The bigger flip is a Democratic governor. Ken Paxton is a human-shaped sack of shit, but Unseating Greg Abbott at the same time is genuinely shocking to me.
Y’all gotta get ready for Talarico to run in '28 - “It worked for Obama!” parallels are what the DNC’s been looking for since 2009.
Still, it’s going to fall pretty far short of supermajority in either House or Senate, which means any chance of impeachment and conviction is off the table. Getting 10 R senators willing to vote to convict, regardless of the evidence, is going to be difficult to the point of near impossibility. Even after seeing more than a few R senators get their comeuppance right now and expecting to be on the ballot in 2028 with Vance or Rubio as the candidate, they’ll still stand for the loyalty test to try and latch on to the money teat.
Good to know, thanks. I’ll give it a spin and see how it goes, but good to temper any excitement now.
Thanks for the head’s up.
To be perfectly fair, a lack of negativity as compared to Lemmy is what I need in life. I like Lemmy, but holy shit, it’s like 4 people posting memes, Violet08 once in a while, and then 5,000 Eores complaining about anything and everything. The number of times people ask funny questions about something like time travel, and multiple users say “go back in time and keep my parents from meeting” responses… WTF? I feel like over the last 6 months Lemmy has just descended into a mental health crisis, and it’s making it harder and harder to even have normal conversations.
Can you elaborate a bit? Restricted how?
Seems to be still limping along.
Like how I eat raw baked ziti. You can toast it, too!
No, they gave it to ME as the greatest gift ever!
Prove me wrong - what’s the agreement say? Read it to me, dipshit.
I also greatly dislike it.
The memes, I mean. I will keep some powdered milk around the house since I don’t usually drink milk.
For Americans: Adding this to a cast will cost $82,000 in insurance charges.
And all he’ll do is vibecode something that will get hacked within a month.
You just don’t seem to comprehend written English.
You know, we can disagree without you resorting to just being insulting.
Up to that point, I was going to say “hey, we might just need to agree to disagree on this, and it seems to be a matter of perspective.” But looks like you chose to be a dick instead.
He did the research. This is no different than Truth Social or Gabb, where off the shelf platforms already do all these things.
If this guy hosts it all himself, and doesn’t federate it, then that’s literally what already exists out there. He doesn’t want to leave the walled garden. He wants his own walled garden, and for you to plant flowers there.
Look, I’m not trying to discount your experience as real. I am suggesting that trying things like breathwork without someone there to explain step-by-step and guide your progress makes one - anyone - more prone to errors. Those errors can lead to problems. I mentioned going breathwork with retention, which is holding one’s breath. If you hold for too long, too many times, you can end up with tinnitus. Which I did, because I was also doing it wrong. It’s a common beginner’s error, and once corrected, it stopped being a problem for me.
Wikipedia has a known set of ideological bias, and because you’re looking at the (New Age) article, the bias of “everything in here is stupid pseudoscience BS, so light it up” is easily met. I can’t find the interview I saw a few years ago, because now everything is buried in some “is it wOkEipedia???” garbage slurry, but an editor says something like “Yes, I’m biased. Wikipedia should show my biases because I’m always right.” Which is…just such an egotistical human thing to say. Anyway, point is that if you’re looking at any Wikipedia page that can be dismissed as “woo-woo” then it’s automatically becomes fairly anti-that thing page.
Which I think you recognize. You’re doubtful about the relevance of a 1993 study already. And if you follow that to the citation, it’s a book named “Hypocrisy and Dissent Within the Findhorn Foundation: Towards a Sociology of a New Age Community” that seems like a hit piece on a singular foundation. Which, just a guess here, means someone in Scotland was teaching holotropic breathwork wrong, and ran into some problems, and it was assumed that holotropic breathing, and not the failures of one group, were to blame. Here we are over 30 years later, and you have as many citations supporting holotropic breathing as “dangerous” as there are that say vaccines cause autism, and potentially about the same quality of study. Which isn’t to say that more research isn’t needed, sure. However, I would suggest that if over 30+ years where increased research into breathwork has taken place hasn’t pointed to holotropic breathwork specifically as uniquely dangerous as compared to any other kind of breathwork, then maybe don’t single out one narrow practice based on one experience you had while 99.999% of other people seem to be getting along just fine.
Speaking of which, you’ll notice that Michael Pollin says that it’s CO2 levels in the blood, not holotropic breathwork specifically, that led to his AFib. Many kinds of breathwork change the CO2 levels in the blood. Pranayama does that. And so does Ketoacidosis - the keto diet, along with medical issues like kidney disorders that acidify the blood. So maybe projecting is the wrong term. Bias-seeking would be more accurate. Any number of things that produced low CO2 levels were going to have the same effect, and so had his experiment been about the keto diet, he would have had the same results. He had something weird happen as a side effect which was negative, so it met your bias. Which is normal and human, but please see that for what it is. You didn’t even have the same negative effects as Pollin, so it seems to me like the word “holotropic” is all that connects the experiences, yes? Did you do the practice right or not? I don’t know. Only you can know. But if you’re running into negative experiences based not on an established medical condition, then I ask what was the difference between what you did and the people that have a lovely time?
And you can’t really call a guy that wrote This if Your Mind on Plants and takes mescaline and goes off caffeine as not willing to try anything. It’s been a few years since I read the book, but I seem to recall he seemed like he was willing to grow opium poppies in his yard if it wasn’t for the simple fact that doing so, and writing about it, would have easily incriminated him in print and made the whole section of the book unpublishable.
Call it whatever you want, but if you’re trying to approach this from an evidence-based, scientific perspective, first off, you should say just “some breathwork has potential dangers.” Because it does. If you jump in a pool and to pranayama and breath retention and pass out, you can drown. Which was in Scott Carney’s book about Wim Hof. Not ideal, right? Yet, not holotropic, either. Second, eating a sandwich can lead to choking and death. Eating shellfish can lead to negative reactions and death. Eating too many eggs can lead to death. But we don’t call eating food “potentially dangerous” regularly. We don’t say “eggs are dangerous!” because eating 100 in a day will strip vitamin K from your cells.
I’m asking you to be specific and look at what you’re calling dangerous and why. Take a step back and be objective and specific.
First off, there’s a LOT of different kinds of breathwork out there. They each have nuance, caveats, and some dangers associated with doing them wrong. I did dirga pranayama breathwork with breath rentention for years when I had a different schedule in the mornings, and never had the muscle thing you mentioned. The only danger was in doing it wrong.
As for holotropic - here’s a study of 11,000 participants, where only 2% didn’t have any sort of interesting experience.
There were no adverse reactions or unresolved negative outcomes.
So, based on this, evidence suggests you might have simply not done it right. Which is common with people doing breathwork on their own. YT videos don’t often train you as well as a real human watching how you breathe.
As for calling it “dangerous” and you projecting that on accomplished “I’ll try anything” author Michael Pollin - why? Lots of things are dangerous and we do them every day. Driving a car kills about 40,000 people in the US. If he mentions driving a car, do you also groan and think “Don’t do it!”? Likely not because that’s something mundane to you.
The need for a trip sitter seems (as are the effects of breathwork according to a lot of people, honestly. It’s cool, but it’s work, not like dropping acid) overblown. Psychedelic experiences last about as long as the breathwork lasts - it’s that people keep up the breathwork for hours. Feelings of euphoria might last all day, but the need for a trip sitter seems unnecessary, IMO.
Oh boy!
Cacao is done better as KokoSamoa. Roast whole cocao beans until the air smells like hot cocoa. Then grind in a mortar and pestle and scoop into a ball. Let the ball solidify, then later, put it in a cup of hot water with sugar. It tastes like pure heaven. Zero dairy, and has a solidly just above mild euphoric feeling.
A tea of a little mugwort, a little wormwood, and star anise is bitter as fuck but will send you on a 30 minute swirly ride where your paredoilia is cranked up to 11. You can sweeten with honey, but it’s not exactly a sipping tea. (wormwood can be toxic in high amounts, this is not withccraft advice, see a shaman if you experience swirling lasting more than 4 hours)
OP, chamomile and lavender are a great pair for calming. Chamomile, hibiscus, lemongrass and rosehip also do a good job at that. Camomile, lavender, mugwort and hops will send you to sleep and you’ll enjoy some fun, vivid dreams.
Breathwork alone can easily get you to a weird, fun place.
And, of course, the smell of rain in the desert and fresh cut grass. To quote Hank Hill, “Why would anyone want to do drugs when you can just mow the lawn?”
First time I went to a marathon to cheer on a friend, within about 5 minutes I saw an old dude with a shit stream running down each leg.
It’s more common than one assumes.
YO. I knew a guy in the university improv group (which was actually good) that won a Freshmen talent competition by pissing himself on stage. In like 1999. I tried to do it myself once - harder than it looks unless you’re literally about to explode.
Fergie is 100% ripping off that dude.
That’s fair. I’m usually hesitant to block individuals because I don’t think one or two negative comments should invalidate someone’s opinions forever. Sometimes I even try and engage to try and provide some human connection. But, maybe it’s worth a try on the obvious negative for the sake of it folks.