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[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 93 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Can show you the secrets of the universe using a DMT Pen and...

Anyone else get "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone." vibes.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I still think of that scene at least once a month and giggle!

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I don't know who needs to hear this, but people, please do not take psychedelics and put lasers near your eyes.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Emphasis on AND. Putting lasers near your eyes is a sober activity.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is true. Laser Doppler Vibrometry and Atomic Force Microscopy are two legitimate examples of using lasers near your eyes while sober.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I'm sorry, I thought this was America!

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago

Do not take psychedelic with remaining eye.

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[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's just a primed and guided trip lol

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 40 points 5 days ago

Didn't you know? In addition to trains tech bros also invented psychedelics

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

The dmt is doing the heavy lifting there.

[–] mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

I was just about to say😅 with enough dmt anything is a simulation. Lasers are just for aesthetics

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Does Dmt know something we don't?

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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 70 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

right?.. just a DMT vape huh?

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[–] roundup5381@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This article makes me regret telling elon about simulation theory at burning man that one time

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know DMT came in vape form. What a time to be alive.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

well it’s always vaporized, burning it will destroy it…
but it turns out, with a little chemistry you can put anything into a vape

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I'm a thing, Greg. Can you put me in a vape?

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago
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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 24 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Crazy people were spreading stupid shit like this on youtube for decades but I would really like to know why Vice thinks this is newsworthy now. Did the society became so stupid that being an idiot influences is now a valid profession?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did the society became so stupid that being an idiot influences is now a valid profession?

Yeah.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Idiots get clicks and clicks make line go up

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[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Even if we were in a simulation, we only exist inside of it and knowledge of whether or not we are "real" doesn't actually change our interaction with the time and space inside our universe.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The only thing one could do with knowledge of being in a simulation, is trying to find bugs and exploits.
From now on, I expect anyone claiming we live in a simulation to have a working perpetual motion device, faster that light communication, or something similarly impressive. If they don't, their claim is ~~meaningless~~ useless.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

and honestly, even if it is a simulation, so what? do you have a way to get out? can you even exist outside of it? do you hurt or love any less knowing that? what are you supposed to do about it? give up? lay your simulation body on the simulation dirt and simulation die?

none of it really matters does it, especially because you can't know if it's possible to leave/exist outside. as far as you know this life is still the only thing that is certain

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago (7 children)

If it's a simulation someone must be running it. Maybe we could get their attention somehow.

Praying obviously doesn't work. Maybe if we all stripped naked and just kind of started getting it on in a giant juicy fuck pile that would get their attention.

And they could make things suck less.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's assuming the someone running the simulation is even aware we are here. For all we know, they're just trying to model out the behavior of stars and black holes.

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[–] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 days ago

In our lanoratory I remember an warning sign:

Do not look at the laser with the remaining eye !!

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Heheh. Reminds me of the guy I knew who did a DMT trip and claimed to be able to see between the atoms and retrieve lost memories.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This guy needs to jack off more.

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

I think we all need to jack off more. People are wound far too tight these days.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 days ago

"Let's see how close I can get the lasers to my eyes without going blind..."

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Where DMT pen

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, from the picture I thought he would teach us how to read barcodes (which do underpin human reality), but it's just some boring simulation stuff.

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

Yeah, drugs and looking into lasers will definitely change your brain, no doubt. Dunno if I want advice from someone who does that, tho…

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Well, a friend of mine took acid with a TV in the room, and it enabled him to see what was behind the signal, between the scanlines, on the other side of the picture. He then saw the message that held the secret to unlocking the truth of the universe.

It said: LSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSD

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The word "just" before the words "DMT vape" is doing heavier lifting than a crane at a shipyard

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Dimethyltryptamine. Shit‘s got the TRYP already in the name bro.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Hmm if I say that if you add magic mushrooms to the mix you can change the simulation to your advantage, will you follow me? I could use the extra cash.

[–] Guillotine_Erotica@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

Ever seen vape smoke in lasers.. On weeeeeed

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