Anyone not goose-stepping in jackboots is a dangerous leftie to them.

IDK, ketamine is kinda similar to alcohol; more psychedelic.

It’s a dissociative. Its effects are more like PCP than like alcohol. I wouldn’t use the term “psychedelic” for its effects-- the biochemical pathways are different as well.

Heard it messes up your bladder.

The metabolites burn your bladder severely enough that you can end up pissing blood. The body load seems to be high as well, frequent users look grey and washed-out, and it damages your cognition.

Never knew anyone who abused it habitually, long term.

I’ve known a few. They started fiending like junkies, lost jobs, destroyed relationships. It’s a dirty drug and, unless you’re getting professional treatment for PTSD, the best advice I can give is to avoid it and to avoid people who use it.

i mean the massive amounts of accs that were banned in the last few months were all AI

No they weren’t. Mine got banned for no reason.

There is an infosec guy in California who had NULL as his car license plate. If a license-plate reader detects a ticketable event but the license plate is unreadable, guess how the system handles those events?

Infosec guy was not a happy bunny.

Irish people were actually considered “non-white” throughout most of the history of race as a concept.

That’s a myth. I’ve seen the Ellis Island records of my Irish ancestors’ arrival in the US. There’s a Race box, and what was filled in for them (and others with Irish surnames that I noticed) was WHITE.

Note that Irish immigrants could own property, get bank accounts and credit, and could vote. They held public office from early in the wave of immigration. In the Western US, the earliest English-speaking settlers included a large percentage of Irish-Americans (including several of my ancestors). There was prejudice in hiring, and in boarding houses. But these were informal, at a time when there were formal legal barriers against Black Americans and Chinese immigrants.

It’s perfectly possible to be classified as white but still oppressed for other reasons. In the US in the 19th and early 20th century, that reason was mainly anti-Catholic prejudice, followed by classism. The KKK were against the Irish because of their Catholicism, as is shown by contemporary pamphlets and records of speeches. And those were the same reasons the English were so virulently anti-Irish-- those and the fact that the Irish were living on some land that they wanted to steal.

This does not mean that it’s impossible for Irish people to be racist themselves

The Draft Riots in New York city during the Civil War provides an illustrative example of that. Also memoirs of some of my ancestors (one was quite proud of his role in making his town in New Mexico a sunset town). Anti-Chinese racism was also widespread and violent in the West.

Economics is much harder to understand when you realize how little the basic fundamentals actually tell you.

It’s the endarkenment.

Stopping pollution at the source is much more thermodynamically efficient.

They should quit trolling and start resisting. Gesture politics is a displacement activity.

It works, but not all that well. The hair that comes back tends to be really thin.

I had postcard white-guy Jesus hair, hanging to the middle of my back, straight and reddish blond. A beard too. I went bald in my mid-40s and now what’s left around the fringes is white. People who see pictures of me from back in the day don’t recognize me.

This murderous pig got a unamimous confirmation vote in the Senate.

One of the biggest risk factors for being an abuser is having been abused. So it’s not entirely surprising, just depressing.

Except for Jutland, the same could be said of the 400+ islands that make up Denmark. Yet Denmark is universally regarded as part of Europe, despite the main landmass/island pedantry.

I’m still friends with my ex, who’s American (as I am), but it’s far from a distant memory for her. 90% of her extended family on her mother’s side died in Auschwitz. Nearly as many on her father’s side were murdered too,

Tesla ownership is its own punishment.

conservatives think someone who talks a lot with convictions is right

34 is a lot.

That’s not socialism. It’s state capitalism. Socialism would mean the workers owned (and controlled, not just nominally owned) the means of production.

They can use their AI to check if I’m using AI in my job application.

Well, there’s also 0.1% who are relatives of old people who are tring to keep in touch with the batty old meme-forwarders. I was one of those until the ones who mattered most to me shuffled off this mortal coil.