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Huh? No you can't. Without regulation or oversight, companies will simply lie about what's in their product.

The libertarian vision really handwaves the practical reality of "I'll simply do a gas spectrum analysis on every single bite of food I put into my body. Easy!"

> Take a walk, that will help you a whole lot more, and won't make you poorer.

OK, before the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act and Federal Meat Inspection Act, food was frequently adulterated with e.g. formaldehyde in milk, borax in meat, copper salts in canned vegetables, and chalk/plaster in flour or milk.

Before the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, kids candy was dyed with toxic coal-tar. And on top of that was frequently contaminated with arsenic, lead, and mercury.

So please explain to all of us how taking a walk is going to save us from these issues.

Ah yes, the classic "your politics," but of course the person having this opinion's politics are perfectly fine, because they're the "normal" person with the "normal" politics, not like that crazy person who thinks some randos shouldn't be the subject of genocide. How dare they!

This has always existed. The ability to rapidly prototype has not changed it in any way.

An extremely experienced UX researcher once told me that, having been doing field research and user research for 3 decades now, every time it's a Fortune 500 company, after presenting mountains of research, it comes down to what color the CEO liked in the moment.

I don't understand the proclivity to latch onto whatever the new thing is and blame it for shitty decision-making that has existed as long as humans have existed.

Give yourself credit for this move, because it might seem obvious to you, but I suspect a lot of people wouldn't have bothered!

In any case, thank you for writing this up and congrats on everything :D

Oh, I love this so much. It communicates so many important things in one go.

My kids must be absolutely sick of me saying in a dozen different ways "you just have to do it a lot."

This also reminds me of how I've often responded when people ask me about learning to code. I ask them if they're ok with sitting in front of a computer for many hours.

It sounds obvious, but most people (in my experience) simply aren't ok with that, and hadn't considered it.

It depends massively on what kind of DX you want. If you want to work with a 'regular' operating system, you're looking more in the RPi direction.

If you want to write straight-up C firmware, then yeah, the esp and stms are both great.

So I built Figmode, which gives you a vi-like modal command layer. So you can type `w` to go into `width` mode and change it to fill/hug/fixed, then ` to back out, then h for height, then spacing, padding, and more. The default keys are optimized such that you can do it all with your left hand, and in nearly all cases without moving your hand.

It’s easiest to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35yQikx1XNs

And the plugin itself is here: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1638937084194831846

It’s free and open-source, and I’ve been using it for a little while now and have developed a muscle memory that makes it super productive. I’d love to hear any feedback, and hope it’s as useful to y’all as it is to me :)

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Congratulations, this might be the single most trivially-disprovable statement I've ever seen on this site

If you're in the NYC area and are interested in joining, drop your email; if you have an idea for a venue let me know. Hoping to run the first event in June.

And if this is a thing people are into, and you want to start your own somewhere, by all means do it, and I can update the site with info on different events/places.

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J. was a traveling Ibogaine ... healer? He went from city to city, summoned by the loved ones of advanced heroin addicts, to attempt one last Hail Mary shot at recovery.

These were situations of absolute desperation, and I can’t overstate the seriousness with which he took his adopted occupation. He described to us in detail his process.

First, he interviewed the person requesting help, seeing what else they had tried and trying to suss out if Ibogaine would be worth the risk. He turned away most callers.

Those who he accepted would be dropped off at his van, inside which was a mobile, DIY ICU of sorts: a bed, food, water and emergency medical supplies. He would administer the ibogaine (I don’t know what form this took), and then, in his words, the patient would undergo a 2 to 3-day continuous hallucination.

During this time, in J.’s observations, the patient was almost always ‘visited’ by dead relatives, who typically admonished the patient for what had become of them, laying into them with real talk about the state of their life.

J. said half of the patients came out of this experience fundamentally changed, and effectively cured of their addiction to heroin. I don’t know if he had any data (anecdotal or otherwise) on recidivism, but the implication was that this was likely to be permanent.

But, he said, the other half went insane, which is why he spent a great deal of effort screening families and informing them of the risks.

I don’t know how much, if any, of this is true. I don’t know what ‘insane’ means, or meant. But I remember vividly how seriously this guy took it, without ever coming off as some kind of self-satisfied guru or medicine man, believing himself to be a god, or anything like that. He never accepted money. He lived somewhat roughly. I wonder whatever happened to that guy.

I strongly doubt this. I suspect it's the exact opposite situation. But I'd like to hear from someone who knows.