Seriously if pictures of it get released it would be the funniest thing in years

Ooh sensors would be nice

Goodbye student loans! If there’s money left over I’d have to decide between something hot to wear for the wife (and maybe for others) or replacing my terrible and broken computer monitors. But let’s be real the only thing left over will be debt.

Have you tried sticking it in a tortoise?

What a weak god. My patron goddess has survived waves of mass persecution of her most dedicated followers for over a millennium. This guy can’t handle a magnet?

My bowl is empty you P’takh

That’s why I prefer to frame it as three types of trip: good, challenging, and bad. Good trips are fun and maybe productive, challenging are productive and unpleasant, and bad are unpleasant and unproductive.

It can be really easy to mistake what should be challenging for bad and that’s where things like therapy techniques (cbt and dbt can really help here) and reintegration can be vital. But some people describe wholly unpleasant trips that don’t increase self awareness or present opportunities for growth or healing, as well as some people going in to psychedelics when they don’t have the tools or the spoons or the right mood that day.

For that last bit, every trip should begin with an honest reflection of your mental state and if you need to bail for the day, because once you get on the ride you can’t leave until it’s over.

The label “bad trip” has a loaded connotation. People think of a bad trip as something to flee from or as the negative outcome of a psychedelic. I’ve had multiple challenging trips (all lsd), and yet there was a time in my life I went back every 6 months or so.

When you frame them not as a risk or as a thing to flee from, but as a chance for uncomfortable growth it doesn’t make it less uncomfortable, but it can make it significantly more productive even than the good trips. You don’t control where it takes you, but you do control how you interpret it and how you respond.

So when the drug sits you down and shows you the bullshit you’ve been on you have a choice: do you hide from it, internalize it, or otherwise interpret it as disparaging you, or do you take it like an honest conversation from a trusted friend or mentor and accept that you need to change. It’s similar for trauma, psychedelics aren’t used in treatment of trauma because it’s a nice easy fun time, no it’s a guided challenging trip through your traumatic experiences to help you confront them in a productive manner.

I personally don’t like saying there’s no such thing as a bad trip, I think it’s entirely possible that psychedelics can lead you into uncomfortable places where you either have nothing to learn or aren’t yet able to deal with it. But I do think the vast majority of “bad trips” could benefit from being reframed as challenging so that people’s response to them is to attempt to grow from them rather than to pop a xanax. Though of course the pre trip check in is also invaluable, double check that you’re in the right mood before taking the drug and remember that it’s always better to bail than go in when you aren’t prepared.

Idk the first oath would probably really help when a trip starts going off. May not make it good, but could turn a bad trip into a challenging trip

I need that outfit

I follow asl style for the right hand:

1- pointer; 2- pointer and middle; 3- pointer, middle, and thumb; 4- everything but thumb; all five up; 6- thumb touching pinky; 7- thumb touching ring; 8- thumb touching middle; 9- thumb touching pointer; 10- fist

Then I use the left hand for 10s. So i can get up to 100

Idk i could go for another 2015

The hate for coastal cities is often sour grapes. In a lot of the country “getting out” is a far bigger success than stuff like having a family or starting a small business. And it’s not like everyone wants to leave but enough do amd not many people want to come unless they’re headed towards a boom bust town. And so these people feel judged by coastal elites who they feel are more successful or privileged than them, because maybe they could’ve been somebody too if things had gone differently and if their home was somewhere people wanted to live or visit. And like they know the TV and plays in new york and the movies in LA about getting out are written or inspired by those of us who did. And they don’t understand the reality that a lot of people left because of the people. The insecurities play a huge role in all of it.

Oh in traffic all that new England kindness goes away rapidly. If you impede them without needing help well they won’t ram you or wave a gun, so it’s better than Midwestern drivers, but they will honk their hearts out and cut you off

I think it’s far more north south than east west. The PNW is definitely kind, though they’re neither nice nor mean, more just uncomfortable you’re talking to them. Meanwhile the southeast gives California a run for their money in polite cruelty.

People are aware that without a culture built around it places like Alaska with 22+ hours of light/dark a day can make people a little crazy, but I think the inverse also can cause problems without a culture built around it. Winter is good for you even if it sucks

Don’t they all

Mostly that gridiron football is a public health crisis and should be treated as such

People have become far too comfortable advocating against the rights of others

Anchovies

Sure it is, it means try the chartreuse option. Sure nobody has ever pulled that color off but still