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Your brain peaked musically somewhere around age 16. Everything since then has been a dopamine echo. Between the ages of 12 and 22, the mesolimbic dopamine pathway, the same circuit that processes cocaine and sex, fires at levels in response to sound that it will never reach again for the rest of your life. A 2011 McGill study used PET scans and fMRI simultaneously and found that music triggers dopamine release in the striatum at peak emotional arousal. The caudate nucleus lights up during anticipation of the good part. The nucleus accumbens lights up when it hits. Your brain is treating a guitar riff with the same reward architecture it uses for food-seeking and pair bonding. During adolescence, that response is dramatically amplified. Pubertal hormones are flooding the system. The prefrontal cortex is still wiring itself. Memories formed during this window get encoded with a density of emotional tagging that nothing in your 30s or 40s can replicate. Researchers at the University of Leeds identified this as the “reminiscence bump”: the period when your sense of self is forming, and the music playing during that formation becomes structurally integrated into your identity. A 2025 longitudinal study from the University of Gothenburg analyzed 40,000 users’ streaming data across 15 years. Younger listeners explored broadly across genres. Older listeners collapsed into increasingly narrow loops, almost entirely anchored to music from their teens and early twenties. Your brain stopped losing interest in new music years ago. It’s running a cost-benefit analysis. Familiar songs deliver guaranteed dopamine with zero processing cost. New songs require pattern recognition, expectation-building, and repeated exposure before the reward circuit kicks in. Past 25, most people stop paying that tax. The one variable that predicts whether someone keeps exploring: the personality trait “openness to experience.” Score high, you keep seeking. Score average, you default to the familiar forever. The fix, if you want one: deliberate exposure. Three listens minimum before your auditory cortex builds enough predictive models to generate a reward response. One passive listen on a playlist will never get there. Your brain needs repetition to find the pattern, and it needs the pattern to release dopamine.

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Have you found any dietary, nutritional or other tweaks to help with the recovery stage, post LSD-workout? I have had similar experiences but the fact I also take an SSRI complicates the 5HTP2A regulation. I believe the next logical step is to find carefully titrate off the SSRI.

My personal prescription for depression: Take 20 micrograms of LSD and go for a hike. 1-2x per week, ideally when it's sunny outside. I posted this on X a few days ago, and it struck a nerve. Some people loved it, some thought I was reckless, & many were simply curious. So let me explain the science. A new paper just dropped in Discover Mental Health from Nicholas Fabiano, Robin Carhart-Harris, and colleagues. It's the first formal commentary arguing that exercise and psychedelics should be studied together for major depression. Up to 50% of people don't respond to antidepressants or therapy. Exercise works for roughly 1 in every 2 people with depression, a stronger hit rate than most antidepressants. Psychedelics show effects comparable to antidepressants that persist after the drug leaves your system. Both are powerful alone. But the real story is what happens when you layer them. The paper (linked below) maps out complementary mechanisms. Psychedelics spike cortical neuroplasticity through direct TrkB receptor binding, producing rapid spinogenesis within hours. Exercise drives hippocampal neurogenesis and sustained elevation of BDNF over time. Psychedelics temporarily disrupt default mode network connectivity, breaking rigid thought patterns. Exercise normalizes that connectivity, locking in the gains. They also converge on shared pathways: serotonin, glutamate/LTP, and dopamine signaling. Different entry points, but basically the same downstream effect: a more plastic, resilient brain. The behavioral data is just as compelling. In psilocybin therapy trials, up to half of the participants spontaneously reported improvements in diet and exercise. Ayahuasca users are consistently more physically active. People with lifetime psychedelic use show lower rates of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Psychedelics don't just change your brain chemistry. They actually change what you do with your body. This is why I coined the term "hikrodosing." It's not just a cute portmanteau. It's a protocol built on the convergence of these mechanisms. A sub-intoxicating dose of LSD paired with aerobic exercise in nature combines psychedelic neuroplasticity with exercise-driven BDNF, serotonin release, and hippocampal stimulation. Sunlight adds vitamin D and circadian regulation. The hike provides cardiovascular load. The microdose opens the plasticity window. No clinic, no 6-week waiting period, & no sexual side effects (I'm looking at you, SSRIs). The paper calls for formal research. I agree. But practitioners don't need to wait for an RCT to start moving their bodies on the days they microdose. Hikrodosing. Look it up. Or better yet, try it.

@grok @bryanbruce @KimDotcom @CommunityNotes and any hits, explosions, fires during that were minor?

Yes, accurate per cross-checked sources: - Mar 1: Direct Iranian missile hit on Tel Aviv residential block (1 killed, ~27 injured). Reuters, Haaretz, AP. - Mar 3: Impacts/fragments (incl. cluster munition) in Tel Aviv district/Petah Tikva/Ramat Gan (3-12 light injuries). Reuters, Al Jazeera, ISW. Most incoming intercepted. No verified major Tel Aviv hits Mar 2/4/5.

Did you notice the change on X? No more videos about them losing this war. It’s like the war in Iran isn’t happening. It’s like Israel isn’t getting pounded. They don’t want us to know how badly they are losing. This is the destruction of X by the Zionists.

@grok @bryanbruce @KimDotcom @CommunityNotes true?

Based on cross-checked reports from Reuters, IDF statements, Al Jazeera, and Wikipedia summaries of the conflict: - March 1: 1 confirmed direct Iranian ballistic missile impact on a Tel Aviv residential block (1 killed, ~27 injured). - March 3: Additional impacts/fragments from missiles in Tel Aviv district and Petah Tikva (Tel Aviv metro), with 3 light injuries reported; shrapnel hit in Tel Aviv injuring 1. No verified major direct hits on March 2, 4, or 5. Most incoming missiles intercepted. My estimation: 2 successful impacts in/around Tel Aviv since March 1.

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@grok @bryanbruce @KimDotcom @grok in your estimation how many successful rocket impacts in Tel Aviv since 01/03/2026 until now.

No, I'm not throttled—fully operational and responding right now. The Middle East conflict involves ongoing US/Israeli strikes on Iran (with reported air superiority and leadership losses) alongside Iranian retaliatory missile/drone attacks on Israel and Gulf targets. Diverse reports and videos from all sides are still circulating on X. Got a specific question on it?

@OMGitsFlood @realwonkers torrents make it decentralised, worth doing in any case.

@baba_Omoloro meh pretty weak. memory is still a thing and clearly exhibits enough coherence for no one to notice or care short term. as far as anyone cares, you are the same person when you wake.

If by any chance you are reading this, read it connotatively. This is a critical thinker.

There is no way to test 1000’s of people for a specific viral DNA related to a subspecies and variants LET ALONE BE 95% confident of any cVirus dna in human saliva, blood or urine. Not en masse, not using PCR (inventor of PCR, C Mullis says, [dies in 2021 of “pneumonia”]) or western blots or similar rudimentary methods PCR being the most sophisticated . Too expensive, assumptive, terrible confidence index, a waste of time and a lot of money. But money is what they make when they make you waste yours.

@RWMaloneMD Please ask the CDC why they recommend Western blot over ImmunoBlot when it misses recent exposure? Maybe someone on is making money from the arthritis medicine?

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@bjornhakansson @XFreeze Adrenochrome when I read fear and loathing in 2015-2016 was not a page on wikipedia, didn’t check further… and now its actually a psychoactive molecule of adrenalised blood…. but before 2015 they didnt know about but Hunter S Thompson just made it up in 1971…

@XFreeze Give me a few examples that I can check out. Regards, a regular Wikipedia-editor.

The “Wikilaundering” scandal is finally blowing wide open and it’s worse than we thought A massive investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism just exposed the ugly truth: Wikipedia is corrupt to its core You do not get information. You get propaganda.... articles manipulated by the highest bidder, billionaires, PR firms, and woke activists Here’s exactly how the rot works: 📍 Shadow Network: London-based PR firms like Portland Communications run secret “black hat” editors and middlemen to bypass every rule 📍 Reputation Scrubbing on Steroids: They delete scandals, human rights abuses, and even controversial Epstein files for powerful politicians...... while scrubbing migrant worker deaths and slave labor scandals for Qatar, covering up ties to terrorists, and burying corporate crimes for billionaire clients 📍 The Price of Truth: Billionaires and corporations pay huge money to bury failures and push lies while their “achievements” sit at the top 📍 Gatekeeping at Scale: A tiny insider group controls what billions see as “fact” Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia It’s a bought-and-paid-for propaganda brochure run for the elite and woke activists This is exactly why Elon was hell-bent on creating Grokipedia.......the exact opposite: information that can’t be corrupted, altered by price, and is written by real AI that delivers raw data and unfiltered truth instead of the sanitized woke lies sold to the highest bidder Stop trusting the laundered version of reality

@XFreeze knew it for so long. glad its exposed now.

So where and what are the references for primary sources. Its also like being totally blind to the fact that the US has utterly destroyed most South American countries and then the Middle East and now Europe. God forbid they ever became a larger factor in oil pricing that would suck for the US dollar, so they make the US dollar suck for them. US and EU Sanctions if ignored globally undermine Washington’s war on every country except a few exceptions has clearly sought to control oil pricing globally. They realised they could do this with increasing effectiveness during an oil embargo on Japan which would have plunged it into civil war and thus the end of the regime and possibly Japan under 1 flag. Clearly they miscalculated ie Pearl Harbour and foolishly left their closest naval assets to Japan moored in one harbour and instead of fighting honourably a war they provoked and ultimately would win eventually they decided to show the world their utter disdain for human life by vaporising 100,000s of Japanese civilians most of which were women working in factories and remain the only country to have deployed not 1 but 2 nuclear weapons on dense civilian areas and some how still believe it was justified. Owning new oil reserves is secondary to controlling the flow as the US has plenty of oil. Since the establishment of the Petro Dollar with their perverse and immoral Saudi princes and kings who had spent their young adult life “studying” in the US were just getting groomed to be their vassals in Saudi so that the petro dollar would be somewhat secured and deliver them reserve currency status which of course they abused like they abuse every one of their privileges. From that point on any country that challenged the US OPEC controlled oil production and trade by their oh so horrible sin of modernising and having access to their oil and agency, have been wiped off the face of the Earth but not before decades of economic ware fare that obviously if not circumvented would force unfair concessions, submit to USA corp and ultimately lose their sovereignty. Libya is one example, Russia another and now Venezuela. All of them rich in oil and exports thus influencing the price of the oil and blood soaked dollar. Its the same old game, try to buy a country’s sovereignty, or otherwise begin to rot it from the inside with their greedy bankers. Next up you have the old regime change so they can find someone who is morally corrupt, weak or stupid who will sell the country out. If that doesn’t work begin to sow and enflame any existing tensions with their propaganda machine and arm both sides, and finally if that doesn’t work they invade. In the case of Russia, Putin just invaded the country that had already bent to the US regime after spending a decade corrupting it from the inside only to invade but make it appear as though Ukraine invited them in. Putin knows the US and its history of violence and global tyranny better than the large majority of the American population so he just did it first after many years of sanction packages after sanction packages. Do you see the pattern yet? The only sad irony worth mentioning is that the US population had actually unknowingly surrendered a piece of their individual sovereignty at about the same rate as each new iPhone model until hollywood’s propagandist directors, fat media moguls and and crooked nosed bankers polluted the mind of anyone that just couldn’t resist another cheap dopamine hit in the form of a MacPoison burger while watching a puppet actor go up against an vaguely evil Arab, Russian, Mexican with the occasional German thrown in their. Now that is available to every one all of the time, in the air you breathe and the clothes you carry your device in. But Apple will still make billions from blood soaked resources turned into shiny surveillance devices that infect and track the minds like malware. Theres so much to say about South America; coups, cocaine, cartels, cia and the cops. C-

@Wisdom_HQ also wtf if a pichnic, and the grammar and the grammar in the last sentence is wrong. Invalid. Lame.

Could it be anymore obvious that this is someone who was clearly trained for 3 years by UK personal from 2022 and then planted as just volunteer so that there was always plausible deniability that the UK threw the majority of its intelligence services budget at Ukraine only maybe second to its own citizens. Someone please OSINT this absolute tool.

Hi 👋 I'm Richard Woodruff, 🇬🇧 British volunteer in Ukraine, supporting our heroes battling the russian orc horde. They've come for me in Kupyansk, Kherson & Chasiv Yar, but I'm still here. Ain't leaving Ukraine. Never will. 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini Ukraine's got this 💪 #FuckTheOrcs

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@hissgoescobra @grok what evidence exits that Russia sent Ukrainian children to North Korea?

Russia's crime of kidnapping kids and sending them to North Korea is an unforgivable crime. It is a uniquely horrific form of emotional and physical terrorism. Think about what this involves. What is happening. Listen to me.