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BrickHorn

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  1. After visiting several dispensaries in CO, IL, and CA, I can say that full legalization is not all it’s cracked up to be. Far fewer options are available in legal states. Shit, Total Wine on 183 has 10-20x the selection of THC drinks compared to the best-stocked legal state dispensary I’ve been to. Hopefully the Leg figures out a way to regulate the current market without shrinking it. I actually think the House bill that Patrick killed would have been a good approach.
  2. Stop. Quoting. The Russian propaganda bot.
  3. Calmer than you are.
  4. Syril represents the run-of-the-mill fascist. He’s a white collar guy who likes things the way they are and has very basic ideas about justice. As long as he is comfortably seated at his desk or in his living room, he doesn’t see the horrible reality of fascism. It’s all an abstraction to him, and it’s natural to accept the party line that They are criminals and They sow chaos and They deserve justice. That changes when he comes to know Them. For the first time, he sees the victims of fascism as human. He cares about them. He understands their perspective. He sees how tyranny impacts them, and he sees that it is unfair and built on lies. And it wakes him the fuck up, if too late. Syril is not fundamentally a bad person. He’s just comfortable in his own life, has an overly simplistic moral code, and requires a personal connection to feel empathy. And unfortunately, he’s the kind of person whose support every fascist rise to power is built upon.
  5. Somewhere in South Austin, @Guadaloopy is clawing at the door handles and pressing a hand-scrawled “HELP ME” sign against the driver’s side window of a slow-moving Tesla robotaxi.
  6. That’s because those of us who condemned Israel for bombing hospitals did so based on compassion and empathy, not tribal bullshit. So we have no conflict similarly condemning Iran when it bombs Israeli hospitals. It’s not that we only care about innocent Palestinians; we care about innocent human beings. It saddens me that people don’t understand this. It must be exhausting to continually modify your morals based on the identities of the victim and perpetrator.
  7. It seems to me that this is an easy calculus. Iran could soon have a nuclear weapon. It is thus possible that, at some point in the near future, Iran could use a nuclear weapon. The use of a nuclear weapon is a risk the world cannot bear. We must therefore attack Iran with nuclear weapons. It is the only way to mitigate the risk of a potential nuclear attack. Also, as a bonus, this whole thing might bring Jesus back to smite a bunch of shit and judge the fuck out of us. Which I understand from a series of depressing Sunday morning lectures I was subjected to in my youth, is somehow a good thing.
  8. What, you don’t read the DT board?
  9. The frustrating thing is: those idiots will look you straight in the eye and insist that they did not vote for this. They’ll say Trump promised to end all the wars Biden got us into (fact check: there are none) and prevent war from ever happening again. And then, rather than admit that they are suckers who fell for one of the most obvious lies ever told, they’ll insist that he was telling the truth. They’ll justify this flagrant violation of his campaign promises by opining that this is all Iran’s fault or the result of Woke Ideology or a valiant fight to prevent Sharia Law or some other stupid fucking nonsense that just makes them look even dumber than the drooling morons that they are.
  10. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
  11. The PT and ST all suck shit and none are worth rewatching. In fact, I wish I’d never seen any of them. The OT is great, Rogue One is good, and Andor is fucking fantastic.
  12. I’ve tried both Clone Wars and Rebels but gave up. They just seem cheap, childish, and overly drawn out. I don’t need a cartoon to salvage Anakin’s character or water down the significance of Obi-Wan and then Luke but introducing a whole shitload of refugee Jedis and critical characters who weren’t included or even referenced in the films. The live action stuff should stand on its own merits.
  13. Yep. MagicSoccerSpray is an idiot, of the repeatedly-stepping-on-the-same-rake variety.
  14. dO YoU waNt sHAriA LAw?!!!!1!1!
  15. Always a promising sign of good things to come!
  16. Apparently #falseflag is trending on Threads.
  17. Is becoming a massive piece of shit a typical side effect of a stroke?
  18. 21st century? Equating war with peace dates back to 1984, at least.
  19. They discovered him last night in Van Nuys, lodged against an abutment.
  20. “Can’t outrun your fork.”
  21. And to troph’s point: my doctor put my ass on a diet several years ago, making clear what kind of damage I was doing to my health with shitty eating and too much alcohol. Been healthier and happier since then. But the key is: this lifestyle advice came from a member of the medical establishment. And in particular, one who has consistently advised against taking statins and instead encouraged healthy eating and exercise. tl;dr: sounds like @troph needs a better doctor and a copy of the Food Pyramid.
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