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  3. Posted

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

    I left the face ones out with respect cuz even though he's a bastard , at least he's a male ..

     

    Gotta love Karmic justice.

     

    Not trying to dampen the enjoyment, but isn't that particular statement the equivalent of feminism in reverse ?

     

    Feminism or new wave feminism in particular is one of my pet hates too but I see misogyny as the the reciprocal and just a different version of the same thing. I don't know if anyone uses the term but isn't that a male-ist statement ?

     

    In a perfect world I'd prefer to see a level playing field for everyone no matter what they have between their legs.

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    I never got the "exercise makes me high" hype & I've done some fairly extreme exercise schemes over the years. I was a pro cyclist for several years and I did the type of training the really pushed the envelope many times, it was mostly hours on hours of steady state cardio with a few extended periods at a high heart rate with a few all out max heart rate efforts, all I ever felt was exhaustion.

     

    At the other end of the scale I did a lot of intense cardio when I was training for my RKC and again no high or feeling of euphoria from the endorphins.

     

    One time when I was into distance cycling I did a 280km ride on an empty stomach and I hit the wall about 10km's from home. I'd burned all my available glycogen and not being keto adapted it really hammered me. I wasn't hallucinating but I was definitely in an altered state and it was the one of the worst feelings I've ever had - nausea and an altered sense of spatial perception combined with an overwhelming distortion of my hearing like I was in a tunnel or tube. Not something I'd ever want to do again.

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  10. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    On 11/9/2017 at 8:25 PM, Northerner said:

    If you have spare spores it can't hurt to distribute in their water troughs. It wouldn't take long for the whole area to become active... if alpaca poo is suitable.

     

    I have heard of that working with horses and cattle, so it could be a goer.

     

    Another more direct way would be to make a spore mass slurry from whole shrooms and then spread the magic on a few piles of alpaca shit and see what comes up over the next few weeks. Now would be a perfect time to do that anywhere north of the Karuah mountains that gets adequate rainfall, In this weather possibly even a lot further south.

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  11. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Anodyne said:

    Okay, I know virtually nothing about computer programming so this may be a dumb question, but does a system has to be designed with rule sets that apply this way? I mean, is that the only way to build a vaguely-efficient complex simulation? Or is that just how we have been doing it?

     Someone picked it up. No it doesn't have to work like that and in reality it's not really the way programming works

     

    Loosely speaking the class is just where the object sits (a gross oversimplification) with the individual object defining the properties of the object.

     

    That post above was my way of playing devils advocate (see what I did there) and stirring the pot.

     

    I noticed bluntmuffin (CBL) was back and I was trying to bait him into the discussion. That post was based on a false premise and deliberately full of technical inaccuracies.

     

    Sorry about that Anodyne

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    I normally wouldn't waste any brain cycles on something as nonsensical as this, it's one of those what came first discussions the troll or the bridge it lives under.

     

    Anyway I can't bring anything deep and meaningful to the table but when I think of it like an actual programmer would, the argument in the positive starts to become quite unreasonable.

     

    If we think of the order of taxonomy in the real world and apply that to a parallel world on a computer simulation there would have to be some way to classify things in the simulation.Even if the simulation is using a greatly simplified system of classifying objects, like say java or C++ does where we have objects that fit into classes and take that as our taxonomic standard we are still presented with an almost unfathomable complex array of classes, sub classes and objects.

     

    Considering that our computers today are still in a rudimentary stage of development and "god" would have a much better computer than we ever would, the taxonomic complexity could be overcome.

     

    But for me that's where problem starts
    Classes and objects always have rules that are both common to classes and somewhat more flexible at the object level but in general (not always) objects inherit the ruleset of the class they belong to.

     

    Then it starts to get really complex as every object in the simulation is inheriting the underlying ruleset of the simulation in some way.

     

    So we have this top down taxonomic/classification system.

     

    Then when we investigate a biological entity or anything built of atoms really we come to find that there is another underlying rule set that also applies to everything in the real world on a quantum level. So we could assume the physical world is really built from the bottom (quantum level).

    So we are left with a conundrum, we have to classify our objects that all inherit some variation of the base rule set and then we would have include a contradictory set of rules to every object that exists in that space. So what becomes the base ruleset, the physical or the quantum ?

     

    It would seem the easiest way to achieve this would be to have the quantum rule set underpinning the taxonomic rule set but it becomes the perfect paradox because everything contained in that (quantum) class ie taxa would have to contradict the base rule set.

     

    Any programmer worth his salt wouldn't try to build a program based on two contradictory rule sets that operate simultaneously. Good programmers are somewhat lazy and efficient, they start with a concept and try to achieve that end a simply as possible.

     

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    When a kamikaze myna bird flies head first at your car and gets stuck between the AC condenser and the grille and then you have to pull half the front end off to get the bastard out because the dog is trying to dig it out.  It's the second time it's happened, the last time it was a pigeon. So far this car has been hit by a wallaby, a dog and about 8 birds, I'm starting to wonder if animals can't see silver.

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  19. Posted

    9 hours ago, hashslingr said:

    Too right Waterboy. Support your local bookshops. A possible couple of weeks wait and slightly higher price is better than ruthless capitalism and shameless tax evasion. 

     

    I used to support my local bookshop but it's long gone. Some parts of rural Australia are really struggling on the retail scene & Amazon will probably finish a lot the struggling die hards off or "pick our bones" as @waterboy 2.0 said. To survive a lot of retailers will have to start selling through Amazon and be forced to pay their ransom - they take a large chunk of profits & depending on the item being sold it can cost up to 16% of the sale price.

     

    It going to be hard for the smaller retailers to afford to pay the lease & pay Amazon's ransom/extortion rates at the same time. The older retailers will most likely just close down and disappear forever and anyone who does decide to keep trading will be forced to restructure to stay alive.

     

     

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  20. Posted

    2 minutes ago, waterboy 2.0 said:

    They'll pick our bones after they discount kill the competition.

     

    Without doubt, by the time they get established and few of the other multinationals move in there won't be much left to do in OZ to turn a legal profit.

     

    I wouldn't shed any tears if woolworths, coles, big w or kmart went the way of bell bottom pants, those cunts have been screwing everyone with predatory marketing and pricing forever. Sure I'd love to buy Australian but we don't make anything substantial here anymore so it's almost a moot point.

     

    Australia is gone, we can thank a long list of corrupt politicians for that, it was great while it lasted but now we're just pawns in the world game. Mallcolm turncoat is 100% dedicated to selling the pittance we have left (he's still pushing for the TPP) for a handful of magic beans, so enjoy it while it lasts.

     

    And thanks to the major Australian political system (two parties preferred by idiots) for selling my kids' legacy.

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  21. Posted

    They were supposed to be doing a "soft launch" last week, whatever a fucking soft launch is - half arsed to iron out the bugs I presume, but that didn't happen and then they were planning to go balls and all last Friday. I didn't sit there all day waiting for it but I did drop in a few times both midweek and then on the (fake) black Friday but I didn't see anything other than the ebooks and shit they've had for ages. Now (Tuesday) it still looks the same.

     

    I've been holding off buying shit for landfill day for my kids until these arse clowns get their shit organised but it seems like they couldn't organise a fucking chook raffle let alone a multi retail platform. Why make public statements about a launch and then not do it ? 

     

     

     

     

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    I've had a few non drug induced altered states.

     

    When I was kid I suffered from Alice in wonderland syndrome and I would trip my tits off as I fell asleep. It's hard to explain properly but I would feel like the walls of my room were miles away but paradoxically my head seemed much bigger than the room. It scared the fuck out me the first few times but I came to enjoy it after a while.It happened mostly when I was an adolescent but it still occurs from time time.

     

    I've had a few experiences where my heart has stopped in ambulances after motorbike accidents and I've left my body and watched the ambos working on me from above. I never saw any light or tunnel ect but one time it seemed like I moved past the just outside my body stage and started to move on, I just felt like I was in a void, trapped in no-mans land. Every time after I'd had an OOBE, I felt out of sync for a few days or even weeks almost like I was still hovering just above where I'd normally perceive things from and any small jolt or bump would again send me back to an OOBE state.

     

    Then when I had my first DMT experience I didn't completely break through and I just went to the same void I experienced during an OOBE after a motorbike accident. It don't know if seeing/feeling that void is a purely chemical process as the brain starts to power down and turn off but it sure felt like a real place (and it still does feel like a real place in the seconds before a DMT breakthrough), but that "space" is very familiar and real to me now. I actually prefer it to a full breakthrough sometimes as it's the perfect meditative environment where you still have enough consciousness to comprehend it.

     

    The worst one for me though is the fucking supermarket. By the time I've gone through and returned to the checkout, I'm in a state of sensory overload and the noises, lights, buzzers and bells etc send me into an altered state. It can be almost a full blown trip for me, there's no visual hallucinations though, which makes it even less enjoyable. It's like I get all the funky weird bits of a trip and none of the eye candy. I've never been diagnosed as being on the spectrum but I reckon I could be on the fringe somewhere.

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  24. Posted

    I was thinking surely there has to be a better way to have a look than strapping yourself to a steam powered stomp rocket, why not do it with a camera on a weather balloon and low and behold someone else has had the same idea.

     

    This guy is trying to build a weather balloon that deploys a glider that he hopes will return home with the payload from the camera. It's still early days with the development of the glider but he seems determined to get it working.

     

    Here's his project page

    Autonomous high altitude glider

     

     

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  25. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Bigred said:

    I have a 66ft sailboat and want to start a go fund me to the edge .Top tier donations get to come along for the trip .

     Now that's an idea @Bigred if he wanted to really prove something he should have mounted his steam powered stomp rocket on a ship and sailed to the edge and then fired it over the edge to get pics of the edge of the disk form above and below.

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