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Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1hr ago
It’s possible that the THC was the principal culprit. I have witnessed THC inducing acute psychotic episodes on other occasions before. Bit counterintuitive since most people would think of THC as being less “intense” than psilocybin but I suppose the whole thing is under-studied. I’m surprised that the risks of THC haven’t really permeated cultural consciousness.
Rov_Scam
1hr ago
I'm not sure what you're failing to understand. If your great-grandfather immigrated here in 1910, had your grandmother in 1925, and naturalized in 1930, he couldn't have possibly passed his citizenship to your grandmother because he had no citizenship to pass. And since your grandmother isn't a citizen in this scenario, neither is your mother, and neither are you. What's the problem here?
Lol, now I see some of the disconnect. To me and people in my bubble, NFP does not mean, "Having sex now, just without hormonal contraceptives."
Ms. Zito is "taking up a natural family planning method." It takes three months of charting before someone who practices NFP is supposed to have sex. Some rules rely on six months to a year of charting data. Knowing this, many practitioners start charting before they even date. I charted well before I was married.
When I see that someone is learning about fertility-awareness, it isn't necessarily connected to sex. It's simply useful information to have about yourself!
Rov_Scam
1hr ago
Oh, I was born to two citizen parents. Citizenship is mine by blood.
At least you assume so. Unless you can prove that their parents had the power to transfer citizenship, I'm just going to assume you aren't, and that goes all the way back up the chain. You'd better hope that a sufficient number of immigrants in that chain were either here before 1789 or naturalized before they had your ancestors, or else they couldn't have transmitted citizenship to their children and I'd prefer you'd be deported to South Sudan or some other country that will take anyone. At that point you can get in the back of the line behind all the other South Sudanese who want to live in the US (Good luck!).
Hadad
1hr ago
I can say with absolute confidence not a single person in my life or my social circles has ever had an episode of psychotic violence. If you just snap and go postal, you're broken somehow, and must be banished. You are not safe, you are not normal.
Do you count the people who have committed that "pre crime" or not?
If you're showing signs that you're psychotic, you should be supervised for awhile, have your risk confirmed, and if it was a false positive, you can go.
Framing citizenship as a "reward" is completely nonsensical.
Indeed, if citizenship is a reward why aren't we going full evolutionary humanism instead of focusing on crude bloodline?
There are like poor eighth generation Appalachians who lust for Marxism that are social dead weight compared to the most skilled and industrious red white and blue immigrants eager to come in and deepen our capital and gleefully celebrate Christmas.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
1hr ago
I'm sorry to hear that, and I'm glad to hear he got better.
However, the dose makes the poison. I presume he was using very large doses on a frequent basis, in conjunction with "massive quantities of THC". I can't speak authoritatively about the risks of psychosis from the former, at least not without reviewing the literature first, but the latter? If you have some kind of genetic predisposition, such as to schizophrenia, that will fuck you up. And the more drugs you throw into the mix..
In the case of psilocybin, for therapeutic doses, especially under supervision, the risks are minimal. I would never call psychedelics "harmless", but at least in this instance, when compared to how awful depression can be, I felt the odds were in my favor. Even something as 'benign' as SSRIs can cause mania shortly after initiation. Holding out for something that truly has no risk associated with it is a fool's errand I'm afraid.
Throwaway05
1hr ago
Okay but the problem is that psychotically violent is a transient state - at present we hold them away from others while psychotically violent and then release them when they aren't.
A good number of people have one episode of violence or violent potential and then stop.
Likewise the mental health system is somewhat optimized for trying to predict violent potential in advance and head it off. Do you count the people who have committed that "pre crime" or not?
self_made_human
C'est la vie
1hr ago
I brought my own entertainment. The study design only offered "relaxing music" and an eye-cover if you were feeling overwhelmed. The music would have worked okay in an elevator or a Thai spa, but was absolutely not to my taste haha.
It's hard to blame them, really. Getting IRB approval for a clinical trial is a PITA on a good day, I strongly suspect that if they wanted to offer entertainment or a walk outside, they'd be raked over the coals, leaving aside the increase in liability and the demands on personnel. I'm certainly interested in trying shrooms in a more congenial environment!
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
1hr ago
I don’t actually mean to care about the homeless here - it just seems like me putting in my Drivers License to watch a Nikki Sims pov video from 15 years ago or something more obscene and German may lead to someone revealing this to people in an attempt at something.
Replace me with ten million other people I guess.
Maybe it’s an unfounded fear but there’s tens of thousands of people right now upset that Leo went to a wedding - I don’t want to not retire in 20 years because I have a foot fetish, and on occasion watch foot fetish video, of which on occasion veer towards obscenity.
aceventura
1hr ago
My impression is that randomly stumbling upon porn was a lot more common in the early years of the internet than it is now. Sure, finding porn if you search for it is super easy, but it doesn't seem to be embedded in ads or links on unrelated websites like it was back then.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2hr ago
But no, you're illegitimate. I'd be willing to fast-track you through the immigration system, but you'd have to go back first
I appreciate the endorsement.
Oh, I was born to two citizen parents. Citizenship is mine by blood.
Well! My blood claim is probably as solid as yours is, maybe even moreso.
You're just a citizen and I am not in your framework by legal technicality.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
2hr ago
You accepted violation of the law to allow illegal immigrants in. On what grounds do you appeal to the law now?
I believe I've also been pretty clear that I do not consider the law a valid entity, but welcome my opponents sacrificing their values to uphold it when they are willing to do so.
Hadad
2hr ago
To be clear: I want those who are psychotically violent to be indefinitely restrained, and killed if they won't cooperate with the restraint. If for reasons of cost others refuse to let them be indefinitely restrained, I would prefer they be killed than released back into polite society to terrorize everyone else.
Gaashk
2hr ago
I read the new ACX Review post about Alpha School (by an anonymous writer, not Scott). It was well written, but a bit of a slog, because it's quite long for an essay, but not as polished as a book. Some thoughts:
- The school in question costs $40,000/year, and the writer sent three children there last year. There were apparently only 10 children in their cohort.
- The big headline for the Alpha School model is that it has only two hours of core academics. I looked at the schedule for my local elementary school, and they have 2.75 hours of core academics. I don't think most people know this. I get the impression the writer, who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars sending three children to this elite private school and wrote a very long essay about it also doesn't know this. Forty-five minutes a day is not nothing, but is not a huge deal or the main thing the school has going for it.
- The other headline is that they progress 2.6 times faster on the state mandated curriculum, so they'll probably finish it all by junior high or so. Sure. Great. It's nice for kids to learn more things sooner.
- They have an incentive structure that appears to cost about $400 per child per year, which they earn mostly for completing their lessons well and on time, and can buy real things that they like, not extremely cheap things that individual teachers can afford to buy themselves, like at many schools. It's not impossible that public schools can adopt this, if they're convinced enough. Medicaid gives mothers points for taking their babies to checkups, which they can use in an online shop to buy books, toys, kitchen items, etc.
- The teachers are well paid ($60,000 - $150,000), not called teachers ("guides"), and have a slightly different schedule structure from public school teachers. In public schools, the art, music, PE, library, and sometimes other teachers are the only specialists, and their schedule is determined entirely by the need to provide a break to the main teachers. There's some office politics around when this "prep" happens, and how the schedules are set up. Apparently at Alpha, all the students work on the digital platform for the first half of the day, and it's not entirely clear what the "guides" are doing during that time -- students ask for individualized help from call center teachers in Brazil -- but given the pay rates, presumably they're doing something. Then they lead clubs and whatnot in the afternoon. That sounds nice, but they're paying them more than the public schools, so I wonder if there's a catch. That's a big part of the question of whether it could scale or not. Could educational assistants do what the Brazilian on call tutors are doing? Could public school teachers do whatever the guides are doing? It's unclear.
- Every public school teacher I've talked to likes the idea of morning academics, afternoon specials. This doesn't work due to the schedules of the specials teachers, and also staggered lunches. Large elementary schools have six lunches a row, and are very inflexible about that. Apparently it works at Alpha both because all the teachers are, to some extent, specials teachers, and they have less than 100 kids, so lunches are not a huge concern.
- I can see why the SSC-sphere is apparently full of well off people with gifted children, but do not personally relate all that strongly. If I were going to send my kids to a school like that, it would be for the better/longer electives and more interesting peer group, more than for the accelerated learning.
Throwaway05
2hr ago
To be clear: you want the state to summarily execute between 5-10 percent of the population because of the presence of severe mental illness?
Hadad
2hr ago
America is a collection of regional blood-tied communities -- at least, it was. I accept that rootless cosmopolitans have spread about and diluted themselves so fully they're not a people of any tribe or place, but blood is still the most important tie. Those people are just deeply unfortunate and damaged.
Owlify
2hr ago
I was talking about raising kids mostly. Although being an equal contributor in a household in marriage is also something teenage girls won't be prepared for. Older mothers are far more sensible and better at raising children than teenagers. This has always been true, even in historical societies, simply because people are more experienced, worldly and have matured more when they are older.
Forty-Bot
2hr ago
The main exception I have to this is if there's meta-progression, like in Roguelites, or like Dead Rising.
IMO most roguelites would be better if everything was unlocked from the start and there was no meta-progression. None of this "Wow, looks like you're having a great run but this next area was tuned for people who've unlocked way more stuff so you're probably going to die anyway. Tough luck, I guess you should have died 20 times before having a good run."
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
2hr ago
Had a friend who got really into shrooms. It basically ruined his life for a while, and he was only able to recover after he fully quit doing drugs. Went into a sustained severe manic state, spent his entire life savings in short order, lost multiple jobs in quick succession due to erratic behavior, revealed to me detailed plans that if acted upon would have lead to severe social and potentially legal/criminal damage. And the entire time he was subjectively convinced that he had achieved enlightenment and his actions were infallible. It permanently put me off of ever trying shrooms and has made me skeptical of all accounts that portray psychedelics as "harmless".
(Full disclosure, this was confounded by the fact that he was also doing massive quantities of THC at the same time. But then, people present THC as harmless too, so you'd think that harmless thing 1 + harmless thing 2 would be fine...)
Hadad
2hr ago
I was born here through no choice of my own. But! I've been here for five decades, speak English fluently, have two houses, was raised in the Christian tradition, have paid millions in taxes, have never been to jail, have a white wife and two white children (three including step child) who are irrefutably citizens via my wife.
It's not your fault your parents fucked you over, and you did the best you could. But no, you're illegitimate. I'd be willing to fast-track you through the immigration system, but you'd have to go back first. Once exceptions start being made, they get made for everyone, otherwise.
Let also let me what you feel you've done to earn being an American citizen, btw.
Oh, I was born to two citizen parents. Citizenship is mine by blood.
There's no problem, just you wrongly assuming I'm not a citizen by blood. I am correcting you. There's no need to try and fearmonger.
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