If you want to read more about experiences, Erowid had a great library of information, including write ups of people who have used different drugs before.
Hmm, the human mind is very complex. So there are all kinds of things. I'm not having these thoughts involving actual people. But I can let my creativity run free and imagine all kinds of fantasies. I also read books and picture things. Or watch movies that contain violence. But I separate that from reality. With that said... There are things like intrusive thoughts. A lot of people for example report being haunted by the intrusive thought, they could (while driving) at any time yank the steering wheel, crash into that concrete bridge pier and die. That might be uncomfortable. I think it's called "L'appel du vide" or "the call of the void". But I think it's connected to the brains ability to weigh options, picture outcomes and assess risks. We can also assess dark scenarios. That in itself isn't bad. But it becomes an issue once you lose control or it starts affecting things. Same applies to other disturbing thoughts/fantasies. I'd be super careful if it involves real people. But I mean we do that. We sometimes also fantasize about positive things. Like having sex with someone who is out of reach. Maybe that's practically the same thing. But it comes with issues.
So yeah, I'd say things like that happen to mentally sound people. It depends on the extent and how you deal with it. And there isn't anything like a "mentally sound" person in my opinion. Most people I've met are crazy (in a good way) one way or another. And life isn't strictly one thing or another, either.
One thing that makes me worried though, is you mentioning the word "sadistic". I can't relate to that. I'm not sure if it's a common (or healthy) feeling. I think I've never experienced any urge to be sadistic towards any living being.
Play order for portable Zeldas: Link’s Awakening (DX is the same game with an additional dungeon), then both Oracles games (Seasons and Ages, there’s content you can only see if you play both), then Minish Cap, then Four Swords.
I smoked crack in my teens. I think it’s an unfair stigma to judge crack worse than cocaine - even though I know you’re not proclaiming that or anything.
I think it’s an unfair stigma to judge crack worse than cocaine
Like so many stupid things that don’t make sense, it originated in racism.
Basically, the Reagan administration realized that more black people used crack than powder cocaine and it was the other way around for white people, so they made the sentencing for crack harsher by a margin of 100:1 to make sure there were more black victims of the War On Drugs than white ones.
This, combined with the Reagan, Bush, and afair also Clinton administrations demonizing crack users as the ultimate example of “it’s their own fault for the moral failing of doing street drugs” bullshit, and the for profit yellow media happily following their lead, is why even people without a bigoted bone in their bodies still think that crack is a hundred times worse than the pharmacologically identical powder cocaine.
Let’s be real though, crack is significantly more addictive than regular cocaine. The high is higher, it lights up all the dopamine receptors in your brain. The high is much shorter, and the crash is much harder, which pushes users to use more to avoid intolerable withdrawal symptoms. Cocaine is “mellower” in pretty much every way. All the bad parts of cocaine use are only magnified in crack use. All this is completely independent of fucked up drug policy
How has nobody said Connect yet, I tried most of the other clients people mentioned and settled on connect.
This is after using Sync Pro for years on Reddit the pricing of the lemmy version just put me right off to the point I’ll admit I haven’t even tried it but then again I’m not interested in anything that puts ads on an adless service and I also will never try it as long as this is the case.
I started with connect and never left. Some of the videos weren’t working due to API changes. But for about 2 weeks, everyday there was an update fixing one or two of them.
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