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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 02:07:35 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • tekk
   @tekk First comment I see:
   
   > I’ve studied mycology and have even taken courses with the real paul stamets. [ . . . ]
   
   Nice. Although I think it's valid to criticize the spore drive for having nothing to do with actual shrooms other than the "spore" word without referring to mycological authority. :-D
   
   That reminds me I still didn't watch the "stoned ape hypothesis" interview with Stamets that I stumbled upon yesterday.
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M71X-dspU4
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 02:02:48 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Zak Storer 🎡
     @zacts But is one allowed to not have an opinion on Cowboy Bebop at all? ;-)
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 02:32:28 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     Hypothesis at https://youtu.be/2M71X-dspU4?t=14m17s .
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 02:36:41 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     Oh man there's a lot of fun-looking hippie stuff in ddg.gg/?q=!yt+dennis+mckenna :-D
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 03:05:44 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8AXSBvSkCQ does not disappoint.
     
     > WE ARE VERY CLEVER
     > WE ARE NOT VERY WISE
     
     And mother Gaia wants us to take psychedelics ("plant teachers") to realize our place in the biosphere and in the cosmos.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 03:09:10 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • tekk
     • Not impartial
     @partial @tekk Yep. :-)
     
     Right off the bat, the Stoned Ape Hypothesis comes from the minds of Terence and Dennis McKenna. They seem like nice and fun people, I haven't heard of them before.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 03:16:08 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • tekk
     @tekk
     
     > if they wake up some giant space spider by jiggling the mycelia web then i’ll laugh. we don’t see this tech because they all get eaten, the end. :slight_smile:
     
     I 100% agree with this comment. There is nothing cataclysmic about the spore drive so far, people get worn out, possibly irreversibly, but there's no reason one of the civilizations wouldn't take this and rule the galaxy within a century. Something has to happen within the series, a big reset button that makes the technology a no-go for everyone -- Cardassians, Borg, Klingon ...
     
     Maybe they make a wrong turn and just disintegrate the whole network for millennia to come.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 03:19:33 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     > No self respecting critic could love Discovery. [ . . . ] That’s just math, folks.
     
     I'm stealing this method of argumentation.
   • Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 03:39:56 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

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     • tekk
     @clacke @tekk I haven't been able to watch any of Discovery as I can't successfully pay for it.  It'll disappear in "it was all a dream".
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 04:35:04 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Stephen Michael Kellat
     • tekk
     @alpacaherder @tekk I don't know how to pay for The Orville in HK.