Yeti101

Something to assist sleep would be very handy in my household. Would love to know the science behind it's effects though. What receptors does it hit? Does it have interactions/synergies? Side effects? Other health benefits? Will it grow anywhere else?

On that I am much closer to agreement. Whoever Q is, they are up to something.

Or deliberate psyops/propaganda? I'm all for keeping an open mind, but am waiting to see some of the less subtle events come to pass.

A package of white powder is unexpected delivered to your house - it's not addressed to anyone who lives there, and its label is ambiguous at best. Call me old-fashioned and un-feasibly risk-averse, but does racking up lines of it really seem like an appropriate or sensible response? Depending on what it was it really could have killed the lot of them!

Not sure - will have to check. But I was talking about organising a meet with a couple of other members, so this is timely .

Yeah, Happy New Year !

I don't really have a mycological space at my current place yet. But I did get a copy of Mycelium Running for Christmas, have read the whole thing already and am feeling very inspired.

Again, not for beginners, but super-cool: https://blog.arduino.cc/2017/12/29/ultrasonically-levitate-particles-and-liquid/

I'm not familiar enough with how Pennsylvania keeps its court records, so this is all I could find: https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/docketsheets/CPReport.ashx?docketNumber=CP-02-CR-0011185-2015 TLDR: Charges of dissemination and criminal use of a communications facility were dropped, Smith pled guilty to possession of the images, and was sentenced to 5 years probation - has to ask permission to travel etc., and has to continue treatment. That's all we can say for sure. Whatever happened, any speculation without evidence to back it up is unlikely to provide anything useful. Ironically & in contravention of the previous sentence, I'm not sure that knowing the truth of this case would make anyone much happier or wiser.

I'm not sure any Christmas message can ever top this thread. Have a good one everybody.

Proof that proximity to cacti doesn't magically lead to enlightenment, wisdom or morality.

I'm going to throw a bit more in - hopefully there's a last-minute rush.

autoethnography

Well I don't have much spare cash to gamble with, so any investment I make would be small, and probably long-term. Also, because I don't follow crytpocurrency & blockchain news very closely (at all), I had no idea there were so many ICO's happening. I shouldn't be surprised, but do feel that we are missing out. SABcoin anyone?

I'd be interested in what people make of this ICO and the plan for the coins themselves: https://ico.presscoin.com/ There's a lot of fine words in their website, - talking about being transparent, asset-backed etc., but I'm deeply suspicious.

I don't know, there's a lot of Michael S Smith's out there - though one was arrested for armed robbery last year....

I'll be there from noon(ish).

Damn! Look after yourselves, and like T says, look after your mates.

Lots going on here, so it might take me a while to figure out what (if anything) I can add to it that's actually worthwhile. Fucking epic thread though, have really enjoyed binge-reading it all in one hit.

Land of the free and all that, so you never know - it might happen.

Is this guy for real? Piloting a home-made rocket is kind of dangerous, whether the earth is round or not! Still, full marks for commitment to only accepting empirical evidence that you gather yourself.