You’re paying them for their knowledge and time and they can provide to you an independent view point as well as teach you skills that you can use to manage problems in your life. Sure, you could go online and try to figure that all out for yourself, but you could do the same with fixing a car or plumbing or some other skill you don’t currently have. I also believe you have to find the right therapist for you and you should definitely “shop around” until you find a good fit.

Who said I said to do nothing? I’m just saying don’t go out and start shooting people as at this point it will only make things worse.

I think this is exactly what Trump and his administration want, they want us to escalate to violence so they can step theirs up even more or even declare martial law and then we’re really screwed.

It’s almost as if we’re rediscovering outsourcing all over again. Every time a company I have worked for outsourced code we 100% of the time had to either ditch to project all together or rewrite the code ourselves, thus negating all the money “saved” by outsourcing. I see the exact same thing happening with AI now.

Pretty easy problem to solve, just issue company cards and stop making people use their own cards for work purposes and then reimbursing them.

I’m sure this has already come up in the research you’ve already done, but I’d really like to make sure the concept of set and setting is emphasized. If you don’t already know, set means your mental state. Try to make sure you are in a good mental state. You don’t have to be perfect or anything, but if you’re having a bad day or just not feeling all there then it’s best to wait for a day that you’re feeling better. By setting, I mean the physical location that you will be taking the substance, if you don’t feel safe by either the location or the people then don’t do it.

If you ignore these then you’re greatly increasing the chances that you’ll have a difficult trip, considering some people experience trips that to them feel like years or even a lifetime, it’s best to do all you can to reduce the amount of things that could cause you to not have a positive experience.

Also, I would work on learning to let go. I found it to be a far more complex and layered concept and skill than it had originally appeared to be and something that I’m still working on, myself.

Edit: Don’t forget, always test your drugs.

I used Chris Titus’ winutil. There’s a lot to it, but it’s pretty easy to find videos that explain what all of the options are

I believe this is also illegal in some US States. I know of at least a couple that don’t allow biometric data to be stored without concent; I think Facebook even lost a case in one state and had to pay a pretty large sum of money.

Seconding The Shining Force games, the first one is what turned me on to strategic RPGs and I still enjoy playing.

As far as I’ve been able to tell it happens when your instance is having stability issues. I tend to see that message at the same time posts will fail to load.

If you don’t already know, you should look at his life story, the man has lived through a lot in his life time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei

I’m pretty sure there are a lot of places that grow indoors so this tactic wouldn’t really do anything to them. I’d wager there are lots of seeds and clones of thc producing cannabis which would be protected from this. I’m also not sure that you could ensure a whole crop was cross pollenated with hemp, so you could probably “damage” a portion of a crop, but not the whole thing.

Most of the ones I’ve been a part of I’ve had to provide information that proves that I was negatively affected, but there have been a couple that I didn’t have to do that. Generally I think the ones where you have to provide proof lean towards being higher in the amount of money you get, but that’s only my personal experience.

I’ve been part of a class action suite that netted me several hundred dollars, but it was a rarity, most others I’ve participated in ended up with me receiving between $1-20.

Of course, I’m glad what I said made any bit of sense at all. It’s fun to talk about even if it is difficult and even more so trying to write it out, but it was a good mental exercise for me.

Classic psychedelics I’ve tried would be LSD, mushrooms, and nn-dmt. I’ve not had a full blast off with nn-dmt, but I did flirt with it a bit where I saw transparent ribbons of color flowing out from my perspective with my eyes open. I’ve also done MDMA, ketamine, and 2cb. All of those have at some level produced closed eye visuals. The strongest were with LSD and the longest lasting when I took a half hit of LSD and then after hitting the peak of that I took .1g of mdma (candy flipping).

I don’t know that I would suggest candy flipping or any combining of substances any more, because even if the two substances are considered physically safe it’s more the potential mental risk that exists due to most combinations having a potentiating effect which makes the experience much more intense. I’ve had good experiences as well as difficult ones and at this point I’ve mostly laid off of the classical psychedelics, but will occasionally take a low dose of mushrooms once or twice a year.

First, like many things, aphantasia is a spectrum where some have no mental picture at all while others have fuzzy or dim mental pictures. I feel that I’m more towards the end where there is very little mental picture. When I am able to mentally picture something it fades very quickly and usually isn’t very detailed or at least I can’t tell how detailed it is due to how fast an image fades. I also usually can’t try to recall the image again, I just kinda get nothing. Most of the time when I close my eyes and try to visualize something it’s just a dark/black velvety nothingness.

Trust me, it’s weird to me too. I think I tend to think in concepts and logic chains or it’s more like I’m telling a story in my mind or basically a fairly constant internal monologue, although it does quiet down at times.

I’ve always had a hard time creating art, because I can’t picture in my mind what I want to create or at least I can’t hold a glimpse of an image for more than a fraction of a second if at all, so that makes it hard to try to sit down and draw anything from my mind. However, I have found that I’m able to create art when it’s more abstract or I take a shape and just play with it, I usually like to say I have an exploratory or experimental approach to creating art where I’ve learned how to use the tools (e.g. photoshop) and will try to think of creative ways to use the tools to manipulate something like a concentric set of squares or circles. I really enjoy making op art.

Weirdly, I have very good spatial awareness and memory of where things are located, but it’s not based off of imagery, it seems to be based off of directional relationships and where something is in relation to my body’s orientation in space. It’s all very difficult to put into words as language can be quite limiting.

How do I remember a route? It takes me a while really, but I think again it’s all sort of base off of proximity/directional and spatial relationships. I would liken it to walking around in your house when it’s really dark and you can’t see anything in front of you, but you know to get to the bathroom you can go forward for a few steps then turn to your left, take two steps, and then take a right. When it comes to cardinal directions, I usually learn where some big landmarks are around town and I usually have what feels like an intuition as to where I am in relation to a landmark and from there I can figure out what direction North is. I don’t really know if any of that is a good explanation or not.

Tabletop RPGs, reading, and audio books are definitely difficult for me. I didn’t know for the longest time that when people read books it can be like a movie is playing in their mind. I don’t get any of that and I think that’s why I’ve always struggled with books keeping my attention as I’m purely just reading the words and hearing them as my internal monologue says them to me in my mind. I did better with tabletop RPGs when there was a map with a grid on it and when we used mini figs.

I would also struggle to be able to describe what my best friends look like apart from basic descriptions such as hair color, height, general body size/shape, but I couldn’t describe specifics of their face. I don’t have face blindness though, I know someone that has that and that is a completely different experience than what I have. If all you did was ask me to describe a friend, I’d probably talk more about their personality, interests, and things we have in common before I’d give physical attributes.

Weirdly enough, when I do dream it’s incredibly vivid and sometimes even cinematic feeling. I do lose memories of my dreams quite quickly and it usually feels like most nights I don’t dream, but I can’t really tell if it’s just because the memory of the dream fades so quickly or if I actually didn’t dream. I have experienced lucid dreaming before, I tend to lose it pretty easily and still have trouble conjuring things that aren’t already in the current “scene” of the dream.

What’s easiest for me to picture in my mind is strong memories, but even then it’s pretty brief.

You didn’t ask, but psychedelics have been very interesting to me and they have caused closed eye hallucinations for me, but it was almost always abstract geometric shapes and colors. The trips that I’ve had are basically the only times I’ve ever had imagery in my mind when I closed my eyes and it stayed visible for long periods of time.

Thanks for asking about this as it’s always an interesting exercise in trying to better explain my internal experience and I feel like I get a little better at explaining it every time, but it’s still pretty difficult.

Aphantasia would be the name. I mostly never have images that I can see in my mind, sometimes I get quick flashes, but that’s about it really. I didn’t realize for the longest time that not everyone is like me and that only about 1-4% of people have aphantasia.

This is why I do my best to at least acknowledge the person even if I don’t have any cash on hand to give them. I do usually try to keep a couple small bills in my wallet, but I’m not always good at remembering to add more when I run out.

I just found out about Tabletop Game Shop Simulator and I found it to be a nice alternative to TCG Card Shop Simulator. It only has a demo currently, but it’s been pretty fun to dip my toes into the shop simulator genre of games.

I enjoy k, but I never go for k-holing, I like small amounts every so often. I suppose I’d liken it to preferring to get a buzz from alcohol vs getting really drunk. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever k-holed before and I don’t really have any pull towards wanting to do it either.