Eh you’re just moving more on the inside than the outside. You’ll come around eventually.

The 90s were really pastelly. The early 2000s were super colorful with the sudden proliferation of LED art. At least in my experience.

The FDA has certified 1200 mg/day for six months straight to be a safe dosage if L-theanine. That’s just the most extreme dose they studied so it could be safe beyond that too.

I mean … if you trust the FDA. I know some don’t. But I doubt Big Theanine has much of a thumb on those scales.

Two ways:

1. meditate to develop awareness of when you’ve entered and when you’ve exceeded your optimal stimulating level. When you do enter, or leave, the state, stop and pay as much attention to how good or bad it feels. Soak up the awareness of the feeling. This conditions your subconscious to feed you the right amount of caffeine, enhancing the subtle signal of anxiety levels and optimal flow, to overpower the more direct “addictive substance = take more!” reflex your brain wants to do.
2. When you’ve accidentally overcaffeinated, take some L-theanine to utterly destroy the anxiety/avoidance feeling of the overcaffeination.

There you fuckin go, that’s perfect!

Except it could be forgotten after just being heard once.

It’s a beautiful word. Gorgeously orange. With just a hint of collapsing chocolate cake.

Trango 👈👈

Oh yes, this is a competition, and someone is going to win it.

There are lots of resources out there. Far more than here. Most of “the world” is out there. This is happening whether we like it or not.

And all the “dick waggling” is steps on the path to it happening. Funny flesh images, homoerotic shaming, whatever this dick talk is about whenever space comes up, none of it changes the serious nature of what’s going on in space.

The world’s full of ladies’ men. Not too many guys who can do that thing with words.

Deleriant visions are considered equivalent to time travel under the SPARS Act of 2027. Under the Ex Post Facto Act of 2035 that gives me the authority to arrest you right now.

So if you blame the older men, would you raise the minimum recruiting age? If so, to what?

Do people get to choose whether they face “bombs and shit” in the military? Like can a person say “I don’t want a position where I can get PTSD”?

Having said that, and here’s the irony, not everyone in the military is “gonna face bombs and killing”. There are huge swaths whose job it is to do anything under the sun that doesn’t involve firing any form of weaponry. Chances are you’d have had to been paying attention at some point in school to know this, or something.

Or, I’d have to be aware people can’t just check “No PTSD-inducing positions please”. Or if they can, they are signing up just as equally at the moment they either check or don’t check the box. My point stands. You get PTSD from military service, you signed up for it unless you were drafted.

Now whether an 18 year old is wise enough to be capable of making that decision is one and the same as their being capable of making the decision to join up. If you think an 18 year old is not old enough to sacrifice his mental health for his country, then why not argue to raise the recruiting age?

A low-rung manager at wal-mart

I’ve never held a managerial position. I don’t see myself as entitled to any particular level in the managerial command structure. I don’t think my rights are being violated without any kind of guaranteed path up to there.

I dunno man. I’ve got nothing but compassion and gratitude for vets. But you don’t get to claim the shit is something that just happens to people. Adults join up, take an oath, stone cold sober.

Again, if you think those people aren’t old enough, I’d probably agree with you. I’d be all for raising the age to 30, if you wanted to push for that.

But for whatever age it is, that’s the age because ir’s the age at which it’s no longer a thing happening to someone.

Like if it was “military or die”, that’s a different thing. But if it’s “military or no upper management jobs for you” it just doesn’t move me.

And that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing we have a volunteer army. It’s good for everybody.

Hitler was big on fire too

Okay in that case I’m even more okay with this. I like the idea of having text files on my computer representing my stuff. Like, plain text I can explore using cd, tree, and less.

I’ve actually wanted to make myself a to-do app that stores the to-do items as nested bullets in markdown so that if I want I can make lists in markdown and access them from my gui and vice-versa.

I just want to point out that no matter how much authority the US government gets, it never gets absolute power, because of our guns.

The thing is psychopaths. They still prey on us to this day.

lol what?

I wish I could do that

Right, so do you know how your sources are differentiating “development” from “neuroplasticity”?

One character saying something in a movie is not the equivalent of anyone being raised this guy. Also the existence of people like that doesn’t make it a reasonable assumption that this is how the guy thinks or behaves.

Well, I meant more like the dangers of nature.

Having your whole city get destroyed is an unnatural thing that comes with advanced civilization and armies. I’m totally fine with eliminating that kind of “danger” from the world.

But the danger of riding a motorcycle, or lighting firecrackers, climbing a tree, fighting a beaver, whatever, those are dangers on the level that we evolved to deal with.

Just like in the analogy with sterility, I’m fine with making environments free of bio weapons and meat industry goop full of mega bacteria and the kinds of biological threats that civilization itself creates. But getting rid of the base load of strange micro critters, that yes do pose some danger of sickness and even death, turns out to be taking it too far because it makes people more likely to have allergies and autoimmune problems.

Explosives are actually predictable. Way more predictable than people or animals, for instance. A person can protect themselves when handling explosives by being careful.

But these are just my theories about what the mechanism might be. At the higher level, by analogy it’s just there’s a system we have, that has evolved to protect us, but it’s evolved to learn from encounters with the thing it’s designed to protect us from. If you give ir no encounters, it goes haywire.

I don’t know what the mechanism might be exactly, but I worry our ability to navigate danger might itself be a system that can go haywire.

I think that it’s an absolutely reasonable assumption that he is into younger women and doesn’t stop after he gets the green light.

Why do you this is an absolutely reasonable assumption?

Into younger women is pretty normal, but raping isn’t normal. Do you mean it’s a reasonable assumption given these accusations?