WeirdGoesPro

@ WeirdGoesPro @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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3 yr. ago

Fresh off the Reddit boat?

2w ago

What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV?

It’s not really something you succeed at, it’s something you practice. I think a lot of people shy away from it because they feel like they fail if an intrusive thought works its way in, but that is literally all part of it. Even the masters out there are having a random thought or fall asleep from time to time.

The key, in my opinion, is acceptance that there is no real victory or loss in meditation, just a continual practice that is likely to improve at times and get harder at others.

Focus on just your breath. If another thought comes in, allow it, and then return to your breath. If you can get little windows of singular focus, then you suddenly find yourself separated from the stories we tell ourselves to build our mental realities. Of course, even realizing that you’ve succeeded in that means that you failed step one: focus on just your breath.

2w ago

What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV?

Meditate, man.

2w ago

How would you expose Jellyfin securely without a vpn?

That’s basically the VPN solution but with a little more flexibility.

If you want to actually expose the service, you can use Tailscale to connect it to a VPS and then expose that port to the web with Nginx, but if you do that, be prepared on the security front because…you know…open internet be full of hazards.

2w ago

What our veterans gave their lives for

Name a veteran of a non-revolutionary war who wasn’t in some way serving the interests of the wealthy and powerful.

2w ago

Seat warmers

Some do. Some even let you control the levels of heat independently.

2w ago

I will kill you

As your friendly neighborhood cigarette representative, I would also like to ELY5 and say: have you seen our cool animated camel and did you know that menthol tastes like candy? Also, your older brother has a pack in his drawer that you definitely shouldn’t steal from. Good luck, kid! /s

3w ago

Is there anything still on comparable to Steven Colbert?

I dream of the day he joins Team Coco.

3w ago

Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit?

Well…duh! Reddit had a massive head start plus they’ve sold their soul to the money guys to ensure that they remain a staple part of the normie diet.

Furthermore, Reddit is a home for propaganda that gets artificially inflated by bots and state actors, thus leading to insane upvote counts.

Here, we have a refined palate. We don’t have 1000 posts of slop, we have 100 posts of open source trans autism. Once you train your taste buds to be accustomed to nutritious content again, you won’t be able to stomach the slop anymore.

It’s an adjustment, but it’s worth it, and in the end, I feel like this place has been better for my mental health.

Welcome to Lemmy. We greet you with open arms.

3w ago

Even Trollops are Beautiful

Let’s get down to brass tacks: how much to let me use her bong?

3w ago

Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal?

4w ago

People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All Our Decisions | Robotaxis are the beginning

I think she is poorly wording an idea that I’ve been talking about for a minute: the death of the cottage industry.

The avenues for a temporary gig are diminishing. You can’t drive uber or make store deliveries if a robot does it cheaper, you can’t sell weed if it’s legal everywhere, and you can’t even stand outside Home Depot and get picked up as a builder if the powers that be are arresting people and enforcing trespassing laws. We don’t live in the 1930’s anymore—you can’t make ends meet by pickling your backyard vegetables. Unless you’re a hot chick who is willing to sell her nudes on OF, then there aren’t really many options for the unemployed to survive.

The human connection is great and all, but the bigger thing she learned was that those drivers needed that opportunity to drive so they could meet their expenses. It still isn’t enough, but something is still better than nothing.

4w ago

What are some provocative but legit characterizations of a substance you learned and that makes sense?

Put simply, I’ve done a whole lot of drugs and been around a whole lot of drug users. I’ve used just about every method of administration.

My personal experience and opinion is that powder cocaine is a medium level drug. The intoxication isn’t super extreme unless you are really digging in to a bag, and if you pace yourself, it is easily manageable and enjoyable. Crack and injected cocaine come on much stronger and shorten the duration of the high, so it is like compressing a powder high into a bigger “up and down”.

As with many drugs, the addictive potential lies partially in the users inability to tolerate discomfort and partially in the habit forming nature of dopamine stimulation.

The more you use in a session, the more awake you are, and the less you are receiving the euphoria. This leads some people to chase the high for days, slowly going a little nuts from sleep depravation and exhaustion. I believe you would see a similar effect in anybody who stayed up for an equal length of time, it can just look more erratic on cocaine because there is extra energy fueling the exhausted person due to the sped up metabolism.

That said, the discomfort of a comedown, especially from only a gram or two of powder, is not actually that extreme, especially when compared to other drugs like heroin or methamphetamine. It’s just a little anxious awake-ness that wears off in an hour or two and is totally gone after you sleep. You might wake up a little foggy, but probably better off than a night of drinking would leave you.

In my years of using hard drugs, the only people I saw display bipolar behavior on cocaine were people who were either already mentally ill to begin with or people who were doing large amounts of crack or intravenous cocaine.

This is all just my experience and my opinion though—nobody should read this as scientific proof of anything. That said, I think first hand accounts can also paint a clearer picture of behavior and risk sometimes too, so take it for what it’s worth.

4w ago

What are some provocative but legit characterizations of a substance you learned and that makes sense?

Out of curiosity, have you done it?

4w ago

What are some provocative but legit characterizations of a substance you learned and that makes sense?

I disagree with your assessment of cocaine. It tends to make me awake, calm, and talkative—not really bipolar. The comedown can include a little anxiety, but it isn’t that bad—mostly just still feeling wake when you are out of happy chemicals from the high.

If I were to try to make a similar generalization, I would say:

[Cocaine Wakefulness Unit] is equal and opposite to [Marijuana Sleepiness Unit].

4w ago

Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.

Oh good, more earth to pillage.

4w ago

Have you ever been summoned for Jury Duty in either the US & Canada?

I’ve been summoned once, picked never. Waited around for a few hours just to do nothing and get a small compensation check.

4w ago

What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials?

The /s was to indicate sarcasm. You’re on Lemmy—you’ve definitely watched every episode of Star Trek. /s

I’m with you on the science, but I also leave a little room for the possibility that we don’t know what we don’t know. There is a lot of theory within our scientific cannon about multiple dimensions, folding space time, wormholes, etc, and we barely understand how any of it works. It’s perhaps unlikely, but possible that there is a level of scientific understanding which resolves these issues and makes long distance space travel doable.

4w ago

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