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I love these technical discussions. Just kicking each other in the nuts over and over.

She's so pretty.

I figure he's just a smart guy with a radically alien perspective. There's still some useful overlap, surely.

To be fair, the pro-work propaganda is directed at the middle of the bell curve. That guy in the middle has bespoke mindfuck beamed into his brain 24-7, but the guys on the ends are well out of the line of fire.

I dig pink Floyd deeply.

Presently listening to obscured by clouds a lot

And therefore..... this is an example of the dreams of youth definitely not being the regrets of maturity.

Popular scifi, written to appeal to the majority, for tv and movies, is actually only one special kind of scifi. And the majority isn't known for its depth or taste.

I'm not saying that there aren't exceptions, but ya, that's how it is.

There's a whole world of written scifi where the point is basically to show you something strange. Ideas so weird that scifi is the only way to convey them.

Here's some free, online scifi by good authors. Your mind will be blown.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

https://qntm.org/structure

https://library.gift/fiction/9F6810564C853BD3EA7223E4AB1FA575

Is science fiction enough for talking about politics?

My fave is shrooms. Real friendly and powerful.

I have never done DMT. Apparently it's like shrooms, a tryptamine. But that isn't saying much I guess.

These days I meditate.

Konami? Like, the videogame company?

Psychedelics is nice but meditation is better.

Gentle, manual, comprehensive, ceilingless.

Neo rises from his coffin.

I've had some delightful times on LSD.

Also, it (and some other things) led me to meditation. And that's real magic.