Lose more shit at once, faster.

Yeah, when I wrote "any normal practitioner", I was thinking of MK-ULTRA (as abnormal), but a CIA/DOD torturer/interrogator would fit the abnormal mold, too.

One more thought:

Your thoughts and emotions also get changed and rewired by:

Reading books
Seeing lectures
Talking to people
Practicing an instrument
Doing math
Falling in love
Having and/or caring for a kid

And a whole bunch more.

Hope you're not willing to give all that up out of fear.

I believe that in the US, under current law anyway, "forcing" such medication on a patient would be illegal, malpractice, and anathema to any normal practitioner.

I'll admit that there are corner cases where some patients are forcibly medicated (I know of none where psilocybin is used), but simple walking-around-really-depressed isn't going to rise to a forced medication scenario.

I'll offer a couple more thoughts:

1. If it's the 'tripping' part that scares you, they're working on subcomponents of the drug that provide little to none of the psychedelic experience. No idea where the work on this currently stands.

2. An anecdote, not data: from my couple experiences with psilocybin decades ago, my trips rank among the best and peak experiences of my life. Not "dude, I'm so messed up" but instead, open to all the best things in my life, aware of the potential in my hands to shape my life for good, more confidence in myself than I'd ever felt.

Uniformly good, and I feel it still benefits me. I got a peek behind the corner of the scenery of life, and better understand what's 'really' going on; what obstacles I'm capable of putting in my own way.

Not everyone's experience is good, nor so good, but in an assisted, therapeutic setting, I can see how this can help people.

A car few men can own, and even fewer can park!

I'm not aware that Trump has ever lived in Charlotte.

'using it as a "golden opportunity to leverage the Trump brand to profit through fraud."'

Doesn't he realize that's the point of the whole Trump presidency?

The software is either secure or it's insecure.

If it's secure, they have no concern that anyone knows how it works.

If it's insecure, hiding the source does not secure it.

Plus, they have access to the many AI software code analysis tools, just as bad actors do.

Those are some great videos. Thanks for the cites!

I'm doomed to remember the awful, awful date with an attractive woman I really liked, where I shouldn't have had coffee after dinner and we went back to her place, and she only had a curtain for a bathroom door, and I needed to have an explosive dump right now and I had to bolt out of there like an idiot?

In Technicolor?

I won't be able to bury that?

Sounds like the work of Captain Kirk!

Well TOS did the half-black half-white guys (one of whom was Frank Gorshin - the Riddler), and the green dancing girl (who just looked swarthy on my B&W tv) without blowing their heads way TF up.

The big head. It's excess. It's inflation. It's the same thing that for years made the big boss fight in every single cheap horror flick Satan. Really? Were there no other ideas? Where do you go for an encore?

I like that idea.

My take on it (why I didn't bother watching any of these): too many series, too obvious that they're building a big canon they can mine for all kinds of shit, too many humans in big-fucked-up-head makeup.

In an entirely different series universe, The Twilight Zone distinguished itself from The Outer Limits by declaring that it was "Not a monster show". A bunch of big-fucked-up-head make up doesn't substitute for story and characters. In fact, I think it can impede.

Yes, Star Trek TOS pilot had the big butt-headed aliens, and there were others over the years, but even by TNG, the Klingon makeup was over the top. TOS did a lot with a little.

I'm hugely open to the idea that other life forms might not share our morphology. So why do they all look like humans with big fucked-up heads? Project Hail Mary did a great job with Rocky (a practical effect, not CGI by the way!) If you're gonna seek out new life and new civilizations, howsabout boldly going where no costume shop and makeup department have gone before?

Canon-wise, there ought to be one story through-line, not a Coca-Cola-like line extension (Caffiene-Free Cherry Diet Coke...). Make it comprehensible.

This happened a couple days ago and I have the boxes here, went and looked at them. A GFiber WiFi 6e, and an Asus RT-BE86U. GFiber's info is mainly online, but same problem.

Well, because neither router says what you suggest on the package. Each mentions 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, but neither says what other standards the ports support.

Neither does the switch I used to fix the situation: it advertises 1Gb Ethernet ports.

The "big yellow burst" (yeah, of course I was being a little facetious) could let you know "this won't support the minimum speed, in the way everything else with this connector has for decades".

As it stands, nothing on the box will answer that question before you buy it and try it.