PabloSexcrowbar

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[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A buddy of mine told me a story from his Coast Guard days where one of his friends' daughters was getting picked up for a date, so her dad was sitting at the kitchen table doing the stereotypical scary-dad gun cleaning thing. Well, the date walks in, looks at the dad, and goes "got a set for a 9mm?" And proceeds to sit down and start cleaning his own gun with his date's dad.

I wouldn't force yourself to do acid if it's already gone badly. It may go better the second time around, but if you've already got it in your head that it'll go poorly, then it will. Mushrooms are way milder, though, and I don't think I've ever had a properly bad trip on them. I've had difficult ones, but that's because they crank the introspection up to a billion percent of your baseline and sometimes that leads to you realizing things you don't want to realize.

There's a scene in Venture Brothers that actually describes it well. Rusty's working with Henry Killinger, who tells him to step into his Magic Murder Bag. Rusty asks what's in the bag, and Killinger responds "only what you take with you." Psychedelics are kinda like that. If you have your baggage at the front of your mind going in, then your baggage will be the focus of the trip. If you go in with your hopes and dreams front and center, then that's what you'll see.

YMMV, of course, but having talked to others about it, that seems to be a fairly common theme.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I've had a few good experiences on acid, and then one bad enough that I never touched it again. I prefer mushrooms now if I'm doing psychedelics. It's a lot harder to fuck up a drug that literally grows itself.

Windows requires you to make an online account that includes your first and last name. I've never once added my first or last name to a Linux install, and most distros don't ask you anything about root anymore, either.

Also, Windows very much asks for a domain, and in fact they're the originator of it. When it's asking whether the computer is for personal use or work, it's deciding whether to request a domain to join to. ActiveDirectory (the thing the domain is referring to) came directly from Microsoft as a Windows feature that you have to pay extra for. Not to mention, if you don't have a domain, just don't enter one. There's not a single distro where that's a hard requirement, and it never will be.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social -1 points 4 weeks ago

Do we really need to spell out "click next until it's done" for you?

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not stealing this verbatim, but I'm absolutely adding "It's Raining Men" to my plan to have my corpse launched from a circus canon into the Delaware River.

I do a "reset" every so often - maybe once a year, twice if it's been rough. It seems to work alright, but you have to go into it prepared to be happy. I know that sounds dumb, but sometimes when we get depressed for too long, we cling to that feeling out of familiarity and subconsciously avoid or even fear the idea of being happy. So if you do it, make sure you go in ready and willing to be happy, otherwise it'll make everything worse.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah oddly enough, they help with depression too. Magic mushrooms indeed.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I've heard small amounts of caffeine can help sometimes, but not always. There's also some preliminary evidence that magic mushrooms help, too.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was so disappointed in season 2 of the reboot. Season 1 felt like it wrapped up the whole series in one go, and then the writers were surprised when they got renewed.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

Not even for Harambe 😭

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