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OptionalAccountant115 karma

How do you keep the iPhone hidden?

OptionalAccountant78 karma

Were you hired to write the encyclopedia or did you just do it? It's gotta be so hard to not miss something. You must have done this before the internet came out, right? I just don't understand why we would need new encyclopedias with the internet.

OptionalAccountant30 karma

Salvia is not really close to Acid or Ayahuasca, at least in my opinion. I guess people are different and have different perceptions. But yes, as the other guy said, Acid is more like shrooms. Ayahuasca is chemically very similar to shrooms (shrooms are like an orally active version of dmt that doesn't need a MAOI or second herb because it has a phosphate group that facilitates osmosis through the blood brain barrier), but if you take a crazy high dose, then it can be more visually-consuming like salvia, although smoking DMT and drinking ayahuasca usually produce a more pleasurable experience than salvia which is often thought to be almost dysphoric.

OptionalAccountant29 karma

Just be glad you aren't in an American prison ha ha. Pretty sure a U.K. Judge recently denied extradition based on how inhumane hour prisons are.

OptionalAccountant28 karma

Is their a biochemical reason women would be less interested in a particular thing than another? No, because that is dictated by society and culture, not biochemistry. Biochemistry dictates gender, not interests.

Maybe if we grew up watching Debra's laboratory with her stupid brother DexDex instead of Dexter's lab, then little girls might view science as more interesting. At the current time, science is not regarded as cool in general, and is thought of as something only nerdy guys participate in. That is a consequence of our society and culture, not a result of biology/biochemistry around gender.

When society portraits a scientist, it is most often a nerdy, quirky white guy (or immigrant man). It is because of our societal view of scientists, that mostly immigrants make up our scientific community.

I wouldn't say gender alone is a social construct, but the way we view scientists certainly is. If we simply gave scientists a more popular and diverse image in society, it would do wonders for the amount of women actually interested in working in these fields.