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Thanks for a well rounded write up. I always enjoy reading your posts.

How does that benefit the community? Unless you manage to cut off a significant chunk of their trade they’ll survive and have even more reason to oppose pedestrianisation. You’re not giving them a way out, or a chance to change their position, so they can only harden their opposition to it.

Let them experience the benefits of pedestrianisation and you’re likely to see their attitude change, and see them become a proponent of it instead.

Revenge is sometimes an enjoyable fantasy, but it rarely ever brings positive changes to people’s opinions.

I’d say buy from them as well. They’re a business owner, so showing that pedestrianising the area helps their business thrive is just about the surest way to change their mind.

I read the title and expected this to be about some new, bawdy, sport.

You would be too if your day consisted of trying to hit a tiny ball into a hole with a stick, then spending ages trying to find it, again, and again, and again.

Building up tolerance? That’s a smart move. When the vampire hoards attack you’ll be able to fend them off without risking harming yourself.

It might not be windowless; consider midwinter, when a real window will just be a dark rectangle for most of the important parts of the morning and evening. Having a fake window showing somewhere bright and warm could help lift one’s spirits if you didn’t think about it too much.

“…ok”

I’d love to think that his next words involved acknowledging that he didn’t know what he’s talking about, but they didn’t, did they?

I can’t work out if he’s trying to be ironic, because that would genuinely delight me.

I don’t think it’s abuse they love exectly, it’s being told exactly what to think and how to act. It removes a huge amount of cognative load and uncertainty and leaves them feeling more sure of themselves.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve used sleep on a laptop, but it worked well on my Dell (latitude I think, as I said, it’s been a while). It did take a little experimenting with sleep levels to get it reliable, but once it was it worked for years.

ETA: I realise that saying “it worked for me” is probably intensely annoying, my appologies for that, but I thought a counterpoint might be a useful extra data point.

It’s a bit ambiguous, so you could be right, but I took it to mean that activation of the receptors was that active mechanism, regardless of cause. Psilicin is just the compound they’re focused on, and maybe it does activate them in some unique way that has this effect, but the summary didn’t make that clear.

If there are alternative pathways to activate the receptors they may be better suited to thereputic use without the psycadelic side effects.

I haven’t gone looking forthe souce paper, but from the article it looks like seretonin was the actual compound that’s having a beneficial effect, specifically serotonin outside the brain.

But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I’m dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I’ll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.

It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.

You’re probably not far off in how the presciption pad evolved, but pharmasists, at least here, have extensive training, and some can actually write prescriptions for certain medications. The system has evolved over a very long time, and security is definitely one of those things that’s had to evolve with those changes.

It used to be fairly normal, the pharmasists knew the various doctors in the area, and they also know what is a reasonable prescription. If there was any doubt, they’d contact the doctor before dispensing the drugs. I had the ‘interesting’ experience of having to go to multiple pharmacies, filling part of the total prescription at each, when I tried to fill a largeish morphine prescription for a family member. There’d been some sort of issue at the main supplier, and none of the induvidual pharmacies had much stock left. It was resolved a few dats later fortunately.

Things are a lot more digital now-a-days, which hopefully makes fraud less of an issue, and definitely makes getting medicines easier.

I assume it’s been vibe coded, sauce for the goose being good with the gander and all that.

ETA: /s just to be clear.

If you’re in the bathroom and it’s hitting the fan, you’re doing it wrong.

10/10 rant. I admire your passion, the internent needs more of this sort of thing.

While there’s probably no global solution, personally I use a QR Code reader that doesn’t actually use the URL, but just displays it and lets me copy it to the clipboard. That way I can inspect it, and if it doesn’t look right, ignore it.