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BTCOG commented on LSD: Not Even Once   qword.net/2023/04/23/lsd-... · Posted by u/qword
mberning · 3 years ago
I have had really, really bad trips on weed and alcohol. No way in hell I am trying anything else. It makes me really uneasy to hear normies going on about trying this and that. They all have some vague yet beneficial reasoning for why they did or might try shrooms or LSD. I always ask them, tell me of somebody that significantly and measurably improved their life after getting involved with psychedelics. Nobody ever can tell me of anyone. Same person, same job, same family, same everything. With a good story if they are lucky. And a bad story if they are like the guy that wrote this.
BTCOG · 3 years ago
I'm in my 30s and have eaten many pounds of psilocybe cubensis mushrooms. Over the course of numerous years and not every weekend or all that frequently and it's been many years since I've eaten them by this point. I've also infrequently and over years had pure LSD direct from the chemist. I've never experienced any problems, I've never been unemployed, married 14 years with children in my only marriage, and maintain a 6 figure salary. I won't go on about spiritual life changes and other nonsense but there are plenty of highly functioning folks out there who can responsibly use psychedelics from time to time and continually improve their lives.
BTCOG commented on LSD: Not Even Once   qword.net/2023/04/23/lsd-... · Posted by u/qword
BTCOG · 3 years ago
Guy takes a mystery drug at a high first time dose without tapering up. Did he Ehrlich reagent test it first? Likely not, because it sounds like he took 25I-NBOMe. Monumentally stupid. Then writes a hit piece blog about it and blames Steve Jobs and anyone else but himself? Next time, don't pop mystery blotters or there may not be a next time. N-Bomb is sold constantly as fake LSD, and truthfully there is very little pure LSD being synthed. Monumentally stupid, you could have ended up taking something like N-2C-Fentanyl.
BTCOG commented on Not-such-better-living through chemistry   science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/Metacelsus
_a_a_a_ · 3 years ago
"The amphetamines are all similarly addictive" oh, you mean like pseudoephedrine (sold as sudafed) and crystal meth? Blatantly they are not.
BTCOG · 3 years ago
The dose and the purity is what makes all the difference here. When someone takes Adderall orally, they are taking racemic amphetamine and dextroamphetamine at a dose typically around 10-20mg per day. When someone smokes pure d-methamphetamine, they are typically smoking 50-70mg in one or two large hits. Now, I do not condone or suggest this, but imagine taking 50-60mg of instant Adderall in the morning.
BTCOG commented on Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]   twitter.com/paulg/... · Posted by u/operatingthetan
labster · 3 years ago
If Elon is the Gatekeeper, who is the Keymaster? He kinda seems like a cultist trying to summon Zuul or NYNEX or something.
BTCOG · 3 years ago
He's trying to bring back the New York/New England Exchange? Phantom Phreak would approve.
BTCOG commented on Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions   tracingwoodgrains.substac... · Posted by u/HideousKojima
tootie · 3 years ago
I have noticed a really strong uptick in posts and comments specifically about race-based policy. Politics isn't necessarily off-topic for HN but this particular topic almost feels like it's being actively promoted.
BTCOG · 3 years ago
Of course it is, for the same reason it would be a trending topic on Twitter.
BTCOG commented on Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions   tracingwoodgrains.substac... · Posted by u/HideousKojima
BTCOG · 3 years ago
Most everything on the internet is a falsehood prepped up and bolstered for clout. Even much of the stuff you see here bragging about starting a SaaS or whatever, for clicks and likes. Instagram pictures are faked. The happiness, is faked. Much of the conversation on Twitter is astroturfed and botted to such an extent to farm likes and narratives. What's disturbing is all the fake is spilling right out into real life nowadays. Influencers walking around filming everywhere and fully believing they're celebrities in their own right, and with a matching entirely different off camera/off public view personality to boot.

We have William Gibson novels nearly coming to life a few decades later. Celebrity and influencer obsession and the itch and the need for that dopamine hit to go viral. It's a disease.

BTCOG commented on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics   doubleblindmag.com/san-fr... · Posted by u/O__________O
BTCOG · 4 years ago
That case report notes a 10x dose, a 5x dose (these are pretty standard), and a very loose description of snorting 55mg of powdered LSD, which I don't buy. I've seen enough folks eat a sheet or down a 10k mic vial and trip for a week+ to know better. Possibly the dose report was well off, or snorting it and fortunately they didn't get much of it or it wasn't pure LSD-25.
BTCOG · 4 years ago
The linked reported "massive overdose from the 70's case" is also fairly bogus, in my opinion. Look deeper in the report and see the serum levels quoted and one of the highest of one of 7 patients recorded was 26ng/ml? That's effectively like taking 6-7 hits of LSD at approximate dosage of 200 microgram per dose. So what's "massive," and what does that mean then, if that person was comatose off only 6 medium sized doses of LSD, right? That is not anywhere near hundreds of doses.
BTCOG commented on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics   doubleblindmag.com/san-fr... · Posted by u/O__________O
BTCOG · 4 years ago
Nobody in this world, is taking "hundreds of doses" of LSD and sober within 24 hours.
BTCOG · 4 years ago
That case report notes a 10x dose, a 5x dose (these are pretty standard), and a very loose description of snorting 55mg of powdered LSD, which I don't buy. I've seen enough folks eat a sheet or down a 10k mic vial and trip for a week+ to know better. Possibly the dose report was well off, or snorting it and fortunately they didn't get much of it or it wasn't pure LSD-25.
BTCOG commented on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics   doubleblindmag.com/san-fr... · Posted by u/O__________O
kirsebaer · 4 years ago
There are reports in medical journals of people accidentally taking hundreds of doses of LSD, and they all were sober within 24 hours.
BTCOG · 4 years ago
Nobody in this world, is taking "hundreds of doses" of LSD and sober within 24 hours.
BTCOG commented on Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end   thenewhumanitarian.org/op... · Posted by u/DanBC
ndsipa_pomu · 4 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

BTCOG · 4 years ago
Tolerance is not acceptance. To tolerate, is to allow something that you do not like. While tolerance is needed, what's really needed is truth and acceptance. I'd rather have someone tell me they don't like me and what for than to be merely tolerated while simultaneously treated like a second rate citizen or talked down upon by simply being just "tolerated." Anyway, I know it's a bit tangent-like here, but tolerance is really not acceptance but to allow something begrudgingly, and so it shouldn't be used as the positive side to intolerance. Not directly replying to you but the entire chain.

Otherwise on topic, I see and feel the chilling effects on speech from those big platforms being discussed across America as well. I do not see any of it coming from the US government, though. I see it all coming from citizens wishing to control others' speech all around them, else they will whip out a phone and think they're some sort of vigilante over others' speech or wrongthink. This is tiresome and old already but I'm not comparing this to government level, authoritarian free speech removal. Still, it's having a mass effect on societal attitude, conversation, politeness, and all else, as far as I can tell.

u/BTCOG

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