What do you think the prison industrial complex is?

Because people aren’t used to seeing a politician in a hoodie.

Did you read the article? Google is not an insurance company. So, why is my hospital sharing information with them? And why wasn’t that disclosed in the privacy policy?

Those are the types of questions this study raises.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds is very good.

my son loves this show and the themes are very wholesome

Sorry if I spoiled anything for you lol

I would read John Dies at the End. I enjoyed the movie and watched it long enough ago the only thing I remember is that John died at the end.

It’s horror but I think It is some kinda extea diminisional being.

I guess what I’m saying is a lot of King’s stories are horror but with a bit of sci-fi (Under the Dome and Dreamcatcher for instance probably cross the line into being Sci-fi tbh).

Most wars are fought over property (land, resources, etc.)

A society that isn’t based on property would have a lot less to fight about.

And most anarcho-comnunist style social structures are thought of as being post revolution. So it will be war to get there, but an economic war fought by workers against the oligarchs using solidarity and work stoppages as the weapons.

Solidarity, taken as a value, is another way to prevent war between the syndicates. Everyone would be workers and fighting against other workers would be socially unacceptable. Like dropping a fart in a crowded subway car, no one wants to be the one doing it.

I do expect there would still be conflict. Two syndicates may both want a rare resource. I imagine each syndicate would be able to elect a representative to some sort of larger democratic body. Like the UN, but without all the fucked up veto powers by nuclear armed states that prevents our actual UN from having any real power.

edit: Buddhism has existed for 2500 years as a loose connection of syndicates without serious infighting. Letting go of property and focusing on community goes a long long way.

To add to what the other poster said, take a look at anarcho-syndicalism

Actually, they added a methyl group to MDA. MDMA is also less potent by weight than both MDA and methamphetamine and clinically safer than both.

As far as abuse potential, it’s basically very shitty speed when you try to take it to often. The primary mechanism of action is way different than methamphetamine. Which makes it very hard to redose and get high again. This means it has a difficult time forming the dopamine reward cycle we see with cocaine and methamphetamine.

It’s also never smoked and rarely shot, which are the two routes of administration that most easily set up dopamine reward pathways because the drug kicks in so much faster than via ingestion.

Which isn’t to say people won’t try to abuse it. But that has way more to do with the person’s personality type than the drug, as MDMA really doesn’t have the same abuse potential as it’s parent compound (MDA) or it’s relative (methamphetamine).

In my experience, MDMA is less addictive than sex or video games and isn’t on the same level as methamphetamine at all (and I’ve shot both).

Source: I’m a drug nerd who has taken some college level pharmacology focused on illegal drugs. I’m also a recovering meth addict who got over my meth addiction when some friends gave me molly twenty something years ago.

We used to call it E. MDMA I mean. We used to call X Twitter.

Now we just call it a dumpster fire. X I mean. E is still pretty good tbh.

Humor can be a defense mechanism when things are bleak.

So if they have higher literacy you’re saying capitalist countries don’t meet the criteria for minimum acceptable education?

Without spice they can’t fold space either, meaning the empire would collapse without it.

Not all cats but I’ve certainly had some cats that were way more in tune with things.

Our cat Midnight, our best mouser, protected the pet hamster from the other cats when it got out of its cage.

She also never laid on me. But one night, laying on my sister’s bed, she laid on my back and purred like crazy. I was in a very dark headspace that night. Suicidal ideation and what not (something I struggled a lot with in my life due to childhood trauma that has mostly resolved with the help of EMDR, Buddhism, and plant medines).

I did some time for growing psilocybin. Midnight came to me in my dreams. My spirit guide, again, in that dark place.

She lived to be eighteen. Great friend. Much more than a pet.

edit: She also snatched a piece of roast right off my plate lol. She was sitting on the arm of the couch and waited until I turned my head, distracted, talking to my gf.

No, unfortunately they don’t teach it.

I didn’t really understand it until I read The People’s History of the U.S. a few decades later.

The first Dune book is amazing. The last book has some interesting philosophical ideas but is pretty over the top.

I read the middle books and they’re not great tbh.

I liked the first and last book best.

You literally blamed the left for your kid not getting mental health care. Was the first thing you said yet I misunderstood?

Yeah, good riddance lady.