Even if he wasn’t a pedophile he was still a sex trafficker on a massive scale. He just was doing it to minors

Yeah I forgot that half of lemmy is on spiro lol. Ok more like a quarter, a lot of us are post op.

And good to know. Spiro remains the worst thing I’ve ever tasted and the mint didn’t help.

That’s why I prefer to frame it as three types of trip: good, challenging, and bad. Good trips are fun and maybe productive, challenging are productive and unpleasant, and bad are unpleasant and unproductive.

It can be really easy to mistake what should be challenging for bad and that’s where things like therapy techniques (cbt and dbt can really help here) and reintegration can be vital. But some people describe wholly unpleasant trips that don’t increase self awareness or present opportunities for growth or healing, as well as some people going in to psychedelics when they don’t have the tools or the spoons or the right mood that day.

For that last bit, every trip should begin with an honest reflection of your mental state and if you need to bail for the day, because once you get on the ride you can’t leave until it’s over.

The label “bad trip” has a loaded connotation. People think of a bad trip as something to flee from or as the negative outcome of a psychedelic. I’ve had multiple challenging trips (all lsd), and yet there was a time in my life I went back every 6 months or so.

When you frame them not as a risk or as a thing to flee from, but as a chance for uncomfortable growth it doesn’t make it less uncomfortable, but it can make it significantly more productive even than the good trips. You don’t control where it takes you, but you do control how you interpret it and how you respond.

So when the drug sits you down and shows you the bullshit you’ve been on you have a choice: do you hide from it, internalize it, or otherwise interpret it as disparaging you, or do you take it like an honest conversation from a trusted friend or mentor and accept that you need to change. It’s similar for trauma, psychedelics aren’t used in treatment of trauma because it’s a nice easy fun time, no it’s a guided challenging trip through your traumatic experiences to help you confront them in a productive manner.

I personally don’t like saying there’s no such thing as a bad trip, I think it’s entirely possible that psychedelics can lead you into uncomfortable places where you either have nothing to learn or aren’t yet able to deal with it. But I do think the vast majority of “bad trips” could benefit from being reframed as challenging so that people’s response to them is to attempt to grow from them rather than to pop a xanax. Though of course the pre trip check in is also invaluable, double check that you’re in the right mood before taking the drug and remember that it’s always better to bail than go in when you aren’t prepared.

Idk the first oath would probably really help when a trip starts going off. May not make it good, but could turn a bad trip into a challenging trip

So what I’m hearing is I could totally sell spironolactone as mama back in the day

I need that outfit

Yeah most of us are pretty sure whatever semblance of it he ever had is long gone

Good, she’s a solid progressive by all accounts and isn’t scandal ridden like her opponent

And she’s won now

I follow asl style for the right hand:

1- pointer; 2- pointer and middle; 3- pointer, middle, and thumb; 4- everything but thumb; all five up; 6- thumb touching pinky; 7- thumb touching ring; 8- thumb touching middle; 9- thumb touching pointer; 10- fist

Then I use the left hand for 10s. So i can get up to 100

My thoughts went to bell hooks. This woman is encouraging the emotional castration of her son and celebrating the damaged nature of men like that because they have the capacity to dominate.

In good men this damage may heal with intent and nurturing, but can manifest in self destructive behaviors like substance abuse, isolation, and suicidality. In men who are less good it can manifest as predation on others, violent dominance, and other antisocial behaviors.

When it comes to healthcare I want to feel like a European not an entrepreneur. I hate negotiating and I’m bad at it. But even if not I don’t have leverage. And it’s not like they’ll let you negotiate, they’ll say “80% of your paycheck, take it or leave it”

It’s ok because your preexisting conditions not being covered will mean you don’t really have much incentive to actually buy it

Oh that’s really fucking dumb. Like so dumb it feels like it was suggested by an accelerationist whose end goal is m4a.

In both cases it works because that’s the only requirement. It doesn’t need to be elegant or make sense or even last very long

Idk i could go for another 2015

Oh in traffic all that new England kindness goes away rapidly. If you impede them without needing help well they won’t ram you or wave a gun, so it’s better than Midwestern drivers, but they will honk their hearts out and cut you off

I think it’s far more north south than east west. The PNW is definitely kind, though they’re neither nice nor mean, more just uncomfortable you’re talking to them. Meanwhile the southeast gives California a run for their money in polite cruelty.

People are aware that without a culture built around it places like Alaska with 22+ hours of light/dark a day can make people a little crazy, but I think the inverse also can cause problems without a culture built around it. Winter is good for you even if it sucks

Weird, thumb out is 3 in ASL (a french sign derived language), but thumb in that position reads as a really weird 2 to me

Are those divorce bells I’m hearing?