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zionic··on The high-stakes race to engineer new psychedelic drugs
I can’t really give you a fair shake without meeting you, but I can say that I appreciate your reply.

As a real psych user, you should accept that your post clearly has the subtext:

“I have everything most people want, so you’re wrong”

I, too, have everything most people “want”. Maybe we’re equally well off, maybe we’re not. I’ve still never met anyone on-level who indulges in this habit that kept it, and you should know that at our level it’s about keeping it not having it, at least for very long.

zionic··on The high-stakes race to engineer new psychedelic drugs
>long-term positive changes.

Proponents frequently mention things like this, yet _no one_ who publicly admits to psych use is someone I want to be.

All the people I've ever met, and friends who didn't but started down that road, aren't "all there" anymore. They'll preach day and night about the "benefits", but from the outside looking in it's obviously a coping mechanism.

zionic··on Google Timer is gone
Just wait until they abandon flutter
zionic··on Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects
Wolves don’t whistle though, at least cat’s actually call.

I get what you’re trying to do, but come on.

zionic··on FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes
Interesting IRL case of "not your keys, not your coins"
zionic··on Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)
I see this heavily in pretty much all big tech.

“Yeah, our policies are inconsistent. What are you gonna do about it loser?”

zionic··on VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC
>Maybe this would have gone over better with the community

What community is that, exactly?

Because at least here in 2D land most seem to be accepting censorship and “moderation”

zionic··on Puzzle of prized white truffle finally yields to science
>Black truffles are already commodified in a sense that the main aroma compound has been isolated, is very cheap to synthesize [1] and it's used extensively in "truffle-flavoured" products.

Just made some truffle-oil infused smoked mac-n-cheese.

Sometimes, capitalism is _delicious_.

zionic··on Road dust and its effect on human health: a literature review (2018)
Can I get a QRD?
zionic··on Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found
I had an account on Reddit /r/news get banned because I said we should suspend all international travel to China at the start of COVID.

This was when democrats were making apology tours telling everyone not to be afraid to go to Chinatown.

There were several months at the start of 2020 where the “progressive” authority would systematically attack you as racist for being worried about COVID.

zionic··on A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
Maybe 10 years ago this was true, but Reddit today is heavily censored at the admin level.
zionic··on The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence
I worry about long-term users skipping a day and going deep down a blackhole. Some correlate mass shootings and heavy antidepressant use (then rapid cessation).
zionic··on Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game
End of an era. Met and worked with him a few times. He was certainly an interesting character.
zionic··on Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme
I mean I don’t intend on ever being a fugitive lol, but do they even check ID digitally when crossing the southern border on foot?
zionic··on Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme
Wow, not that I would ever do anything like this… but if I was accused of such a thing the last thing I would do is book a flight for tomorrow.
zionic··on Zendesk to be acquired
Maybe their new owners won’t break their iOS SDK at a rate of 3-4x a year.

And of course they have their GitHub issues closed, because they’re a support company.

Emailing them gets an automated reply that you can only email them via your account holder’s email. Then when you do that you’re a dev playing telephone with another dev via a support agent.

zionic··on DALL·E now available in beta
Honestly that part pisses me off. Who cares if their AI "makes porn" or something "offensive".
zionic··on Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent
I see stuff like this all the time, yet people are quick to call obvious extrapolation a “slippery slope fallacy”
zionic··on A $3B Silk Road seizure will erase Ross Ulbricht’s debt
To me this seems like a fairly clear-cut constitutional violation.

You are being deprived of life/liberty at sentencing, if the judge can use information/"accusations" that the government failed to prove then you are being punished without conviction.

zionic··on A $3B Silk Road seizure will erase Ross Ulbricht’s debt
Wait, how can “evidence” you weren’t convicted with be used for sentencing of a crime you were convicted for?

So the gov couldn’t prove its case but it still gets to use that data for sentencing?

zionic··on Elderly Florida couple killed after their Tesla crashes into semi
As a Trekkie you should be asking for sample size.

Odd that you’re not, and instead focusing on absolute numbers with millions of vehicles on the road

zionic··on Texas Freedom Caucus Warns of Illegality for Companies Funding Employee Abortion
This conversation can’t happen on HN. The only output of this input is a ban and/or rate limit.

> Then we can talk.

Lol no we can’t, we can’t even establish the basics here.

zionic··on Texas Freedom Caucus Warns of Illegality for Companies Funding Employee Abortion
There is no productive conversation to be had on HN about this. I literally can’t answer your question without a ban.

Consider other platforms if you want to really have discussions.

zionic··on Running an Open Source Home Area Network
I have an old 4790k running OPNSense. Old gaming rigs make amazing 40gig routers.
zionic··on Texas Freedom Caucus Warns of Illegality for Companies Funding Employee Abortion
>why give the fetus special rights

Because of the unique circumstances /temporary biological dependence.

Murder is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (dependence). The right of the fetus to life outweighs the right of the mother to not be inconvenienced.

I also support things like mandatory maternal leave, better access to healthcare, etc. I just don’t support the termination of otherwise-viable pregnancies for convenience, which is the VAST majority of cases.

zionic··on Texas Freedom Caucus Warns of Illegality for Companies Funding Employee Abortion
I’m not religious and I support the rights of the unborn. It’s more complicated than religion vs atheism.
zionic··on The golden age of the aging actor
How about you travel China. Your fabricated link doesn’t counter my real life experience.
zionic··on Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
HN is so crypto-phobic it’s almost impossible to have a comment section without bad-faith arguments like this.

It’s a censorship-resistant technology, of course that applies to both good and bad guys. You know that, yet here you are making this absurd argument and the top-voted post.

sigh

zionic··on Did the early medieval era ever take place?
>people already know

Do they, though? Most people don’t know shit outside their preferred news channel.

Zoomers are faithfully recreating the boomer flaw via moderation so they have a nicely curated injection of sludge

zionic··on The golden age of the aging actor
>here’s my western source claiming Chinese totally don’t discriminate

I’ve traveled extensively in China. From my own personal experience they are extremely racist. The difference is night and day, you cross the “border” at the airport and the ads all become incredibly pale.

Hong Kong and tier-1 China are basically everything you’d imagine in a white supremacists wet dream, but Asian.

They don’t possess any concept of white guilt, they have no cultural shame and are not susceptible to identity politics. They are “friendly supremacist”. They will smile in your face producing xxx,xxx,xxx widget per year while hating your guts.

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