At first I was a little annoyed by the change of “Revolt” messenger to “Stoat.”

…I like it better now!

That is very educational, more than I was hoping for. Thank you!

I’ve heard that saying over and over throughout my life, too, (by laymen, never actual electricians lol) and I was always confused by it.

I was always trying to think “Okay is there some crazy high-voltage-low-amperage shock source you can sustain and be fine?” I guess I thought the difference was between something like, a taser vs. a home electrical socket.

Is the survivability of shocks mainly in how much resistance there is in the body? Like if the volts get backlogged enough they become amps -> generate heat -> “fry” what they’re passing through?

I really need to revisit electrical education. Especially because I wanna make neat gadgets…😅

But yeah it sounds like the saying is pedantic, like “It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the impact.”

Something obvious to utter in a way that makes you sound deep and profound to dumb people. LOL

Mine is “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean.”

Why’d you pick yours, specifically? Lol

Got a cheap bluetooth/2.5Ghz trackball for my laptop, and wow, those are SO nice when you don’t have a lot of space to work with.

I hope some mid-level enthusiast trackballs that aren’t ridiculously boutique become a thing soon haha.

I dunno if I’d call this hallucination, although I get what you’re saying and I agree with you! But wouldn’t “interpretation” be a more apt description?

If someone is seeing a message out of this very text, rather than the strict “material reality” of each individual letter just being an arbitrary glyhph, or each pixel, or each little diode or electron forming those pixels…

…to call this miraculous level of ascribing meaning “hallucinating” seems a disservice right?

Your comment just brought me a lot of wonder and awe, because you’re right, our brains’ wiring to tell stories and weave concepts and interpret the world around us in a way that’s useful, and beautiful, is a wonderful part of being alive and setting us apart from mere machines, rather than simply a feed of raw unfiltered data input from the world around us “as it is.”

Truly marvelous. :D

Oh, they just…saw more beauty and wonder in things most folks consider ordinary? That doesn’t sound so bad, actually. XD

I don’t remember more, sorry ^^

Haha all good. Thanks for replying. :)

Admittedly I haven’t done a lot of deep diving on it, but what kinds of personality changes did you observe? I haven’t heard a lot of testimony like this around psychedelics. Mostly just people praising them.

Yo, homie, 👋

I wasn’t trying to “um akshully” you, I was legit just trying to contribute to the conversation for others who were interested.

Thanks for the link and sincerely wishing you the chillest day, though. <3

I think that particular symptom is a trait of the infamous “destroying angel” specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroying_angel

Absolute nightmare fuel. 💀

Are we talking like, bags of rice and beans?

LOL yeah. Stuff actually grows in tropical regions! :p

I’m happy for you there. (Although I imagine pest control gets interesting haha)

Southwestern U.S desert? Yeah, another story. Hydroponics are basically the best bet for your typical suburbia-dweller, I think.

As long as it’s far enough away from the noisy mitochondria part of the neighborhood.

LOL! 😂

Sure thing! 🤗

You nailed it here! :)

Commas basically go where you want to separate two thoughts in a sentence or “take a breath” without the full stop of a period. They also often separate objects in lists

Oh no, people are gonna start being called “Rizzards” soon.

KDE connect is such an under appreciated killer app it’s not even funny.

When I go to house sit for a friend I just hook my laptop to their HDMI, pull out KDE Connect, and bam I’m kicking back 10 feet away watching my streaming stuff on my system with adblock running and everything, and the media controls just work.

I’m strongly considering using a Pi 3b+ as a TV machine where KDE Connect is the primary interface. It just works so well.

I also love getting text alerts or low battery notifications on my desktop without having to keep looking at my phone. It’s just amazing.

There it is. Now you can all see it! This is the violence inherent in the system!

What a coincidence! I had a very similar path! My elementary mis-education was largely a fundie school using Abeka as well. Their weird religious nationalism was so crazy when I look back on it. It’s amazing they could actually publish this crap.

I wish I still had all the old books we had to get because that would make for a good laugh (and possibly an embarrassment campaign.)

Like c’mon we were kids how were we supposed to know? But also it just felt so bullshitty, like a written form of that awkward feeling you got when it was really obvious adults were lying to manipulate you and thought you were stupid.

It was in California, so eventually I had to move to the state curriculum also, around middle school, for my grades to actually count.

Honestly, that requirement saved my intellect. I went to a secular charter school where I was pushed into interacting with so many different people of different perspectives, and I would be a much crappier person without that experience.

Even today the damage isn’t gone, there’s still so much untangling and deprogramming to do.

These “curriculums” are child abuse.

After all that, I still kept my faith, not because of that upbringing, but in spite of it. That being said, I’m a Christian anarchist now. I make a point to counter this anti-intellectual, anti-Jesus, pro-fascist propaganda mongering wherever I can.

For what it’s worth. . .I’m glad we both made it through the other side of being exposed to that slop.