POG PUB 2025-2026: About damn time. For a lot of things. But not everything.

I know different drugs affect different people differently. but for it's worth. here's what I've got:

Marijuana seems like the perfect drug, at first. It is chill, it can be fun, it gives you creativity, and its side effects, at least over the short-term, are pretty mild. Unfortunately, it is very addictive, and it can give you, over a long period of time, some serious state-dependent difficulties, memory issues, and irreconcilable social disconnects.

Cocaine is fun but way overpriced and addictive so very dangerous on a purely economic level.

Opium is basically temporary suicide.

Psilocybin is a shortcut to enlightenment, but you need a safe space or you're not going to have a good time and you should have a patient chaperone to avoid permanent self harm during the experience.

Ecstasy (mdma) and alcohol are surprisingly similar despite being opposite in action. Both are a lot of fun - physically, socially, and mentally - and both have terrible afterwards that are probably on balance worse than the fun upwards.

My main drug is Strattera, a non-stimulant ADHD medication that works by increasing norepinephrine reuptake in the brain. Same idea as the serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

As reported earlier, I stopped taking the Lexapro (SSRI) a while back. Before I got on both of these medications I was crashing out emotionally and unable to do tasks. Like I could not do tasks. It takes 4-6 weeks for these inhibitors to come online and I was working with a - personal consultant because of my tasking issues.

During the 4-6 weeks I could feel the tasking coming back online. At the 2 month point I fired the consultant because it wasn't a matter of process, my processes are all chaotic and that's fine, it was simply a matter of not having enough tasking chemicals floating around in my brain for the modern world and the work I have to do in it.

I will never stop taking this drug unless they provide me a better option. I ain't raw dogging my norepinephrine levels.

Lexapro cuts emotions off at the knee. Super effective and I recommend it if you are crashing out. Then get off it. When I did, the emotions were coming very strongly but I knew they were just coming back online. Ride the snake.

Then I have one I take because if I don't it feels like I have to pee all the time :( and the seven thousand dollar a month psoriasis medication.

Thanks to all for the recommendations. I bought The Orphan Master's Son on paperback and have added all of the other titles from this thread to my to-do list.

Did you ever take something apart and then not put it back together for two weeks and when you go to put it back together you have zero memory of what anything is or what it does how it is supposed to go back together?

I had a catastrophic print failure that started pouring molten plastic inside the extruder. I've never had this machine apart before.

It's all taken apart now and cleaned up and ready to put back together. There are pictures on the website but I have some sort of learning disability with instructions and have to stumble through everything like filthy on Xannie Day.

Good thing I have three printers.

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good opportunity to put some llm tokens to good use

better usage than vulvi inspection questions imo

I've reassembled furniture without instructions, but there's not as much that can go wrong there.

in the Flobots song, "Handlebars", he says "I can take apart the remote control, and I can almost put it back together"

An article I ran across this evening. imo, something written by a woman clueless about men. GL to the husband.

I’m 38, and I noticed last week th...

smh

fyp, the em dashes should have clued you in, humans don't use those, you need to type alt+0151

no human ever does that, they use hyphen like a sane person

and just in case you weren't sure

most likely someone gave it a spine, told an llm to write it out and the human sounding parts are from the inspirational spine

women!

am I right? :p

lol, I think a LLM would call BS on writing that.

Hopefully not.

cliffs on the article?

ain't nobody got time to read that

Mark,

You need to improve your media literacy skills. That is generated language.

Article written by "Bolde Team" wtf is Bolde?

I think we've seen enough.

I've given my Claw agent it's own cell phone number. Actually it's my cell phone number. I just use the home number for me.

Make sure it's not a White Claw agent, you don't want any drunk dialing.

That's racist!

MS Word typically converts dashes to m-dashes automatically, so that's not necessarily an AI gotcha, but the bigger picture imo is whether it matters that an article is (ai-)ghost-written by its publisher

to me, it matters that the publisher stops developing their own ability to communicate (someone recently told me this is part of a new, standard term: "en****tification"), but if its something they want said then they're still beholden to it by pressing "submit"

Mark, if your robot assistant invites somebody to your home, you better have your welcome mat ready.

It's the Dickensian aspect.

I can't make myself read an article about a guy saying goodnight twice and the 'deeper meaning', god women are weird, lol

Hey Mark-K, got the aura photo thing for both wife and mom, seemed to go over well!

sorry if I'm getting my OG poggers mixed up, but are you the one who wrote the star trek essays? like about the misogyny in that one where Scotty is on trial for killing all the women?

yes that was money, I appreciate how funny everyone found them. I was thinking about this recently and how maybe I should do every episode, Man TOS was great. For the record as you may know I lean to the right, and I find most of these sexism accusation of the past silly, except with TOS, which is the most sexist thing I've ever seen. 2nd place would be "I Love Lucy"

I always blamed Gene Roddenberry's horniness issues, but Lucille Ball was heavily involved in TOS as well, maybe it was her 😀

Awesome! 😀

Strongest feature is the ease of adding and changing photos. My wife updates it once a week. All right from her phone.

Just thinking, it would be pretty easy to have an Openclaw agent make changes. Hmm...

yeah all those write ups you did were great! I think you did some other episodes? or other star trek writing?

lol at describing yourself as leaning to the right in the USA though