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[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 102 points 3 weeks ago

That's just a primed and guided trip lol

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 80 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 2 weeks 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 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

I'm sorry, I thought this was America!

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Do not take psychedelic with remaining eye.

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The dmt is doing the heavy lifting there.

[–] mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 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 3 weeks ago (3 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 2 weeks 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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[–] dmention7@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If I was playing The Sims, and one of my Sims started showing un-mistakeable signs of self awareness, I would panic and ctrl-alt-delete that shit so fast.

Maybe its better if we DMT-and-lasers our way into a plan before we start banging on the glass.

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd just sims harder but that's just me

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[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Roll up a simulation joint and get simulation high

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Absurdism is your friend. If nothing matters in the long run, if all of existence is absurd, why not enjoy the here and now?

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[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 23 points 2 weeks 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?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Idiots get clicks and clicks make line go up

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

Yeah.

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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] roundup5381@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks 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…

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This guy needs to jack off more.

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is that a curable condition?

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Laser eye damage? Not so much

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I can walk you through treatment. We're just going to need a little DMT

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

"yeah yeah the simulation lasers, we've all seen it"

[–] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Not sure how you can it these days, but I recommend static on a TV over this.

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[–] pigup@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Where DMT pen

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

Not gonna see much it he keeps putting lasers in his eyes

[–] derry@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

"Could you see the day? Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?

Get along, get along, Kid Charlemagne Get along, Kid Charlemagne"

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