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Bye bye!!!!!

Homeless for nine months and about to be officially destitute tomorrow. At least I’ve had a vehicle to have shelter and live in a warm area.

Combo of Homelessness and poverty is a cycle that is quite difficult to get out of. I took on programming work from nice folks while still homeless, which absolutely backfired. Lack of a normal safe routine and attempting to work from public when under such stress can be an effort in futility. Thus couldn’t work and couldn’t get back on my feet. It’s a vicious cycle

The other consequences are deteriorated mental state from isolation, paranoia, and depressive symptoms all of which serve to make digging out of any hole seemingly impossible.

Constant never ending stress, concerns about basic survival, concerns about physical safety change your mentality. Idgaf attitude prevails, to the point where crime including violence seem less unjustified.

I could go on, and obviously this is just an anectode

Protect your ears and don’t get tinnitus. Some people ruin their futures (aspiring musician or audio engineer).

It’s actually not reasonable to assume quantum entanglement has anything to do with your shared consciousness experiences.

Dosage is the critical factor for any drug and everyone is absolutely unique (and, more so, in unique life circumstances at a given point) as it pertains to mind altering substances and the actual outcome of their lives. Set and setting matter. If you’re depressed and doing nothing but getting stoned, you’re using weed to keep yourself busy. It offers potential for “wasting” away, by staying stoned.

Marijuana is commonly abused and does ruin lives. Washed up marijuana addicts are common, yielding lost potential for the addict and a loss for society. The unproductive stoner has long been an American cliche, but true. (file_id.diz)

Meth, on the other hand, leaves little room for responsible recreational use. I’d be shocked if more than 1% of people who’ve ever tried meth would call themselves “responsible casual users”.

Propaganda like this is often useful as a short term contrarian trading signal. This isn’t new news but is inauspiciously timed.

Do you think the accusations against McKinnon are rubbish?

Under alleged crime: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon

You’re describing solipsism.

We don’t have point of reference outside of Wall-e to presume a robot is conscious in any way. However a living organism like a plant may experience being.

Consciousness described as a physical process is different than explaining how you, visarga, are able to experience reality. Understanding how that idea of internal experience, of being, could relate to a plant, seems the revelation here.

Discussed here recently, there’s a path from public to private sector that does serve the need to retain talent, to some degree.

Also, to say they are mostly corrupt or incompetent seems possibly too much of a broad stroke that is based on anecdotes. I don’t believe Snowden, for instance, ever suggested either of those are true — did he?

Finally, if this is your assessment, your standard may be unusually high. Maybe your peers, many not quite as good as you, are actually quite skilled? Just a hunch, could be wrong.

Did they convey those summaries to you? If so, is it accurate to say that shtf post-Snowden, and hasn’t recovered?

You could be right, so I take it back, but I’ve heard there is some degree of strife and paranoia, but not general chaos as may be perceived.

Any objective source for your claims? If your basis is the attitude for such agencies here on hacker news, it’s understandable why you might believe those to be true, but they aren’t.