Haha, read his book. He wrote about kholing himself and in that state would receive communications from the aliens that are in a higher dimension and would give him instructions to change the course of events in this world to save humanity... Or something like that.
Also at one point during that he fell into his pool and nearly drowned.
Yeah maybe it worked.
This guy fasted for a year but consumed some essentials.
I think if you consume nothing but water you will die at some point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri's_fast
For 382 days ending on 30 June 1966, he consumed only vitamins, electrolytes, an unspecified amount of yeast (a source of all essential amino acids) and zero-calorie beverages such as tea, coffee, and sparkling water, although he occasionally consumed small amounts of milk and/or sugar with the beverages, especially during the final weeks of the fast.
Source? I don't think Sagan suggested the LSD use either way, that was John Lilly's thing.
Sagan was interested in Lilly's dolphin experiments because he was interested in developing inter species communication techniques, because he was really interested in how we could communicate with aliens.
Lilly was the psychonaut. He invented the sensory deprivation tank during the dolphin experiments, would use it on LSD to try to telepathically communicate with them, and gave the dolphins LSD a few times. Years after the dolphin experiments he went kind of nuts taking high dose ketamine and trying to communicate with aliens.
Thank you, didn't know this and it works great
Ok I'm sure it's fine on desktop but I'm using Firefox on Mobile and it looks like this
There's like three ads at a time and the ad at the bottom literally puts blue bars around the edges of the article. I'm just blown away by how shitty and intrusive it is.
I need a new graphics card to read about the new graphics card I need 👍
It's a funny article I'd like to share to my friends but there's no way I'm going to send someone into that mess
Holy fuck the ads on that site make it nearly impossible to read
Edit: on Firefox on Android*... It's atrocious
Ah the old LLM switcheroo
Thankfully some of us are able to interpret what's going on correctly.
Loss of essence.
Yeah I enjoyed the relaxed arm posture but trying to do fine line tracing and clicking in Photoshop made me give up on it
Credit card sized amount every week, not day. And the data that went into that claim isn't great:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911022000247
Any amount of mp we consume is still terrible of course
I'm here because of the API stuff, I was a reddit sync user so when sync made their Lemmy app I joined.
Honestly Lemmy feels much more confusing than Reddit used to, I don't fully understand the federation stuff and different worlds or whatever, I imagine there's a lot of people confused about it like me.
I'm happy to stay and contribute but I think I need to figure out how to use this on my desktop because I only check Lemmy because of the sync android app.
Any tips on how to get started migrating my experience to desktop? Like I literally don't know what URL I would go to.