It's wild how conservative and square the community is here.
Thanks for posting the comic! It's neat
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
It's wild how conservative and square the community is here.
Thanks for posting the comic! It's neat
It doesn't surprise me that much honestly, even on Lemmy there are a lot of right-wing people.
Get off my lawn, you goddamn hippies!
ITT: people who have never taken psychs talking shit and people who have being like chill. Who do you think knows more? The folks swallowing D.A.R.E. propaganda like water, or the open minded people who actually experienced it??
IDC what y'all say. I like this comic. I liked doing psychedelics in college. I may do more eventually...
YAY DRUGS!
All this brain hallucinating reality stuff pisses me off because people use it as a springboard to say that reality is subjective or something, as if a blood clot in my leg that I'm just not aware of can't REALLY kill me. There is a uniform and self-consistent reality which we all have only limited perceptual awareness of. The great value of science is to give us greater access to that reality, not to fabricate wishy-washy arguments for how that reality doesn't exist ~~or doesn't have meaning~~ (see comment below for clarification here)
The data of reality is consistent. How that data is interpreted by the brain may not be. Like the color red might not look the same to you as it does to me despite it being the same wavelength for both of us. We'll never know since it's impossible to describe a color and we can't see the world with the other's brain.
Given that color theory works the same for anyone that isn't some variety of colorblind, I'd argue we probably see colors the same way or very very close to the same.
It's just more efficient for my brain to only render what I'm looking at.
Dismissing: lacks object permanence.
Embracing: optimizes render load.
Have we considered I don't have ADHD, just triple A blockbuster brain engine??
The one time I tried shrooms I died, then I saw everything I needed for what I was going through and woke up the next day after all the nightmares feeling at peace with life and had a new perspective. Kind of like a speed run midlife crisis. I wouldn't do it again but I'm glad I did
Im a big fan of doing small amounts, but sometimes it definitely gets you feeling like


amanita muscaria will give you the shits for hours. There are better psychedelics.
There's a valuable lesson here, and it's to avoid using comic strips to identify the mushrooms you should eat to trip.
He's got the mushroom in his hand as well as a pipe and a tab, I think they're just referring to psychs in general, but you're right, maybe they should've put more of a brown mushroom