It’s private wealth, not government funding. They’re free to use their wealth how ever they see fit as long as it’s legal.

Ad-hominem is not argument to the contrary either.

That’s still not an argument against the need to have a backup of humanity somewhere beyond Earth. Your desire to stick it to the man won’t mean much if we go extinct.

We will most likely always have terrorism and wars. That’s not an argument against letting wealthy individuals fund a private space race.

You just entirely ignored my argument.

If you can figure out what it contains by looking at it it’s probably good to eat. Basically the less it has been processed, the healthier it is. In general, nothing is inherently bad for you. Dose makes the poison. Things can be bad in excess.

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surely they would know they are (edit: seen as) the bad guys?

This is a popular view only on left-wing social media. The vast majority of people just see them as wealthy individuals, without thinking of them as particularly bad. If I didn’t visit Lemmy, I wouldn’t even know how many people dislike them. Everywhere else, I mostly see people looking up to them. Criticism does exist, of course, but it’s usually focused on specific traits - like Elon’s Twitter addiction - rather than condemning them as a whole.

To answer your question, Elon Musk plays a lot of Diablo IV and is actually quite good at it. He claims to be in the global top 20, though that’s debatable and hard to verify. However, he is ranked in the top 20 on the leaderboard at helltides.com.

We’re as free to stop caring about what other people think as we are to stop enjoying the taste of sugar. It’s not impossible, but it’s incredibly difficult. For most of human history, being disliked or ostracized by those around you often meant death. You don’t just wake up one day and decide to override such a deeply ingrained instinct.

I think upvoting and downvoting should remain a feature for sorting posts, but the scores shouldn’t be visible to anyone. Making scores public encourages people to say what’s popular and discourages them from expressing unpopular opinions, even if they believe them to be true. Humans are social creatures, and we care too much about what others think. If you agree or disagree with someone and want them to know, you should tell them directly rather than anonymously ranking them.

That’s quite cynical view. There’s about 0% chance of that happening during their lifetime. Or you think they’ll just want to go to mars and sit inside some capsule for the rest of their lives? C’moon now…

Elon’s argument for why we need to spread to other planets holds true even if everything on Earth were going perfectly.

It’s not about getting everyone off Earth - it’s about creating a backup for humanity on other planets. This ensures that the only known flame of consciousness in the universe isn’t extinguished by a nuclear war, pandemic, supervolcano, or asteroid impact. It’s about not having all your eggs in one basket.

I’ve yet to hear a good argument for why it matters even if they did. I’ve made thousands of comments on Lemmy that are free for anyone to grab and do anything they want with. If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.

ITT: People realising most of the world lives outside their bubble

Dosage is not really the issue here. It’s that I have no idea what’s the correct way of making them and not lose half of the THC in the progress. For decarbing the weed for example, when I ask 10 different people how to do it I’m getting 10 different answers.

Sure, but this thread is about getting the most out of home-made edibles. AVB is much less potent than properly decarbed flower.

I have tried making edibles from AVB several times but I barely feel any effect from it. I think the issue here is my tolerances. What gets an occasional user super high doesn’t do much for someone whose been a daily smoker for 10 years. I think this is why there’s so much variety in all these instructions as well; people may have wasted 80% of the THC during the cooking process but still get incredibly high from the end product because it doesn’t take much anyway. They don’t know that they did something wrong because it still got them high.

Yeah I guess that 50 minutes around 115C would be close to optimal. The heat on my oven fluctuates a lot so I need to use a digital thermometer to monitor and babysit it constantly. It varies between 110C and 125C when done this way so I’d assume that in less than an hour most of it would be converted.

I’m experimenting with batches of 1 gram. I don’t have the luxury on wasting a ton of weed on cannabutter. I guess I’ll see which method gets me most out of one gram and then scale that up the next time.

Just ate a sandwich with my most recent batch that still had the flower in there and everything. Tastes like crap. Absolutely horrible. Will report back.

EDIT: Meh.

I decarbed it now the same way I did yesterday but after that I put it in butter and double boiler for 2 hours. I’ll see if I notice any difference to yesterday. If not, next time I’ll probably just skip the decarb and go straight into the double boiler and hope that few hours in 100 degree C (212F) butter is enough to decarb it.

This is what I don’t get. There’s enormous differences in the instructions I’m getting when I try googling for instructions and I have no idea which ones to trust. This doesn’t seem like the kind of question that there is no right answer to.

• Leafly.com -> 220F (105C) 30 - 40min
• weedmaps.com -> 250F (121C) - 20min
• Herb.co -> 240F (115C) - 30 - 40min
• wikihow.com -> 240F (115C) - 60min
• Dude on Lemmy -> 122F (50C) and never above 212F (100C)