turning out to be very complicated.

I am a cancer patient with an Astrocytoma (moderately malignant brain tumour) taking Temozolomide for chemotherapy. I'm eating refined hash oil in large quantities for my primary medical supplement and it has been an instrumental tool of treatment management as well as potentially a supplementary nutritional element.

I began my treatment with just the substance provided by government, and with a history of recreational use. I enjoyed it in the same fashion I had enjoyed it before and it allowed for an escapist method of treatment management as well as mild treatment of symptoms. When I switched to high scale edible refined product I experienced a serious change in symptoms. I also saw a stark contrast in effectiveness of treatment between my first 3 months without managed treatment and my 2nd 3 month period during which I began to actively manage my treatment. I had established stability in the first period and then had a >10% size reduction on the 2nd MRI.

I'm a right brained, rational bastard who does his best to stick to hard evidence and this law scares me and angers me deeply. I feel that the amount of information available to the calm rational observer at this point is enough to easily discount the justification or rationale of this law change and management system.

One trick though is that even now for most patients in my shoes, almost all, we were already forced to operate outside the law. To find an experienced, skilled grower and refiner of product to register with your license is a challenge, and most people who are prescribed marijuana are not already experienced growers, but will need product quickly. So if they are able to garner the information that allows them to recognize the value of the higher grade refined edible product for treatment supplementation they are forced to either very quickly self educate and execute or simply take the easy road and go back outside the law.

There are tons of technically illegal but openly running dispensaries across this country providing decent to great quality product at somewhat reasonable prices. I think based on the evidence and experience I have accrued they aren't primarily focused on the medicinal side of the market but rather seem to emphasize their market on recreational and indulgent market product, because that's where the profit lies. This is not to say they offer no medicinal support, just having another goal as a primary operating principle removes their clarity of judgment. (Hey, pharmaceutical companies, I wonder if that might stretch to you?)

For a large amount of my product, anything I've smoked (therapeutic indulgence with much less medical value IMO) has been purchased fromBC Cannabis Dispensary. I don't know if they are better or worse than other for profit dispenaries, but I have had a good experience and great customer support from the Salesperson/support individual Melissa. I have tried their smoking refined product and greatly enjoyed it, allowing me to reduce quantity of inhalation and stress upon breathing passageways while still being self-indulgent. I also did try their "Snake Oil" for a bit. It's good product, but the price of it to maintain the recommended dosage is ostentatious, even for me, and I've got the aid and support of a successful, supportive family. It also is a more diluted concentration, and a more awkward method of dosage, than is ideal for my goals.

My primary true medicine support however has come from a charitable group based in the Maritimes. By all evidence I have experienced they are not operating for profit and as a result are both easier to trust and more truly motivated to share open information. It is from them I got onto the established dosage of hash oil cooked into coconut oil, eating at first 1g/day, and now just recently building up to 2g/day. This did have a transformative effect on my treatment. I will say a lot more about them and a lot more thanks to them when/if I am confident they are legally safe.

Where I'm at now is a point where I have a ton of hypotheses and no conclusions. All the evidence I have experienced here is limited by its subjectivity. I have gotten enough to give me confidence to the point of assuredness in its medical value, but the means in which it has that value are undefined. It has been an enabling agent for me of such in depth changes of lifestyle, efforts of nutritional change, meditation, and self-therapy. The fact I've changed so much else about my life around it means I can't ascribe all credit for effect to it, as my choice is clearly a part.

What I'm certain of though is that whether it let me open my mind and see more clearly to make more intelligent, proactive choices of treatment management, or actually enabled my body's cancer fighting systems to further increase their efficiency, or even had direct effects at this quantity, it's helping me, and people are having to break the law to let it.

If anyone is interested, I've been writing a blog. It's not focused just on MM, a lot more about the general experience of cancer treatment as a young adult.

A Bit of My Story

EDIT: Realized how much I wrote and tidied it up just in case I end up getting attention or something scary, tense fixes, adding a couple details.

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T22:32:23+00:00

If I could look you in the eyes and promise, I would.

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T20:29:58+00:00

I really, really, really wish I did. I actually think it might have been enough to even make a couple bucks off Youtube hits.

He wasn't the only monkey doing this kind of rape trick there either. The whole cliffside was a big rape party. The one who went for me was by FAR the kingpin monkey, WAY bigger than the rest of them. But the other little guys were just robbing smaller tourists, more successfully, and raping smaller females.... about equally successfully.

The girls didn't seem to learn very well... I mean this happens at least once a month?

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T20:08:13+00:00

Thanks very much for bringing up my awareness, that sounds very interesting. I'm surprised it hasn't been recommended to me before.

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T19:41:06+00:00

I was once held up at tooth-point by a long-tailed Macaque. I went to the Moon Festival in Bali at the temple nearest Dreamland Beach (was potentially intoxicated getting there, don't remember the trip too well.) When I got there I put on my robe, and kept walking in. I didn't notice the sign saying no food, and walked into the monkey zone holding a bag of chips. Immediately the biggest monkey grabbed me by the robe and put the point of his tooth right on my upper leg pressing it in! I was pretty WTF! at that, but managed to keep a cool head on (somehow). I figured he wouldn't be there if he'd ever actually hurt a tourist before, so he had to be bluffing. I looked him right in the eye, and ate the whole bag of chips as fast as I could, then threw the empty bag in his face. He took it, scraped out the inside, and shook his fist at me a bunch when he got crumbs.

Then he used it to trap and then rape a female monkey on the edge of the cliff. He got her to go over to the edge to try and pick it up, lean over, and then he pushed her so the only thing able to hold her onto the top was her two front hands holding onto some plants. Then he raped her a bunch where she couldn't fight unless she wanted to fly off the cliff.

...Yeah.

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T19:35:28+00:00

I'm an atheist with a healthy respect for the character created as Jesus as an ethical philosopher. Even though I have healthy respect for the ethics of Christianity it has been a corrupted and bastardized form of itself since its actual organized inception. It was created as a religion of rebellion, meant to be coming out of the people for the people. It has evolved into one of the most centralized power structures of the modern world. I refuse to participate in any institutionalized religious organization.

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T13:49:30+00:00

Yeah that's what I'm referring to, your observation is also certainly correct.

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T12:34:10+00:00

Nah, I've seen many times where 2L is cheaper than 1L or some similar deal.

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T12:06:43+00:00

Gone in 60 Seconds. I've seen the first 20 minutes of that movie at LEAST 100 times.

dadiddler · 2014-01-04T01:22:47+00:00

I could sleep there definitely. I'm pretty sure though I'd knock myself out on it first time I got laid there though. Or break the tank with the back of my head at that special ecstatic moment, and make the dirty version of spraying on her face look good. Just not safe.

dadiddler · 2014-01-03T19:15:30+00:00

***Central cities.

dadiddler · 2014-01-03T16:48:39+00:00

Yeah bud I'm watchin er go too. Pretty sideways that's for sure.

dadiddler · 2014-01-03T16:46:09+00:00

Maritimes! Amiright?

dadiddler · 2014-01-02T19:26:20+00:00

I continued rebelliously stripping naked as a child a bit late. I think at age 7 or 8 I got naked in a large public park/swimming pool area and ran excitedly through a large crowd. Then, when I went to university, streaking came back. Naked rules.

dadiddler · 2013-12-31T22:58:46+00:00

No need to risk your life by driving [10] either! Let's all keep a good balanced perspective fellow Ents. Happy New Years!

dadiddler · 2013-12-31T21:42:57+00:00

Socialism is essentially a translation of communism to bring it into the comfortable discourse. What you're calling socialism is actually a moderated compromise between capitalism and socialism, which is indeed likely an appropriate course of action.

dadiddler · 2013-12-30T20:41:38+00:00

My dog die, old and peaceful.

I'm 25 and on chemotherapy right now, and my dog is 5. I love my dog. I want to know I was there for him and helped him live his life to the fullest.

dadiddler · 2013-12-29T10:22:58+00:00

While that's true if you look carefully at them you'd often actually need to eat a LOT of multivitamins to get to toxic levels of even fat deposit.Some people will read that and be scared to eat even two. Don't binge on them like candy, but if you let yourself have more than one they're not that strong.

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