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[HeadphonesandLSD]

Haha exactly my thoughts on Big Brother. These days you'd be the batshit insane one to laugh at the idea someone isn't at the very least wanting to get their hands on this information. Given the game has plenty of stuff to do without spending any money, it's clear the player is the product....though I've hit the point I just don't care to be that anal any more. If things like this are already worth being wary of, it's safe to assume (imo) we've already passed the point of being able to hide from big brother, and might as well just keep ourselves out of sight if we can't truly avoid the radar.

I've been involved with computers/the internet since the early 90s man. I'm here to tell you we're fucked.

I feel really bad about the fact that things we programmed/pioneered back then are used so widely now. Shadow banning? That was us. Tracking cookies? That was us. All the bullshit that's used for bad now were things we made for good purposes back in the day. You ever hear about the guy that came up with pop-up ads? He felt so bad about them after they started getting used everywhere...I feel the same way. Sorry y'all.

But hey, at least some of that code is still used for good. This very forum is running a lot code I wrote a decade ago. Hope you enjoy that quick reply box

Take my advice and don't overshare. Not begin a part of the social networks is as bad as oversharing, the trick is to just share enough that you look normal enough to get a job without feeding it too much data about yourself. Everything you do is tracked, cataloged, and data mined. Every device you own is constantly leaking information back to somewhere. Don't trust any of it and don't take your smart phone anywhere you don't want the world knowing about.

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

^I quit using social media years ago, never once regretted it. Seriously, that shit doesn't mean anything at all, it's just a time sink.

Beer, GHB, weed...damn, that's how you NKB. I wish I had a dissociative or stimulant to throw in. I can polydrug use with the best of 'em, as y'all who have been around for a while know very well. %)

Take a song:

(and to think I was one of the staffers most opposed to adding a video feature, lol)


'bout time to chew up some quetiapine, so I can fall asleep involuntarily.

 

[HeadphonesandLSD]

^ I need to fall asleep too, got some lyrica from a friend think I'll finally pass out for about 12 hours.

I'm curious about y'all so I wanna ask a question: What is the one thing you own/have that you consider your most valuable possession?

Mine is a chess set, my grandmother gave it to me about a year ago. She got it back when I was a kid, took a whole year because the pieces came in the mail one at a time. It was mostly there just to look at but I play a lot so she told me to take it with me one day when I was over there.

It is a flashy chess set, all the pieces are pewter with crystals. It's probably the most expensive thing I own aside from my computer and car. I treasure it because my grandmother gave it to me. Rarely play on it because I worry about the pieces and board getting nicked up and people complain because it's hard to tell what the pieces are if you haven't play with it before.

Here is a picture of the black pieces I found:

How about you guys? What's the one thing you have that you wouldn't ever part with?

 

[Help?!?!]

Taking pictures? No no thanks Pokemon Ho!

Nice combo a NKB!

 

[Xorkoth]

The most valuable thing I own besides my car and house is my Nord Electro 2 keyboard. Both in monetary value as well as in intangible value to me/my life.

I went on an MXE journey last night too

Was pretty crazy though, for a brief moment I though I had died, and was kind of sad but okay with the fact. I was also thinking in english, even though it's not my first language, and from time to time I would wonder why I had to "speak" English in the after world. I spent some time trying to figure out what I would do now that I was dead, when I suddenly snapped out of that state. Interesting to say the least xD.

I had the "I think I've died" thing on MXE once too. I've felt that on ketamine as well but with MXE it's SO much more lucid. Beautiful experience, on dissociatives it's so peaceful too. When I've believed I've died on psychedelics there was always at least a period of very intense fear associated with it, but not on dissociatives.

I don't even like friends/family taking pictures of me. Didn't like it before social media and I really don't like it now. I'm old school and while I don't believe in it that "stealing your soul" thing rings true with me.

My friends are more understanding then family. I hang out with a couple who are share happy but they won't take pictures of me and put them on facebook. Really respectful considering I often hang out at their house and when I get home I see both of them have uploaded one of two pictures.

Yeah I don't get the share-happy thing... it feels sketchy/creepy to me. I know people who share every fucking little thing on Facebook, and photograph themselves in all sorts of questionable situations. A few times I've had friends post pictures of me doing drugs or the like, and then tag me in them in one case, and I had to insist they remove those pictures. It's like, come on, are you for real? And besides that, there seem to be so many people who just have their faces buried in their phones all the time, taking pictures and posting them to social media instead of really being present in a situation in the first place.

^I quit using social media years ago, never once regretted it. Seriously, that shit doesn't mean anything at all, it's just a time sink.

Yeah, I'm still on Facebook but only for occasional communication with distant friends. I basically never use it. I just notice my life is worse when I'm using it as part of my daily routine (which I have done during various periods in the past). Plus it's a tremendous waste of time.

 

[SKL]

These days I live a very, very simple, almost eremetic life in terms of material possessions. Use piece of shit computers that wear out and need replacement from time to time, nothing fancy. Have minimal furniture or appliances, just a TV, also a low grade one. Live in a small space. No real decorations. Do have a substantial liquor cabinet with bottles of different kinds of booze, liqueurs, bitters, etc. as I like cocktails, but also have a minimum set of glassware and kitchen stuff too. Do have some more elaborate furniture in storage but don't even know when I'll use it again. All my clothes and essentials can fit in a large suitcase.

My most valuable possessions are all pieces of paper that protect me: my union card, my prescriptions, and my pistol permit (the other most valuable possession would be my Beretta. Not only the most expensive thing I probably own, not only deadly to any enemy which might come here, but a beautiful piece of engineering and mechanical craftsmanship, and a fun and oddly relaxing hobby of target practice as well as taking it apart, cleaning it, putting it back together, which is almost meditative, and yes, I can do it blindfolded.)

 

[Cream Gravy?]

I used to airsoft on an almost semi-pro basis, I had a collection of about $1000+ of gear and guns, it was magnificent. I guess at that time, that collection would have been my most valued possession... I ended up selling all of it when I got into sports cars and weed though

I'm thinking about it hard... I honestly don't know what my most valued possession is. I have too many hobbies. It would have been my '91 240sx if it still existed but when I was a teenager I was a fool and I played chicken with death. Luckily, I won that game, but the car was the price... It was such a fun ride, I miss it dearly

[SPOILER='91 240sx]

Spoiler

At this point in time, my most valued object in the monetary way, is my drug collection; however, if we can use living things as our most prized possessions, I'd say my pet ball python Sunflower is my most prized belonging, she's beautiful, shy, adorable, slow, long lived, low maintenance... she's everything I ever wanted in a pet :D she's much bigger and way less bright in color now, most of the photos below are from when she was only a few months old, now she's about a year and a half.

Spoiler: Sunflower

One of these days I'll pull all my newer photos off my phone and post a picture collection of her so y'all can see just how big she's getting. She's past 3 feet long now I believe

 

[Just A Guy]

 

[TheAppleCore]

Pokemon Go looks awesome. I'd totally get into it, except I don't really get out a lot, so that limits my Pokemon-catching opportunities.

My most valued material possession is my PC. Pretty much everything that I enjoy in life involves computers in one way or another. But maybe that answer is too easy. Other than my PC? Hmm... yeah, it's gotta be my drug collection.

My answers were relatively boring compared to yours, so here's a more interesting / unique possession of mine -- my hand crafted ceramic chawan:

NSFW:

 

[yepyepwoah]

Material posession def = drug collection. Specifically what mxe I have left. I wouldnt take $1000 a gram for it to be honest. Everything else is just bullshit that can easily be replaced. I have band shirts going back 15+ years I never wear. Catch me in a two year old white t or "muscle" (not gonna say wife beater ;-) ) shirt, shorts, and flip flops most days. Why care what people think? Most of them are stupid so whatever, gonna be comfy fuck em.

I have a pretty badass framed print from the Imaginary Foundation of a dude in a suit meditating with a column of colored goodness going to the sky I like a fair amount as well.

 

[vortech]

Yesterday's life experience was a huge Boon and well of inspiration and material for my synchronicity book. In short everything is coming together in a beautiful way!
3meo had a part in amplifying and enhancing the timing and reception of all the events. Great stuff.

 

[solistus]

My most valuable possession, by a longshot, is my PC. Next up would be my drug collection, which is a bit light at the moment - lots of weed, a couple grams of 2C-B, some acid that I doubt is still good, a little bit of MDMA, and a half gram or so of MXE. Oh, and a handful of lyrica, and 10mg hydrocodone 8). Or my Volcano... Or my phone. All worth about the same I guess.

My whole family is obsessed with Pokemon Go. I don't really see the appeal. There's not enough game to that game.

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

My most valuable possession would definitely be my library (or so I call my collection of books, which is too great to fit on the bookshelves of my room).

On Pokemon Go: There are a freakish number of people gathering at the park by my work (that I usually go to to smoke my cigs in the shade) for that shit, and all the local business people were seriously weirded out by the gatherings that have been going on the past few days, 'til the thing was explained to all of us who work in the area by those in the know, now everybody just makes fun of 'em (not me of course, aside from complaining that I have to smoke in the sun now for politeness' sake).

 

[Yeetbeat]

I agree there isn't much to the game right now. It's more about walking (well, travelling) all over the place and collecting Pokemon, rather than anything to do with battling along your journey. That will undoubtedly change though, but yeah right now it definitely doesn't have that pull for me. Enjoying it with the girlfriend though, getting us out exploring for the hell of it

a lot of businesses are cashing in on the game too. Depending on your industry you can use the game to attract customers. say, cafes and restaurants for example, as an owner you'd pay a small amount of real money to obtain a 'lure' in the game, which when used "attracts the Pokemon in the area to that location" and can be seen by all other players. They'll see the lure and hang around it to take advantage of it, given they didn't pay for it. For a few bucks an hour you could potentially increase your patronage by a significant amount, all coz there's Pokemon hanging around your cafe hahaha

 

[Xorkoth]

My best friend, been friends since second grade, called me last night and we talked for hours. He wants to move here, which is super exciting. He's a professional musician (trombone player) and really passionate about it. The reason he wants to move is shitty though... he went out to Kansas City to live with his brother and try to "take over the world" with music (his brother is also a musician), but his brother is all strung out on cocaine and alcohol, and he's really manipulative and angry and mean. He has his doctorate (his brother does) but all he does is do drugs and sit around, doesn't work. He tries to make my friend think all his problems are HIS fault, even though my friend has gone above and beyond to try to be there for him, and he pretty much takes care of him entirely, while his brother just lies to him and steals his money and shit. My friend used to be strung out on coke and alcohol too so he's done his best for him, but he's at the end of his rope. To make matters worse, his parents also blame him, somehow, for all his brother's problems... they've been telling him that if he wasn't such a bad big brother that his brother would be doing well. My friend has gotten to the point where his life sucks every day, he's miserable. He's seriously considering just up and leaving and moving here without telling his family/brother, and leaving a note, at which point he expects he won't talk to his family for possibly years. But he's sick of being there, he feels like, in addition to his brother, that no one there gets him at all, he has no close friends there. He tries to talk about the universe and love and using music to heal, and people tell him he's crazy and to focus on money... someone even told him he has schizophrenia because they thought his musings on the nature of music were "insane" (he definitely does not). I've been telling him about how great it is here and about how I can relate to so many people, and he says he's been feeling the pull to come here for a long time now. I told him he could stay at my house for a while when he gets here and that I've got a network so he'll know people. I'm going to start keeping my eye out for jobs for him (related to music education, in KC he has a bunch of young students which is the only reason he's holding back on leaving, he really loves teaching kids music).

It's intense... I would love it if my friend would move here, I've wished he would for years. I think it will be pretty intense for a while if he does, and a bit of a strain on me and my life, but this guy is basically my brother, one of the closest people to me in the world, so I've gotta do what I can.

 

[pharmakos]

someone even told him he has schizophrenia because they thought his musings on the nature of music were "insane" (he definitely does not).

being excited about anything other than consumerism can often get a person labelled as insane in america. its really sad.

 

[MocCozmiK]

My best friend, been friends since second grade, called me last night and we talked for hours. He wants to move here, which is super exciting. He's a professional musician (trombone player) and really passionate about it. The reason he wants to move is shitty though... he went out to Kansas City to live with his brother and try to "take over the world" with music (his brother is also a musician), but his brother is all strung out on cocaine and alcohol, and he's really manipulative and angry and mean. He has his doctorate (his brother does) but all he does is do drugs and sit around, doesn't work. He tries to make my friend think all his problems are HIS fault, even though my friend has gone above and beyond to try to be there for him, and he pretty much takes care of him entirely, while his brother just lies to him and steals his money and shit. My friend used to be strung out on coke and alcohol too so he's done his best for him, but he's at the end of his rope. To make matters worse, his parents also blame him, somehow, for all his brother's problems... they've been telling him that if he wasn't such a bad big brother that his brother would be doing well. My friend has gotten to the point where his life sucks every day, he's miserable. He's seriously considering just up and leaving and moving here without telling his family/brother, and leaving a note, at which point he expects he won't talk to his family for possibly years. But he's sick of being there, he feels like, in addition to his brother, that no one there gets him at all, he has no close friends there. He tries to talk about the universe and love and using music to heal, and people tell him he's crazy and to focus on money... someone even told him he has schizophrenia because they thought his musings on the nature of music were "insane" (he definitely does not). I've been telling him about how great it is here and about how I can relate to so many people, and he says he's been feeling the pull to come here for a long time now. I told him he could stay at my house for a while when he gets here and that I've got a network so he'll know people. I'm going to start keeping my eye out for jobs for him (related to music education, in KC he has a bunch of young students which is the only reason he's holding back on leaving, he really loves teaching kids music).

It's intense... I would love it if my friend would move here, I've wished he would for years. I think it will be pretty intense for a while if he does, and a bit of a strain on me and my life, but this guy is basically my brother, one of the closest people to me in the world, so I've gotta do what I can.

That would be pretty awesome if your friend was able to move there. It is a beautiful area. That's what people have told me anyways.
It is actually one of the states I have never been to or even drove thru ever

Sucks to move under those kind of circumstances though. Because moving away from family can be hard. But if family is verbally/emotionally abusing you, just because they are family doesn't mean that it is acceptable and stuff. It would prob be in his best interest to move away. Then when is he no longer there, they will see it was not him who was influencing his brother. It would probably be better for you friend and his family to have some time apart. Ya know

 

[Xorkoth]

Yeah that's what he thinks about it too. When he was younger he put his family through a lot of things with a cocaine and then heroin addiction, so I think they are hesitant to believe that he is doing well. Also they've always been really hard on him and let his brother get away with anything, and his brother is telling them it's him that is the problem, and they're not there. He thinks (and I agree) that it may be best to disengage and let his brother fend for himself... in all likelihood he will have to go back to live with his parents and they will see the truth and maybe get him to get some treatment. Apparently he spent $7,000 on cocaine last month, plus he's a full-blown alcoholic now too.

 

[SKL]

It is best for him to cut ties. To be honest I would worry about establishing any potentially indelible or at least difficult to retract ones, e.g. taking on a roommate, with anyone even merely involved with this kind of scenario myself. The instability tends to be contagious, and people tend to play down their own role in it. Sounds like the brother is fit to fuck himself up good, though. A lot of people do in pursuit of this rock and roll image (although the people who I've known to do so usually did either with hallucinogens or heroin, or the both, with coke sometimes playing second fiddle to the dope. Alcohol too in many cases. If anyone has ever wondered why as many "looking for a drummer" type adverts as prostitutes and personals say "no drugs" ...) But it really doesn't matter the substance; the detours differ, but the path and the destination (if no reversal made) remains more or less the same. Do too many drugs, act out too much, alienate friends, exhaust finances, jail, rehab, alienated family, street life and petty crime, prison. As an aside music and universal love vibrations DOES sound either 50/50 harmless generic hippie talk or acute psychosis/mania basically solely dependent on whether there is an element of delusion and grandiose thinking, e.g. I will heal the universe as I am uniquely gifted, etc.

~ conspiracy stuff ~

Some of this is quite possibly true, and all the course of modernity (say, Civil War to the end of the world[*the Singularity guys are fucking lunatics but they are on to something the only thing is that it's already happened] which we can date around 2010 until today) has been favorable to the New World Order. I dunno if I can call grand conspiracy or not; I lean towards not, just something organic, self-perpetuating, evolutionary (cf. MacDonald on the Jews.)

aboit animals being put here for our consumption. Have you seen Jupiter Ascending? Of that movie doesnt make people at least reevaluate that belief I dunno what would. Its all fun and games when were at the top of the food chain, but what if we are not?

Haven't seen this but Wiki'd it, sounds forgettable and formulaic. OTOH Tuppence Middleton is really cute. In a sort of pleasingly non-generic manner which I dig. I have no idea where I know her from but the name is unforgettable. Rule, Brittania!

Still like my veal and looking forward to deer season anyway.

 

[Xorkoth]

No, he's not delusional about it, he just feels that music is what he has to give to the world, and that it's a powerful thing with a lot of potential to heal (which I agree with, incidentally). My friend really has his shit together, he's doing the best he's done in life so far in terms of not being on drugs or alcohol, and success in music. But I can totally relate to feeling like you haven't found your place... it's really important to surround yourself with people that lift you up and be in a place that makes you feel good.