I’m biased against weed fwiw I’ll admit that, shit spikes my heart rate to like 140, no other drug ever done that, not even borderline lethal doses of cocaine.

It’s super uncomfortable unless doses are extremely moderate, a couple tiny buds barely ground and stuffed in a (so they’d actually stay in the bong bowl(?) and not fall down into the water) would last me like a week if not more of going for multiple tokes daily.

Even when it did feel good though, I don’t miss it, same as I don’t really miss xanax or valium or alcohol or codeine. For me it was not a very productive drug, sure I’d paint once in a while but never would I have called it relaxing or bringing any sort of clarity at all - if anything the complete opposite, its obnoxiously anxiety inducing, I relaxed more drinking coffee on hour 4 of an LSD trip than anything I ever had on weed.

I have been tempted to try it in a combo with Vyvanse to see if it’s more chill that way though.

Uh-huh. You do you bro but I have better things to do than downers.

Great headline.

Gonna get crucified for this, but:

While the comic is cute, the message is bourgeois slave mentality propaganda.

If the capacity to enjoy less is so aspirational as scorates, ghandi et al. would have us believe, then why don’t the rich ascend to this purer existence in a trailer park? Why is it always the poors? It’s because they have class consciousness and we don’t.

These people have an objectively shit life and shouldn’t have to live like this.

Don’t get me wrong - If they want to - that’s fine, but you can’t really say you truly love something you didn’t go out of your way to choose - and it doesn’t seem that way here, and either way - this is a comic glorifying poverty, when there are many who don’t want to live like this but have to, and it’s kinda gross, tbh.

Also, weed is 21st century opium. Yes it should be legal, but you shouldn’t do it if you want to have a life, it’s no different from excessive social media use, it is an artificial relief for an ancient instinct of boredom that you have for a reason - it is your brain telling you to get off your ass and do something. Using chemicals to quell it - is just brainrot coated in an appeal to nature fallacy and new age aestheticism to make it more palatable.

Wanna let me in on the joke?

Yes, but again - not by SM/apps/big tech, just by the establishment and grifters. Same as it always was with the press.

That’s fair, still, I’d rather talk to “crazy” people who reasoned their way into than “normal” people who got there purely based on vibes

Both have a profit motive, one simply earns actual capital that it’s owners (Murdoch etc.) exchange for political capital (favourable laws) and the other earns political capital (position promises, coverage opportunities, connections with assorted tory wankers), to exchange for actual capital (bonuses, cushy jobs).

Every system is corrupt.

In so far as beeb vs the sun hey are practically indistinguishable in terms of actual levels of bigotry, the actual tone is the only thing that sets it apart, but in terms of harm the Beeb takes the cake for me for being so transphobic one of their articles has a whole-ass Wikipedia page about it.

Then you have the frankly bizarre amount of sucking up to Rowling, Farage, et al. they do and now the coverage of the war in Gaza too.

The Sun is arguably more harmless because nobody really thinks it’s unbiased truth. But many people do see the Beeb that way and it hasn’t been so since the BoJo years at least when the new head got appointed, it’s just polite fox news now.

Tomatoes are biologically fruit, but culinarily they are a vegetable.

You wouldn’t expect them to put an orange slice on your burger because you asked for some veg, would you? But you’d expect tomatoes, tomatoes are veg outside of any scientific context. Language is fickle. Life is complicated. Reality defies categorization.

No, what the fuck?

Damn it feels like every other rant on here is like this.

Such a shame, my own parents were super transphobic as well and threatened to disown me too when I was a kid and would spend all summer saying shit like “transvestites dont live to 30” and calling all LGBT folks “non-people” to my face.

All that after they outed me when finding one estrofem in my bag. LOL!

I’m 10 years out from all that now. Independent, healthy, working, got surgery - I’m happy. Now they wonder why I don’t write much. But I was able to forgive them over time, as well.

Stay strong 💪

Soviets opposing the Kims? Wow, this is like, before all meaning died or something

The BBC is a propaganda outlet meant to keep British society in line and and in check so the aristocracy can maintain their power.

Idk, people here are definitely on average more sane than on mainstream platforms. This also isn’t to do with big tech or billionaires, it’s the fact that even knowing of Lemmy has a certain intellectual barrier that filters out the non-thinking masses.

This is from 2013. This has nothing to do with big tech, people are just stupid.

Oh yeah for sure. I still go back and play the main story mode of Crash Team Racing every year as a ritual, on the other hand I’ve literally never played mario kart so the answer is obvious.

Yeah that’s why most didn’t see it.

Idk personally I think both movies are good for totally different reasons. G’day to you

Tropical rainstorm in a beautiful rainforest aaa 🤤

Extremely good take. Thank you! So well-worded.

I definitely prefer self-checkouts and in-store screen ordering, I don’t want to speak to some stressed out guy on minimum wage and stress him out more because he can’t hear or speak properly and will get my order wrong and get me frustrated.

The touchscreens are usually really simple and easy to navigate. Plus all the upsells for meals etc. are easy to skip past if you can navigate a basic dark pattern, compared to the human who has to say it then you have to hear it and respond etc. which is very slow + and you need to take your earphones off or at least pause your music to do it which always just sucks.

At least in principle - that’s a lot better, in practice in my experience too.

I’m sorry mr.boomer but when I worked fast food I didn’t do so for “human connection”, I did it to not be homeless and so I could eat and my worst nightmare on till duty was if someone wanted to speak to me, and I’d just wish for them to fuck off so I can keep daydreaming and blocking out the traumatizing levels of noise and shit going on.

As a customer - I don’t go to subway for “human connection” - I go there because I fell asleep after work and now I’m starving, I don’t go to Starbucks to harass the barista or the other souls inside who just want to be left alone like everyone does, I go there to get my 500kcal coffee treat to remind myself of better days and leave as soon as possible.

Also, good image OP. If AI it’s very impressive because it just looks photoshopped to me. Why is the grammar so busted though?