Like driving a car.
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Faster than anything I had ever seen, almost like an intense vibration, beyond the refresh rate of the eye. It was both intimidating and exhilarating.
Perhaps screens are unable to replicate this type of hallucination.
The animations on this website are impressive. However, in my experience, closed-eye visuals tend to have a central focal point, along with folding or tunnel-like movements and recurring patterns.
I feel deeply grateful for having had some psychedelic experiences, even though hallucinations are the least interesting aspect of them. For me, they acted as a magnifying glass for my overall state of being—allowing me to step outside myself and honestly assess how I feel. They also foster a deeper appreciation for nature.
It would be fascinating to have this discussion within this community. These substances are often demonized due to a lack of understanding, yet they can have a profound impact. For instance, after taking a small dose of LSD, I completely lost interest in alcohol. In the past six months, I’ve only had three nights of drinking, lost a significant amount of weight, and feel fantastic.
There is plenty of industry and jobs in the north.
If the south keep relying on tourism they will keep this misery going.
I don't care if you are born here. I only care if you work and contribute here. Tourism is killing people.
Look at Barcelona. Before the Olympics it was a amazing place to live. Now it's rotten and prostituted to expats, tourists and poor people who go there to work in inhuman jobs paying unpayable rents.
I hope that German secondary physics and chemistry teacher who has an amazing free pdf book about tikz sees this.
This was such a great and didactic book to real tkiz. I can't find it right now, but must be somewhere.
Morada is any property that you live, use to live or use to do private activities in it.
If you used at least once a year or so, then is morada. Like if it was your primary house.
If you have a semi demolished house, or unused house during years, then clearly is it not a morada. That's the difference.
He was like inspector gadget.
He did the whole electrical installation and had a giant water deposit on the basement that he filled once a month with the waterolympics: getting the water from the next street from a fire hydrant. Such a great guy. With a lot of social conscience, firm to his ideals and he worked!
If you okupas you always ocupas. But you can ocupar without okupar.
The k differences the political movement from the physical act of using a property which is not yours. Okupas don't promote squatting in a small owner property. They promote using unused properties from banks.
In fact in Barcelona there are la Oficina d'okupació:
The media always look for this situations and portray they because are shocking.
This is not okupation, and has nothing to do with the movement.
This laws primary are there to protect families and people who rent.
I know at least 15 okupas, who lived +4 on bank unused, and still unused, properties. This okupas helped to not saturate the market. They all worked in touristic areas where housing is scarce, and this makes hiring people very difficult because workers doesn't have a place to live and rent is crazy high.
You forgot about people who live there all year round. You know, the ones who work, maintain services, offer food, have children who will keep everything working.
Spain shouldn't be a big hotel, it is also the country of people who live all year round.
The point is, if you break anything to enter you used force and it's much worse.
But if it's your residence, your house, and at least you used once a year is "morada", and then they are intruders and they are breaking the law.
It doesn't matter if they change the lock or anything like this. If mossos doesn't do anything, which would amaze me, then call the other forces, like civil, local o nacional.
If you let a house unused all year long or during years, it's your problem. I don't know what's the purpose of owning a house and not using it, in this case, I would appreciate that someone breaks in to live there with pacifically, this people exist.
This is not like USA were you shoot anyone who enters in your property.
If you harm this people you surely will have to face penal consequences.
Why? Because then, people will do the same with a small family which can not pay rent this month, after you increased the price to the double because you want to rent to tourists.
The solution is simple: use your properties. Would you let your car with the keys inside? No. Don't let your houses unused. It's is an offense to people who want to work and live. Properties shouldn't be a business nor a speculative means.
Like Raval. Some German companies had bought whole buildings and know they rent their flats, or even worst, rooms in flats with locks. This is crazy.
I've been in such a place, in the heart of Raval, full of drug addicts, and filth enter to a place remodeled inside with small rooms who "expats" pay a lot, A LOT. It's crazy.
I've lived here all my life.
I know at least 15 okupas who lived +4 years in properties of banks, unused and not finished, which, after eviction, are still unused and unmaintained. What harm did this okupas do? They didn't contributed to rent inflation, so they did some good.
Having property unused and don't having an eye on it is madness. I wouldn't do it. That's common sense. People think that money buy things. Ok, buy a Ferrari and park it outside of a big city and leave it there during a month.
This law is here to protect the right of housing. Some mafias use it? Could be, but this law works to protect real families and the benefits are much greater than the harm that opportunists do abusing it, this organizations doesn't have anything to do with the okupa movement.
- Have you met the reality of working class people there?
- Have you stayed on a touristic city or on industrial areas?
- The real criminals are people from Spain, speculative funds and tourists from all over the world buying property here and not using it. They steal to everybody.
Then we can't hire people for our business because people can't find rent. We aren't paying low, the problem is the crazy rent market.
Banks own 80% of not used living places in Spain. Tell me who is the burglar. Real okupas only squat in this places, I know a lot, and surprise! Banks will get you out faster than anyone else but keep their property unused and rotting. Because they don't care about houses, they only care about land.
Spanish constitution states that housing is a human right. That's the difference. If someone enters to your home, people will bust them, if someone enters to your speculative bargain or summer whim, good luck, people want to live.
That's why people sing contracts of X years, and asks for employment contracts and a minimum quantity of money in the bank. In this situations you can still get it wrong, but that's investing, it's always risky.
A normal flat will cost you 1500 euros, which is the average monthly net salary there.
Just focus on the problem. Let imagination flow, but just focus on the problem, on the obstacle. Don't get lost on solutions, just inundate your mind with the problem, on the bad aspects, don't try to make you feel good with wishful solutions.
Then let it rest. Or keep ruminating. It's amazing how fast, and how frequent, you get some kind of epiphany or eureka moment.
Then do numbers or study your answers with a rational mindset.
Values are also and awesome and usually unknown compass. "Get out of your mind and into your life" from Steven Hayes has a great definition of what values are. It's a great book, I know about it from hackernews.
This book also tells a interesting idea. Some times you don't have to decide, you have to make a choice. A choice is arbitrary, there a lot of crossroads in life which don't have a objective solution.
Imagine that every active user on HN wrote 100 comments everyday and only submitted the 5 best.
create != share
The best way to study is to write the main ideas in your own words without peeking at the material. To grasp the material you have to spend a lot of time solving problems, which is you producing a logical sequence of justified steps related to what you consumed (theory).
Feynman method is also a creative process where you produce a simplified explanation of what you want to learn relating it with common knowledge.
We need space to understand things. Al this remembers me of the concept of FOCUS-DIFFUSE found in the book "A Mind for Numbers".
You don't need to be productive in order to create. I spend at least a joyful hour a day improvising on the piano. I produce nothing in the sense of being "productive". I don't record nor play for others, but nonetheless, I create.
I still use it when I want to impress someone.
I've been using this a lot. Check this out:
$ fortune | figlet | cowsay -n -f tux
or
$ fortune | cowsay -n -f dragon
even this!
$ fortune | cowsay -n -f dragon | cowsay -n | cowsay -n -tux
It's great to put your notes in latex. But that's just final polishing. It's just a medium.
I am not a genius, in fact I am pretty dumb, but I studied with geniuses. The more geniuses they where, the less things they wrote in class.
One of them, the extreme case, completed the 5 years Math and Physics combined undergrad IN ONLY 3 YEARS.
He just wrote 4 or 6 sentences in a white sheet for class, except when doing calculations, but he didn't do that much in class. Some sentences were facts others were questions. He seemed uninterested but I think he was doing heavy lifting in his head relating what he saw with what he knew. When you asked something to him he used to say "Yes this is not new, it's just a variation, combination or example of this".
If I were to do college again I would spend a lot of time reading the texts (more than one for comparing important topics), then go to class to listen and solve doubts and spend time solving problems (interleaving topics) and making active recall with spaced repetition.
Only after the exam I will put effort to try to sum up what I learned In a well rounded Latex small book. For sharing and for revising it later on, in case of need.
Books are really changing my life, and the best suggestions come from this website! Great books are amazing, it's sad now people focuses on pics and funny videos. I hope my friends read more.
Thank!
It didn't worked for my learning. As years pas by I value more paper, pen and books. Physical books. I am not anti tech, I was raised with always evolving digital technology. I read 300 eBooks I had NO WAY to pay for.
Latex looks awesome, and you feel proud when you put your notes in this format. But you feel equally proud when you are able to make a page equally beautiful with your hand. I enjoy solving things manually.
The best teacher I had in uni gave us handwritten skeleton notes which you had to complete while following the class. Completions used to be examples or demos, or long development steps to reach a solution.
This same course I read in a book about learning that this kind of material is the best for cognition. I felt grateful for that man. Despite being great at his field, and be super busy and travel a lot he really was into teaching undergrads and trying to use the right learning tools.
The course was heavy, really hard, but it was very rewarding.
I am not trying to downsize this article, It inspired me to push my skills. Just giving my experience.
I just read Stolen Focus 2022, a book that talks about the downside of social media. But I got a little bit disenchanted with the second half.
Is Cognitive Surplus a good book? What else comes in your mind?
Thank you.