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taopai commented on Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip   collidingscopes.github.io... · Posted by u/getToTheChopin
kermit___ · a year ago
Like any mind-altering substance, I would suggest caution. Bad decisions are made and dangerous thoughts are had. Relationships can end, lives can be ruined, and people can die. It’s not a hallucinagen-specific problem, but here be dragons.
taopai · a year ago
Like driving a car.
taopai commented on Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip   collidingscopes.github.io... · Posted by u/getToTheChopin
taopai · a year ago
I recall experiencing an incredibly fast hallucination with my eyes closed—like tiny dots moving at an extreme speed.

Faster than anything I had ever seen, almost like an intense vibration, beyond the refresh rate of the eye. It was both intimidating and exhilarating.

Perhaps screens are unable to replicate this type of hallucination.

The animations on this website are impressive. However, in my experience, closed-eye visuals tend to have a central focal point, along with folding or tunnel-like movements and recurring patterns.

I feel deeply grateful for having had some psychedelic experiences, even though hallucinations are the least interesting aspect of them. For me, they acted as a magnifying glass for my overall state of being—allowing me to step outside myself and honestly assess how I feel. They also foster a deeper appreciation for nature.

It would be fascinating to have this discussion within this community. These substances are often demonized due to a lack of understanding, yet they can have a profound impact. For instance, after taking a small dose of LSD, I completely lost interest in alcohol. In the past six months, I’ve only had three nights of drinking, lost a significant amount of weight, and feel fantastic.

taopai commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem   idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
bluecalm · 2 years ago
Astonishing entitlement man. I was born in a dark country with shitty weather, bad air. Now when I made enough money to change it I want to spend a few months a year in the sun. People who live there are amazingly lucky to be born where the weather is good. Most of those desirable areas would be 3rd world country level if it wasn't for tourism as people there were unable to develop any kind of functioning economy and have to rely on others who spend their money there just because the weather is good during winter.

Spain has vast areas of unused buildable land, especially the South. It's not like land is a scarce resource there. Me buying a house won't cause someone unable to buy another one in the area. They can build it nearby if they want. The problems there are not caused by tourism as there is enough space for everyone and then some. Telling someone who has to actually work to be able to spend a few winter month in the sun that Spain should be for people born there while benefiting from EU (that means free movement of people among other things), trade and first of all tourism money is just the most arrogant entitled attitude I can imagine.

taopai · 2 years ago
Tourism is making this country 3rd world.

There is plenty of industry and jobs in the north.

If the south keep relying on tourism they will keep this misery going.

I don't care if you are born here. I only care if you work and contribute here. Tourism is killing people.

Look at Barcelona. Before the Olympics it was a amazing place to live. Now it's rotten and prostituted to expats, tourists and poor people who go there to work in inhuman jobs paying unpayable rents.

taopai commented on Show HN: Synthesize TikZ Graphics Programs for Scientific Figures and Sketches   github.com/potamides/DeTi... · Posted by u/potamides
taopai · 2 years ago
Awesome! Really awesome.

I hope that German secondary physics and chemistry teacher who has an amazing free pdf book about tikz sees this.

This was such a great and didactic book to real tkiz. I can't find it right now, but must be somewhere.

taopai commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem   idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
victorbjorklund · 2 years ago
So it only applies to your third house? Seems a bit strange.
taopai · 2 years ago
It's not just that.

Morada is any property that you live, use to live or use to do private activities in it.

If you used at least once a year or so, then is morada. Like if it was your primary house.

If you have a semi demolished house, or unused house during years, then clearly is it not a morada. That's the difference.

taopai commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem   idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
radres · 2 years ago
Demand of people is the only way of inflating the prices. The people who would like to live in Spain, both Spanish people and non-Spanish, are the people who make your country as rich as it is.

Am I hearing you saying "What rich? we have poor economy". Yeah, prevent people from investing in real estate and you'll be even poorer.

taopai · 2 years ago
We are getting poorer because people invest in real state to their benefit without adding any social value to our lives. Only to higher our rent and making touristic flats. Which crowds our streets with noise and filth while the benefits are for foreign companies that are prostituting our cities like a thematic park.
taopai commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem   idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
matt-p · 2 years ago
Can we establish that the squatters are doing this out of economic necessity and not to "profit" (e.g can't afford to rent or own someplace else)? I imagine so as living with no security in an abandoned building with no utilities seems pretty desperate, sub-optimal and sad.

If we can then realistically the root cause to this is lack of housing supply. "Just build more f**ing houses" would fix this no?

taopai · 2 years ago
I know a guy who lived in a unfinished house.

He was like inspector gadget.

He did the whole electrical installation and had a giant water deposit on the basement that he filled once a month with the waterolympics: getting the water from the next street from a fire hydrant. Such a great guy. With a lot of social conscience, firm to his ideals and he worked!

taopai commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem   idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
madcaptenor · 2 years ago
A linguistic question - why is this spelled with a "k"? I assume this is derived from "ocupación" - the "k" looks funny to me as someone familiar with but nowhere near fluent in Spanish.
taopai · 2 years ago
You are right.

If you okupas you always ocupas. But you can ocupar without okupar.

The k differences the political movement from the physical act of using a property which is not yours. Okupas don't promote squatting in a small owner property. They promote using unused properties from banks.

In fact in Barcelona there are la Oficina d'okupació:

https://radar.squat.net/ca/barcelona/oficina-lokupacio

taopai commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem   idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
Pelayu · 2 years ago
I see a lot of people here claiming that the okupas only affect landlords and banks. Here for example is an article in Spanish that tells the account of an 82-year old pensioner who's house was taken from him (occupied) while he was out visiting a friend in hospital.

https://www.antena3.com/noticias/sociedad/vuelve-hospital-vi...

I myself have also heard from friends in various cities in Spain of neighbour's apartments being taken also. I'm even aware of some apartments even in my small city that have been occupied.

The fact of the matter is that these lax laws harm many ordinary people. This cannot be argued.

There are a few factors causing the housing crisis but I will not comment more on this as to not go off-topic further.

However I don't think the laws allowing okupas help the housing problem at all and are in fact dangerous and just cause more harm to ordinary, hard-working people. They need to be changed.

taopai · 2 years ago
Antena3, lol! This is one of most sensationalist TV channel in spain.

The media always look for this situations and portray they because are shocking.

This is not okupation, and has nothing to do with the movement.

This laws primary are there to protect families and people who rent.

I know at least 15 okupas, who lived +4 on bank unused, and still unused, properties. This okupas helped to not saturate the market. They all worked in touristic areas where housing is scarce, and this makes hiring people very difficult because workers doesn't have a place to live and rent is crazy high.

taopai commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem   idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
DowsingSpoon · 2 years ago
In some states in the US, you can just shoot home invaders. That is, the use of deadly force is appropriate for protecting one’s self and family from a home invasion, and there is no additional duty to retreat from your own home. It’s a shame that the people of Spain live with such little freedom that these bandits are able to basically force people out of their own house.
taopai · 2 years ago
It's ironic: in the US you have the freedom to kill, but not the freedom to be saved in a hospital. Just the opposite of Spain.

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