Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Cleo Abram"
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The VA finally, after a literal decade and spare change of begging, finally got permission for experimental research in psychedelics in conjunction and alone in their patients, especially PTSD patients.
Mild to moderate efficacy in psychedelics alone, highly effective but not a panacea when psychedelics and therapy were combined in a session, individual or group.
Which makes sense, as one's basically discussing the triggers and guiding rebuilding the memory circuit in a less harmful configuration. Memory being a bit weird, it essentially gets erased during recall, then stored again, so altering the perspective alerts how that specific network configures itself, with proper guidance, less stressors reinforcing the trauma already recorded.
Of course, the prohibitionists, who want to prohibit pretty much anything that ameliorates misery hate it and want it banned again. But, some of their more extreme end also want all anesthetics banned. Something I didn't believe until I heard some openly discussing just that, apparently agony builds character.
Took all of my self control to not build their character into godhood of agony...
They're also at the heart of the "veterans get too much" crowd, wanting to curtail pretty much all VA benefits, even for quadriplegics. But, they oddly demur from having their character improved via their own preaching for some odd reason.
Just a bit of a sore subject and a bit fresher in memory, as I just got done with a meeting with my VA social worker.
And reminded me of one of my men, who suffered from a mental breakdown, resulting in discharge and homelessness. Caught him sneaking into the unit to sleep, the leadership wanted law enforcement to remove him. I guided him out and took him to the VA hospital for treatment, with the stern NCO's admonition, "Don't release him until he's stabilized fully and functional or I'll be back to discuss the matter in detail", while in my duty uniform.
Last I'd heard, he's been years without incident, holding down a decent enough job and has his own place to lay his head at night.
That was before the GWOT, where the VA budget got slashed again, for the 30th time I counted, after the first year of the war and men were coming back missing pieces.
Another fine reminder, "Veterans are #1", but when one looks, the third digit is usually the one raised.
Circling back from the tangent, psychedelics alone are at best moderately useful alone, with therapy, are proven by multiple peer reviewed studies to be much more effective than other more conventional treatments - but, like anything that's actually effective, they take time to implement and become fully effective, there's no quick fix for anything.
And the naysayers in the video, who questioned psychedelics usage, "Why would these be effective in so many...", Bupropion (aka Wellbutrin), an atypical antidepressant, obviously used to treat clinical depression, also used in smoking cessation. I can name a half dozen other drugs that similarly are used in similar multi-purpose roles, some entirely off label due to FDA resistance that's largely political. Altering signal processing in the brain causes alternative circuits and networks to form, which can be, if effectively guided, effect permanent beneficial effects.
And I've got no dog in this fight, as I was not involved in any of the studies, nor have I required treatment. My only area of concern is of helping others, which is far more than some that proclaim to adhere to Christian values, but effectively ignore their own savior's messages about healing the sick, housing the homeless and helping the helpless.
And two things I dearly loathe being, anything that messes with my perceptions of reality and hypocrites.
So, for mushrooms, I'll personally stick with my portobello mushrooms, typically with some lentils in a few dishes that I've ginned up and quite enjoy. Still perfecting a lentil/portobello meatloaf substitute for when I want a change of pace from a meat dish. Working out some texture issues, taste is dialed in nicely.
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I'm reminded of the fact that President Musk turned off Ukrainian Starlink during the conflict and only turned it back on when the US government rather threateningly reminded him that they held the contract to provide Starlink to Ukrainian forces and that cessation without the US government's approval is a fundamental breach of contract and a fully recoverable injury to the government.
In other words, "Turn it the hell back on or we'll sue your company and you into abject poverty".
But, he had no political goals, ignore his repeated anti-Ukrainian creeds, he's really neutral and can be trusted as the purchaser of the highest office in the US.
No, not joking about either.
The fun part is, there's plenty of public record and even YT videos on both subjects, but some will refuse to see the evidence of their own senses and only follow their religious devotion to a specific man.
As for affordable access to the masses, everyone that ever said that obviously never priced the service. Suffice it to say, priced double what average home high speed internet is in cities and rural folks are not exactly wealthy or even simply well to do, with farmers being notorious for being broke.
So, the claims of access to all are as well grounded as one expecting to receive a dragon ride anytime soon.
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Stop looking for magical one source solutions. You've got insane amounts of wind along the coast, as well as wave energy, even some pockets of geothermal energy. Not much for solar, that whole north thing and all.
Hydrogen energy, it's unicorn farts. Gotta get hydrogen somehow, gonna get a unicorn to fart it out? No, didn't think so, that requires either catalysts or magical, Harry Potter waving his magical phallus about free energy. A small hint, the latter ain't gonna happen.
Increasing efficiency is one area that helps tremendously. Using wind along the coast and higher elevations contributes greatly as well, ocean wave energy helps a lot too. Won't replace everything at current technology levels, but it'll lower the final bill by a lot.
An efficiency model I like is one I use myself. I love cooking with gas, which is tremendously inefficient and I've even got camping gear kits I've modified for pots and pans to catch the blow-by heat from the flames that I retain for camping.
Induction heating is far more efficient, controllable and well, precise in cooking. Use the hell out of it. The cost basically is electrical energy utilized over NG fuel and well, copper and chips and transistors controlling coils.
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@@ShannonBarber78 OK, under that specific scenario, there is only one solution, global thermonuclear war.
See my above for more detail.
But, I do believe in clean coal - it's used to filter municipal water supplies.
We can't mass produce antibiotics, as overuse made our current antibiotics ineffective. Doctor being a quack and prescribing antibiotics for a virus ruined their effectiveness, underdosing by patients before the infection was extinct added to it.
As for food, you've gone hungry just when? I have, but I had a sour stomach, so it was go without or vomit and I've had enough of that with whateverinhell this bug is, it'll pass and well, is.
You embrace a religion and don't know it, embracing one view as faithful fact, never investigating.
And that's the fatal flaw in global civilization, whatever that means.
Everyone races to the quick fix way, putting a bandage onto a wound, ignoring the arterial bleeding. I slap a bandage on, evaluate, see bleeding isn't controlled and advance to more advanced care to control bleeding before the heart runs out of stuff to pump.
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