PIKAL

The voltage induced in power lines would destroy lots of things connected to them and would require replacement of trillions of dollars of equipment. So it would be permanent in the sense that you couldn’t fix all that equipment by turning it off and then on again.

I heard an expert say that the whole thing could be avoided by simply adding grounding wires to power lines. They kind of already do this for lightning — a grounding rod is shorted by a special material that becomes conductive at high voltage. The high voltage is “dumped” to earth. Put enough of those on power lines and the excess voltage might never reach sensitive equipment down stream.

What a great post. What is the interstellar medium? Did the 12% figure include the aspect of multiple events paving roads for one another as mentioned later in the article? It reminds me of SARS, everyone knows it can happen and when it did our lack of preparation was shocking. And if this happens, once again the people hoarding toilet paper and food rations will be vindicated.

It seems like keeping your gear in a faraday cage would be enough to protect it, along with a really nice UPS and fiber optic IO. I’ve been meaning to buy some kind of fiber optic IO hub but they don’t seem to make one that’s appropriate for electro-isolation.

If you want the best sex of your life, use 2C-B. I’ve never used it but my username checks out.

The guy on YouTube called high intensity health is a keto diet evangelist who wears a real time glucose monitor to study more closely what’s going on biologically with ketosis and blood sugar. He’s reported that being in stressful situations, like being late at the airport, can spike your glucose even when you’re in ketosis and kick you out of ketosis. I’ve experienced this too with the resurgence of inflammatory symptoms that are usually gotten rid of by ketosis.

I knew from as far back as I can remember that I was totally different from most people. I always thought that most people were the same. I grew up stricken with independent mindedness. If you are smart enough to blend in despite having a completely different way of thinking then it would be ok but I am the kind of person who cannot hide what’s inside. It ruined my life. Most people live a life of luxury simply by the virtue of their brain. Even poor people have the ability to enjoy human connection with other people. That is luxury to me. Most people don’t even understand that something so fundamental can be absent, they don’t even know it exists as it’s own thing. Most people completely miss all the details. This essay really speaks to me.

In 2010 when I would try to explain what was going on with Tesla and who Elon musk was, literally nobody believed me, took me seriously or demonstrated any ability at all to think for themselves and come to the correct conclusion through the special combination of single minded intuition and logical deduction that is described in the essay. I noticed that people always reacted the same way, no matter where they came from, mentioning something about golf carts. There was an emotional component where when I would get close to making a breakthrough, an emotional wall would go up. This emotional wall was the same in everyone and it was a very strong pattern. Having an emotional disconnection with yourself is important to being able to believe things that are upsetting or having your world view tossed. It’s not a choice to be disconnected and for me it’s a medical thing.

Because of my insights about Tesla and other things related to my special way of thinking, I am retired. And I still say it isn’t worth it and I would give it all up to enjoy the amazing luxury of being a normal person.

Gun activists have been waiting for a Supreme Court majority that actually does its job. I would expect people’s 2nd amendment rights to be restored in CA soon.

It’s better not to think about that.

I am overwhelmed with curiosity about what the animal would have been like if it had been allowed to live. Imagine that it was smart enough to speak or resemble humans even more closely than monkeys already do... imagine how earth shattering that would be. An entire race of beings to reconcile with. I wish they had let it live.

Burying anger is not healthy emotionally. When you demonize emotions that a person naturally feels you demonize the person and they only internalize the pain. Do what works for you but don’t be a nuisance to everyone around you by making them guilty for things they can’t help.

The only problem is people who think monogamy is universally bad. These people invariably demonize jealousy which is a normal, natural emotional reaction. If you want to demonize innate human desires and behaviors then you’re no better than the Catholic Church.

The brexit crowd is probably feeling vindicated.

Mainstream medical doctors have been ignoring this for more than a decade. It’s absolutely shameful.

Could you list some conferences and papers one could use to catch up on ML and AI from zero?

Does this mean all drugs or just all the common street drugs? What about precursors and obscure phenethylamines?

In Sasha Shulgin’s book PIKAL, he describes mixing two drugs, I think it was MMA and cannabis, and experiencing perceived time dilation. He describes it as looking at the hands of a clock and experiencing much more time between the movement of the hands than one normally would. He said it was frightening, so he called his friend to come help. He was able to speak normally and hear people speak normally. While he was on the phone, he asked for a timer to be set while he went to go retrieve something. His experience of walking down the hall and back felt to him like twenty minutes. When he returned to the phone, he was told it had only been two minutes.

The effect wore off by the next day. He was never able to recreate the effect, but he kept a battery of experiments at the ready of it ever happened again. He expressed regret at not being able to carry them out.

He once said that the experience changed his perception of death. If time were to continue dilating, asymptotically approaching a halting of time, then one might never die in their own experience.