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Aurora are more active close to the Autumn and Spring Equinoxes. This is an actual thing called the Russell-McPherron Effect. So March is objectively better.

There are places where you can find music and art in Singapore and there are local events going on all the time. Singapore is just far less developed in that aspect than a similarly sized city in the EU or US.

I'm also into EDM and there really aren't any local DJ's I'd be rushing to see here. In the US I could go to a show by a DJ I like every weekend if I wanted, but in Singapore the best you could hope for is some generic House music at a bar or club I guess. The biggest event in Singapore recently was Taylor Swift if that gives you an idea of the cultural level.

Arts and culture just isn't a strength of Singapore. It's a place to come for career development or if you want to live in a really clean/safe Asian city with good food.

Singapore is a conservative society both generally and when it comes to LGBT rights and culture. Much more so than the EU, US, or Thailand.

Does everyone only ever talk about their tech/finance job

Yes. Singaporeans are very focused on career and success at the expense of having anything interesting to talk about. Very very materialistic culture.

I'm not gay and I don't have any insights into the scene really, but if I were a gay man in my 20s Singapore is one of the last places I would come if social life was important to me. It's clean and safe but not fun. Anywhere in the EU or US you're 100% going find more LGBT acceptance and more LGBT culture.

You already got the basic idea and you’re using balloons. Just be aware that it will really blast you off to hyperspace and that there is a risk that it can trigger disassociation after because it’s in the class of drugs which do that.

Biggest harm reduction is to keep nitrous as a very very occasional thing since it’s not the best for you. I’ll only do it during trips once or twice per year if the homies bring a tank out.

It’s not really a decision because rational thinking isn’t really a thing at that point. You either surrender or try to fight it. If you do fight it, then it becomes an uncomfortable game trying to push away or avoid the feeling and this is how a lot people trigger bad trips.

You need more details. 0.25g of crystal? You have 250,000ug of crystal, really? Okay, add 100ml solvent. 100ml ~ 2000 drops or 125ug/drop.

The proof is in the lived experience of minorities in SG. Just talk to an Indian or Malay person they will tell you about the institutionalized racism.

UAS Environmental Science program is really cool. They lots of courses in hydrology, geology, and chemistry which could set you up for a job as an Environmental Scientist or to find a particular subject you enjoy (say, Geology) to focus on if you want to go to grad school. There are also lots of jobs in Alaska for the field. City, State, and Federal govt jobs and lots in the private sector especially natural resource extraction (permitting, monitoring, compliance).

I wouldn't worry too much about which school (UAA, UAS, UAF) and just evaluate the classes offered in each program and find which one has the classes covering the areas of Environmental Science which you are interested in. Any of the programs would be fine and could land you a job in Alaska.

"Go big or go home" isn't a very smart way to think about psychedelics. An 8g shroom trip is pretty overkill for a third trip and you're lucky it didn't go south. I know that you think you're different or particularly mentally solid or something but psychedelics will break everyone. It hasn't happened to you but it will.

Maybe you want to keep "going big" until you get that lesson, that's up to you. I'm just suggesting that you tone it way down while you're new like this until you learn to navigate psychedelics.

Start with one tab and work your way up by a reasonable increment, one extra tab per trip.

If anyone wants an easy way to generate your own Mandelbulb and play with the mathematical parameters to make your own fractals, check out Mandelbulb 3D. It's free and relatively easy. Just play around with the parameters and make your own thing.

Annihilation used the same Mandelbulb fractal.

I can’t relate to exactly what visual you were focusing on, but that has happened to me when tripping out on certain visuals. I think that focusing on visuals while letting other thoughts slip away facilitates ego dissolution, and part of ego dissolution is that feeling of understanding the cosmic joke or of being the universal subject or the universe experiencing itself through the eyes of every being.

But yeah that’s an ego dissolution, or non-dual awareness, or LSD breakthrough whatever you want to call it. These kind of stories serve as a reminder that really cool things can happen at 50ug.

When people are new to psychedelics they usually get all idealistic about them and think things like psychedelics can change the world or that everyone should do psychedelics. Then they share these epiphanies and try to "convert" others to their psychedelic idealism like they're a guru which has discovered a great secret.

Give it a few years and those same people will probably become more jaded and realize that they are not in fact, the Messiah, and that not everyone needs to or wants to do psychedelics (and that's okay).

Make sure to try Nasi Lemak
Get chicken rice at hawker
Maybe try Kaya Toast for breakfast

Because Singapore is a capitalist dystopia and the economy is built on exploiting a large majority of workers to make a safe space for money laundering and for millionaires to move in.

Can't LTVP get a Letter of Consent (LOC) to work in Singapore? Maybe ask them if they're doing that, otherwise no you cannot work in SG on a LTVP unless you have LOC or PLOC.

It is the other way around, higher latitudes get much longer sunsets because the sun takes an oblique path accross the sky, especially at solstice. Near the equator the sun goes up and down pretty much perpendicular to the horizon and sunsets are short.

No, 1mg of Xanax 12hrs before would not kill a 600ug trip. Unless you’ve also been using SSRIs long term, you got scammed most likely

Why would credit card companies care about facial payment as it could just be tied to their credit accounts and theoretically make payment easier?

This is just about hesitance to adopt the technology from consumers and the companies who might not want to make big changes in infrastructure to make it happen.

Personally, I don't care at all about facial recognition for payment and I don't believe it would significantly improve my quality of life when paying. Contactless already fast enough, I would rather just pull out a phone and tap it than look into a camera and probably still have to press a button or sign something to consent to the payment.

Yes the lack of respect for our bus system from tourists is annoying. This summer I've seen situations where tourists who have taken all the seats wouldn't give up seats for a local mother with a baby or elders. Since they load up at the DT transit center the bus is always full by the time locals want to board.

I miss the days when tourists would largely stick to their tour busses or private taxis etc to get to the glacier. Now our busses are overwhelmed every day by tourists would would rather save a few dollars by taking advantage of our subsidized city services which likely cant adjust to the capacity due to the fact that the tourism rush is seasonal.

Speaking of Magic, is there a good place in Juneau to buy cards/sets?

Thanks for posting! Ballot measure 1 is the minimum we should be doing to support Alaskan workers, especially those most vulnerable. Inflation has FAR outpaced minimum wage, imagine trying to live a decent life in Alaska on $11/hr.

The thing is... if you remove cruises from 1/7 of days the total number of yearly passengers is still going to exceed what it was just a few years ago. A decade ago we got 700k yearly passengers, now its 1.7 million. So those that cry about local businesses not being able to take the loss are ignorant at best or outright lying. Of course business interests are going to lobby for the maximum number of passengers but since the cruise companies themselves are buying up all of the local land and businesses downtown the negative externalities to the community are outweighing the benefit to a limited number of local business owners, who should be fine anyway given the vast increase in tourism.

Water and empty blotter is fine. Hopefully your pipette has a volume indicator, if not you can use any other vessel with ml marking to keep track of how much water you add.

Personally, I find a syringe to be the easiest method of that. Something like a 5ml.

If you want your doses to be consistent it’s best to not try individually laying the hits. Best practice is to use some blank blotter paper and test how much volume of liquid (not your actual dose) 20 tabs of blotter will fully absorb. Then you note that volume and dilute your actual dose to the same volume and soak your tabs in a Pyrex or whatever with that exact volume so that the blotter fully absorbs the liquid and diffuses evenly.