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I agree the snark was unnecessary, but in that moment I didn't have the time to think of a way to say that without it being perceived as worse than what I did playfully say.

Anyway, wrist slap accepted. I will do better in the future.

Edit: from that page, what's the meaning of the sentence "Edit out swipes."?

> As for the goat skeleton, it eats when the goat eats, you know what I was saying.

I'm not sure why, but this conversation reminded me of this old video. What a trip down (bizarro) memory lane.

https://youtu.be/WQO-aOdJLiw

Yep, that's nature for you.

The other top predators won't tell you about the bloodlines and species they've ended. I suppose that's what separates us from them. Honesty.

Yes I'm sure the experts didn't think of the first idea to pop into both of our heads when they published their scientific paper in PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0813385106

However I'm more curious how a skeleton eats, can you elaborate?

That's in the gut, but I wonder how that works when it's pumped out into the subcutaneous fat layer.

As a kid I had an idea for a pill that would do that. I had no idea how it would work if course, but I thought one day in the future we could have a pill that you took that detected issues with the body and produced the needed drugs to fix it, so nobody needs to take a bunch of pills or the wrong pills. I'll have to read it.

Speaking as a layman here.

I do know which one is safer, as to gain access to blood you have to gain access to a vein, likely by inserting a small tube made of [something] inside the vein, expect it to never break down and enter the bloodstream, become compromised, or be hit with an impact and tear the vein open to create internal bleeding. Then you also have to have a system to get rid of the waste blood (everything but the small amount of oxygen you want) all entirely within a closed system implanted into the arm, thigh, etc.

In that case yes I believe I envisioned it differently than you. If the text is correctly sized and in a box that's always there, where you expect information to be and doesn't block your view, I don't think that would be distracting.

Funny enough DMT is the only psychedelic that's ever given me real, true insight and legitimately changed my life after a single breakthrough dose, 99.5% of which I didn't remember even immediately after 'coming to' (and still don't). I was suicidally depressed and had been for a number of years, struggling with drugs and depression, had all but given up on life. I did it alone not meaning to break through.

Immediately after my breakthrough, I was so overjoyed and happy and couldn't help but bellow out "there is so much love in the universe!!" over and over -- right after a run to the washroom to purge a rainbow from my mouth. Thankfully I was home alone. I immediately called my loved ones to talk to them and tell them how much I loved them. My sister (psych major) thought I was going to end my life soon because I was suddenly so happy and unburdened. Suicidal ideation ceased for over 5 years, and still has only come out in the rare circumstance I was under extreme emotional distress. The majority of the lessons I learned -- many obvious in retrospect, I feel I was almost purposely blinding myself from seeing them because it was easier not to -- came in dreams and waking daydream 'visions' in the days after my trip, and my sudden ability to notice my problems weren't so serious, I just needed to look at them from a different viewpoint, of which there are many.

The only person who noticed (or mentioned) any difference right away in me, was the wife of a client -- a devout Hindu woman. As soon as she saw me a few days after my trip she said "MyName, are you alright?" with a concerned look on her face. I still wonder what she noticed or what concerned her.

I haven't felt the need to do it or any other psychedelics since, but for some reason I felt I'd share a quick tale of my story since the topic of machine elves and insights came up.

I was also, coincidentally (common as it is, apparently?) obsessed with digging a tunnel as far as I could as a 12-13 year old boy until it collapsed on me after about 5ft because I'd started on an unstable hill. That was the end of my tunneling, although I suddenly have a strange urge to grab a shovel.

I'm actually curious if "digging in the tunnel" is a euphemism for using psychedelics, which would have been severely frowned upon at the time. The elves are known for their wisdom in helping you see the world and solve problems in unique ways.

https://maps.org/2004/08/08/nobel-prize-genius-crick-was-hig...

> FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.

> The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co- researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.

> Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle’s warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

Is Obscura operating out of India?

If not, what's your point?

I agree with everything you said.

It's sad. I really wish they'd improve speed, latency, and packet loss. If they did then I would go back in a heartbeat.

NSA doesn't typically hack and persist to watch the devices of US citizens.

Oh thanks for the clarification.

I was curious why XMR isn't available.

I've tried this before but couldn't get it to work. What are the VM settings required? Do you need an external card that can do passthru or whatever it's called like you do for wardriving?

What's your method for "double tunneling" as, on Windows at least, you can't run two VPN providers at the same time as far as I've seen. I'd love to know if that were possible. I've seen mention of a tool that allows groups of trusted individuals to use each other's VPN connections to create a tunnel, but that's with each computer running a different VPN service.

Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency can be converted to monero, which can then be used to pay (or converted back to BTC to pay) via any number of shady coin conversion services.

Bitcoin can also be anonymized via coinjoin like samurai or Wasabi, although Wasabi is not recommended: https://medium.com/oxt-research/a-statement-on-two-discovere...

In fact, if you're truly trying to be as as anonymous as possible with privacy redundancy, coinjoining before converting to XMR is your best course of action.

As a casual Monero user, who's the Bitcoin maxi you're speaking of? Fluffypony? Seth? I remember reading about someone on the Monero core team who started working for a large Bitcoin company but don't remember who it was or what the issue was.

If the Obscura network started getting DDoSed, I'm sure Obscura would also become quite slow.

The infosec hobbyist in me believes the many-months-long massive DDoS attack against tor infrastructure was exploiting a vulnerability in tor to perform (timing attacks, or related traffic correlation attacks) against and unmask hidden services or hidden service users, or maybe even exit node users. How realistic is this to someone that understands the tor network more in-depth than I do?

Because it's so noisy and expensive, I can't believe they'd keep it up this long if it wasn't extremely effective, whatever the purpose and actor.

I'm not sure we would know about the Carnegie Melon research if it weren't for the researchers trying to give a talk about at Black Hat 2014. https://threatpost.com/tor-sniffs-out-attacks-trying-to-dean...

Or 2015 at MIT - https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/de-anonymiza...

Or 2019-2021+ - https://nusenu.medium.com/is-kax17-performing-de-anonymizati...

Or 2022 - https://infocondb.org/con/def-con/def-con-30/deanonymization...

IVPN, Perfect Privacy, Mullvad all use blind tokens as well I believe.

There's also another company/product that has Port in the name I think, PortMonitor or... it's on the tip of my tongue. Anyway they have a paid version of the product that is essentially a series of servers (their own and user-donated servers) that tries to re-create the onion routing protocol, but with VPNs and blind tokens.

Edit: Postmaster with the Safing Privacy Network (SPN) https://safing.io/spn/

In the jets, are all parts of the HUD always visible and they train to work around them as if it weren't part of the window but rather a permanent obstruction, or does the text pop up unexpectedly while they're flying?

> Are you saying riding a motorcycle requires more concentration than flying an FA/18 Hornet?

Are you saying that building strawmen is more important than the visibility of an FA/18 Hornet?

Imagine that while you're driving, a big line of text that you can't see through appears on your windshield.

Worse yet the text is opaque but you have to concentrate on it to read it.

All this would do is give drivers a false sense of security in your directions example. You'll be concentrating on the text regardless, meaning your concentration is off the road.

Even that autopilot sense where you drive your daily routine for 30 minutes and don't remember minutes 20 of it still has your subconscious aware of obstacles in the road, etc. This would require your concentration to be on the text. Whether you want it to or not.

Risky for the seller, not as much for the buyer who only has to learn to say "no, I didn't order that" and not be pursuaded into saying "yes, I ordered that."

Simple as

See my other comment, this is all still perfectly legal until you combine the spores with substrate with the intent to grow the mushrooms. You can buy the spore syringes ready to inject into the pre-sterilized substrate bags. Open, inject, wait.

Spores have remained legal forever here in the states because unlike seeds, spores don't contain traces of the banned substances, and there have been legal spore syringe sellers and sterilized substrate-bag sellers etc. since the beginning of internet forums. With a little patience and guidance it's always been there for anyone wanting to try.

Or you could buy a book of mushrooms native to your area, identify the funguys, and take a walk foraging.

It definitely wasn't until it was the most likely scenario according to the US DoE and others, as of a few months ago.

Yes I always try reading articles before coming to the comments for the archive link. This is paywalled. https://ibb.co/x8T9xSh

Thank you for the brief rundown, but that actually does interest me.

From the title alone I certainly understand the issue, but this looks like news on said subject I understand, which I would like to read.

Thanks I was unaware of that, but I use AdGuard and Quad9.

I desperately want to read this article. Anyone else getting /constant/ cloudflare CAPTCHAS while trying to access archive.ph? Android with mobile Firefox or chrome, first with wifi then mobile then VPN. No matter what I can't access it and it won't stop showing the "are you a human?" check page, even after trying the CAPTCHA the first time it stops showing.

Must be a cloudflare outage?