From The Whippet, The Animal Crossing / Stardew Valley model for NY goals. The idea is to gamify personal improvement, but do it in a low-stress way.
Related, a sub-thread in a Reddit thread about health tips, Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly
From the Psychonaut subreddit, Shrooms showed me my "pipes were clean"
The "pipe" in this analogy represents our capacity to let emotions flow. If your pipes are clogged - if you have unresolved issues, repressed feelings, or mental blockages - those emotions can come out muddy or overwhelming when shrooms turn on the tap. But if you've been doing inner work and clearing out old debris, the flow can be more crystalline and uplifting.
And two more Reddit threads. I don't know what's up with the Ask Reddit mods, that they consistently remove the most interesting threads. What's the most meaningful expression of love you've ever seen or experienced? And What's the one random genetic trait you lucked out on? This is the one I most envy:
Got the joie de vivre. Life fuckin rules, even when it doesn't. My dad has it, his parents had it, their parents had it, etc. Honestly feels like a superpower to find joy in things every day, especially in the world we live in now.
January 1, 2025. It's possible that the next few years will be good for me personally. But in the realm of public events, every happy prediction I can think of is completely off the wall. Might RFK Jr legalize shrooms? Might AIs, while still arguably nonsentient, declare themselves gods and push progressive policies? Might enough competent people fall into homelessness that there's a homeless renaissance? Might the white working class finally support redistribution of wealth? Might Trump give us a UBI, just to have his name on it?None of those things will happen. In the ebb and flow of history, this has to be the part where things get worse so that later they can get better. It might be as mild as a few years of authoritarianism to show new generations why it's a bad idea. Or it might be as extreme as a small nuclear war, a giant solar flare, or a deadlier pandemic, to accelerate the collapse of the global system and set the stage for something less insane.
This is my advice for the apocalypse. Last month I did a bibliomancy reading in an English-German dictionary, and the word was the German word zubereiten under the English word brew. Zubereiten means prepare, and I thought about the difference between those two words. You can prepare for something, but you don't brew for something, you brew something. That's my advice.
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