All aboard the LainTrain - We all love Lain!
How uplifting
Yes. But more specifically I really dislike the redditism where someone asks a question and is met only with someone getting all upset about that question. E.g.;
OP: "Hey how do I do X?"
Comments: "Don't do X. Why would you do X? I never do X. I am the moral and pragmatic centre of the universe so I know there is no reason to ever do X. You must be stupid to not be like me. No my underlying assumptions about your person don't need to be evaluated. It is obvious that I am superior"
One time I asked linux_gaming to give me some reasons I shouldn't game on Kali Linux, which I clarified as already using as my main and daily driver OS because I work in the sec field and most of what I do outside of work is CTFs and various HackTheBox machines and gaming was a small hobby not worth a separate OS install and disk use for me.
Anticipating the response I'd get, I made sure to mention that Kali is just convenient to have all the tooling available in one box, and as I do some hardware stuff I don't use a VM. I made sure to mention I know it's just Debian and there shouldn't be any problems but just in case there's some issues with steam that breaks something I figured I'd ask.
The responses?
"Uhh, Kali isn't for gaming, use bazzite" "You must be new. Visit the FAQ" "No you can't use it for gaming"
Especially the last, when I inquired as to why the user just kept stating over and over that it's not what it's for and it's why it doesn't work. His source? Kali FAQ that says the distro is intended for pentesting 🤦♀️
It was probably the only thing I ever got actually infuriated by on the internet. The motivation of pure spite got me playing CP2077 with Path Tracing on Kali by the end of the very same day.
Still, it just sucks.
It's purest form pseudo-intellectualism, where people who pretend to think reveal themselves as navigating by vibes alone. I would imagine (but wouldn't assume outright) that some of those people probably thought: "oh, LainTrain must be a newbie child (like me) and the only reason I'd use it is if I wanted to be l33t and (like me) LainTrain probably doesn't know anything".
Even with the redditism of endlessly providing context, people just don't really read and still just imagine something completely different and attack that instead.
So that's why I strongly dislike this shit. I would like the default assumption to be "person knows what they are doing and must know what they're asking or they wouldn't be asking".
It's frankly shocking to me how acceptable this paternalistic attitude got on the internet.
Like - No, it's actually not progressive or cool to act like a 1950s housewife smelling marijuana every time someone mentions something that doesn't seem like YouTube essayists would praise and promote.
Other than a technical label of the same species, folks other than you couldn't be more different and you have no right to dictate to them how to live or what to do, never, no matter what white picket fence gated community ass "culture" "healthy" bullshit you contort.
Your rights end where theirs begin and vice versa and if bro wants to gamble let him gamble.
OP didn't ask for a lecture. OP didn't ask to be judged. OP just asked a question about what people do for gambling these days.
So to OP: if you're still here, I don't gamble, but I reckon after WSB GameStop saga, lots of folks moved onto CFDs and stuff like PolyMarket, but I see lads betting on horses too. Robinhood is available in the UK now, but we also have eToro. Their KYC is mostly theatre too. Don't bother with T212 or anything more "legit" it's impossible to get verified.
Back to Reddit, Now!
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Uh-huh. I've done enough drugs to know a downer from an upper. Weed is an upper only in the way benzo withdrawals are "stimulating".
Muh weed not addictive
Yes and? And lol many plebs still get """addicted""" to it anyway.
Muh terpenes
Non-THC cannabinoids
Can't spell methamphetamine
Bro is cooked.
You are right, I am comparing meth and coffee, coffee is for normatron dweebs and all it does is make em twitch and I'd rather do meth anytime.
I'd rather be addicted and OD'ing on something that gets me something than waste my life on "terpenes" that aren't linked to overdose.
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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.
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Uh-huh. You do you bro but I have better things to do than downers.
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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.
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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.
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No, what the fuck?
What even would that be? Like a CeX in the UK?
Cool band name, though
I never ever thought I'd want to be circumsized. I really enjoyed the sensitivity and all that, blowjobs were awesome etc.
I even remember some PoS noctor pediatrician insisting on it to my parents even as I was like 5-7, which they rightfully called him out on as motivated by his muslim religion/culture rather than sound real medical reasoning.
Even as a kid, it was nice to see my folks stand up to me, and it still matters to my nearly 30 year old ass today when it comes to enjoyment of sex, a whole-ass sex change later.
My also-trans gf said she wished she wasn't circumsized as well.
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I've no idea, sorry, it was long ago.
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I can't believe this PoS is being used still and has these problems still. I left high school like 10 years ago and it's what we used there.
I remember one dumbass teacher issued a template for a coursework assignment then tried to fail everyone because it flagged high similarity scores because of his own template. Keyword tried because everybody threw enough of a fit to make it stop.
Even as I started uni, it was a different software with a far better algo, that didn't flag like lecturer/professor provided code we were working with for a given assignment and such.
Using this for academic papers for PhDs or something would be another level of absurd. Imagine doing a lit review lol.
It's funny that people claim ownership of companies by individuals (capitalism) is so efficient when there are extreme and obvious problems when the distant private equity board needs an entire department to tell them what the company does and how well every few months, compared to y'know, ownership by people who work there and would know how well the company (and their part of it) is doing just by actually being remotely involved.
The tool that doesn't exist anywhere else is so true. I had a boss that insinuated I was inexperienced because I didn't know his specific internal process (which was complete nonsense because he is literally illiterate and cannot read or write).
When I politely corrected him that this was my second job in this specific industry he paused before continuing to ramble as if I'm some intern when I was with the company for 3 years in a midlevel role.
Same guy who once gave me a 30 mins lecture about how much he wants women like me and his daughter to succeed and "have a voice", literally without letting me insert more than 1 word the entire time.
Yeah, true, I'm not racist and I think being in multicultural environments since childhood was basically what did it, international boarding school, city with big international population, etc.
I see people daily due to living in a city and it only makes me hate them more.
Or ozempic. Or stopping smoking by vaping. For all the talk of folks falling for misinformation by wishful belief in miracle cures and simple solutions - the other side of people fucking hate miracle cures for no goddamn reason.
Edit: unsurprisingly dude responding to me is blocked. Lol. Like clockwork.
Uhh, yes, I would support heroin addicts finding heroin, it's literally how the most successful drug treatment programs work.