Terrance McKenna would often remark that human brains are 'addiction machines'. We're built to addict - to routine, to love/people, to pleasure, even to pain. The machinery of the mind is just built that way to ensure survival. Overcoming the mind is only possible through awareness and if you want to perfect that then intense meditation. Or you can brute-force it through communism (my favourite word this week). As much as I appreciate the innovation that comes with food sustainability (e.g. insects) the fact is that food is deeply rooted in culture. And the further we stray from wholesome cooking and meal preparation the further we weaken our communities - think how much time historically would have been dedicated to the procurement, preparation, tradition and consumption of food. Thus insects, mushroom pulp and bark fibre are the perfect communist solutions to food and destruction of culture to ensure equality of misery.
I do read a lot, even if I only read once a week it would still be in the orders of magnitude more often than I would spend on the girls on the avenue.
@heartastack you probably know that scientists are studying brute forcing the mind with psychedelics now using say LSD and a chemical switch to turn off it's effects after a given duration for those suffering mental disorders for whom mainstream treatments are failing.
Absolutely and I think there's a lot to be said about psychedelics and the distinction between 'mind expansion' or 'mind control'. Going back to education and exploitation I think these tools come with the same risks. Shrooms, LSD, DMT etc.. imo those should be saved for music festivals and camping.... Ketamine is much more interesting to me as you have the opportunity to 'die before you die' and hopefully feel a bit more chipper afterwards!
Tremendous droughts are occurring in Europe and Asia and probably in other parts of the world. I wonder if all that evaporated water gathers up "somewhere" (clouds, vapors in the air) and we'll end up with devastating hurricanes late autumn and freezing winter storms this winter. And at the same time the energy crisis will make it very difficult to generate heat and electricity.
The horn of Africa is in bad drought too. This is the Indian ocean dipole at work. Back in 2019 we were in bad drought and they were flooding.
All the rain is hitting us here in the Rockies hehe. My garden has been on steroids this summer. We are supposed to have a good winter this year, maybe 10 feet of snow plus.
Don't worry, mate. You can always burn books for heating. If you are lucky, one day you might be able to burn people = D
Are you hungry? Good, according to the central planners. The folks over at the UN stopped destroying the world for a brief few minutes to publish a piece (snapshot below) justifying their behavior and explaining the “benefits” of the famine they’ve engineered. Not making this up.
^ I heard that before. It's dumber than sub-zero intelligence. Those are not newspapers anymore. The brand isn't worth anything anymore, has no value. These are mere blogs with many readers. And they go uncensored. You know what is even better? WEALTH tax on the super rich. Just tell them: "you will own nothing and we (the humble rest of the world) will be happy!"
^ lol, 14 year old article arguing that some sectors in society benefit at the expense of others that has completely taken out of context.
It is, Starbucks has every right to implement that strategy and customers have very right to walk away. We'll have to see what happens, beautiful capitalism.
My annoyance is that I sometimes move money into my trading account to buy some metal, this same account is my debit card so any further transactions requires me to rebalance.
Not unless I'm suffering extreme, life-threatening caffeine deprivation - and even then I'd go out of my way to avoid. You're correct - likely wouldn't make any difference to 99% of those who frequent there.
