The irony of finding two other woo-tolerant Lemmites in this comm.

Once I learned that astrology points to themes of influence on a time frame, it made a lot more sense. Taking it literally and thinking everything is confirmation bias is how people dismiss it. There’s more than a few people that have correctly nailed a lot of big events, it’s more about technique it seems. Nick Dagen Best published a book I think in 2013 or 2016 that is hitting hard right now - totally called Trump 2 and stuck to his guns on that.

Some of the more storied and out there reports of what happened with the remote viewing program in the 80s and 90s pretty much get close to this.

I’m sorry your free messaging app isn’t perfect. /s

And I always assumed that nicknames was just as much to prevent screenshots from becoming a liability.

Ugh, this is still happening? Russia was doing this a year or so into the war IIRC, I thought they had largely ended trafficking people to serve as cannon fodder.

Same. I’m always along for the ride just to enjoy the ride! I don’t need work when I’m sleeping, too. The two times I did it, it was lots of flying around and Supermaning.

The cheddar GETS shredded through work.

“The drives! They’re making the CDs gay!”

It’s NOT cheesecake.

You can take stale phyllo dough and put it in yogurt with some orange zest and juice and sugar, etc. and it makes a decent cake.

“This looks like the work of a carpenter’s son.”

I’ve also done several stints of mostly veg with some fish keto, and every time it’s like magic. Feel great, clear head, drop 5kg over a couple weeks. It’s always back-to-back social things or travel that break it. If I lived in a bubble or some keto-only hippie commune, I’d be shredded like a block of cheddar.

This was easier to figure out with CDs /s

9 TB of work porn.

Considering it was Meta, it’s probably 90% CSAM anyway.

Even if you go in for spiritual stuff, it also falls into “saying everything by saying nothing” model of straight to video junk that was common for the time, just better-made and with higher production quality. Its only goal is to get people to not have critical thoughts about it, say “it really makes you think!” to their stoner friends, and then sell another copy of itself.

IIRC I watched it at some point, and it was boilerplate Infowars era “THEY are controlling you!” and fearmongering as a sales pitch. It’s a good reminder that it used to be a lot harder than posting some garbage on YT to make some “90 minutes of saying nothing” content.

Well, it doesn’t work like that universally, so you might just end up not sleeping again for months. Happened to a biologist and a nurse I knew (years apart, it’s a rare side effect). It absolutely wrecked them both for about a year, though. I ended up with panic attacks after about 10 months, so I had to switch off of it. Other people had hallucinations, got paranoid, etc. Apparently 4 guys at Ft. Bragg were on it and got themselves spun up into thinking their wives were going to kill them that they killed them first. Rare but very bad side effects are possible.

It’s worth looking at foods that affect dreams and seeing if anything hits you in a fun way. Mugwort tea (mugwort, chamomile, lavender, hops) can do some stuff. And you might give lucid dreaming a try to see if you can get that going consistently. I’ve had 2 lucid dreams and they were tons of fun, but I can’t trigger it consistently.

I used to take a weekly anti-malarial drug known for giving intense dreams on the first two nights after you’ve taken it. They would get WILD while feeling cinematic and super real. It was like going through a whole day of events. And someone always died. Always. Not sure if it still is, but it was listed as one of the known side effects of the drug. I think now it’s just “intense dreams.”

My most favorite one I’ve written about before online and so I’d be doxing myself to get into details about which cartoon characters were with me, but the short version is like a level from a video game where I defeated a mini-boss and got a lamp with 3 wishes, and used my wish to go on a trans-dimensional adventure to go kill the main boss. Patrick Swayze was killed.

A full African safari while driving around in an open-top blue Cadillac. Random person was killed, and it was abrupt - mid-conversation with a friend I turned to see someone get whacked in space between some trees off to my right. Then on with the show. Great day, great weather. Stopped for lunch at one point and everything, I had some grilled meats and an orange Fanta.

Worst one was running through the mall that I went to when I was a kid (my one and only “mall world dream”) and I was shopping like normal. Checking out stores, showing them to my spouse since some hadn’t changed since I was a kid. Very much a walk down memory lane dream. Then the ceiling tiles started falling, but not the panels - they were all the bottoms of stone columns smashing down. So it was like some Indiana Jones smashing ceiling thing. Ran from one of the mall to the other, eventually got cornered in a jewelry store where I got smashed and watched the column fall on my face like it was IRL. Woke up literally out of breath and covered in sweat.

Not the anti-malarial, but I had a friend give me some melatonin once to help sleep, and I didn’t realize at the time you took it right before you go to bed. So being an idiot, I took it right then and passed out on his couch for an hour or so. I played a whole game of hockey. I don’t play hockey, or even watch it, and it wasn’t on the TV. I think I was playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins and we were playing the Rangers. All 3 periods. I felt the ice below me, cool air on my face, the tension of the helmet fitting poorly on me. We won 3-2, but I really wasn’t keeping score. Stadium was empty, though, which seemed odd.

I hope Congress discovers their inner charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.

Can we (vegetarian/vegan or NOT) all agree

So…find a position in the middle - one might say, the center - of two opposing positions on a spectrum of subjective opinion where both sides can agree?

I really, genuinely hate that this administration has forced us all into a conspiracy theory world where literally nothing is impossible.

No…

Pretty sure you’re just bad at delivering sarcasm