Leo Gura

The best critique of wokeness is that it is simply out of touch with the survival needs and development level of most citizens, and that it fails to understand stages of development below itself. It assumes people are more developed and conscious than they are.

That's not what is being discussed here.

@Someone here What I said has nothing to do with psychedelics.

That's different. Of course I can experience anxiety. But only in certain situations, and not due to psychedelics.

It's different for everyone.

But how do you know? Maybe it is possible but you just haven't done the work to access it. That's the really intriguing possibility.

That's a recipe for a bad trip as you can easily overdose while already high. Getting a proper dose of DMT is tricky enough sober.

Maybe for some people. But I have never gotten anxiety from 30+ different psychedelics. I think one has to already be prone to anxiety to get that effect. I think anxiety is also very self-created. Anxious people are just very bad at controlling it. But it's hard for me to know since I don't experience it.

I will believe it when I see it. Not buying this secret BS.

But I don't see Ralston moving chairs.

When you face years in jail you will get very creative

It's more about talent than odds. If you can make catchy songs they will sell. But that requires serious talent and taste.

A side-effect of an awakend mind is a new tier of creativity and wit

I should become a Trump supporter just as performance art.

I grew up there. I don't even think the groupthink was much worse than FoxNews. The bottom line is that you can't really control free speech. It like water finds it's way through every crack. Repressing a large population with disinfo is exhausting. Gorbachev passed some pretty bold liberalizing reforms in the mid 80s when I was born. Gorbachev was a pro-Western liberal. Which is why Putin hates him. People who lived under communism saw how ineffective it was. You can't bullshit people about their daily lived experience. Well, unless you're North Korea.

There is no risk of someone going after me for my wealth. If anything people would hate me for my liberal views, so for personal gain and security I ought to be a Republican.

The Whale and John Wick crossover.

This black dude is an epic drama queen and Oscar grade victim actor: Don't you love it how everyone goes Oscar actor mode when they get caught? Tells you a lot about self-deception. These people fool themselves more than the cops. The ease with which the mind spins bullshit is stunning.

It does harm me in the sense of higher taxes and such. All those Covid checks that Biden and Trump sent out -- I got zero. If I was voting purely to max my personal gain I would vote Trump.

It's literally not. What wacky dope are you smokin?

@integral I figured you'd get a chuckle outta that

Not. Because it becomes less predictable and the purity of a particular chemical is diluted. Keeping records of those trips is harder. Pure breed vs mut.

I would say white men def have a hiring advantage for jobs, especially powerful public-facing jobs. Women are still discriminated against for such jobs I think. And brown/black people for sure. In 1992 black people were not allowed to join the golf course on which I lived in California. Not offically, but unofficially. Wink, wink. Affirmative action is designed to fix stuff like that.

FYI: California, that woke hell-hole, banned affirmative action in public schools in 1996. And today it is banned nationwide by Supreme Court.

Interesting point. I should have said I was an endangered species. Last of my kind. A unicorn