• Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    24 days ago

    One time on a bunch of mushrooms i was saying that i don’t think i could have a bad trip because “everything is so beautiful”

    I retract my previous statement

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    24 days ago

    I can’t imagine tripping on livestream with Mr. Beast, Saturn Eating His Son, the CEO of Salesforce, and Grimes telling me about her latest plan for gamer communism. That would feel so bad in so many ways.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    24 days ago

    you can only imagine my anguish when my younger brother-in-law started quoting this lizard person’s reading of health studies on the effects of diet soda at thanksgiving.

    • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      11·
      24 days ago

      I still remember being a kid watchibg the Johny Depp Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and not understanding anything but the line about “this is what everyone would be doing if the nazis had won” really sticked to me

    • cricbuzz [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      24 days ago

      ​In 1653, a 15-year-old Louis XIV starred in a 12-hour-long ballet at the Louvre, performing before the royal court and ambassadors of every European nation to display his mastery over mind and body and the prowess of French culture. The lifespan in France at the time was about 30. Johnson’s marathon livestream is something of the 2025 equivalent, a prince of tech displaying his mastery over mind and body and the prowess of technology — and its promise to expand our lifespans, so that we enjoy ever more years of consuming marathon livestreams.

      jeeeeeeeezzzzuuuuuusssss chrrriiisssttt this author glazes this guy so aggressively

      • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        24 days ago

        [teenage monarch makes a bunch of nobles sit for 12 hours and watch his dismal dancing who were then forced to compliment him on it]

        braindead liberal: it was a breathtaking performance!

    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
      17·
      24 days ago

      Let’s hope they get massive ego death and someone gives them a bad trip. I feel psychedelics really aren’t that useful, anyway, having done far more than my fair share.

      • mendiCAN [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        24 days ago

        I feel psychedelics really aren’t that useful, anyway

        i feel compelled to defend them even tho we probably agree cuz golly i really like em. feels like a hard reset on my noggin when it gets to misfirin’… like head meds should do but don’t (for me)

        • Sebrof [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          24 days ago

          I can see both points here. This is just a personal and anecdotal rambling, but I think of it as “once you get the message, put down the phone”

          I find that psychedelics, over the years, have had this diminishing return where it shows me the mountaintop for a moment before placing me back at its base. The mushrooms are like a helicopter trip over that summit, you can get a look at it for a while but you don’t get to stay there. If i want to stay then I have to do the hard work of climbing.

          So they definitely show me that there exists something different, a different way to think, be, and experience, but once I’ve got “that message” then the subsequent trips hit less and less.

          It’s like it did what it could and now the ball’s in my court.

          And this isnt to knock them. They definitely can give you a good “reset” for a time!

          At this moment, I take them as it telling me that I need to do the next steps full of personal changes. Which is the less fun and more difficult part sad-boi

          But I dont think these folks will get much, they may not hear the message lol.

          Watch them come back with the ‘realization’ that “other people have, like, feelings and stuff, man!”

  • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    24 days ago

    i can’t wait for the “psychedelics make you a better person” horse shit to die when people catch up to the reality that most of the ghouls have done them

    • Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      24 days ago

      reminds me of the dude i met at a music festival in a distant era whose personal flavor of wonk was “we need to get the CIA on LSD” because once they do they will realise we’re all one giant consciousness, and the universe is so beautiful, god is within all of us, etc, and they’ll stop being evil.

      yeah dude the vampire class that rules the earth never had access to psychedelics, and no evil person ever tried LSD and came out more evil