Uber has a history of blaming the tool - in Facebook fashion - rather than admitting their “talent” sucks and they didn’t hire on merit.
They used to blame Python a lot too - Python is slow compared to others but not so slow to matter that much, and you can build other services around it to handle certain work.
Facebook - who chose PHP - used to blame iOS/Obj-c as the reason they couldn’t build a decent Facebook native app in the early days (anyone remember Fastbook?)
What concrete arguments are there to believe in your talent hypothesis instead of their tool hypothesis?
A couple more comments like this from you, and I'll be able to say, "cyanmoonx has a history of blaming the talent rather than bad tools". There being a history like that is neither an argument for nor against tools being bad. And also, don't forget that bad tools and bad talent don't rule each other out.
Isn't the mean age simply brought down by the number who die at a very young age due to car accidents, robberies, and other reasons?
Not that cab drivers only live to 67 - many would still live to 75, 85, 95, but that occasionally a driver dies at 25 or 35 bringing the mean figure way down.
John C. Lilly once said “there are infinities in the mind” while wearing a raccoon hat like Davy Crocket.
He said it like he’s been somewhere!
I’ve tried to all - I guess DMT, mushroom, etc. don’t work on me in a Terence McKenna storytelling fashion (I only get stoned and have very entertaining closed eye visuals that take me off to sleep).
That said haven’t tried Ketamine. Maybe not for me. Same reason I don’t want to try Fentanyl. I don’t want to fully escape reality, just augment it.
I’ve always thought cannabis makes you more you or “more sober than sober” and in that way can cause a lot of self-reflection and anxiety causing a lot of people looking for escape to avoid it entirely, opting for a PCP/meth “mental escape” or a Fentanyl/Ketamine “bodily escape”.
I just like weed and coffee after it all. Best ones. Reliable. They work. Doesn’t ruin your life. What blows my mind are people afraid to smoke a joint so they skip to edibles or Ketamine not realizing they are signing up for a several hours long bad time lmao. For most at least, without some initiation.
I tried alcohol, DXM (cough syrup), codeine, hydrocodone, and oxycodone before I ever took my first puff of marijuana. I don't like smoke so I was very off put by it. Finally tried it when I was 16 or 17 and I remember it being really cool, like how music sounded, but overall was kind of underwhelmed. Strangely, as the years went on, I have grown much more sensitive to THC. I don't like the headspace it gets me in and only really use it as a sleep aid anymore. Mushrooms, 2C-E, ketamine, methoxetamine, methylone, MDMA, LSD, salvia, kratom alkaloids, 4-aco-dmt, and a few others. Used all of those over the years. Not regularly anymore. But none of those things mess with my head the way high strength marijuana or an edible does.
Yeah first couple times cannabis very commonly "doesn't do anything".
I think it's because our society legalized and even promotes the strongest substances of them all, so THC seems very subtle in comparison to something like caffeine and alcohol which is arguably the most potent psychedelic inebriant known delivering loss of motor control, at high doses total loss of consciousness, completely altered vision and decision-making to the point you can't operate machinery or do basic tasks. It has hypnogogic effects that show you closed-eye visuals and make you sleepy. Kinda funny how alcohol is the most accepted "drug", to the point it isn't even called one - yet its effects are as intense and socially disruptive as the hardest drugs available.
Coffee, also. The effects of C. arabica is like a very strong version of the A. muscaria mushroom. We have cultivated it to be insanely potent over the centuries. Coffee is about the most potent and euphoric stimulant I can consume without it feeling like it's taking over and ruining my identity - like you get with a lot of pharmacological concoctions.
> the way high strength marijuana or an edible does
Yeah, I don't think it's great for every personality type. It's a "value-changing" drug that will change your opinions on things, and make you think about personal things in ways you would naturally avoid (sometimes to your benefit). I'm no psychologist but THC is powerful enough to change you enough that you can lose friends, family, and interests - but you may gain some new ones, or realize that you're better off without those things. At any rate, it's a very psychological drug that makes you re-order your life. Some people don't need it. If you don't, probably better off without it (not medical advice! just some guy's rant).
> salvia
I'll share my experience with it, because it's perhaps the most mis-marketed thing out there. My experience with the dried leaf (1x - just the real whole leaves you get at those hippie crystal type shops) is nothing whatsoever like people have described. I had 0 trips or any "high". The experience to me is an intense form of focus, as if nothing can distract you. It's subtle, but you can lock into work like crazy if you put this in a pour-over coffee. The best way I would describe it is you quickly "forget" or "let go" of unwanted thoughts, effortlessly, and it helps you focus. It's not euphoric in the slightest - so I think people miss this very useful effect. It's zen. Clear and focused. It might compete with ADHD medication, so maybe it's not promoted very much since it may be a market threat. That's the effect though IMO. Think - coffee high without the high. 10x, 25x salvia gets "weird" only because it's too much at once. I think if you "turned that effect up" to the max it would be like having dementia, because you would not be able to hold onto anything. But turn that effect back down to 1x and you have something quite useful for focused work. I compare it to A. muscaria, coffee, or tea, but it's "lighter" (and more efficient) than caffeine.
I made a low dose salvia tincture many years ago and it was more intense than what you're describing, but I could totally see regular leaf or a lower potency extract taken orally acting like that. Might have to give it a try.
Apparently, hyperspace isn't a given with DMT. I wonder what it is that grants entry... A very experienced friend of mine was just "told" it wasn't going to happen in something like a waiting room. I would love to find out myself but I am too anxious an individual to go beyond a light dose of mushrooms.
> I am too anxious an individual to go beyond a light dose of mushrooms
Same for me. The one time I did, I was at Trader Joe's and had the most bizarre experience looking at everyone shopping.
I could not believe that the products were sitting right there in the open, and yet nobody was taking them and just walking off. There was all sorts of polity and etiquette - millions of rules were being followed almost like a choreographed event.
I found it uncontrollably hilarious that everyone was pretending to not notice everyone else in the store. They would stand 5 inches from someone looking at canned food, and both people would pay no attention at all to each other.
Anyway, the way I looked was probably crazy, and it eliminated my inhibitions too much where I was kinda moving before thinking - didn't like that feeling. I almost grabbed someone's item out of their cart and said something about it, but I don't know what I'd say. I probably would have just started laughing like a maniac.
I'm afraid on a larger dose I would go somewhere and do something before realizing what I'm doing. The microdose is the best for that kind of thing, IMO. Same reason I will have a beer or glass of wine, and don't like getting smashed in public.
Classic. Went to the supermarket on shrooms with my mates, but we all ended up giggling so hard we had to wait outside for the trip sitter to do the groceries instead.
Buddy of mine made omelets later. He ended up chopping like 3 lbs of extra mushrooms for no reason.
Weed can ruin your life, and I'm not referring to the "makes you a boring pothead who doesn't do anything" outcome, but the "triggers debilitating mental illness" outcome.
And I say that as someone who likes weed! I've just seen it happen too many times. The chance is low, but you don't know which category you're in until it happens, and you definitely don't want to find out.
I support legalization, for several reasons, but harmless she is not!
It's a full blown psychedelic, and a lot of people don't seem to realize that. So I think the pendulum counter swing from the war on drugs is ironically doing a lot of unnecessary harm.
Alcohol or amphetamine I would agree especially since they are so heavily promoted in our culture. There are kids taking amphetamine pills genuinely ruining themselves - huge problem.
Millennials are drinking themselves to death by their 40s.
But I can’t see it with weed, which I consider to be more like coffee or tea. A drug yes (so is caffeine) but not going to ruin your life like booze or pills will.
Coffee withdrawal is way worse than cannabis. And I’d say the tunnel vision aspect of coffee is more pronounced - it’s a high that takes over your whole body and personality but nobody says anything about it. I think because of how it’s presented and nothing more.
I have a serious question, and please don't take this as an insult, I'm trying to figure something out.
Do you have ADHD or is it possible you do? What about depression? Bipolar?
I ask because of the way you say the substances impacted you. I know people with these formal diagnosis and they also don't have the same experiences on various substances as many.
> I’ve tried to all - I guess DMT, mushroom, etc. don’t work on me in a Terence McKenna storytelling fashion (I only get stoned and have very entertaining closed eye visuals that take me off to sleep).
I'm not trying to "diagnose" someone, I'm asking for a correlation of additional observational data. Maybe it's a data point for or against certain conditions and how they interact with different substances, but wouldn't know until the response.
It is well known that people on SSRIs, etc will have "blocking effects" for various substances because of their mechanism of action.
But I have also met some people with severe depression or were bipolar 1 that both were not on any medications and had no visuals or sensory disturbances of any kind.
Instead of trying to diagnose people over the Internet try getting a job or hobby, maybe a side project. Who knows, you might get rich??
I have never taken SSRI so I can't speak on it, but I have smoked mountains of weed and the shaman at the end of time told me that you were an utter dipshit your whole existence. Sorry about that
Individual differences in serotonin (5-HT2A) receptor density, sensitivity, or downstream signaling pathways mean that the physical mechanism required to trigger visual or auditory alterations may not fire the same way for everyone.
I'm asking a question about your experience, not trying to diagnose you. I'm asking if you maybe already have been.
> but I have smoked mountains of weed and the shaman at the end of time told me that you were an utter dipshit your whole existence. Sorry about that
Nevermind, don't care anymore. Your response wasn't even to me originally.
If you knew a thing about it, you’d be more interested in the cannabis use and its widely documented suppression of REM that causes avid users to stop having vivid dreams.
Wouldn’t that be the first thing you’d ask in good faith - what kinds and amounts of other drugs is the person taking, sleep schedule, etc.
What I'm interested in has two parts: Psychedelics used as mental health treatments, and those documented cases of negative reaction to potent psychedelics in people with and without formally diagnosed mental health conditions.
We have some ideas but there needs to be much better data.
This is all wrapped up in just finding effective mental health treatments, btw.
Thanks you for your kind reply.
Calling it nitpicking doesn't make it untrue and payrolls are not public.
To come up with factual data, one needs do some investigative journalism, and nbcnews' not one of them.
They used to blame Python a lot too - Python is slow compared to others but not so slow to matter that much, and you can build other services around it to handle certain work.
Facebook - who chose PHP - used to blame iOS/Obj-c as the reason they couldn’t build a decent Facebook native app in the early days (anyone remember Fastbook?)
I would take it with a grain of salt.