Gn #$nostr.

Daily incremental improvement.

Sometimes those improvements are hard to see when your world is burning down around you. Doesn't mean they aren't there.

The world has been burning down around me for 37 years. No reason for it to matter more today or tomorrow than yesterday. Better to find and focus on the improvements.

My dad died 37 years ago (not exactly). That is when I learned the meaning of finite.

I use this to sharpen paper, especially heavy stock. Sharp paper makes the best paper cuts. If sharp enough, and the right weight, I can even fold sharpened paper into ninja throwing stars that will easily put an eye out, just like yo mama warned you about.

Paper sharpeners of this robust vintage are a real treasure.

These are the best tools. Some of my favorite tools are ones I've edited heavily or built to fit a specific need.

Belt tensioners are no fun, but the right tool (often not the proprietary tool) will make life much easier.

I'm an extremist because I don't necessarily believe killing (whether you call it murder or not) is wrong.

Gn #nostr.

(This might be a long one)

tldr: communism ruins everything.

I've been seriously considering making a huge career change, where I would probably end up as some kind of psychologist, assisting patients with hallucinogenic therapy. It is something I admit to being drawn toward, but completely outside of my experience and education. It would probably mean a decade of education and training.

But I've mostly decided against it, because while I would love to help people in this way, I have such strongly held negative opinions toward the existing institutions of academia, science, and medicine that I would be essentially putting myself in a place of dissonance. I think there must be some other way I can find to support and/or assist in this effort.

In explaining this to someone else, I started making the example of:

Say I was a communist, and believed strongly in communism and state control as the best way of living. Now, put me in a place where that would be challenged, frustrated, almost impossible to live in. My first thought was somewhere overwhelmingly capitalist - but I couldn't actually think of any places like that.

Then I lit upon this idea - put me (as a communist) in a remote homestead, where there is very minimal state influence. This was the best example I could think of as an uncomfortable place for a communist.

But then I had the thought - well, what are communes? Kind of similar to that remote homestead. But did any succeed? Arguably only the ones that were essentially dictatorships (cults) and only for brief period of time.

Then thought of the opposite - where would a communist feel most comfortable. My first thought - New York City. Seems very centrally planned.

The more I thought of it, the more it seemed that a communist could go anywhere and ruin it, while trying to make it more in line with their ideals. We're seeing this play out globally at this point.

Sorry for the wander. Just a note to remind myself of lots of different thoughts I had earlier.

I think I've always hippie tripped, but the last time was a decade ago, maybe more. What's going on in Oregon (near enough to me to make availability easier) and some of the recent research has reignited some interest, though.

Microdosing as a concept is at least worth considering. I'm no longer a recreational substance user (except caffeine). I don't want to intentionally lie to myself, but that wasn't really my experience on hallucinogenics. It is interesting to see something very differently from what we know it to be. It isn't invalidating the way you've always seen it, but instead adding perspective, or dimension, like adding color to sound.

I'm still unsure of what purpose it would serve for me. I want to approach it with intent, and until I determine that intent, I will probably leave it to others.

But if I do show up here one day rolling, I'll be sure to let you all know ;)

I have a question. These are all "National..." This nation is Australia? Or something else? How does this nation's days compare with the special days of other nations who have published similar celebrations? Shit, that's too many questions. I may have some corned beef hash tomorrow (27th), but likely not, because I will probably eat ribeye instead.

not everyone has a mute button. and if you're across multiple clients, mute isn't implemented consistently anyway. I've found life (on nostr) more interesting without any mute whatsoever.

Now, I'm wondering how nostr while microdosing psylocibin would be. or maybe even mdma. This really is a beautiful place already. that may be a beauty and meaning overload.

@boho I have a dr appt tomorrow. that means bloodworks coming soon. ~6 mos results of carnivore. much interesting.

tampon

right?

but the responses are so cryptic that they could be random, but are they? and if not, then how to decipher them? and not just text, but the images, with another layer of response. 42?

Me, enjoying the simple nature of Satellite.earth.

The feed: new feature this, developers that, next big thing, relays, follows, zaps, blah.

Me. I kind of miss my lists. Eh.

I don't understand mainvolume. Yet.

It becomes a little easier once you accept this state, and stop putting a lot of energy into trying to change them. Really hard to change a sheep into a dolphin. Why not let them be sheep?

Accepting the inherent futility in trying to actively change others allows us to channel our efforts into other areas, which may be more effective in passively changing others. The smarter of the stupid will at least realize that you may know something of value to them, and ask about it.

I try not to put any energy into contempt, because it doesn't move anything forward. Sometimes I fail, granted. I can definitely be disagreeable and dismissive. Mostly I just try to pick my battles, check my reactions, accept my own weaknesses, and work to improve on them. I try to look at people and situations as opportunities to learn from. I know I can learn a lot from you. I can learn from sheep and snails as well, but the lessons learned may not be as obvious.

Mr. Stella better look out - he may lose his pants momentarily.

There is a hair in this nut milk, friend.

This is actually a place where i think Whitney Webb (although I'm not really a fan) has done the research, and I think has come to the conclusion that major child sexual abuse is common to most upper echelons of establishments with high concentrations of centralized power.

At least I recall something like that, coming from someone else who wasn't me.

That's the narrative anyway...

As is anything that enables us to lie to ourselves.