GunboatDiplomat

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• Pigeon commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  Which is a major reason why They don't want Us to smoke weed, of course....
• Geoff Hart commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  A note on mantras, with the caveat that I'm an informed amateur, and by no means an expert. And a second note that there are many different meditation traditions, so my oversimplified description may do an injustice to one or mroe specific traditions. First, a distinction: there are mantras intended as prayers (a more mystical thing) and mantras intended solely as meditation aids (a more practical thing). I recuse myself from the mystical aspects of mantras, as I don't have any experience with them. That being said, I don't think there's necessarily any such thing as an optimal mantra or...
• gasdive (he, him, ia) commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  " achieved by grabbing attacker’s front legs and separating them sideways until it released its jaws in pain, but before they broke." Remarkable restraint. I've been attacked by dogs a few times, and defended my dogs from attack a couple of times. I don't go into a dog fight with the intention of minimising harm to the attacking dog. I go in with the intention of making it dead as quickly as possible and with no injuries to me or mine. I try to give off an aura that humans are the most dangerous animal to have ever walked the...
• Greg Tingey commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  humans are the most dangerous animal to have ever walked the face of the Earth and now you've annoyed one Yes Consider the fate of Shere Khan...
• Pete Wildsmith commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  I'll admit that I haven't read the rest of the thread, it's pretty imposing, but this comment about the Korg et al set off a train of thought about modular synthesis and how it's related to (for want of a better term) academic composition in music. It feels as if the ability to synthesise sounds and images which are merely real suggests that a composers and directors are about to have new tools for their production of the hyper-real. If these systems are currently capable of being trained on human reaction to optimise for gross reactions, like the desire to...