I think this is a key to the argument for ad-block. If it was literally just banner ads without tracking, sure, go right ahead. Modern web advertising is so much more than that (aggressive tracking, data collection without consent, or worse).
I miss getting those banner ads for decreasing my mortgage rates as a 14 year old who doesn't even pay rent yet
This is an interesting argument. I own my computer and network, should I not be allowed to control what content is or is not allowed in my network? I guess the corollary that would follow from MY argument is that they should be permitted to block me from accessing their site if they see I'm not permitting ads
Exactly, users are the ones who should allow and block what contents to be served to their devices, NOT the websites.
> 2.12 People should be able to render web content as they want
> People must be able to change web pages according to their needs. For example, people should be able to install style sheets, assistive browser extensions, and blockers of unwanted content or scripts or auto-played videos. We will build features and write specifications that respect peoples' agency, and will create user agents to represent those preferences on the web user's behalf.
>I guess the corollary that would follow from MY argument is that they should be permitted to block me from accessing their site if they see I'm not permitting ads
That's pretty much what Medium and many general news sites are doing. I haven't paid for one yet, but I can respect the move if it means they don't need to rely on clickbait to build a customer base.
I will give this a shot. So far it seems like a planning app that includes tasks that i think of. I need something that alerts me of calendar events or upcoming things so that I don't forget about them. The app tells me it can set reminders and notify me but I don't think that is true from what i can see here.
From my experience with ADHD - calenders are excruciatingly hard to use consistently. Either it "takes too much time" or I completely forget I was trying to use a calender.
Having a tool that can automatically add items from infodumps/todolists would be useful.
I don't udnerstand the chrome extension part though.
Keep an notepad file open; only when you remeber add stuff to it. At some point it will become a hardened habit and honestly much better than some AI crutch. There are better uses for AI in my opinion..
Not true at all, and obviously im on this thread because im not neurotypical. ADHD is about misfunctioning emotional regulation and nothing to do with inability to form habits, as a matter of fact coping strategies is basically habits that work with disfunction. With ADHD I can focus extremely well, hyperfocus actually but not on the things that I find boring.
I'm strongly in the "near impossible to form habits" ADHD camp, so I agree with GP and disagree with you. Or, I guess, there are different flavors to the experience. Mine includes my mind actively resisting habit forming.
ADHD is also about executive dysfunction, which means I often forget or find it "too hard" (due to insufficient dopamine) to do the behavior I want to make into a habit.
But it's different to everyone, I have inattentive ADHD, you might have a hyperactive ADHD which means you struggle with emotional regulation and impulsivity far more than executive dysfunction and inattentiveness, so different tools work for you.
> Keep an notepad file open; only when you remeber add stuff to it.
"Keep using X, remember to interact with it" is exactly the problems people struggle with in the first place. This is not an actionable advice on its own.
I have many files and many pages of an actual notebook.
For the most part dates are near useless because I rarely refer back to todo-lists.
I've tried todo lists but they just end up being a pile of todo items I never look at, get around to, remember what they're for, or don't have time/priority to do it.
Obsidian helps a lot for actual notes. That's the only thing keeping me remotely organized.
> At some point it will become a hardened habit and honestly much better than some AI crutch. There are better uses for AI in my opinion..
That's very true, what I would love to see is have it intelligently pull todo items from my obsidian notes. I'm personally not a fan of using AI for anything if it's not local though, especially with access to all of my notes.
Google calendar is actually terrible for people with focus problems. Or at least I haven't found a good way to manage its alerts in a helpful way.
For one, basically all alerts are the same. Meaning there's no good way to make noisy alerts for critical events and quiet ones for mundane things. You can set multiple alerts for an event, like 1 week before, 1 day before, etc. But it's manual every time.
Something more like PagerDuty style alerts that let you set up classes of alert patterns would help. Alerts that blow up your phone until you get them would help. It's so easy to have the calendar alerts go completely unnoticed with just a chime if your phone is in your pocket or in another room or if your alert volumes don't happen to be perfect, which is pretty much impossible since background noise levels change throughout the day.
Even such minor things, like when you snooze an alert and you can configure it to notify X minutes before the event, if you select 0 minutes it still alerts the minute before the event which is enough time for me to get distracted again.
No, it's one of my biggest disappointments of technology today is that such basic tools are so poor at their job and lack such straightforward configuration controls. The tools are made to work for Google, not for you.
So of course people are going to points loads of third party add ons, and hacks to get calendar to be marginally more useful, but WHY should we need to jump through hoops to make our devices serve some actual useful purpose for us?
This is probably a holdover from arcade games - many score boards would check for "no no" words like ASS, SEX, DIK, etc and would change it to the initials of a developer or acronym for the company
I get what you mean, but to me that's a bit like avoiding using a shovel because you can dig with your hands. IMO learning these tools, how to use them well, and properly is going to be really helpful. That said I do already feel that dependence creeping in
Love seeing more research done on LSD. Hopefully the more we can prove its positive effects will lead to broader acceptance and safer use by all who are interested. I feel that most "bad experiences" can be avoided by education and ensuring the proper "set and setting", and the more we know about the substance's effects the better.
Yeah. People who have bad trips are often in bad places at bad times to take such a powerful substance. Or, they have a lot of pent-up fear or anxiety that the LSD simply unmasks and smacks them with.
I've had a bad trip exactly once, and it was when I had no control over my surroundings and was in an inopportune spot at the wrong time. The times when I was in a controlled environment of my own design with zero distractions, extremely low probability of bad things happening, etc... it was great.
Do it in your own home, when you have a full day of time and zero obligations to anyone including yourself, and you're around as few people as possible.
Agree with everything you're saying here, I'll add what might be obvious: it's generally best if the first doses aren't too large.
I first took LSD back in 2014 I believe, after researching everything surrounding the topic for a year. My wife was completely on board and we allocated a three day weekend.
All of the research indicated that it was completely safe from a physical perspective and for a stable and fairly well adjusted person like me, with a very informed and willing helper, fairly psychologically safe.
Me being me, I decided to go big on the first dose. I took well over 600μg.
I won't say this was a mistake for me, but it was a rather rigorous experience that lasted most of three days.
All of the trip was interesting. Most of it was a range between neutral and amazing, but there were definitely some bad trip elements.
About once a year since then I've taken a much smaller dose. At the moment I don't have a desire to repeat the huge experience, but I won't rule it out for the future.
Very briefly: during the worst of the bad trip parts I lost the ability to understand and produce language, which was scary for both my wife and I, though we understood that the impact would be temporary. This happened about 8-12 hours after the trip started.
None of my subsequent trips (all between 50μg and 200μg) had any big bad effects.
And yes, the whole experience was a big win. While I as doing pretty well beforehand, there were some areas of tunnel vision that greatly improved.
Fundamentally LSD is physically safe at most any reasonable dose. What remains is psychological safety, which is quite important. I've always been a well grounded person, and with the serious measures we took to prepare, I felt like it was most likely safe for me. And it was, nothing bad came out of the experience, even though there were some scary parts.
To be clear, the intensity of the trip wasn't a surprise. My wife and I knew that we were getting into a 'serious situation'.
When I said 'me being me' above, it's a personality trait: when something I'm interested in, that is potentially useful, and that is very safe comes up, I tend to go all in.
In general I strongly recommend people start very low and work up from there.
I mostly feel bad for your wife looking after you for three days!
(I'm sure she signed up for that, it's just a long time to be responsible for another person who may do erratic things. And I say that as the parent of two small kids.)
For context on what an appropriate dose is, this article seems to suggest that the intensity of most effects start to flatten out as you go past 100ug. The effects that continue to get more pronounced past that level seem to be negative effects such as anxiety or potentially difficult to navigate such as disembodiment.
Seems like 100ug is likely a sweet spot for most first timers.
i do not know if i would actually agree with this as general advice, even for first timers (assuming healthy and safe settings) -- Strassman [0], paraphrasing as it has been a while, mentions in his findings the difference between psychotic and psychedelic thresholds. psychotic thresholds ~<= 300 mcgs tend to be more stimulant-like with an increased heart rate, and it is my opinion he contends this can be more anxiety inducing than a psychedelic dose, which depresses breathing and eases the heart rate/is less stimulating.
my anec-data is most people taking small doses, while enjoyable, seem to experience more anxiety overall than those who have taken a little more of a plunge (myself included in this) -- increased heart rate can really send people through some weird feedback loops, especially on peak.
perhaps mileage varies.
[0]: Dr. Rick Strassman, DMT: The Spirit Molecule
-> this is mostly a clinical study on the effects of DMT but Strassman does have general observational commentary on psychedelics such as LSD.
Dosage is very important, and also be extra cautious if you have a history of acute mental illness in your family.
Only once you’ve lost your marbles do you realize how important they actually are and that traumatic event will likely leave a chasm in your mind for a long time
Counter hypothesis. "Bad trips" work just like "the giggles". Its not anyone's fault nor something you did wrong, nor something you can hope to control. it just one of k prominent means that our brains tend to become.
I have no stake either way. No gigles, no bad trips.
There were a couple of years in the early "research chemicals" scene when this was true in some areas but LSD itself is now in ample supply in most places.
NBOMe was super popular in the early 2010s. I'd be willing to bet that on my college campus 90+% of "LSD" was some sort of NBOMe during that time.
No idea what's going on nowadays but plenty of gray market LSD analogous will test positive as LSD (Al-LAD, Pro-LAD, Eth-LAD, 1P-LSD, idk what else is available now). I wouldn't be shocked if people get those without realizing.
I miss getting those banner ads for decreasing my mortgage rates as a 14 year old who doesn't even pay rent yet