@Scott_Wiener Jeeezzzeee I remember visiting SF during Covid and YOU had everyone worked up about non stop masks inside and out, wild world we live in.
@RealCandaceO@NickJFuentes@RealCandaceO I just tried to get past that retarded captcha for 3 minutes. Was going to pay, now I will wait. Not only is it almost impossible to get to line up 100% on a cell phone, when you do get it, it asks for a 2nd time. I have a VPN on, why is this such an issue?
@LauraLoomer@calleymeans@LauraLoomer plant medicines helped me get off all the pharmaceutical they had me on. Gave me the insight and power to say no. This is insane that you are arguing against it. In the next few years it’s going to be a major alternative to antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds
@crotchner2 I worked at an elite summer camp for kids from Calabasas and rich parts of LA. I would take dozens of kids to get get their HGH shots every night. The kardasian kids went here, Arnold’s, all the rich. Was such a trip, bc it was so so so normal to them
@crotchner2 I worked at an elite summer camp for kids from Calabasas and rich parts of LA. I would take dozens of kids to get get their HGH shots every night. The kardasian kids went here, Arnold’s, all the rich. Was such a trip, bc it was so so so normal to them
@Iberianamerica@Wee3ny3 Other than the Lost City and the the statue ruins, what other archaeological stuff can I find? I explored San Agustin and looking for more ruins
Why don’t more Representatives stand on principle? Because telling the truth can get you in hot water. I’m going to need your help. I will run again because we need at least one person in Congress who won’t cave. Can you show support by contributing now?
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HOW SOCIAL TRUST IS ERODED - A VISIT TO INDIA 🇮🇳
🧵 A few years ago now I spent some time in India. One of the more lasting impressions I have from that period was the degree to which the low trust environment there (of a kind) wore me down mentally and transformed my attitude towards public spaces from a by disposition fairly ‘high trust’ person to being much more cynical and constantly on guard - ie being ‘low trust’. Over the space of the first month or so, because of the environment, experiencing real psychogenic anguish at the mental transition from being basically well meaning and otherwise liberal to irritable, combative and developing (experience-informed) prejudices.
My assumptions about how easily you can sustain ‘high levels of social trust’ were shredded. Many people take for granted that high levels of social trust can be upheld without excessive coercion on a sort of naive libertarian basis of most people naturally being ‘fairly decent’ and so behaving ‘fairly decently’. Though I’d encountered this ‘low trust’ behaviour in a many other countries it was in india, because of how common and obtrusive it was, that it became impossible to avoid internalising that a lot of people are not in fact ‘fairly decent’ and that if enough not ‘fairly decent’ people get together they can easily despoil social environments.
Let me give you some examples of the kinds of behaviours you would encounter in India and then explain how prolonged exposure to those behaviours changes you. Granted you are a ‘Mleccha’, a ‘Gora’, (Foreigner, White Man) so qualifier you are treated differently but you still encounter these attitudes appreciably more than you would in many other countries. They do not of course represent the attitude of every Indian (I am an amateur Indologist I love India don’t @ me) but it evidences a certain ‘dog eat dog’ ‘tragedy of the commons’ mindset on the part of a part of the population that results in very appreciable low society wide social trust, at least over certain behaviours. (Others may be more policed eg social roles.) (Incidentally I think this mentality is one of the principal causes for many of India’s systemic problems but that is a separate topic.)
• Take a tuk-tuk or taxi. Driver pretends his meter is broken, quotes price ten times more than actual price. Doesn’t have any change, doesn’t have a card machine. Starts arguing with you when you say you are not giving them more money they should have the change. Sometimes will plead for large tip even if you pay them more than the actual price too. To combat this you have to be prepared to argue with the driver every time you take a taxi (start ‘fights’) and bring small change with you everywhere
• Taking the Mumbai Metro with a woman (naively), metro is incredibly crowded. Man uses crowd as an excuse to press himself up against the woman, starts masturbating. Woman screams, starts to have panic attack - but crowd doesn’t really react. She runs out crying at next metro stop
• Walking around on streets - lots of beggars approach you, often old women, young children, people with some kind of disfigurement, hijra etc. Sometimes they aggressively grab your wrist, your clothes, tug at your shirt and refuse to let go. Often will follow you for a while even if you tell them to go away
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Kanye trolls Jewish people wearing a swastika shirt in LA. This is how Black people feel when Jewish label owners push drill and gangsta music on our people.
@LiveinaRepublic@Surabees@JackPosobiec Opioid wd is not life threatening. It can be extremely harsh, but not going have a seizure and or die of majority of opioids. Benzos on the other hand can kill you in withdrawal. Lyrica, gabapentin, etc class drugs, gaba analogs, absolutely can give just as harsh withdrawals,zaps
"If you're a criminal, you'll be deported."
— Barack Obama, November 20, 2014
This is exactly what President Trump is doing right now, but Democrats still pretend to be outraged.