It looks like there are two chambers and the smoke goes from the bowl into the top one first, then down into the beans, and it’s just not clear by the picture how it gets from the bottom chamber to the mouthpiece.

I would also like to say, fuck Glenn Greenwald.

And here is a better source on why fuck Palantir: Behind The Bastards

The dumb thing here is going to the trouble of drawing vanishing lines but not using a ruler to get them straight, so they may as well have just freehanded the cube in the first place.

Also, platypuses are smaller than you probably thought they were. ( if comparing to beavers and river otters )

^This girl goths

This is is just a long-winded pseudo-intellectual rant against DEI.

Getting bad vibes from “Palladium Mag” overall, like it’s for all those cryptofascist Yarvin-adjacent tech bros who think they’re smarter than they really are.

There certainly is a crisis of competence coming, but this isn’t it- and worse, the people who think this way are involved in engineering it and planning to profit from it.

Why does this have such strong LinkedIn energy?

Reject hypertext, return to gophe

No, we aren’t prepared, because there is no we. And they don’t have to acknowledge any such thing, because they are literal fucking psychopaths.

“UBI…?” Hahahaha. NO.

They intend to wring every last drop of productivity out of what’s left of the working class, finish the job of consolidating all wealth at the top and leaving us with absolutely nothing. After that, the plan is to keep the angry starving hordes away from the walls of their freedom cities and luxury bunkers and super-ultra-mega-yachts with AI powered auto-turrets and kill-bots and murder-drones and robot dogs with frickin flamethrowers on their heads.

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There’s a nearby Tesla dealership - less than a mile from the beach - and the Cybertrucks are just rusting on the lot. Apparently their steel is as stainless as their self-driving is full.

I believe his correct title is “Chaos God of Health and Human Services”

Huh, interesting. I always figured the black smoke was because they burnt one cardinal every day they failed to come to a decision to motivate the rest.

Bets on how long before this dude records a collab track with Kanye?

Someone somewhere failed a CAPTCHA at that exact moment.

Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age

Oh FFS. I’ve been hearing this same bullshit for the last 25 years and it’s still irrational Reefer Madness conservative fearmongering.

So what? If anything, more potent weed is less harmful because you are putting a smaller amount of burned plant material into your lungs to get the same effect.

It’s not like people just… consume one marijuana and however high that gets you, that’s what you’re going with today. No, you’re going to continue smoking until you get sufficiently stoned and then stop and put it out.

It doesn’t take long for anyone to figure out how high is too high and how much it takes to get there, and plan accordingly.

It might be a vape pen with 92% THC hash oil in it so you take a couple of sippy little puffs and get mildly buzzed and you’re fine with that. Or conversely you can pack up a handful of that leafy brown prohibition-era crap and do gravity bongs until you cough your lungs out, and get a lot higher, because that was your goal.

They sell those oil-soaked kif-encrusted joints here. You do not want to finish one in one sitting. The point of these isn’t to get insanely baked, it’s that one good hit will do it and you can put it out and save it in the glass jar it came in.

As others have explained already- if you have the kind of brain prone to psychosis, weed is likely to push you over the edge- and that’s likely to happen when you’re a teenager, because lots of people try it at that age- but something else would have triggered it a few years later. And yes it’s just universally worse for adolescent brains. It is already illegal, everywhere it’s legal, for people under 21, which is reasonable. But parents need to parent.

The idea that we can and should protect the kids who are predisposed to go schizo by keeping the available cannabis weak enough that no one can smoke enough of it to ever get really high is just absurd when you phrase it that way but that’s exactly what anyone pushing this “It’s so much more potent now!” pearl-cluching FUD is trying to sell you.

He was dumb but playing dumber. I can’t think of many other examples of people like that except Joe Rogan.

Finds anything and everything that can be set to dark mode and sets it back to light mode, but not while you’re using it and not immediately.

The only “weird” thing to me is that he’s choosing that “cowboy” look, as a non-Republican, in the 2020s.

I guess it’s appropriate if you actually live somewhere with cows and barns and hay bales and tractors and barbed-wire fences, and you ride horses as part of your daily life, but otherwise, you are a cringey poser. The literal basis of the idiom “all hat and no cattle”.

Generally it’s to identify yourself as a country music fan but again, why? Country music is just jingoistic pop with a phony Nashville accent. It’s been a trash genre at least since Garth Brooks, and all the non shitty, non-rightwing country music has had to be retroactively rebranded as “folk” to distance itself from it.

hypothetical

sigh

If only…

First time I’ve seen this described as “restorationist”. The word I’m familiar with is “revisionist”.

Whatever they want to call it, it is fascist bullshit.