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lildirtfoot t1_j3hij7p wrote

Reply to comment by KITTYONFYRE in Police Blotter by redditorgirl9691

I think a UFO appearing is a bit different than Barney or Unicorns farting dust. I mean, getting confused or spooked by a weird light could do it.

May I ask what makes someone blandly neurotypical? Having aphantasia isn’t something that makes you weird, it is actually really common and can occur naturally, or from physical or psychological trauma. Every person on this earth has a spectrum of what their mind’s eye can see or can’t. We have 5 different ways of thinking and only one of those is through imagery.

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KITTYONFYRE t1_j3hhxr5 wrote

Reply to comment by lildirtfoot in Police Blotter by redditorgirl9691

nah, I don't have aphantasia - that would definitely throw a wrench in things but I'm pretty sure I'm as blandly neurotypical as it gets!

you may see or experience things differently from other people, but you're not going to see Barney appear from thin air

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lildirtfoot t1_j3hexqe wrote

Reply to comment by KITTYONFYRE in Police Blotter by redditorgirl9691

While I agree with how you’ve experienced (or read about) lsd, it may also appear that you, or the writer of the information you got, has aphantasia! People who can see images with their eyes closed (or open depending on how developed their mind’s eye is) can definitely see things that others don’t while having a spiritual experience on LSD. Which is pretty cool, but everyone is different!!

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lildirtfoot t1_j3he8nv wrote

Reply to comment by -_Stove_- in Police Blotter by redditorgirl9691

I think that they can explain their experience with LSD without it seeming like they have to be “drugsplaining”. Maybe they, like so many other humans out there, use LSD for holistic and spiritual purposes and they don’t want it to continue to get the bad reputation it has when the bad rep only really comes from misuse of the medicine itself.

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soggy_donut t1_j3h8ji0 wrote

It wouldn’t be if wages were high enough to entice the worker who would see it increases their quality of life.

Nobody wants to work and not even be able to survive.

If welfare offers me a better life then working for an amount I can’t even survive on. I’ll choose welfare every time.

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skivtjerry t1_j3h27pu wrote

Agree this is too much apples and oranges, but if you read CR occasionally you know that the writers generally don't know much about the products they attempt to rate.

I like the stout/lager comparison for different grades. If you're buying beer, would you get the stuff rated highly by a Cicerone or BJCP judge, or a random Wal Mart customer's favorite? CR skews toward the Wal Mart demographic.

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Mikkikon t1_j3gug1v wrote

I get that and agree to some extent, but I don’t think politics is the main reason why people are coming (or that red states are all more poorly managed than blue ones, for that matter). People want to live near the mountains and natural beauty and somewhere less crowded, or maybe they’re fleeing natural disasters. Drive up 91 in Vermont and it looks like a ghost town. Drive down to Mass and CT and it’s gridlock. It seems like the state should be able to accommodate a few more people without hurting (maybe even helping) the existing population, unless policy is just really bad.

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