perhaps "making less harmful to the body"? this could potentially be accomplished separately from making them less effective

The issue is lanmaoa asiatica is ectomycorrhizal, meaning it grows exclusively on the roots of certain plant species in a symbiotic relationship. This is not like TTBVI or p. ochraceocentrata (misclassified as p. natalensis until recently) where amateurs can produce grain spawn with relative ease. Cultivation would involve planting or having access to the correct host species (Yunnan pine) which is a prohibitive barrier for most.

It's also not yet known if the active compound can survive dehydration like psilocybin. If not, it would mean even experiencing l. asiatica will be very difficult to impossible for enthusiasts not residing in its native region.

That plate wouldn’t be allowed in Illinois where there is a hard requirement that all digits follow any letters on the plate.¹ The thing that I find mystifying is that they charge more for a vanity plate that’s all letters than one that’s letters and digits.

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1. Although some specialty plates end up having suffixed letters, usually shown on the plate stacked.

Some states simply do not allow 0 and 1 on vanity plates, you have to use the letters.

> What happens when AI is analyzing all of that information...

They run simulations against N million personality models, accurately predicting the outcome of any news story/event/stimulus. They use this power to shape national and global events to their own ends. This is what privacy and digital sovereignty advocates have been warning the public about for over a decade, to no avail.

This is much worse than overt authoritarian control, because the controlled aren't even aware of it.

I don't know how viable it is. Even for AI, there are just too many intermingled variables when it comes to human behavior.

All the money in the world has been invested into trying to do it with stock markets, and they still can't do better than average.

You should watch the matrix, especially the first 3

adblockers on chromium-based browsers were severely crippled by manifest V3. they're fine with extenisons (and apparently malware) as long as users can't effectively block their tracking/ads.

Adblockers are still working fine though? I’m on chrome with ublock and I’m not seeing any ads.

you're not using ublock, you're using ublock lite. it cannot do dynamic filtering, script blocking, or url parameter removal, among other limitations.

Why does that matter if he's not seeing ads. A severely crippled adblocker means that you would see ads during regular usage.

Additionally, Brave a chromium based browser has adblocking built into the browser itself meaning it is not affected by webextention changes and does not require trusting an additional 3rd party.

Tracking is also very important. Blocking scripts is very useful

> record the audio during playback and manually enter the metadata

there are more elegant solutions similar to yt-dlp. scdl is very user friendly and automatically embeds metadata.

https://github.com/scdl-org/scdl

https://github.com/miraclx/freyr-js

the issue is that eventually SIM cards will be baked in to deliver ads and spyware; there will be no alternatives because everyone was fine with buying smart TVs and not connecting them to wifi.

see: Android's recent transformation into a closed platform which no longer allows users to control devices they purchase. it's important to fight against trends like this loudly and vehemently while we still can.

uh, i think "related" is used a bit too loosely here...

it seems like a bot or LLM "user", all their other comments feature the same broken quotes and nonsense responses