I think that this is a very balanced and thoughtful take that I agree with. As someone who has been smoking daily for the better part of 4 years now, weed has helped a lot but it has also hurt me a lot. At my peak i could easily kill a quad a day, although now I’m down to a gram a day if that. I would’ve been in a much better position financially if I never started smoking, and I’m sure my health would’ve been a lot better. That being said, smoking has helped me through some very difficult times and has given me community. I started smoking in highschool but stopped until I graduated and started again right before college. I’ve stopped having my own supply at points (not stopped smoking altogether but gone mostly sober), but especially in this day and age it’s very helpful to have it. It doesn’t help that where I am, a lottttttt of people are cali sober (me included).

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if done properly with good technique it’s not that risky. you need to trust your partner, have good communication (including both verbal and nonverbal systems of consent), and have the awareness to monitor your partner’s physical state while doing the deed.

breathplay is edgeplay but imo it’s one of the safer forms of edgeplay

!lemmysilver

Just make sure to either read the Arch News so you can avoid most breaking changes, or use paru as your AUR helper as it has a config option to automatically pull the news for you

There’s an infinite amount of numbers within a range but the limits of the range are still constraints. What’s to say the end of our lives is a constraint on the multiverse? Maybe within a local minima of historically similar universes one individual’s life could be so important that theres a shared constraint, but I kinda doubt that that exists across the entire multiverse. But really we will never know. As such your partner isn’t wrong still, they just have to take an agnostic approach that there’s no way to know. But it’s not wrong to choose to believe that your deaths are not constraints on the entire multiverse, that’s just their interpretation.

the good 'ol shoulder tap or very light open handed tap on the upper back with a “ope lemme slip on past ya” while shimmying through usually works

bumping into people is just part of being on a dance floor. people getting touchy though isn’t okay

To my knowledge, this was only implemented recently and due to state budget cuts to firefighting services, fire departments in California are understaffed. Ex convicts can work as firefighters now, but it’s unlikely they’ll be able to do so. And as I said, this was only implemented recently so for many years they couldn’t. And hiring culture takes time to change.

dude i was just reposting a picture. I haven’t read enough about huey p newton, although i am aware of his work, to comment on what he means specifically. i don’t want to dissuade you from learning but there are communities better suited for this. im not really in a state rn to educate you on this, not that it’s wrong that you’re asking these questions and trying to learn.

to any other leftists/progressives reading this, yes i do try to take the time to educate people and have a conversation, but this is a shitpost im not tryna get into it here lmao. we all need our breaks

My brother in christ, who are you responding to?

I have the renewal process itself automated, just not the replacement process.

I selfhost my own mail server (my primary mail in fact).

My LE certs expired on Christmas eve, when I was also getting sick. I didn’t realize my mail server was down for a week until about NYE. Luckily Postfix queued all my emails and there was nothing important lost, but I am reevaluating self hosting my mail server. That being said, this was also the worst issue I’ve faced in over a year of self hosting mail. And it only arose because my dumbass still hasn’t automated my certificate rotation.

So you were in the position of those kids back in the day, except i take it there was significantly less sex, steeze, and roller blading

As someone studying cybersecurity right now and hoping to pivot into red teaming, i would like to inform you that it’s since attained cult status. It’s so horribly bad that it’s actually good. The best way I’ve heard it described is that that movie is what a hacker (at the time) wished hacking was like. If i could really tap a few buttons and just say “I’m in” or hack the FBI just to fuck with random special agents, believe me I would.

How up to date are your graphics drivers/backend?

“sneaky beaky like”

you can smell it coming before you see it imo. that gives you time to get to shelter and to move to where the water/food is

Yes, if it’s strong enough to instantly kill a mosquito with a pulse it is likely that looking at the spot can blind you.

ofc!