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The city is already cooperating and providing portable toilets and tried to replace the barricades with nice planters. It’s a national conversation now.

So my question: will Trump quickly and lethally invoke the Insurrection act? Will the Joint Chiefs comply or create a constitutional crisis?

If this isn’t shut down quickly, I predict we see a national movement like this by Juneteenth.

Bumping this towards front page discussion, the Wikipedia link on this got flag killed from the front page.

Trying again because basic boring hackers flag killed my post on the wikipedia article. This is the most interesting thing to happen in a while and should gratify your intellectual curiosity and is obviously worthy of discussion.

Has this been extensively discussed on the front page yet? There’s a lot to unpack here.

I also like the NY Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/seattle-autonomous-zon... and this Facebook status as information sources : https://www.facebook.com/605305752/posts/10157217465630753/?...

Yup, it’s ok, I have karma to burn, just checking sentiment and zeitgeist as my house begins to mindfully break lockdown. There was a mediocre acoustic act performing on the waterfront at Jack London square an hour ago; we might do some shows there or throw a rave at Brooklyn Basin.

You can’t lock down the healthy in America for a year to protect the weak. Those in fear think this is going to end soon but it isn’t. Instead, people need to decide how to live their lives in our new, fundamentally unsafe pandemic society.

The curve has been flattened and I’m past ready for lockdown to end.

Finally! Looking forward to this

A good old capitalist scheme for profit that's also compromised by nation state spycraft!

I live in a group house in Oakland, California and tensions have been pretty high. I've heard of similar tensions in basically everyone in a group house under quarantine. Of course, for me, it's worth dealing with the psycho social drama because living in solo isolation seems a lot worse. If anyone is dealing with similar issues, you may find this analysis helpful.

Twitch's community is mostly gamers. There is a critical mass of out of work musicians making content that an online virtual music festival environment could be really compelling right now. This quickly goes down the rabbithole towards "build the metaverse" but the year now is 2020 and the metaverse is slightly overdue.

My roommate Cassandra Lewis is playing today at 7PM Pacific time. https://www.facebook.com/events/1124539067909664/ Our house's twitch account is http://twitch.tv/sueassociates. We play video games with music on in the background and occasionally break into improv jam sessions.

Absolutely. I heard there is a cancelled YPO conference in San Diego right now and 300 people still showed up and it's turned into quite an unconference. https://www.ypo.org/exclusive-events/ypo-global-edge/

What's your budget? You want anything of the form factor called near field studio monitors.

Still trusted by both left coast technolibertariananarchists and Republicans in DC.

That seems to be a cycle with our customers, after 6 or 9 months the plant often does the thing people need and they stop when it stops working for them.

Cheers. I'm in the Bay Area and don't make it east too often (Love Burn Miami is happening though!), happy to meet for coffee in SF/Oakland next time you come out these ways.

Frankly, I've been in the legal drug space running www.getkratom.com for 13 years and things are fine because the plant actually is so profoundly safe. Orrin Hatch plus lots of veterans of the US armed forces calling their representatives is what saved it from a federal ban. It already went through that due process and didn't get banned.

Running a crypto hedge fund feels more dangerous to me in many ways that my simple, though controversial, ecommerce business. :) I'm doing fine and must like living on the edge.

There are high risk merchant processors that specialize in enabling things like this but it isn't happening, visa/mastercard have really colluded under pressure from the feds to try really hard to make sure that no kratom merchants have credit card processing under any circumstances whatsoever.

At my sales volume I can't reasonably fly under the radar this way; I'm sure a tiny or start up operation could for at least a little while but it's not sustainable.

That's a donation rather than an investment but they might take money for their B-corp wholly owned subsidiaries at some points. Donating money to MAPS and getting on their conference and private dinner circuit as a big money person is for better or worse the way to eventually gain access to those kinds of deals, but I know they've been wining and dining enough billionaires at this point that they don't really need the money and other non-profits in the space are better opportunities.

I'll likely be starting some kind of non-profit in the space with Thomas Ray within the next year. Check out his research:

https://www.transformpress.com/breadth-and-depth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygDULQ9AY7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxrAUIIbkeM

Sounds like you have to invest in their entire portfolio to get exposure to their nascent psilocybin research.

For-profit conference people that made money running cannabis conferences have started running psychedelic investment conferences but I have been told by those on the circuit that they are bullshit money grabs and that you should not attend. Two years from now they'll probably be real and still run by the same bullshit artists as today.

You could invest in quasi-legal grow ops in areas where mushrooms have been mostly decriminalized, like Oakland, California. You could invest in the largest marijuana companies that are the most likely to pivot to other plant medicines.

But, otherwise, basically, no, there is no reasonable way to invest in psychedelic mushrooms right now. Possibly buying domain names.

Something I did predicting the future of this industry was buy buylsd.com 5 years ago for $1500 (not operating now obviously until that's legal but another ten years would be a long time, I think). www.buymushrooms.com will similarly go up enormously in value in a future with widely legal drugs, at least as long as that is still a future with .com type in traffic and prioritized search engine rankings. I don't own buymushrooms.com but that would probably be a great investment at $10k, questionable at over $100k.

I've been meaning to try and fix the wikipedia article again. I last did that and got into an obnoxious fight with jytdog. I heard a couple months ago that he dox'd and called to harass a wikipedian and then deleted his account ahead of anticipated punitive action. Without that person spending 80 hours a week to advocate his particularly narrow anti-plant medicine interpretation of what is correct with regards to medicine, biochemistry, and pharmacology on wikipedia, editing it again might actually accomplish something. I think I and many other editors that went up against jytdog are still carrying trauma that makes me reluctant to reengage but it's about time to try.

The FDA/DEA have waged war on the kratom industry in extralegal fashion; I've had my personal bank accounts and credit cards shut down without explanation via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point.

With Operation Chokepoint over, the DEA/FDA still have colluded to prevent the kratom industry from processing credit cards. For my website www.getkratom.com, we take checks, echecks, and cryptocurrency. Sales are about 1/3 of what they were when we were able to take credit cards.

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Old drama is uninteresting. What's wrong with being mentally ill? I'm definitely not neurotypical, just like half of Silicon Valley geeks. Try raising VC money in Silicon Valley without projecting the image of irrationally exuberant hypomania. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/bill-nguyen-startups

Your comment is exactly the kind that threatens to make this thread a trainwreck. Be nice! Rachel is a very real person that can't raise money on Kickstarter because Kickstarter can't deal with one asshole posting 400 spam comments.

Are there very many circumstances where it is useful to discuss specific, possibly ongoing legal matters on the Internet? Honestly, even if the authorities could deal with this effectively and find said dude, if I thought he was ultimately harmless I wouldn't want him to be thrown in a cage for years for posting a bunch of harassing comments. It's sad that mental illness is a crime.

No, she has a real cyberstalker.

Star's totally legit, definitely makes me update towards at least some tacos being delivered by drone, though I doubt there's intention to make this serious business.

I've found it to be true that In-n-Out isn't that good on an absolute scale, but it's great for how cheap it is. I can definitely get a better grass fed beef hamburger for $10 (or an even better one made from the ground lamb at the Berkeley Bowl for $8.99/pound) but haven't had a better fast food burger than In-n-Out.

We exhibit a degree of control over our environment not exhibited by rats, ants, or birds.

Yudkowsky's quantum physics sequence addresses this question.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/

It's long and hard to understand, but easier to understand than other explanations of quantum physics.

You can skip right to the answer, though you may not accept it without having understood the background.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qx/timeless_identity/

>If you can see the moments of now braided into time, the causal dependencies of future states on past states, the high-level pattern of synapses and the internal narrative as a computation within it - if you can viscerally dispel the classical hallucination of a little billiard ball that is you, and see your nows strung out in the river that never flows - then you can see that signing up for cryonics, being vitrified in liquid nitrogen when you die, and having your brain nanotechnologically reconstructed fifty years later, is actually less of a change than going to sleep, dreaming, and forgetting your dreams when you wake up.