Nitpick: Partridge (Consise Dictionary of Slang) dates Nark (an informant) back to 1864 and proposes the Romany Nak as it’s origin. Which is not to say that Narc isn’t now also in common use, with the two etymologies having become entangled.
Fun aside: the word Grass - as in to grass up, to inform on - is Cockney Rhyming slang: The grass in the park.
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Cool. I did not know that. Thank you.
I was a tween / teen in the heyday of 1960s drug culture and the whole prohibition scare / build-up, so it seemed as if all the associated terminology was pretty fresh. Excepting “reefer” of course.
How long will it be before the “Readers add context” feature gets deep-sixed?
Nah, just made better!
“We’ve noticed a number of bad actors have been spreading misinformation in our community notes. Going forward, only premium members will be permitted take part in our community notes project.”
Oh shit, poor Elmo. You know what that means, right? He won’t be eligible for ad sharing revenue from that Twit!
I can’t see how that could be weaponized at all.
So if they turn out to be true, no monetization?
In a further slight change to Xitter policy, community notes will no longer be permitted for any tweets issued by anyone named Elmo, Elon, Musk, Muskrat, or Apartheid Clyde.
No wonder Blinky and Inky always seemed to be going in their own directions most of the time.
And if you just want to fuck with someone’s monetization, you can just fact-check them, even if it’s factual, as you imply.
It would be a real shame if somebody were to fact check Mr. Beast’s video.
“Insane” is of course a loaded word. It can mean someone who can’t function outside a hospital, it can mean someone who just doesn’t confirm to strict social expectations, or someone who lives much of their lives in a fantasy world.
John Lilly definitely had a strong habit of consuming injectable ketamine, and it did lead him to exist in sort of a fantasy world where he was receiving messages from aliens who hid themselves in the tails of passing comets, and he was concerned that they were going to have a large intra-species war that would have harmful effects on humanity. He beleived that the universe was permeated by a web of consciousness that was manifested by coincidences. One of ketamine’s odd traits is it makes people highly sensitive to detecting coincidence, and feeling that said coincidences were so unlikely to be natural that they were obviously directed by God, aliens, or some other all-powerful intelligence. I’ve experienced that sensation myself and I know whereof he speaks. Lilly wrote of his belief that there existed an entire alien bureaucracy tasked with managing coincidences on earth, in the solar system, other galaxies, and the universe at large. If the man wasn’t trolling or pranking then he was truly bugnuts insane.
Ketamine is also known to be highly psychologically habit-forming. People delude themselves about this because there’s no physical withdrawal, but people with access to large amounts of K find themselves dipping into it constantly because it feels harmless, and the internet says it’s safe, used as a field-hospital anaesthetic because its strong effectiveness and the near-impossibility of overdose. But with enough frequent use, people suffer Lilly-style mental dysfunction as well as lower UTI problems.
I don’t believe Musk is taking messages from aliens, and his thing about colonizing Mars is obviously a scam to recruit the support of self-described dreamers, visionaries, futurists, and other like-minded navel-gazing jackoffs. But Musk does sound like the kind of guy who can talk himself into believing it’s OK to rail a few grams of K on a daily basis, pushing him into the hole of pseudo-visionary (At one point he posted on Twitter “a neuron doesn’t know it’s part of a brain” like whoaaaaaaa, dude, that’s some serious stoner dorm-room philosophy there). And if you’re the richest man in the world, then K is exactly sort of drug to convince you that it’s not a coincidence, you were sent on a mission from cosmic intelligence to save humanity, man.
As far as all the rest of those drugs, they’re fine for occasional consumption, but if you a lot more time thinking up weird shit than being plugged into the consensus reality where most other humans exist, then you do raise the risk of becoming mentally marooned in your own weirdness, giving LSD to dolphins like John Lilly.
Thanks for that. Great post and informed me.
This is a total stoner spelling nitpick: “believed” contains the word “lie”…
I am not a stoner but I used to be.
I think it’s spelled with “lei” on Hawaii.
Just as a postscript about the above, Musk’s use of MDMA creates other forms of unreality, such as a strong feeling of unity and acceptance with the rest of humanity, without any of the actual work of building relationships, listening to people, or getting to know people.
It’s a great drug for going to a rave and feeling the sensation of group agape love and interconnectedness. It can make you look at humanity with more empathy, tolerance and respect. But if you’re someone who is doing his goddamn best to soak up every ounce of attention, adoration, and acceptance on the planet, MDMA is exactly the drug to tell you that you’re a great person who is doing a fantastic job, who is universally loved, and should never change.
Now pair the ketamine story with the MDMA story, and Musk’s known & photographed habit of going to raves where he stumbles around in a daze, and combine that with his public utterances and behaviors, and it’s pretty obvious where the man’s head is. He thinks he’s on a divine mission, he thinks he’s loved by all. He gains most of his human interaction digitally, leading him to think that any critical or less-than-adoring interaction must be some sort of inhuman bot to be algorithmically solved away.
I’m not saying drugs drove Musk insane, but this is the kind of effect that ketamine and MDMA will have on a narcissistic megalomaniac. I’m sure he’s taking other drugs, I can’t guess which ones or how much, but we can at least be sure that none of it is helping the situation.
I have my doubts about this, having done a lot of it.
Self confidence is huge, sure, and your friends might tell youbarexare a fantastic person who is doing a fantastic job
Compliments when you are high are nice but not necessarily sincere (they are in the moment) but they well may be overblown.
Note, this is fundamentally no different that many versions of a substantial portion of the American populace who believe in an Omnipotent, Omniscient being who watches the fall of every sparrow and to whom everything happens due to their will. Which, I supposed, we cannot absolutely rule out is an Alien after all. 
So, in the sense of “insane” as living their lives in a fantasy world, we should be careful to say that he is “bugnuts insane” because those may be the majority!
[ yes, I know the SDMB and myself for that matter often consider true believers to be so, but not all, and I also wanted to get my FSM-imbued right to get a nitpick in!]
Back to Musk though, since it’s his thread, IMHO when it comes to Musk and Drugs, I’m with @HMS_Irruncible
Musk was always an asshole, drugs just made him more free to explore his inner asshole and his wealth and platform makes it unspeakably easy to share it.
And that’s the last I’m going to mention and think about Musk exploring his inner asshole! 
I’m guessing this nonsense is Musk’s attempt to fend off accusations he’s anti-Semitic.
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who has been accused of airing antisemitic sentiments and conspiracy theories on his social media platform, X, said he had so many Jewish friends he was “Jewish by association” but added that he was “naive” about antisemitism.