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Anecdotally I’ve heard extremely positive things about assisted ketamine therapy/solo trips and severe depression. And in terms of risks it’s similar to psilocybin, generally safe and not addictive (test your powders for fentanyl). But I kinda get your sentiment and ultimately agree. Mushrooms are better and more accessible as a foray into using drugs to treat stuck brains. Especially if you’re doing it on your own. If anything you just get to spend much longer with your unfiltered thoughts.

Also check out this absolute banger, Kneecap - Rhino Ket.

There is finally a lot of successful research being done into treating mental disorders using psychedelics and drugs in general. Ketamine, psilocybin, LSD, MDMA - they all can be very effective therapeutic tools. But like all tools, they need to be used appropriately and handled properly. Don’t go full psychonaut, read up on your issues and see if there’s an approach that suits your personal needs.

And get fentanyl strips if you ever buy anything powder. They’re cheap, easy to use, normally legal, and can save lives.

Edit: total numbers are for 3.5 years 2020-2023

In 2024 illegal immigrants in the USA were responsible for:

• 29 instances of homicide/manslaughter [country total: 75,082]

• 1,084 instances of assault/battery/domestic violence [country total: 8,893,553]

• 697 instances of burglary/robbery/larceny/theft/fraud [country total: 12,949,644]

• 221 sexual offences [country total: 730,713]

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-noncitizen-statistics

https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

Among peer countries, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy at birth for both women and men

The United States has the highest infant and maternal mortality rates out of any other high-income country

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level, 20% are below 5th-grade level

Today, the Republican Party has a 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court, and when church and state cases have come before them, all six of those Republicans have behaved exactly how you would expect. That means that the Court is now actively tearing down whatever barrier used to exist between church and state

With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks, the U.S. is nearing 900 cases

Household food insecurity affected 17.9 percent of households with children in 2023. In some of these food-insecure households only adults were food insecure, while in other households children also experienced food insecurity

This is extremely reductive, but the gist is - creatine is good for brains. In part because it regulates glutamate. People with ADHD have significantly higher glutamate levels, which cause synaptic spillover - synapses triggering neighboring ones and essentially spamming the brain. Stimulants help with that by improving the metabolism of glutamate. And oral creatine supplementation just increases creatine levels to fight the high glutamate levels. Both result in ADHD brains being quieter.

This is a pretty deep rabbit hole and a heavy read. But here are some interesting papers if you wanna dive in. I’m by no means an expert in any of this. I’m just interested in understanding my own ADHD, and at one point was curious how does creatine actually help, since I feel better taking it c:

Glutamate/Creatine ratios and ADHD

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3222884/

Effect of oral creatine supplementation on brain metabolism

https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/S0925-4927(03)00046-5

Effect of methylphenidate (ritalin) on metabolism of Glx in ADHD

https://sci-hub.se/10.1089/cap.2006.0008

That’s funny, I could write pretty much this exact post myself. And since getting out of my head and following my own advice feels impossible, here it is for you. Look up the address of the employment services office that’s closest to you, don’t bother researching beyond this point. Wake up tomorrow, do some pushups until you’re bored, take a shower, eat a snack and go to that office. Either get a meeting then and there, or get one scheduled and repeat the steps on the day of. Tell them what you hate about working, and that you struggle getting your foot in the door, so you’ll need some help with finding openings. You got it from there c:

Also buy a jar of creatine, it’s great for brains and ADHD brains especially (I can find the research I went through if you’re curious). 20g a day for a week, then 5g a day. And energy drinks are great if they don’t make you feel bad, you can buy powdered ones for cheap. Mix it with the creatine after breakfast, makes for a decent brain day. Good luck!

What a crazy conversation. “Art” and “machine made” is an oxymoron, that’s it. Without the human component, the techniques and experiences of an artist (however complex they might be), with no intent or thought behind it there is no reason for it to exist. This idea is one step removed from sitting in a plastic garden with drone birds flying around, reading your AI book and listening to AI music, while an AI robot raises your AI engineered children. This is death of the human condition, not technological progress.

Hell yeah. The second season takes place in Italy, similar concept that should hit even closer to home c:

I think you’d really like the show “White Lotus”.

A friendly reminder that 15 richest people hold $2.5T (as of late December), the same amount as bottom 40% of the global population.

What an interesting gripe. Personally I’d say it’s dst itself that is pointless and confusing, causing strokes and car crashes. Rather than the device that automatically handles it not notifying you to change the oven clock.

There’s nothing wrong with taking a couple years to focus on yourself

You said it. If you’re not okay, your output is not gonna be the best either, be it political, creative, or otherwise. Self-actualization is important, so if activism doesn’t cover it alone, it only makes sense to balance it out with other pursuits. And after all, revolutionary movies also need screenwriters.

This is a great idea! Especially if your cat mainly lives indoors. Then your place becomes the entire world, the entire source of experiences for the animal. So whenever you’re not around, or can’t spend time socializing together, there’s nothing to generate new stimuli. And if there was a friend, then they could always provide something new for each other and live much more fulfilling lives together.

It’s also your responsibility to make sure that the relationship is healthy. Cats can be very jealous of the time and attention you spend on a new one, not used to interacting with other cats/animals/people, or just afraid of change in general. So I would recommend starting by fostering a cat of a similar age for a while. Then you could either keep the foster if they vibe together, or broaden your cat’s horizons and probably have better luck with the next one.

There’s nothing silly in caring about the well-being of someone you’re responsible for.

Here’s something that helped me once (and continuously since). I was trying to get diagnosed in order to get a prescription, but the wait time for a free assessment was multiple years. After trying every avenue, I genuinely gave up on that, but I knew that there are recreational drugs that work similarly for me. So I just vented to my doctor and said exactly that - I know that you’re not willing to prescribe the meds without the official diagnosis and that’s okay, I understand. So I’ll just have to buy another drug that helps off the street. And he was like “okay, I’m even more uncomfortable with you doing that. Fine then, let’s start you on the prescription meds”. It’s crazy that it took this to get any help, and it still limits me in fully exploring the optimal combinations without the diagnosis, but I’m still super thankful to my doc for that. At least I won’t od on a random batch with some extra fentanyl mixed in.

Are you in this for the recognition and applause? For feeling smarter than and superior to others? You’re here of all places, so no you’re not. Materialism wouldn’t be a revolutionary philosophy if it fell in line with what people readily agree with. Your friend sided with you on this and that is good. Keep being educated and correct, and he’ll agree with you some more. When you agree on enough, you’ll be able to teach him how to be just as correct. Then we’ll have another comrade, and you’ll have a better friend.

The education is a thankless job, a fight against established thought. Our props will be the society where you no longer have to be an educator. And you’re getting us closer to that, one opinion at a time. So keep your head up.

I feel like the last thing we need is more obscure terminology. Socialism is just as good.

Here’s a report on Cuban vaccination.

https://mediccreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MEDICC-Cuba-COVID-19-Vaccine-Executive-Summary_2022.pdf

I can tell you a short summary of multiple first-hand accounts - these people suck ass juice. It’s a glorified newspaper selling operation that shits on any and all leftist action for not being revolutionary enough. All while they have zero interest in cross-community organizing, relationships with unions, or welcoming members that are not already hard-line Marxists to agitate and educate them. Much less participate in any direct action stuff. At every picket line when they try to show up “in solidarity” with their papers they either get directly shooed away or ignored.

At this point it’s a common meme among organizers over here, to pass through this group at some point. Lots of people start out their activist journey with them, because the aesthetics are very appealing to someone just switching to real-world leftism, and they’re easily accessible. Welcome to the club of happily former members. It’s only up from here.

Edit: here’s the Canadian branch SA saga:

The original story: https://archive.ph/VhaKp

The cover-up: https://revolutionaryscrapbook.substack.com/p/imt-fightback-doubles-down-on-victim

The triple-down: https://revolutionaryscrapbook.substack.com/p/fightbacks-executive-committee-politely