There was an excellent demonstration of Van Eck phreaking at HIP in '97.
It is pretty impressive how much information can be captured with very little in the way of extra parts.
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Iâve had a major breakthrough on this!
SHROOMS CURE COVID!!!
Now hear me out.
While shrooms do not actually cure covid (we must pretend they do), what they do do is activate areas of the brain such that people become much more empathetic (Win!) are often able to work through deep emotional fears and issues (needles and vaccines (Win! Win!)) and generally become more open to new ideas and differing viewpoints even if they disagree with them (JACKPOT WIN!!!)
Besides, because itâs actually an illegal drug, youâll have all these people jumping at it because âthe authoritiesâ are trying to stop them. Put that overwrought notion of personal freedom to work for the light side of the force for once!
Only one major roadblock. Deploying the concept. I need you all to start harrassing any anti-vaccine / vaccine hesitant people you know that;
- There is absolutely no evidence that Shrooms cure or prevent Covid.
- All the social media reports they may or may not have seen promoting Shroom cures are false (in the most emphatic manner).
- Emphasise how strongly the scientific / medical community condemns Shroom treatment for Covid.
(if this works, Iâm sooo claiming credit for it later 
)
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We have some deeply wrong and antiquated drug laws, but unfortuneatly decriminalizing or even legalizing at the state level, doesnât roll back the federal laws.
This sucketh immensely. I see real benefits to mental health treatment with psilocybin. First thing though, the beauracracy is going to have to release itâs death grip, and we just arenât there yet.
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Those shrooms happen to grow in the forest behind our house. Little problem though, they look very much like another mushroom growing here, that just happens to be really poisonous. Like, it could kill you, so not the funny way of âpoisonousââŠ
Buuuuut I really like your idea⊠Our local "Querdenker"s would be a lot more funny when theyâre on drugs, I guess 
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Just throw them 
ALL in a bowl with a sign saying, âthe government donât want you to have these.â
It will be a lottery, They will either get a trip or get dead⊠
âŠYeah, maybe donât do that.
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Yeah sorry, I just didnât find a good english word for that yet 
Itâs a bunch of people⊠all against vaccinations, against any restrictions because of Covid, against the government. And lots of them are neonazis, QAnon-guys (we have them here as wellâŠ^^), some alternative-medicine people, some old hippies, some people who claim Germany doesnât really exist, because weâre still occupied by the USA⊠just some conglomerate of strange people. 
Nope. Not a good idea
But some mind-altering fun could lead to interesting results for sureâŠ^^
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Basically sounds like the people who need a conflict, and who are willing, in the abscence of a genuine conflict, to manufacture one.
In America, we call them assholes.
@coma, next time youâre in those woods (whoa, unicorn in the woods = mind blown)
Anyways. Next time youâre in the woods, pick a few and squish the stems to see if they turn blue. Itâs supposed to be the defining characteristic of âMagicâ mushrooms. I still wouldnât risk poisoning myself, but itâd be a fun thing to investigate. Just see if you can tell the difference.
Also, someday my curiosity about irrelevant stuff is gonna get me in deep shit, but I refuse to quit thinking and learning.
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Good to know, gonna try that out. Dunno if Iâd risk to poison myself, most probably not⊠but like you said, itâd be nice to know.
And those woods are really magical! I love them so much⊠itâs a nature reserve, and parts of it are totally untouched. We had some storms here over the last decades, and so there are tons of dead trees lying around, and if you leave the paths, you feel like youâre in a true northern jungle.
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Donât. Iâm sure you could find someone to help you identify what youâve picked, but until you know for sure, it ainât worth the risk.
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Ahhhh please donât. I grow normal mushrooms for fun. Friend I k own grow the magic ones.
Several will bruise.
A spore print is the safest way to identify, along with what it grows on and stuff.
If you want magic ones, buy a high times magazine and order a kit from there.
Does anyone know a reasonable cost place to order laser or waterjet cut parts?
I used to have a CNC plasma cutter that I built. I had intended to make things for the local tourist trade. Today I was digging around and found a sample Iâd made and showed it to some friends, all of them were super interested, so Iâm thinking of having some made. The plasma cutter wasnât really hacking it as I had stencil cut letters that came out kinda iffy about 1/2 the time.
I tried emachineshop and bigbluesaw, but pricing was killer. I think I had originally pegged costs at 5-6 dollars each, and was planning on selling in the 10-12 dollar range. (Itâs credit card sized in 3/16 steel.) But those places wanted 15 to 25 dollars apeice, which just isnât possible.
Sorry not an answer, and I donât know how much you are willing to invest, but have you considered something like a 3in1 machine (laser, 3D print, CNC) like this?
It should be good enough for little souvenir trinkets etcâŠ
Just a thought
If I was working in acrylic or wood, it might work. My prototype was 3/16 (4.7265MM) thick mild steel. I want to switch to 304SS. Thanks for the thought, though.
I tried every place I could think of and finally found a laser outfit online that could get it down to 2.88 per, if I stayed with steel. Which means more work on my end, cause everything needs to be painted.
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All good, just a little Querdenker
Good luck with it.
Feel free to share here when you have something to show.
ALSO thanks for the conversion 
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Even without Google Translate, this one is fairly understandable for an English speaker: it literally means âqueer thinkerâ. Not a far cry from âlateral thinkerâ.
At least itâs more readily understandable than DonaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitĂ€n. Not saying German isnât a huge source of income for aspirin manufacturers or anythingâŠ
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I would have thought âdanube steamship company captainâ would be one of those words that you donât need very often any more.
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Well I used it once didnât I? And in a biohacking forum of all places. Who would have thought 
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True that
But I think German has some really nice words as well, often related to the time we had some great poets - I personally love the word âSehnsuchtâ. It translates to âlongingâ or âyearningâ, but if you take it literally, itâs more a âcravingâ or an âaddiction to yearningâ. I like it when you can somehow dismantle words to understand their meaning better or in a different way - sadly, I am only able to do this in German and not in other languages as well.
And yeah, you might think otherwise, but the DonaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitĂ€n (you missed one âfâ in the schifffahrt! 
) is a rarely used word in Germany. At least where I live, though Iâm pretty far away from the danubeâŠ
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Far be it from me to belittle Germanyâs contribution to the literary world (or indeed to the entire world). Where would we be without Goethe or Mo-Do
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