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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I dont know much about dosage numbers etc, care to mention a bit more how much is normal and how much he is off the baseline?
(I just recall some old friends who once tried shrooms and didnt seem to notice much so they went to a disco and for one of them it hit at the middle of the dancefloor so he stood there like a statue (the guy was also tall and a metalhead, so quite a sight). And before it became illegal (some tourist got himself killed by using shrooms and drinking and they blamed the shrooms) to give others spores or something I managed to get some from someone as a promo/anarchist thing. Never did anything with them).
(Fine if you dont want to, or if talking about it exposes you/others to risk etc, dont. Just curious).
"normal" is a bit of a fucked term when dealing with this stuff, in part because we really don’t have good human-wide data (hi can you see what ghoulfuck is playing off of?). why don't we have that? oh y'know that entire little multidecade war on drugs things perpetetrated by the selfsame government that is......[...breathe]
that said, psychonautwiki is a more informative starting point than I could concisely be. that also said, part of the fucky bit is that you get different strains of shrooms, with different effective concentrations of psychoactive compounds (eg psilocybin cubensis vs psilocybin cyanescens)
beyond that, I don't really think that awful is a place for psychedelic discussion (and I wouldn't try to make it one). there are often conversations to be had, but here ain't the where
Thanks! And of course there is a wiki for it.
E: unrelated to the talks about shrooms. Didn't Grimes talk to Aella about how they felt cheated by people around them who were a lot more evil than they pretended to be, wonder why this doesn't seem to have caused a change of heart/scenery.
re your edit: it hasn’t changed because those words are just a front, a way to try save face as they get caught out with their bullshit. both of them have a choice, and have had a choice this whole time. they keep choosing to be where they are, what they say
Indeed.
That's about twice a 'normal dose' and in the realm of what Terrence McKenna would call a 'heroic dose'.
Mushrooms vary a lot in real potency but at that level of dosage ego death is almost guaranteed, and it's likely that the user will spend at least 30 minutes to an hour unable to articulate language.
This presumes Johnson was able to articulate language in the first place, which given that his brain has melted at an incredible pace since 2020 may be a bit of a stretch.
this post is more accurate than most
This doubly disappoints me because in a professional capacity I strive for being incredibly intentional and accurate while recreationally I aspire to shitposting, and "more accurate than most" satisfies neither. I really need to get my blood boy to write better material.
thematic!
I love the phrase ego death because everyone I've heard describe the experience sounds like the most egotistical mf in the universe with how impressed they are by their own self-enlightenment.