fyzygy
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Yes, it levitates.
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1 hour ago, acasshia said:Think of "blackouts" when drinking. You were there but you can't remember anything afterwards. The alcohol was impairing your brain at the time.
I think I agree with your point. Except that dreaming is an exceptional state, and I'm not sure it bears direct comparison with ordinary states, or states of intoxication. But maybe it does. You're saying, in addition to dreaming, our brain is (ordinarily) at the same time creating a memory of the dream? Why not just assume that the dreaming function itself has been impaired? I think people are REM-sleep deprived, quite often, and in that case, I doubt any dreams were being experienced in the first place, for the brain to codify into memory. And I think various cannabinoids may have an influence on REM states?
At peak levels of alcohol intoxication, the part of the brain responsible for "mapping" reality--the product of which we refer back to as our "memories" of events--has been temporarily disabled. Under the influence at extreme levels, no "memories" were created in the first place, to have been forgotten (although that's our subjective experience: we rack our brains trying to remember what happened. We can't because the brain simply neglected to map that portion of experience. The forgotten experience most certainly happened. I'm not so sure, as regards the "forgotten" dream-experience). This is what I've been led to believe, while informally investigating the issue a few years ago (having stumbled on a crate of vintage Puerto Rican rum while fossicking among the kerbside hard rubbish).
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Closer to home, in the Victorian parliament:
https://theconversation.com/eugenics-in-australia-the-secret-of-melbournes-elite-3350
Important legislation, in the form of three Mental Deficiency Bills, was presented to the parliament in 1926, 1929 and 1939 by the Premier Stanley Argyle ...
The bill aimed to institutionalise and potentially sterilise a significant proportion of the population - those seen as inefficient. Included in the group were slum dwellers, homosexuals, prostitutes, alcoholics, as well as those with small heads and with low IQs. The Aboriginal population was also seen to fall within this group.
The first two attempts to enact the bills failed not due to any significant opposition but rather because of the unstable political climate and the fall of governments.
The third in 1939 was passed unanimously, but not enacted in the first instance because of the outbreak of war and, later, due to the embarrassment of the Holocaust.
Other state parliaments were inspired to also institute such legislation by Berry’s many town hall lectures across the nation.
Important national Royal Commissions in the 1920s also recommended a range of eugenic reforms including measures relating to child endowment, marriage laws and pensions.
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Yes, those quotation marks are intentional. This plant was grown from (expensive) imported seed, supposedly spineless (maybe, when it gets big enough), supposedly "landrace" genetics from Matucana, supposedly "legendary" etc. etc. Not to complain, it's very beautiful but also ... spiny AF, at least for now. Snails seem to love it, at any rate. Of my three survivors, one was tall, one was stout, and one was blue. This is the tall one, though lately it's been giving the blue one a run for its money. (The stout one, alas, has long since gone to a new home). 20cm pup, loads of character. Maybe it's worth $2/cm including delivery, or make me an offer, if interested.
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20cm pup. Shade-grown, nice and blue. A few small blemishes. This variety I sourced from eBay seller "bush medicine" -- one of their favourites too, with fully recessed aureoles on mature growth that are smooth to the touch. I'm thinking it's worth $2/cm, including postage. Or make me an offer if interested.
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57 minutes ago, withdrawl clinic said:most eugenics topics are cencored by the australian state, they don't want you do know the truth.
I think it's rather that people themselves would prefer not to know.
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In a nutshell:
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It's shocking stuff WC, and so recent. Is the full video of A Dangerous Idea available somewhere?
Tuskegee is another reference point that comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
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I think psychiatrists are medically qualified, for what it's worth (not much to me -- doctors do more harm than good, in my experience).
Possibly the substances would have to be taken in a clinical setting? Degrading conditions, from what I've seen.
I think Andrew Robb can afford this. And anyone in the upper echelons of MMA.
I can't even afford the GP visit, to get the mental health plan, to qualify for my 10 free counselling sessions. I last paid $140 for a GP (Telehealth) appointment, got a referral to some top psychiatrist ... who never called me back. And that was the end of my association with mainstream medicine.
Let me guess ... it'll still be criminal to go mushroom-picking, worse than dealing heroin.
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Gone to a good home.
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To be fair, SBS On Demand hosts a 3-part documentary The US and the Holocaust. Episode 1 outlines the home-grown American eugenics movement, as a prelude to the atrocities of WWII. I mentioned Shoah above, and this work looks to be just as powerful and confronting (albeit in a different style).
Not very chill, but I thought it might temper some of the original poster's outrage.
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I've got a Langstroth hive in my back yard, but haven't been interested in robbing it for several years now. I wish someone would take it over from me.
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Unlikely. Nothing too rich, or wet. I doubt they need to be in a humidified enclosure at any stage. As seedlings they don't really need much organic material, so I'd stick with coir or peat, mixed with plenty of perlite or other drainage/aeration material. I've had them in straight peat (Jiffy pellets) and they worked too. Cactus mix (with terracotta chips), same. Jiffy pellets are hard to extricate roots from, when it comes to transplanting. Probably any seed-raising mix would be adequate.
They like sunlight, for at least part of the day.
There's a small moth or butterfly that lays little black eggs a bit larger than poppy seeds, you may need to watch out for (when the plants have grown a bit). I removed them manually, and seem now to be okay. I haven't noticed my snails or slugs going for them, as yet.
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Found a mid-section approx. 30cm underneath the house, where it has been sitting in the dark for several months. You know, ripening?
I'm no longer even sure which way is up, although it's probably not too hard to determine. I'd probably just lay it down in some dirt and wait for a clutch of new pups to emerge.
I've always found roseii (1 or 2) to be a bit of a slow grower. Nice and blue, this will make for a stunning plant. A few minor scars at one end, otherwise pretty clean.
PM if interested. I'm thinking $2/cm including delivery. Or nearest offer.
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What not to do: sterilise your bottle in the microwave. Mine had been perfect, already packed with the moistened media, but then I thought to sterilise the lot (minus the upper plastic section) in the microwave. 90 seconds and things were looking just right. But then I gave it another 30 seconds for good measure, and the whole thing basically melted out of shape. I did manage to cram something together, in the end, just not as roomy or elegant or stable as it was before. That had easily been my most perfect coke-bottle terrarium to date. It definitely takes a bit of practice, cutting those bottles to fit.
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https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/cathine
^ Ephedra sinica shows up on this document, alongside Catha edulis as natural sources of cathine. I'm guessing cathine is what explains the effects of dried khat leaf, which may be a half-decent substitute for E. sinica?
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I don't think anyone here is denying the holocaust, or sympathising with the Nazi regime.
It's very difficult trying to separate "facts" -- e.g. Coronavirus exists -- from their over- and mis-representation. Facts are always mediated, often with an unhealthy dose of moralism, and thoroughly interwoven with political/ideological assumptions and hidden agendas. I sympathised with the original poster because the contemporary media landscape (mainstream and social media) is infuriating, alienating, and fundamentally hostile to anything beyond its limited purview, a cynically calculated, dumbed-down version of (social, historical) "reality." But enough of my opinion (everybody's got one).
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18 hours ago, Cubism said:It's amazing that fascism can be inherited by the very victims themselves of fascism.
I think we're *all* liable to totalitarian thought and behaviour, the products of internalised oppression. I'll leave it at that.
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Leftovers from 2023 seed harvest, collected from a mature tree. Makes for a stimulating (compost) tea. PM if interested.
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The best documentary I've seen on the holocaust is the 9- or 10-hour film (in 2 parts) called Shoah. In it, the industrial mass transit system (i.e. railroads, with their clockwork schedules etc.) is briefly discussed as one of the enabling conditions of the Nazi extermination programs.
The German folk were primed for dictatorship by the pre-existing structures of patriarchal religion, according to a chapter in an out-of-print book, The Misery of Christianity.
Neither of these factors is exclusively "German" in origin or application. Western culture more broadly, is implicated in various programs of extermination (and of mass-extinction, in the post-WWII period). The United States, clearly, is no exception.
My only objection to holocaust commemoration is that it serves to function as a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for the Israeli state and Hebrew religion, both of which conduct some fairly atrocious business as a matter of course -- in my opinion.
Only an imbecile would maintain that the Nazis held a monopoly on totalitarianism, or racist oppression.
As John Pilger says of the war in Ukraine, nothing coming from the western media should be taken at face value.
I do hope this thread doesn't degenerate into another flame war.
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Trichocereus Pachanoi Seedling Slow Growth
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Everything's growing too slow for my liking at the moment. Probably something to do with my age, or other subjective factors.
I've had mixed results with takeaway tek method. If the media is properly wetted (not saturated) to begin with, there's seldom any need to intervene. Occasional ventilation probably doesn't hurt. I've never added anything other than moisture when (seldom) needed. And mine are always grown with natural light, no heat mat.
From one container I carefully withdrew about a dozen or so to transplant into small pots. They've hardly grown at all, and the remainder now remind me of bleached coral. Probably should've just let them be, for a little longer. Even opening the lid of some takeaway containers can be a violent upheaval.
In future, I wouldn't sow so many seeds at one time. It's tricky juggling hundreds of tiny cactuses. Maybe that's another advantage of the coke bottle tek -- smaller surface area. That said, my attrition rate is pretty high. Occasionally I end up with only 1 or 2 or even 0 from a batch of seed. Or at the other extreme, 50 or more that I have to find homes for. Different varieties do seem to respond differently to environmental conditions.
Patience is a virtue, especially when it comes to plants. I would say your growth rates are normal. Tricho seeds can germinate quickly, but the first year is pretty slow. Sometimes the first 2 years. But others here have more experience, I'm no expert. I'd be interested to hear what a few of the resident gurus have to say.
I've got some that are no bigger than yours, and they're probably 12-18 months' old.