AgentOrangesicle

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

While I appreciate the comparison, don’t downtalk voting. Local laws are made and broken by small margins.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

It turns out it’s beef, not donuts.

While I’m a nihilist at heart, I can’t righteously shift the blame on to the average, dying-from-poverty < 38 year old. For decades, we’ve known that corporate interests are what drives the largest amount of climate change (and that it’s the engine that will likely kill all of us before a changing climate does). Not since the 90’s (arguably earlier) has it been an individual and his dollar.

Grow up and take a little responsibility in your communication.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Oh, we can totally blame consumerism. We just can’t do so entirely and relieve ourselves of the burden of the future because we found a partial root cause.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

I’m sorry you don’t understand the conventions of the English language if that’s what you mean to imply.

I’m a furry. I bathe in trans content.

“Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.”

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

He’d best have a good security detail. If anything goes awry, a bunch of Leftists are going to be peacefully asking him pointed questions that might make him uncomfortable.

If you’re assuaged to believe that winning means everything, I can’t speak for you. It assumes that you start and stay on the same side of any moral argument and you have to fight for it to the end regardless of if new evidence nullifies your opinion.

That’s not how humans understand each-other. Humans garner nuance and discern things in new and meaningful ways over time and social interaction. We understand others - people that we can identify with in profound ways even if they don’t necessarily share our point of view.

I would give him a moment of our time - maybe 30 seconds if he doesn’t state one of the over-used vitriolic statements on the Bingo cards that I will be handing out now.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Agreed, he is, but not from internet rhetoric.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Atheist and skeptic, so I can’t jump to conclusions, but I watched a sphere of light move alongside me in my car while I was driving next to the Willamette river in West Salem, Oregon. It moved and stopped with more precision than I’ve ever seen from a drone and stayed about 50-some feet in the air above the river. I moved my head around consistently to ensure it wasn’t a reflection on my windshield. My friend had told me about his “alien experience” that sounded shockingly the same, also in West Salem, but a good year before this. He claims to have seen multiple and was just standing outside for a cigarette.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Probably an attempt at a viral marketing campaign. Everything seems to turn out disappointing these days.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

It was a good sustained 15 to 20 seconds, and the lumen it projected didn’t really fluctuate. It was more in the yellow than white spectrum as well. Makes sense for my initial description, but it doesn’t make sense for the Willamette Valley, the color, and pattern of movement. Not that I have a better explanation, but I’ve spent my whole professional life as a food QA auditor and lab tech, so I’m used to just reporting things I’ve seen and not reading into them.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

I personally think it was part of the “Bone a Drone” movement that was used to collect samples of human DNA in order to synthesize fake human beings that would potentially make it into statures of power in order to create a new world order.

I don’t really, but that’s a much more compelling story than, “late stage Capitalism sucks for almost everyone involved”.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

*Empathy, homie.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

In some respects, there’s no addressing this problem.

If you’re impoverished enough to be incapable of taking time off of work, that’s because of legislation and leadership that have dumped poor people in the dirt for the last half century in favor of corporate interests. The burnout from that - incessant forced labor - cannot be recovered from without reasonable wealth distribution and employment regulations.

Counseling definitely helps. You may be suffering from something that we can’t fix unless we can fix it as a society. I hope we’re moving in that direction, because I’m right there with you. Drowning.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Sounds like you need to know more furries, normal human. <3

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

I live in Oregon! Someone tell me how to do the Bethesda potion hack so I can raise all my stats to reality-breaking extremes.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Everything has always been brain.

That’s literally the principle of several religions.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Everything I eat becomes a sausage until it’s not again.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

I don’t understand why all of my previous girlfriends were in the lower left category.

Still alive, though, if you were concerned.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

I mean, this is going to sound super-oversimplified but hopefully correct: we know that Tryptamines like LSD and psilocybin serve their most novel functions on 5-HT2A serotonin binding sites and there are a lot in the thalamus, which is largely responsible for routing information to other parts of the brain. That would explain a lot of people’s accounts of synesthesia.

The circumstances that are necessary to promote neuroplasticity weren’t clear when I was in skool, but the fastest way to get a credible answer on the internet is to be wrong about something, so I’m going to claim it was 95.6% magic.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Lysergemise deez nuts…

But in good faith and context, what are the differences in action potentials? Is it worth writing about? That’s an actual question, because (apologies) I’m stoned as fuck.

Also, how is it suddenly not a tryptamine?

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Fuck.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

I… I guess because a subclass of psychoactive molecules came into existence after my education, I’m wrong. Just sucks to learn that and make sense of myself thereafter.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

I mean, they never didn’t exist, but… fuck.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

God, that’s a book and a half of neuro-interaction, isn’t it?

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Hot take, but hurtfully inaccurate. It’s worth looking at the research on hallucinogenic Tryptamines. DMT naturally exists in the brain and is used during R.E.M. sleep.

AgentOrangesicle, 6 months ago

Yo, I’m just happy to learn new things! Hell, my post was imploring people to criticize it, so you aren’t wrong in “well actually”-ing me. Keep killing it and keep sharing good chemistry knowledge! Psychoactive substances are continuously more intriguing to me as I learn more.

I met one of the grandsons of Alex Shulgin (creator of MDMA) in a drug diversion class that I taught briefly at the University of Oregon (meant for kids that were caught smoking weed in the dorms). I only hosted the class for a few months until I got complaints that I was too fascinated with the drug interactions and not with the whole “diversion” part of it.

But hey, everyone learned not to mix central nervous system depressants, which was the largest cause of drug-related fatalities at the UO, so I think I did my job effectively. Wish they would have paid me for it.

You’re good people, havokdjfintquuffatcpl.