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That is great news
Unfortunately psilocybin is illegal where I live and jokes aside I never mess with anything illegal (because it is not worth it). But I can certainly believe this is true.
Man in the Box is one of my favorite songs
It has a haunting quality.
Based on that one data point, I imagine I would like their music. But have never gotten around to hearing any others.
What I notice
About religion is how many of the its determined adherents manage to incorporate some of the worst aspects of our technology heavy society into their worldviews, neatly skipping any science that is inconvenient (evolutionary biology, ecology). The religious also appear to side-step the philosophical or ethical sophistication that should go with access to the tools science provides us with.
Not that there are no crass/nihilistic atheists/agnostics but still..it is a bit noteworthy how often faith and destruction go hand in hand-use of the tools modernity provides sans any of the enlightenment that should go with access to those.
They skip the parts of faith (most faiths have some stuff about not hating other people e.g.: turn the other cheek; not being cruel to animals e.g.: ahimsa; not being greedy or crass..effortful stuff that gets the axe first) that are effortful or inconvenient while retaining all the superstitions, the parades and hatreds.
Even as an atheist I appreciate ahimsa for instance as a vegan. Jesus himself seemed like a cool person- he was basically a reformer and crucified for that.
But again, the effortful stuff gets the axe first.
While I try to be respectful of people
Certainly it is not a worldview I understand at all.
That said I try to be respectful of people with mild forms of faith. I still don’t get it.
It was when I had a severe burnout of sorts at work a decade back that I realized I was an atheist.
I found that (practically speaking) one just could not bring oneself to believe comforting nonsense (that one knows in one’s heart is pure drivel) to console oneself. Not even when so much seems out of one’s control. In fact when that stuff is essentially somehow deeply
viscerally aversive to one, it is not even comforting. I found comfort instead in a kind of bleak, sobering realism that bound me to sanity at the worst times. It can be embittering, but I choose it over more forced delusions.
There is nothing worse for one’s sanity than various culturally accepted irrationalities. I find religious faith downright depressing. It gives me a sense of nightmare as all irrational or rather incomprehensible and or primitive things do.
I am not fond of anything depressing and so I avoid religion as much as I can.
I am wearily bracing myself for this
I am not sure how to prepare beyond a kind of vigilance that comes from kinda expecting more of this sort of stuff going forward. I have prepared somewhat in case of the worst.
I hope I personally am never anywhere this happens - it would be the bloody cherry on top of the shitcake that was this last decade. I am wondering when (much like the pandemic), something like this takes down everything across the globe. I have to imagine that any halfway non-lousy security applications are working on it. Or it will be like scrambling for vaccines (because we refuse to make our food production systems less awful whether it is wet markets or factory farms) all over again re: re anonymising* and protecting data.
*: I assume that is the reverse of this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification
This is how I see it too
It is too important a decision to take casually, especially when either partner is not on board. You have to be someone capable of thinking of the kid first.
My own marriage ironically enough broke up because my ex-husband (from whom I am amicably divorced and still very close to) was not open to having a kid. I was worried anyway because of the state of everything and because my career was far from stable. However, I was still a “maybe someday” on exactly one kid. Soon after we got married my husband went from “maybe” to an outright “no” and our marriage never recovered. I was not aware at the time of how opposed to having kids he was.
That was the start of a bad patch of my life.
Now 15 years later I am happily single and childfree and focused anew on my work (which also suffered due to other circumstances). But our marriage was destroyed by our not being on the same page in 2008.
As it turns out I am not sure I could ever have had both a job in scientific research and a kid. Of the two I unambiguously pick science over a kid. Over time I would probably have realized this and vetoed the kid myself as incompatible with my work. I don’t think I would have wanted to leave science, have a job outside science and focus on child rearing. I know my limitations and find science work too hard to combine with a serious responsibility like that. Even then I probably knew that, but an “outright no” on a kid makes you question things.
At the time faced with a “hard no” I felt a bit like “woah it looks like we skipped a rather important conversation beyond vague generalities”.
I never blamed my ex. He was not unfair..it is just that somehow in all our rants about politics and the world, we skipped a rather important convo 
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He is essentially honest and didn’t want to give me false hope and so when it came up after marriage he disillusioned me fast.
This much is true that money and kids are the two things any couple should thoroughly discuss before getting hitched. We made a huge mistake in not adequately talking about it prior to marriage.
Abortion rights-a no brainer winning issue always
Except for crazies..
Abortion options benefit men as well:
https://jill.substack.com/p/abortion-benefits-men-too
I cannot blame Timberlake (normally I try to avoid the lives of celebrities/sideshows, but this post interested me as it is about abortion) We live in a society that reward coercion, piling on and superficial shit over anything thoughtful.
I can never blame anyone who refuses to bring either more babies or more bullshit into this world..sometimes you gotta abort..
Selityksiä ei tarvita
Thanks
I forward these to keep the steady drumbeat of “doom and gloom” going to remind anyone who sees it of our ecological crises..DU is not really the target audience since people here tend to be aware of these things. But I figure that of the trolls reading the site, maybe one or two will have a change of heart and care about these things 
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If you have ever seen “I heart Huckabee’s” you may remember the scene where he is telling a bunch of construction workers about the environment and 3 of the 4 guys throw their sandwiches at him. But the fourth guy is all convinced and concerned..such is the life of a green…That was a good movie..
(I am supposed to be offline working but I wander over here whenever I get stuck which is often :-0..and then I spread a little “cheer” .)
World Basking Shark Day!
Since DU is the closest thing to social media I have, here goes (I doubt the three paras rule applies here since these guys want the word spread):
https://baskingsharkscotland.co.uk/basking-sharks/world-basking-shark-day
Join us to celebrate world basking shark day on the 3rd November each year. Share information, facts, pictures, videos, science and experiences with the world's 2nd largest endangered fish.
What is it about?
There are lots of 'days' now celebrated online, including world shark day or even international whale shark day. We thought it was about time the basking shark had it's own day and so we came up with an idea to start one. The basking shark is classified as endangered and after a period of intensive hunting in the last century are struggling to recover. They are threatened by a variety of things including changes to their food source through increasing sea temperatures and climate change. However their last stronghold is the North East Atlantic where we have the world's first marine protected area (MPA) for them in Scotland. We've spent the last 10 years studying them and leading tourism excursions to observe them in the wilds of the Hebrides. Now join us to celebrate them as a species, educate more people on how amazing they are along with raising awareness about their struggle to recover from exploitation.
When is it?
3rd November any time during your time zone.
How can I join in?
Post about basking sharks on any social media platform and accompany your post with the #worldbaskingsharkday. Otherwise you could make web pages, or even do some kind of craft or fun event. Unfortunately most of the basking shark will have migrated south and offshore in the NE Atlantic so your chances of seeing a basking shark on world basking shark day is pretty slim!
Eek..their predators?/parasites? Lampreys look pretty bizarre:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey
Well in some instances they seem to have had a day of their own anyway ;-/:
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/national_invasive_species_awareness_week_sea_lamprey
Of course here as usual lies the real problem:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basking_shark
We seem to generally be driving damn near everything to extinction (except factory farmed animals).
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