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The carousel metaphor reminds of when I smoked opium mixed with paracetamol in the golden triangle with the natives all night in their hut.

There was a period of time when my eyes were open yet in my mind a rolodex of motion scenes were flipping in my mind at a speed that I could understand each scene on each card.

Then the doctor(man manning the bamboo pipe) said to take a break. So I shifted out of smoke rotation and left the others enjoy.

Outside the hut in the middle of the night other natives were hunting in pitch dark with homemade rifles.

Really cool experience.



Wh-what? Opium mixed with Tylenol?

Is this GPT3 or a weird troll or what.


no, this is real and it was awesome. but maybe an AI could generate this. in which case maybe it would pass the turing case for this event.

another person told me that the mix might have occurred to reduce the effects or maybe cut it to have more opium to smoke, idk


Okay I don't think you're GPT3 anymore

That's weird though. Don't smoke Tylenol, man.


> natives

Did you mean “locals”? Don’t think I’ve heard anyone call locals “natives” in my 25+ years of reading stuff on the internet.


Well these were native tribes that have been living in these mountainous jungles for a long time.

For me, I associate the label "locals" with a slightly more "modern" society which has been converted to modernism a certain amount.

In no way did I mean to demean them if that is where you are going with this. :)

But you can certainly call them locals if you wish.


For some reason, it didn’t even occur to me that you meant literal indigenous tribes.

Tbh, I was a little put off by the word ‘natives’ because I thought you were referring to non tribal, present day individuals as natives.

But I think there is definitely a missing word for present day indigenous, tribal people who prefer to adhere to their ways rather than accept modern ways of life. “Natives” sounds demeaning to me. “Locals” has a whiff of modernity. Maybe “indigenes” (which is apparently a real word)?

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Indigenes


Come to New Mexico. There's "natives", "locals" and everyone else.


where I'm from, native means you grew up there, local means you live there, everyone else is just visiting.




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