The part I'm struggling with is where "neuroplasticity" turns into "your psyche collapses". That sounds more like a metaphor than an actual mechanism

Did it actually change anything for you long-term or was it mostly profound while it was happening?

Yes it fundamentally changed the way I see and show up in the world. The best way I could describe it is a sense of deep peace knowing that this is all a lovely dream, and that one day "I" will return to the source.

This seems like one of those areas where "double-blind randomized trial" sounds much cleaner on paper than it actually is. If nearly everyone can tell whether they got the drug, expectancy becomes a pretty nasty confound

Yeah, "psychedelic toad" sounds a lot more whimsical until you actually live somewhere they show up in the backyard

How a tiny self-published pamphlet apparently created a whole practice that was later documented as if it had some deeper historical tradition behind it

The part that bothers me is that preservation has become the customer's problem while continued access remains the vendor's decision

The most damning part is that signing in isn't some obscure edge case. It's the front door to one of the biggest games ever made

The difference is that Linux usually fails loudly and gives you something to investigate. Microsoft software often fails behind five layers of UI etc.

The hardest part of the Halo 1 campaign is apparently defeating Microsoft account creation

I like the idea of treating limewash as maintenance rather than a permanent cure. That is probably closer to how these materials were historically used anyway

I just restored an 1800’s house and we redid the paint in limewash as part of that process. (Effectively zero VOCs but pretty caustic when wet.)

Historically (for interior paint) you would use regular limewash in dry spaces and add casein/milk in high traffic/wet spaces. It works in a bathroom but wouldn’t hold up in a shower (for that you would want to use “tadelakt“ - especially if you’re going for that Aman spa look).

The contemporary solution with modern limewashing is to use “mineral shield” - it uses silicone instead of casein - it makes water droplets bead up but still lets water vapor breath through.

It also doesn’t flatten out the nice velvet texture one gets with limewash paint from the calcite crystals.

That said, it’s extremely obvious if one touches up a patch of wall with limewash. No two batches are the same color unless you’re going pure white and even then…

Lime wash also discourages people from leaning against the wall, once they have seen the white marks on thier suit...