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Psychedelics are clearly "doors of perception" as Huxley noted. I think it's up to an individual to decide on personal course of action and need for such doors to be opened with or without external tools.

Or not if someone would read this https://www.rrjournal.org/doi/abs/10.1667/RR3251

the inverse square law always applies, hence the law part.

> Eventually we'll know of all the potential threats with enough advanced warning

We have no idea what Type II or III adversarial civilization will be able to do to us, and how fast.

While I agree with your sentiment, he does fit the description:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journalist 1.b: a writer who aims at a mass audience

I am not sure what's more exciting: passage through an unstable Lagrange point, or effects of a solar wind on the massive area of such cable.

Remained with the name. AK-74 5.45mm cartridge AKM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKM) - 7.62mm

I think we were at the rock bottom of Psychedelic Medical Research, research (search?) in Psychedelics never really stopped.

True, but could be millions more.

>This is a striking metaphor of life under communism, and what it takes for a human being to survive in it

Or any large capitalist corporation. Survival is a stretched term in both cases. (We should not confuse the general idea of communism with periods of brutal purges, that many/most "communist" countries went through). If you stand against any large system, guess who is likely to win.

Are you sure about the first point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Neither Shanghai or Beijing would make top 20 on this list

Assuming we have technology to reach a new planet 12 ly away, is going to a red dwarf star a good investment strategy?

> Harder, I think. We have the technology to live on Mars (not to terraform it, just to survive on it).

There is a chance that nuking the polar caps would terraform Mars, I think we already have the technology for basic terraforming.

edit: wrong quote :/

We are about to eradicate mosquitos.

That’s until you hit trance states of consciousness. Then perception of “reality” changes quite a bit.

Sounds a bit like Nuremberg defense, don't you think? "The System ordered us to rob people."

>some parents would probably go to prison

Not in Eastern Europe

any/all of Joseph Campbell

Works by Robert Monroe https://www.amazon.com/Robert-A.-Monroe/e/B000AQ8V5A

Works by Dr. Lilly https://www.amazon.com/Center-Cyclone-Looking-Inner-Space/dp...

Carlos Castanteda (take it with a grain of salt :) https://www.amazon.com/Carlos-Castaneda/e/B000APXVFG/

D. Scott Rogo's "Leaving Body" is good compilation of various techniques https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Body-D-Scott-Rogo/dp/06717639...

leave it to the dogs

interestingly enough this bill does not yet exist: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billSearchClient.xh...

Just remember this was at least partly due to the high cost, scarce availability of such appliances and a long queue to get a new one.

Your argument is a contradiction to itself. Ukraine was invaided after it gave up its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

https://en.m..org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine

On a positive side, space polluted with micro-sateliets will deter an alien invasion. No generation ships parked in a near orbit.

Donald and Vladimir?

Or perhaps different people in different places react differently.

To deprive yourself of future confusion you can separate this further into: feelings, emotions and "bodily effects". I present you a slightly less morbid example: you feel happy and you smile. Act of smiling is an expression of emotion that is not named in the prior statement. The happy feeling is expression-less in this example and merely a conscious record of your internal self-observation.

While it's awesome, where is Beaglebone Blue?

There is nothing in the data that says that participation is exclusive, "other" bucket is larger than "performing arts". So the whole thing is invalid. But most importantly participation doesn't mean ability. There are plenty of people in both camps who clearly are not able.

If you break your leg, you will change the way your walk, but not the brain (of course it will change adapting to what has happened, but that's not he point here). Going up a level: if you change your brain you will change the way you think, but not the fact you can think. Going up another level: by changing your mind, you might not change your consciousness.