Sorry, legacy code and technical debt. Please check in with us in ~2000 years or so, we might have the next minor bugfix version up by then.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Patch notes
- fixed that one bug
- added 99 new bugs
🎶 One hundred and ninety nine bugs in the code, one hundred and ninety nine bugs! 🎶
🎶 *You take one down, patch it around, six hundred and forty-eight bugs in the code!*🎶
Looks back at the mountain of dead equipment that was used, tested, built, redesigned, failed or didn't function in order to get to this point
Patch Notes: Fixed a memory leak. But that caused the sleep Guage to overflow back to 0 constantly. Waiting for the next software upgrade in 10,000 years to fix it.
memory leak
i fw that heavily
You actually can modify your "software", though there's limits. Can't really swap the kernel at all, and the OS is a bitch to alter, but the DE is totally doable. We even have bug fixers, called therapists.
Now, deleting old programs is hard, but there are tricks to reset your clock, assuming the hardware is both functional and running a standard configuration. Some folks are just wired different, so playing with the clock results in blue screens at inopportune moments.
This is exactly what needs to be said. Thank you!
When I did my 4 years of attachment therapy, and I gave it everything I had, I could literally feel the structure of my brain changing.
Not thought patterns changing (which they did) I'm talking about the actual physical structure of my brain. New pathways were forged and old ones closed forever. It very much reminded me of how I could feel my brain developing when I was teaching myself to program at the age of 13-16... and thinking so hard that my brain felt like it was literally overheating.
It's a crazy experience to have as a human - to literally not be able to construct old thought, or emotion frameworks, because the physical structure required for them doesn't exist anymore. To have memories reduced to "that happened" while no longer being able to recall any relevant details.
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Me lowering my heart rate in the body.config file because I think I know better (a typo immediately kills me)
You don't own your brain, you are the brain. Your conciousness is literally a process of the brain's proprietary code.
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Psilocybin will patch that shit.
I did hear something similar in the past, care to elaborate?
Don't just do it without serious research on the evidence for it and high confidence that your source knows what they're doing. There are many types of mushrooms that are very poisonous, and collecting wild mushrooms isn't something to play games with without appropriate education. And to make it better, there are a real number of AI slop books/resources muddying the water.
But there's a lot of evidence that even single doses have meaningful, lasting benefits.
Psilocybin is basically an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety drug. Pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in keeping it illegal bcz they can't make money off it. You can literally find psilocybin on cow poo.
Psilocybin is basically an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety drug.
Except that it's totally not either of those things. In fact, it can sometimes cause panic attacks if taken ill advisedly.
Psilocybin and other psychedelics reveal to us a lot of the inner workings of our minds. That can help people to correct unhealthy thinking when they are willing to do the work. That can lead to long term reduction of anxiety and depression, but only through addressing root causes.
only through addressing root causes.
Lol, I'm not doing that! But good info...
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unless you want to grow them yourself, then they require the most sterile environment
in the wild tho? yeah cow shit will do :)
Not particularly sterile, just sanitary. Grain starter needs to be pasteurized, trich needs to be removed from bulk spawn.
I know lemmy hates reddit but r/unclebens will get anyone on the road to growing their own scooby snax. (Legal in Colorado, check local codes and laws, no refunds under any circumstances, do not bitch to me if you get busted)
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There are as many "explanations" for the efficacy of psilocybin as there are models of consciousness. The one I like is that the drug causes an increase in neuroplasticity and that allows your brain to reroute its network more easily. I find it does great for helping me decontextualize experiences and strip them of the heavy negative emotional baggage some experiences have.
I don't know, I've heard it works well alongside therapy and having sessions to help integrate the experience. I usually just microdose and meditate with an intention a few timesin the week before a legit trip and let the drugs do their thing. Sometimes it's unpleasant in the moment but I always start a timer when I dose so I have seen over the years that the unpleasant parts are only like 15 minutes to an hour of the 6ish hour experience. Those 15 minutes can feel like forever because it messes with one's perception of time but even that gets less weird with practice.
They are powerful little guys though. I went to church after my most recent trip because it felt really right. That was odd since I'm not a practicing Christian anymore although I don't hate religion by any means I've just never gotten a lot out of it.
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You can train it but it requires a lot of boring manual entries and the model may deviate if you ever stop.
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There's a JTAG port in the base of the cortex for pushing firmware updates. Problem is, we lost the signing keys back in the neolithic. Thag got crushed by a mammoth before we had a chance to invent written language and write documentation.
you own it but also can't really modify it
Lemme introduction you to my friends: drugs, TBIs, and dementia
Edit:
Lemme introduction you
Wtf is wrong with me lately? Geez...
Dementia is just planned obsolescence
Do drugs
Seems to be a recurring theme here
I mean yeah bro if you wanna fuck with your brain chemistry, you gotta use chemistry.
That's one thing I appreciate about Lemmy. Without a doubt you are all people of logic.
Thanks, I think.
You own your brain...
i don't know how to break this to you, but you are your brain.
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Can't modify it? Watch me.
grabs shotgun
“cannot modify it” absolumment pas vrai
This is such a doomed and haunted shower thought for someone who has a Marxist conception of technology and alienation
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Meditation is one way of getting control of your brain.
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Yoga and Tai Chi is a way of control your brain by focusing on your body.
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Recite a mantra is another way.
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Daily routines is also an auto-pilot way of getting control of your brain. (This one is good if you have trouble getting asleep(
You can train those methods consciously and understand the mechanics of how the controls work. Once understood and footpaths set (meditation, daily routines), you can switch between these controls if needed. Or force a thought reset (mantra)
It’s not a secret and known since ages. It’s just that people are too lazy to train. And may be prefer the comfortable auto-pilot way of living.
While I understand what you are saying, I think that labeling everyone who can't keep a routine as "lazy" is a bit pointless, and very wrong.
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I rooted a android device last night. I wish I could modify my brain like I do all the devices I use.
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Nah I shouldn't be trusted with that power
If you think about it our consciousness is essentially has non-root access to the body. If we had root access we would be able to stop our hearts or stop parts of our body.
I own my brain because I'm human. Other animal brains, (whale, deer, cow, grasshopper, bird) are not owned by themselves, perhaps animals are simply incapable of comprehending our level of organization. That's why we can make their decisions for them.
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Sorry it's just absolutely bizarre to me to think of a part of your body having different ownership than the other parts. Too atomistic. Are we renting out the space in our heads? If so, shouldn't that be mitigated to prevent unnecessary damage?
I feel like Chicken Tonight like Chicken Tonight!
source: am brain damaged
It’s a skill issue though.
You absolutely can. What really helps is to stop using any kind of digital devices about 2h before you intend to sleep, then workout for a bit, and chase that down with some meditation. Focused breathing exercises are enough, no need to go full guru.
Afterwards take a shower, go go bed, and read a book. You'll have to force yourself to make it through the current chapter, guaranteed.