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Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents

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Post by Scoundreller »

jacquesm wrote: post #75
colinmhayes wrote: post #31

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> unambiguously good: tryptamines (e.g., psilocybin) and phenethylamines (e.g., mescaline). My friends uncle died jumping off a building on acid. Not one of the psychedelics you named, but having done all three I certainly think such a drastic action is possible on mushrooms or mescaline. Whether this means they aren't unambiguously good is up for debate I guess.

Stupid tourists on mushrooms have killed themselves in Amsterdam more than once by defenestration.

technically defenestration is when you throw someone else out the window

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Post by scruple »

aaaaaaaaaaab wrote: post #49
nawgz wrote: post #20

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I picked psilocybin for you. "Psilocybin is not considered to be addictive nor does it cause compulsive use" - [0] [0]: https://drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/are-psilocybin-mushrooms-a...

I know people who got fucked up for years due to a single shroom or LSD trip. Some of them got sorted out eventually, others didn’t.

Throw my name in the hat, too. I had my worst experiences on mushrooms and am still thankful to this day that I had the good sense to stop using psychedelics over 20 years ago. My last trip was a complete fucking nightmare of an episode and I'm not convinced that I will ever fully recover from that night.

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Post by Xenoamorphous »

gojomo wrote: post #113
short12 wrote: post #93

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You can just ignore it if you are not in the EU

These websites, based on their own internal analyses, have concluded ignoring it completely is not safe for them. But also, they know that implementing (& maintaining!) compliance, moreso than a simple block, has nonzero cost, while EU readers provide them negligible benefit. So they take the easy way out, given the incentives created by the EU. And what had been a free bonanza for EU readers – a peek into info sourc…

It’s perfectly fine that if the site is small/low budget and has a small percentage of European users they don’t bother being GDPR complaint. It’s their choice.

But at least they shouldn’t blatantly lie in the message they show, saying they’re working on it and how important EU visitors are.

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Post by piva00 »

captainredbeard wrote: post #97
akudha wrote: post #34

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I have never tried any drugs/alcohol, but I'm curious about Ayahuasca. Don't know anyone personally who has been through the ceremony, but I've listened to a bunch of interviews, read a bunch of articles about it. It mostly seems legit, but I have no clue. Anyone here tried it? What was the experience like?

I know someone who, for all practical purposes, destroyed their life after an Ayahuasca trip. He was a VP at a major international company and is now a new age hippie.

Depends how you consider what is your life. If your life is work, yeah, stepping down from some VP-role looks pretty terrible. When your life doesn't revolve around work, you have enough money, etc... Better to fuck off from that VP position.

Personally how I view myself destroying my life is by trying to climb the corporate career ladder. There is nothing in there except for money. Your morals, your values, everything that makes you "you" goes out of the whack when you are selling your soul to a corporation.

No, thank you.

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Post by black_13 »

lapetitejort wrote: post #66
nostrademons wrote: post #46

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Rich is better than famous. Plenty of people are quietly rich and basically just go about their business and live their lives, secure in the knowledge that there's money in the bank if they need it. There's no such thing as quietly famous. Many of pitfalls of being rich & famous, like greedy enablers and a larger-than-life lifestyle, stem from the "famous" part.

The key is to slowly become rich. Tony Hsieh died at 46, around the time most pre-rich people haven't even made it out of upper middle class. Amass wealth slowly and your poor grifting friends will slowly be replaced with rich friends whose grifts will at least have a chance of return.

Yes thats it.

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Post by bitxbitxbitcoin »

Scoundreller wrote: post #121
jacquesm wrote: post #75

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Stupid tourists on mushrooms have killed themselves in Amsterdam more than once by defenestration.

technically defenestration is when you throw someone else out the window

The word would be self-defenestration. Which is how I learned of the word defenestration to begin with.

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

sangnoir wrote: post #107
GDC7 wrote: post #56

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I don't think there is a measurement who'd satisfy the requirement of statistical evidence. Empirically it seems to me that people nowadays are more scared of death than they are euphoric about life. All sorts of problems happen when this condition presents itself in vast pockets of the population. The fact that nobody makes a quality vs. quantity analysis is further proof of this

> Empirically it seems to me that people nowadays are more scared of death than they are euphoric about life. Have you not talked to a teenager lately?

Teenagers today are definitely less rebellious and less hedonistic: they have less sex and take much less intoxicants than previous generations.

I don't agree that it's because they're "scared of death," but they do seem to be less euphoric about life, for whatever reason.

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Post by chrisin2d »

sokoloff wrote: post #32
Xenoamorphous wrote: post #28

> Our European visitors are important to us. > This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws. I wonder if sites will ever stop lying about this.

“Important to us, but not profitable to serve.”

"Important, but not important enough."
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