krispyfi

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by krispyfi 5d ago
I wouldn't celebrate the end of the war on drugs just yet. Even if psychedelic medicines are approved, bifurcated scheduling means that rich white people using psychedelics in clinics would be respectable medical users, but the same ex
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by krispyfi 5d ago
Methamphetamine can be synthesized from the ephedra plant, and a total synthesis of LSD exists.
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by krispyfi 5d ago
"drugs or alcohol" I usually encounter this framing from alcohol drinkers who are trying to be self-righteously judgemental about users of other drugs without getting hit by their own boomerang, so seeing it used for what is essen
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by krispyfi 5d ago
"If I couldn't, three times a day, be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, in my anguish I will turn into a shriveled-up roast goat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweigt_stille%2C_plaudert_ni...
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by krispyfi 9d ago
Context: https://kvibber.com/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/
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by krispyfi 26d ago
You are describing the world as it exists, while I'm saying that we should have a better one.
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by krispyfi 26d ago
So if you really want to nab someone but you don't care what the charge is, you can threaten them with a 4th Amendment-violating search, which induces them to destroy evidence. Pretty neat trick. IANAL, but I don't think it's
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by krispyfi 2mo ago
User takes a large dose and dies -> "they should have used as directed" User takes a large dose and gets high -> "why does big pharma condone drug abuse???"
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by krispyfi 4mo ago
2020 was famously a period where the pandemic and the opioid crisis were causing death and despair all over the country, but somehow that became the excuse for backpedaling on decriminalization in Oregon before there could have even been ef
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by krispyfi 5mo ago
You have it precisely backwards. Culture belonging to the people is the default, natural state, and copyright is an unnatural legal fiction that should only be tolerated insofar at it produces a net positive in terms of promotion of the art
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by krispyfi 5mo ago
In the US, it is the responsibility of copyright holders to protect their IP through tort litigation. Japan is so captured by industry that they will put people in prison for what should be a civil matter. I'm sure it's just a coi
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by krispyfi 6mo ago
Cyclist in Tokyo here. Maybe I wouldn't need to go on the sidewalk so much if they didn't let cars treat the bicycle lane like roadside parking. Enforce that before enforcing some stupid green ticket. We need dedicated bicycle la
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by krispyfi 6mo ago
Also blocked connecting from Japan. Fuck cloudflare.
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by krispyfi 8mo ago
Yes, I assumed it was a macos equivalent to suckless-tabbed. https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/
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by krispyfi 9mo ago
I had the opposite reaction. As someone who was on team PSX, the wobbly jank is pleasingly nostalgic. Didn't someone say that the limitations and artifacts of the obsolete media of the past become the sought-after aesthetics of the fut
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by krispyfi 9mo ago
Yeah, it's more of a cherry on top than a primary goal.
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by krispyfi 9mo ago
The war on drugs is a scam. Cocaine prohibition is a pretext to oppress indigenous peoples of the Andes. https://filtermag.org/world-health-organization-coca-prohibi...
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by krispyfi 11mo ago
Aside: "Hallucinate" was an unfortunate choice of words. It should have been "confabulate". And, yes, humans confabulate, too.
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by krispyfi 1y ago
> The Terminids Icon Terminids, sometimes referred to as the Terminid Horde[1] or Terminid Swarm, and commonly called Bugs, are one of the enemy factions in the Second Galactic War. They have control over 21 planets. The Terminids have b
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by krispyfi 1y ago
Calling the markings on the casings, "antifa" is premature, in my opinion. The arrows are a Helldivers II reference. "Bella Ciao" appears in Far Cry 6 and is featured on a Groyper Spotify playlist. (The suspect cosplayed
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by krispyfi 1y ago
There are other kinds of wealth, like the ability to have your enemies accidentally fall out of windows.
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by krispyfi 1y ago
Source? Their patent expired, and Wikipedia says they stopped making it on the 60s. Occasionally a sealed bottle of Delysid will surface somewhere, but I think that they are all vintage.
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by krispyfi 1y ago
Remind me to never toss your salad
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by krispyfi 1y ago
> Metal Gear creator / problematic gaming legend Hideo Kojima got his start on the platform with his classic potboiler “Policenauts” That should be "Snatcher". Criminally overlooked game.
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by krispyfi 1y ago
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
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by krispyfi 1y ago
Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says it's an urban legend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legends_about_drugs?se...
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by krispyfi 1y ago
And they are mischaracterizing the concept of "normalization of deviance". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
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by krispyfi 1y ago
Also Albert Hofmann and Alexander Shulgin
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by krispyfi 1y ago
A ruler is called a "ruler" because it has rules. > A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge or metre/meter stick, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a length is read from a series of
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by krispyfi 1y ago
> From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₃réǵe

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