BeefExtreme said:

GenesisCorrupted said:

We don't have natural predators so there is no natural selection.

I mean there are kind of Darwin award deaths.
But that isn't going to remove stupidity from the population.
Education is the only way to do that.

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all men are dogs but only some men are wolves.  dogs tuck their tails around wolves and the fact of the matter is that the dog wouldnt have done that if i were in the car. and i hate that.

im a loving person and there is nothing i would not do for someone in need.  I'll always within reason and without surrender, do my best to get on well with other people but im also of the opinion that a bloody nose and a fat lip sometimes promotes a lot of personal growth in a dog.  if often found that people with purple lips talk a lot less shit after a good punch in the guts.  Its a sort of kindness, in the long-run.   

anyway its not my thing its ducs.  ill support her however she needs.  the duc is powerfully intelligent and she'll handle it in her own way.  there will be consequences, just maybe not the sort of consequences that a normal dog would ever consider.

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Well fucking said.

You could save a life by giving them a measured response that checks their future behaviour - where they might not get the luxury of measured responses.

OTD: I sit with my shrooms every day and sing to them - believing in my heart of hearts it makes them happy and dance in way I can't see. Sometimes so loud I've had the police called to my house multiple times for noise complaints (the universe shields me every time 😺)

GenesisCorrupted said:

We don't have natural predators so there is no natural selection.

I mean there are kind of Darwin award deaths.
But that isn't going to remove stupidity from the population.
Education is the only way to do that.

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Natural selection is a complex process that hinges on partner selection, immune system, available resources etc etc. The idea that it's just kill or be killed, arrr real men, lonely wolves shit, is a very patriarchal point of view. Especially us monkeys are, in passing on our genes, way more dependent upon complex partner selection mechanisms.

Just look at how bad most primates are at camouflage / being unseen / keeping their mouths shut. We flash our asses at every occasion, develop special throats to make even more noise, etc etc. Our true enemy is being unable to find mates. The tigers and wolves of this world don't even come close.

Darwin, Bates and the other bricklayers of 'natural selection' lived at a time and place where it was opportune to think of nature as one big bloodfest. And to see 'ourselves' as the product of some existential struggle over resources. There was supposed to be some moral justification in that

OK back to the essentials

Churpee Choozle said:

GenesisCorrupted said:

We don't have natural predators so there is no natural selection.

I mean there are kind of Darwin award deaths.
But that isn't going to remove stupidity from the population.
Education is the only way to do that.

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Natural selection is a complex process that hinges on partner selection, immune system, available resources etc etc. The idea that it's just kill or be killed, arrr real men, lonely wolves shit, is a very patriarchal point of view. Especially us monkeys are, in passing on our genes, way more dependent upon complex partner selection mechanisms.

Just look at how bad most primates are at camouflage / being unseen / keeping their mouths shut. We flash our asses at every occasion, develop special throats to make even more noise, etc etc. Our true enemy is being unable to find mates. The tigers and wolves of this world don't even come close.

Darwin, Bates and the other bricklayers of 'natural selection' lived at a time and place where it was opportune to think of nature as one big bloodfest. And to see 'ourselves' as the product of some existential struggle over resources. There was supposed to be some moral justification in that

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Darwin certainly had his faults, and there are other naturalists who deserve a little more credit than they get. But "Darwinism" quickly got twisted around in ways that he never intended. Natural selection and survival of the fittest are concepts that can't be escaped. Even our distinction between natural selection and artificial selection is, well, an artificial one. It's only really useful as a way to distinguish between, say, wild psilocybes and cultivated ones. Fitness was only meant to be whatever traits allow an organism to pass on its genes. Selection is just the process that limits gene transfer. Unfortunately, Darwin published his work at a time when people were really looking hard for reasons to justify white supremacy and European colonialism, and capitalism, and since he was perceived to be chipping away at the previous foundation- i.e., "because God said so," people took his work and turned it into some stupid Gordon Gecko speech.

Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid" was, in part, a rebuttal to some of that bullshit.

"The Darwin Awards" are a funny idea, but almost everyone I know who died young due to their own choices had multiple children.

Stupidity needs a definition in order to make any sense. I'd posit that it makes more sense just to think in terms of ignorance and mental illness. You can get very smart people to do whatever you want as long as you keep them brainwashed and know how to manipulate their pathologies. You can keep very well-educated people caught up in their own bullshit by convincing them that they're better than the violent stinking masses.

BeefExtreme said:

ducs okay.  shes crazy smart and shell handle it.

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Mackload said:

Embarrassed I can't remember,  not home to check. Two strains of cubes from spores, germinate,  take a few transfers make a bunch plates.  Stuff just stays weak, thin. Now I think about it, could be old spores, could've been frozen in the mail...there are many variables I guess. Not sweating it. Which is already a big improvement from when I started! Skin getting a little thicker hehe

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Agar Wedge said:

You too!? Maybe we got the same bad Burma batch, the photos looked so good Couldn't clean it up or get a single pin to work with, despite multiple efforts. Oh well in the garbage it went

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