Does it smell like a combination of Old Spice and English Leather?

Maybe financial interests?

Ding ding ding! This is the ends, the other things are the means.

The capitalist class can’t make the machine run without unnecessary suffering and death. They used to be able to keep it out of sight in the global South and Asia. Through greed, they kept bringing more and more to the global West. Too many westerners still handwave it away and bury their heads, but as population, and thus unnecessary suffering and death increases, so too the population that doesn’t look away and entertain themselves to stop thinking and talking about it. We are a threat, so expect worsening conditions to be rapidly escalated. That said, hold hope and keep working for a more equitable day.

I just mean naturally, with whatever other substances contained in the plant itself, not in the pharmacological sense. Probably not the best phrasing, my apologies. I’ve had a couple of shots.

Yes synthesized with the other ingredients of the plant.

Ma Huang?

I stand corrected:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-dna-sheds-new-light-biblical-philistines-180972561/

Apparently, they were somewhat culturally advanced, as well.

Great insult to Palestinians.

Or the wtfery they can do by denationalization.

If not sooner or as soon as he distanced himself from Reverend Wright’s words, let alone with quitting his church over them to become more powerful, we should have known. And it’s easy to “sell our souls” by centimeters, of “not as bad,” and I’ve certainly been guilty. It creeps up on us.

It’s hard to know exactly when that sudden, terrible decisive action needs be taken, but there is a point when not taking it is the worse crime against humanity. In thinking of the necessary terrible wars fought, I think of the Kali myth of going into battle to help her husband. She licked the blood from the ground not as an act of simple bloodlust, but because not doing that would mean a demon would have sprung from every drop spilled.

What that looks like in a decisive war action is in need of serious and long discussion.

Because it’s on the Cluster B spectrum, and we’re not therapists, and would rather isolate the mirror than look long and hard., to sort distorted illusion from visible scars and other imperfections, likely.

Handwrite this in a journal and come back when more emotionally settled.

We need to stop doing that and engage.

This is shattering the mirror because one dislikes the reflection. To change the reflection requires we work on ourselves.

I wasn’t contradicting, but adding.

I won’t agree or disagree with your opening, but absolutely agree with the rest.

They do not care, that’s what’s extremely sociopathic.

Maybe, maybe not, I would assume baking wouldn’t burn off all the chemicals. Not being a chemist, we really don’t know what chemical reactions may or not take place.

Yet people smoke pills daily.

Someone starving with additional medical issues that have no health care would probably die from this, is my guess.

Think of all the data breaches of big insurance and clearinghouses. That’s definitely going to be an AI nightmare.