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The user on this website:

morpheos137

reminded me of why I am about to commit suicide: he told me that I'll be cleaning up the gene pool by doing so

Thanks for reminding me, morpheos137

Broke and hungry/thirsty now, haven't eaten in days and have no clean water. Hoping to finish suicide now, finally, after years of delays.

You can email me at smithjohndough at pm

Aloha, ape species.

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straw_hat··on Americans from Both Parties Want Weed to Be Legal. Why Doesn’t the Government
https://www.pnas.org/content/109/40/E2657
straw_hat··on Americans from Both Parties Want Weed to Be Legal. Why Doesn’t the Government
It's not an extraordinary claim.

It's legal in many states. The federal govt doesn't interfere.

straw_hat··on High conspiracy belief is associated with low critical thinking ability
Before conspiracy theory culture went mainstream via the last presidential administration, there were the 9/11 truthers, led by orgs like AE911Truth. These orgs do real damage to peoples' lives, such as convincing surviving family of 9/11 victims that the US govt planned the attacks and covered up a conspiracy to bring down WTC7.

It takes slightly more than a casual interest to draw the correct conclusion that WTC7 fell from uncontrolled office fires. In this case, reputable scientists and engineers at NIST did the analysis work for us.

One wouldn't be faulted for casually examining a collapse video of WTC7 and preliminarily concluding that the tower fell from some type of controlled demolition. Of course, further examination of the video negates this conclusion.

WTC7's collapse could be a project for a critical thinking skills class for high school students.

straw_hat··on Americans from Both Parties Want Weed to Be Legal. Why Doesn’t the Government
Which statement was baseless? That any of these outcomes apply only to a (non-trivial) subset of users is implied.
straw_hat··on Americans from Both Parties Want Weed to Be Legal. Why Doesn’t the Government
Probably because marijuana use damages young brains. Potent strains, which are now commonplace -- if not the norm, cause psychosis. People end up in emergency rooms, especially with edibles. Long term users suffer from brain damage, mental, and behavioral disorders. It's perceived as harmless, and thus is easier to accept as a supposedly innocent long term habit, when the truth is that it silently robs long term users of their motivation and destroys dreams. People become enamored with the altered state of consciousness early on, to the point where it permanently interferes with their life path.

Marijuana is still strictly disallowed in the military, for clearance holders, and for employees of government agencies such as the FBI for good reason. It impairs judgment.

While I have personally used the substance in the past, I do applaud the current administration for banning anyone who has ever tried it from working in the White House. Many agencies have reasonable policies for past use. I believe the NSA allows for past use no more recently than 12 months, and the FBI for 36 months.

straw_hat··on Efficiency eludes the construction industry (2017)
Can you elaborate? What's your experience working in the construction industry, and what did you learn about that industry's workforce culture?
straw_hat··on Harvard-led physicists take big step in race to quantum computing
Will this breakthrough have any impact on the race for a QC that will break existing widely-deployed crypto?

Is this research reproducible via publicly published findings?

straw_hat··on Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study
This seems to be a variant of LSD-25, not psilocybin.
straw_hat··on Scientists Have Connected a Superconductor to a Semiconductor
Will superconductors ever have an application in commoditized electronics? Or, will they always require specialized cooling equipment? Could such specialized cooling ever be commoditized/miniaturized?

Same questions apply for QC's, which seem to depend on near 0K temperatures to function.

straw_hat··on How Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication
Short INTC 56, 60, 65

Stop loss on all three lots at 70

straw_hat··on Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study
Can you elaborate? I won't make an illicit online purchase. Prefer instead to consume safely from a post-rain visit to a manure pile.

edit: comment I replied to initially just said "the dark web" and the additional info was added after I replied.

straw_hat··on Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study
"Shrooms" are illegal here and I'm skeptical about eating "discovered" fungus grown in cow feces, particularly in raw/uncooked form. I'm not a chemist, either, so extracting psilocybin seems daunting.

What's a safe way to consume psilocybin from such a "discovery", in terms of psychoactive dosage and for avoiding unwanted ancillary poisons?

straw_hat··on Google and Microsoft end their 5-year cease-fire
I wonder if the well-publicized Microsoft hacks this past year contributed to this. I'll reserve judgment while wearing a straw hat, though -- not without further info.