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  4. Posted

    Theres this guy in the Pereskiopsis Grafting Group on facebook who swears that by grafting to old 'brown' pereskiopsis stems, like ones that have supported a scion for 8+ months, the new graft will be semi-permanent and the graft union wont tend to eventually fail.

    I've only ever grafted to tender new growth and I've only seen people graft to tender new growth.

    Has anyone grafted directly to an old woody stem? What was the outcome?

    I find a single claim on facebook dubious but if there is even a chance it could let a pereskiopsis graft stay good for 2+ years it'd be worth a few trials.

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    In a new study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, researchers from UBC's Okanagan campus have discovered that men who have used psychedelic drugs in the past have a lower likelihood of engaging in violence against their intimate partners.

     

    "Although use of certain drugs like alcohol, methamphetamine or cocaine is associated with increased aggression and partner violence, use of psychedelics appears to have the opposite effect," says clinical psychology graduate student and study lead author Michelle Thiessen. "We found that among men who have used psychedelics one or more times, the odds of engaging in partner violence was reduced by roughly half. That's significant."

    Psychedelic drugs act on serotonin receptors in the brain. Classic psychedelics include lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), mescaline, and dimethyltryptamine (DMT). The effects vary but can produce mystical experiences and changes in perception, emotion, cognition and the sense of self. Classic psychedelics are not considered to be addictive.

    "Previous research from our lab that looked at men in the criminal justice system found that hallucinogen users were substantially less likely to perpetrate violence against their intimate partners," notes UBC professor and supervising author Zach Walsh. "Our new study is important because it suggests that these effects might also apply to the general population"

    Thiessen, Walsh and colleagues Adele LaFrance and Brian Bird from Laurentian University based their results on an anonymous online survey of 1,266 people recruited from universities and through social media. Respondents were asked to disclose their lifetime use of LSD and psilocybin mushrooms and then complete a questionnaire that assessed multiple aspects of their emotion regulation.

    "Past research found a clear association between psychedelic drug use and reduced partner violence, but the reasons for this effect remained unclear," says Thiessen. "We found that better ability to manage negative emotions may help explain why the hallucinogen users were less violent."

    Thiessen says that her results could one day lead to novel treatments to reduce violence.

    "These findings add to the literature on the positive use of psychedelics and suggest that future research should explore the potential for psychedelic therapies to help address the international public health priority of reducing domestic violence."

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  7. Posted

    12 years later, lol...

    I just started some up, I split the seeds into two groups. One group was soaked overnight in water, the other in 0.15% potassium nitrate. They were then germinated on wet filter paper in petri dishes.

    The nitrate soaked seeds sprouted several days faster.

    But really, if you dont already have a potassium nitrate stock solution dont bother, they sprout pretty easy anyway.

     

    Just figured it wouldnt hurt to record that somewhere ;)

     

    Does anyone know if the seeds currently being sold out of china on ebay are bitter or non-bitter?

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  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, Torsten said:

    ...while I absolutely disagree with Auxin that such offences are none of our business...

    To be clear, that part of my message I was trying to convey was stated far out of proportion, probably my fault.

    It was my least point.

    My primary point that seems to have been lost was how everyone jumps up and down, shouting, pounding their chest, and generally egoing all over the subject any time something like this [or anything, really] happens.

    It seems degrading to the person doing that display, its inherently distorting and caricaturizing of the target of those rants, it can even put that person [who may be innocent] at risk of serious harm, and its just downright creepy because in any subject the people who rant and rave and ego all over the place includes all the closet cases.

    Are we really so weak of character and desperate for definition to our ego that we have to make a big spectacle about every damn thing?

    Do we really have to waste so much energy to no productive, or at least positive, effect?

    Do we absolutely have to make life a worse hell for people whos lives already are being made hell, are we so petty?

    Do you really want to risk making people suspect your a closet case, whether you are one or not?

     

    Its not lack of caring, or some largely mythological american hyper-individualism that keeps me from getting on a soap box about the evilness of pedos, or whatever the news item of the day is.

    I look at it more like maturity and self respect. Or at least a measure of perspective on things.

    As an american, this Really stood out for me when 9/11 happened. The morning of, I was a little disoriented like everyone. 'Are we under attack, whats going on, who did it.' But within a week I was genuinely frightened. Not because of any terrorism threat, I knew that wasnt a serious danger to me. I was afraid of everyone around me who was ranting and raving and acting like meth addled egotistical spoiled 14 year olds with guns. The american response to 9/11 was infantile and humiliating. The whole world knew it. But everyone does the same thing about Every issue that comes up!

     

    Your business, not your business. That judgement doesnt really make a big difference if the response is measured, mature, well informed, and done out of fairness and not a self serving display of egoism.

     

    And I agree with Torsten, any big amateur content collection torrent is likely to have questionable stuff. Its no doubt happened to many of us here. I stopped getting those type of torrents long ago for that very reason.

    But, as Torsten said, even the good shit from pay sites isnt 100% safe.

    Thats why MSS's bust was none of my business. It was most likely a common internet accident that was a tragedy only for him.

    I'm sorry theres little chance of people letting you stay in this community, MSS. It was good ta know ya.

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  10. Posted

    The last post was contradictory.

    If you think assfucking is weird you must be over 40

    If you think hairy beavers are weird you must be under 40

     

    ' Crazy nympho girls in the psychiatric ward '... I think I saw that porno too

     

    Lately I've been watching this hot, precious little twink dressing up in girls clothes on cam. He'll even suck a lollipop for money.

    I love the internet.

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  11. Posted · Edited by Auxin

    I think, often times, people fail to quit simply because on some level they dont want to quit. It doesnt have to be a majority view in their psyche but if a significant part of them doesnt want to quit then a drug a little stress or a few beers, etc. can get them started up again.

    When I smoked it was because I didnt care about life. They said cigs would kill me, I said 'yeah fine sure'. It wasnt until I gave a damn that I quit. I only had to try to quit one time because I didnt let anyone pressure me into trying before I wanted to. I had similar experiences with other habits too.

    My cousin was seriously into meth. People nagged at him, fought with him, spent loads of money to put him through rehab, put him in jail over and over, bribed him with free sports cars and Two free houses. He blew it all, nothing worked. He liked meth more than he cared about the risks. When the day came that he no longer wanted to do it he got clean with no help at all, he just quit. Been clean for like 5 years now.

    It works with all addictions and habits.

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  12. Posted

    47 minutes ago, Sallubrious said:

    ..  How much are smokes in the US @Auxin ?

    It varies from area to area but in my state its now up to $9 USD for a pack of 20, thats 11.50 AUD

    When I quit smoking 12 years ago a carton of 200 was $30 USD and that was after years of active price increases.

    A few years before I quit my dads buddy went to china and brought him back a pack each of the most expensive [1.50 AUD] and cheapest [0.10 AUD] chinese cigarettes. I sort of liked the nearly free kind, they burned like a fuse but they tasted like chinese food :lol:

     

    When I was unwittingly near quitting I started growing it, thats legal here, and I remember one of the things that helped me decide to quit was when I was getting ready for my third year of growing saying to myself 'ok, I get 200 cigs per plant, how many thousands cigarettes do I smoke in 12 months?... wait... thousands? hold on!'

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  13. Posted

    2 hours ago, Dicko said:

    ... i still give into a rare cigarette and then wonder why lol, drinks and socializing I guess.

    Alcohol and LSD are hell on anyone who quit smoking in the last year or three.

    Just like weed and alcohol are hell on anyone whos recently quit junk food. Exactly two years after quitting the junk I got drunk just to see what would happen...

    Cookies and ice cream happened.

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    Drugs, gums or patches won't increase your chances of quitting

    Using prescription drugs or over-the-counter products like gums, mints or patches won't increase your chances of quitting smoking a year later, according to a new study.

     

    The US researchers followed two groups of people 2002/03 and 2010/11 and found at the end of the 12-month period, those using varenicline (sold in Australia as Champix), bupropion (Zyban), or nicotine-replacement therapy (gums, mints or patches) were no more likely to have quit smoking for 30 days or more than those who didn't use these drugs.

    Evidence based smoking cessation?

    We're told the best way to quit smoking is to use an "evidence-based" method: a strategy supported by high-quality research evidence. And for the last 30 or so years, this has been nicotine-replacement therapy, bupropion (Zyban) and varenicline (Champix), which claim to increase (and sometimes double) your chance of success.

    In the hierarchy of evidence, the lowest form is anecdote or case studies ("I smoked for 20 years, then an alternative therapist sprinkled magic powder on me, and the next day I stopped smoking!"). These cannot withstand the most elementary critical appraisal, starting with the basic question of how many similar smokers sprinkled with the powder kept smoking and how many who went nowhere it also stopped smoking.

    Far higher up the evidence pyramid is the double-blinded, randomised controlled trial (RCTs). In these, both the person taking the treatment and those delivering it are unware of who is taking the active drug and who is taking the comparison placebo or comparison drug. All enrolled in RCTs are randomly allocated to the active or placebo/comparison groups. The numbers of participants are sufficiently large enough to allow for an outcome to be declared statistically significant (or not) above a chance finding.

    Some have tried to dismiss earlier findings about the poor performance of nicotine-replacement therapy by emphasising "indication bias". In the real world, those who opt to use medications to try to quit are likely to be more intractable smokers, more highly addicted to nicotine, and with histories of failure at quitting unaided. No one should therefore be surprised if they fail more often than those who try to quit on their own.

    In this new study, this issue was anticipated and all smokers were assessed by what the study authors called a "propensity to quit" score. This score accounts for factors such as smoking intensity, nicotine dependence, their quitting history, self-efficacy to quit, and whether they lived in a smoke-free home where quitting would likely be more supported.

    In the analysis, those who tried to quit with drugs and those who didn't were matched on this propensity score, so "like with like" could be compared in the analysis. The findings held even when these "propensity" to quit factors were taken into account.

    RCTs are very different to real world use

    Critics have long pointed out that RCTs have many features which make them a pale shadow of how drugs are used in the real world.

    RCTs often exclude people with mental illness, poor English, and no fixed address. Excluding hard-to-reach and treat participants is likely to produce more flattering results.

    In the real world, people are not paid or otherwise incentivised to keep taking the drugs across the full period of the trial, so compliance is almost always far lower.

    In the real world, people do not get reminder calls, texts or visits from researchers highly motivated to minimise trial drop-out. There is no "Hawthorne effect": when trial involvement and the attention paid to participants alters the outcomes.

    Nicotine-addicted people generally know very quickly if they have been allocated to the placebo arm in NRT trials because their brains feel deprived of nicotine. They invariably experience unpleasant symptoms. Knowing they have been allocated to the placebo undermines the integrity of the trial because it is important participants believe the drug might be effective.

    Large, real world studies like the one just published, which assess long-term success, not just end-of-treatment or short-term results, are therefore of most importance in assessing effectiveness. These new data ought to cause such rhetoric to cool right down.

    As for the evidence on e-cigarettes in quitting, neither the US Preventive Health Services Task Force, nor the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence or Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council, have endorsed e-cigarettes as an effective way of quitting smoking.

    Quitting smoking is the single most important thing anyone can do to reduce the likelihood they will get heart or lung disease, and a whole string of cancers.

    It has been in the clear interests of the pharmaceutical and, more recently, the vaping (e-cigarette) industries, to promote the notion that anyone who tries to quit alone is the equivalent of someone with pneumonia refusing antibiotics. Hundreds of millions around the world have quit smoking without using any pharmaceutical intervention.

    Before nicotine-replacement therapies became available in the 1980s, many millions of smokers successfully quit smoking without using any drug or nicotine substitute. The same still happens today: most ex-smokers quit by going cold turkey.

    The problem is, in recent years, the government has moth-balled the national quit campaign, the megaphone for promoting this very positive message. Commercial interests are now commodifying something millions have always done for themselves.

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  19. Posted

    4 hours ago, Sallubrious said:

    This thread is morphing into a coming out party.

    Well this is the longest lived LGBT friendly ethnobotany forum on the internet

    Torsten should get some sort of trophy, perhaps involving amusingly shaped cucurbits

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  21. Posted

    3 hours ago, ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ said:

    i respect your insight and far far from the first time but what if you were the kinda person who wanted to ask to clarify from the horses mouth and see what their side of the story is?

    If MSS does actually come back here and wants to clarify the incident, power to him, I'd read the post. Like I said, if someone chooses to share something I'll listen.

    If he came back and someone wanted to politely ask what all that arrest stuff was about, I wouldnt view that as wrong.

    Its everything in between now and then that I find odd. Not specifically wrong, just odd.

    3 hours ago, DiscoStu said:

    "Anyway, what I really dont get in all of this is why our cultures brainwash us into being so conceited that we think its our duty to run around judging people on stuff that is clearly none of our business"

    i dont want to comment on mss at all but this a pretty bad attitude. do you look at things like the rotherham grooming gangs and say "hey man not my place to judge, whatever floats your socks off"? no, if it's happening in my community yes it is my place to judge and I judge it abhorrent behaviour and completely not acceptable. 

    If it were me or my children in the photos then it would be my business and I would proceed from there.

    There tends to be this fundamental mistake people make, thinking that forgiveness or even just minding ones own business is the same as permission for the crime. Its not. You can forgive something bad while acknowledging the act was still bad. You can leave a situation up to the people designated to deal with it without sanctioning the crime.

    I've never heard of the rotherham grooming gangs, and its probably none of my business, but if they were hurting people then no, I dont think its good. There are people designated to deal with it. Cops, lawyers, and judges. Its not my place to judge or prosecute.

    This is not apathy, anarchy, or complicity. Its practicality.

    1) none of my business, 2) I almost certainly wouldnt have all the relevant facts, so any judgement would be unbalanced anyway 3) I simply dont want to waste the energy being expected to get worked up and opinionated over every thing that happens in the world. I'm always seeing people working themselves up into a froth over things that dont impact them in any way whatsoever. Remember OJ Simpson? Or whats-her-name who had her boob pop out at a sporting event? If you had harnessed the wasted energy of so many people beating their chest and shouting an opinion you could have sent that bloody glove to Mars!

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  22. Posted

    :lol: I just checked and there are still zoophiles on winmx [the old movies and music P2P where it happened], so if that is what tickles your tapioca and its legal there just install winmx and video search for 'bestiality' or 'horse' or whatever. [Those videos actually are legal in quite a few places]

    Dont be tricked into paying anything, the connecting patch is free just like the program.

     

    Anyway, what I really dont get in all of this is why our cultures brainwash us into being so conceited that we think its our duty to run around judging people on stuff that is clearly none of our business. Unless one of you wants to put the information out there its none of my business what race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, political inclination, hedonic proclivities, etc. you ascribe to. Just because I have a 'right' to have an opinion doesnt mean its my duty to shove my nose into your life and have an opinion by force about everything you do. So it really is not my place to puff up my ego commenting on what it is any of you look at while stroking your boy salami or rubbing your girl bacon. Unless I'm right beside you, helping you stroke it, its really none of my business.

    This is a forum about plants. MSS is a nice guy who helped lots of people with plants. If hes ever brave enough to return, I wont be mentioning this incident.

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  23. Posted

    On 12/24/2017 at 2:33 AM, Halcyon Daze said:

    What I wanna know is can pedos officially seek help anywhere

    Hes american, so no, they cant.

    Its a very taboo crime here. Its prosecuted more harshly than premeditated multiple homicide in some instances, especially in cases where there was any real world contact with kids, but even people who just download can go to prison longer than a murderer. People are killed just for downloading pics here. Only an imbecile would turn himself in in MSS's country, even if it were to seek 'help'. In my state there is actually an island prison where they are shipped to, the guards main job is to make sure people dont come in and murder the inmates.

     

    Another thing about being american, our laws defining 'child' are very screwey. In 5/6ths of america girls can be old enough to legally have sex with and yet any picture of them is prosecuted as child porn and can send you to prison [pornography laws were made at the federal level, so set to the highest age of consent- 18, sex laws are state level, in 2/3 the country the legal age for sex is 16 and in 1/6th of the country its 17]. In some cases the girls could even be fully clothed. The girls you bed legally in australia could be in the same 'child' age range in the US.

     

    Torrent was a good point, a mistaken download could very easily happen. When a major blockbuster film came out a friend of mine downloaded a cam recording of the movie from a P2P site, or she thought she did, what she actually got was a movie length dutch bestiality video.

    In the digital age 800 pics doesnt even get someone counted as a collector, and internet cache counts in prosecutions. Read the news, collectors are busted with hundreds of thousands of images and videos. This isnt 1970.

    If its true he was given probation he must have been so minor that the prosecutor didnt even see him as a pedo, his prosecution may have just been a technicality for christ sake. And yet his supposed friends here condemn him.

    Interesting.

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  24. Posted

    1 hour ago, ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ said:

    do yo have a way or tek lol on how to prove it to ones-self ?

    I go with the ancient greek tek. Over 2000 years ago they looked at the moon. The shadow of earth on the moon is always the shadow of a circular or spherical object cast onto a spherical object, no matter what angle the shadow is cast at. Ergo the earth must be a sphere, a disk wouldnt always cast a circular shadow.

    It was those nutty ass dark ages christians that forgot all that.

    19 hours ago, paradox said:

     

    or he will finally progress to where he can reach high enough altitude to see the curvature of the earth & he will finally be convinced he was wrong about flat earth & then he will be called a round earth shill & the flat earth community will know it was all a conspiracy to discredit their movement

    Dont forget the pastafarians. At high altitude the flying spaghetti monster holds a lense in front of you to make things look curved.

    Its just like the prank he pulls of freezing people in time when they reach the edge of the earth and driving them to the other side to screw with their head.

    Flying spaghetti monster, master of time, space, and practical jokes.

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