Fuckin’ right.

My city/community has even gone so far as having another Pride event in September in a big local park that the actual community puts on. The corporate sponsored shit downtown brings in out-of-towners and people watchers, the actual community comes out later in the year and it’s a great time.

Everywhere you go, there you are.

Americans already only vacation within the US so I’m not sure how much of an impact it would have.

Not sure if it was intentional but you just summarized the show Severance.

He could direct his company to stop targeting kids with addictive gambling mechanics and looking the other way regarding grey-market resellers.

I used to do data recovery and working on macbooks was a dream compared to every other plastic-and-clips cheapo laptop.

The soldered on memory is stupid but overall the build quality on them is very apparent and only comparable to very high end PC-laptops.

There are a couple places here with “breakfast” pizzas that have cheese sauce (or sausage gravy), scrambled eggs, and bacon.

I’m sure it’s an abomination to hardcore pizza aficionados but holy shit it’s a tasty slice.

I’d even be willing to let someone have their lake/hunting cabin/whatever and not tax too much but people are greedy and we’re far past that point. Once you start accumulating 5-10 homes, taking them off the market for other buyers, the taxes should increase exponentially.

You can’t forget the trigger event

If your memory starts on October 6th 2024, then sure.

Not nearly enough.

Texts are sent in plain-text and I wouldn’t recommend discussing anything you’d like to keep private via text.

Remember how big American Idol was? How many careers it launched? How many spin offs it spawned?

Americans would eat that shit up if we were involved.

Yep, I remember too. A few weeks before the election “oh yeah I’m concerned about the email” breathing new life into a non-issue for the media to run with, they’re all complicit. I hope they’re dragged against a wall when their times come.

Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome

Wow I’d never heard of that and it’s really interesting. It reminds me of a few different periods of my life when smoking heavily would make me really “gaggy” and sometimes make me unable to eat for an hour or two after. I’ve thrown up a few times from just “hitting it too hard” but never considered it could actually be a known thing.

Level-headed response and you’re right that local zoning is handled locally.

If the community doesn’t want a business around they have to show up to the city council meetings and organize their neighbors against it. That’s how it works and I can speak from experience that it does actually work sometimes, at least with bars in mixed-use areas IME.

The widespread legalization, overwhelmingly positive reception, and complete lack of any of the dangerous consequences we were warned about makes you wonder what else “They” were wrong about.

I mean technically all kinds of opiates, some considerably stronger than heroin, are already legal. Access to them is strictly controlled but if you have the right piece of paper you can go to the local pharmacy and pick up all manner of extremely hardcore drugs.

Just nitpicking the semantics of legal/controlled/etc though. Ultimately we’re all in agreement that drugs should be a healthcare issue and not a criminal one.

Some rich asshole once said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

I feel like this is the best take. IQ is an antiquated and outmoded way of measuring specific standards like spatial aptitude and logic. They’re definitely things that can indicate a “smart person” but are only two out of dozens of aspects that make up human intelligence.

I love that since it’s become legal where I live I don’t really have to maintain any shady contacts with lazy guys who always say they’re on their way.

I just swing by the shop on the way home and pick up whatever I want with access to 10x the variety and quality of product. I love it and I’m happy it’s working so well everywhere it’s tried.