TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pooping with friends 2 days ago:
I got my paints down but I ain’t poopin’
- Comment on What's the process of black market weed consumption? 3 days ago:
But I’ve learned so much!
- Comment on What's the process of black market weed consumption? 3 days ago:
I mean, you are stepping into this with some assumptions, then asking us to answer your questions with the, frankly wrong, framework you’ve already established. Like just within the context of what you’ve laid out, its not reasonable to expect anyone to answer. It becomes an issue of actually answering your question versus addressing your assumptions. Also, the manner in which you discuss weed: “you might not have enough time for a good high”; “I would imagine as bad as driving drunk”, “a good dose of the devil’s lettuce”. Its a tell that you have no grounding in experience. If you have 0 grounding in experience, what are you doing making this many assumptions? Maybe consider how little you actually know and reconsider your question accordingly.
Firstly, weed has a long and deep culture that established itself during prohibition. Getting weed from a friend or a dealer, its how it was done for decades, its still the way the majority of people I know who consume it prefer.
In-fact, many of the things you outline as “issues”: they are part of the process. Walking to your friend or dealers house, often with a group of friends, or maybe piling into the car. Its part of the journey, the experience. Buying weed becomes a social activity. As far as people to know who to buy it from, guess what? Its probably at least 25%, maybe even half of everyone you know smokes weed at least occasional. If you are buying off market, its from your electrician friend, or the guy who works food service, or someones brother or sister who has a connection. You call them up, ask if they can hook it up, give them time to do their part (they usually have to go get it themselves), then you head their way, either by foot or skate board, or should you be so lucky, a car. You go, you hang out with your connection, maybe smoke a bit (but not necessarily). Its a social call. Then you get back with your friends, and you walk off to the park to smoke.
As far as smoking, you might have papers, or a pipe. Its pretty common to have both. If you are more serious, you might even go so far as to carry a dab pen and torch with you. Then you smoke. You take a hit and you cough. There can be a bit of a head rush, but thats mostly the coughing. Its a good taste. A rich flavor between tobacco and sweet basil maybe? And then you are stoned for a bit. Its not like alcohol whatsoever. Its just not like that. It does impair you but not at all in the same way. A person who has taken one hit of weed is a far far safer driver than a driver who has had even one beer. Its not like you are falling all over yourself. All a hit is going to do is just makes you a little dumb and have access to more random thoughts than you did previously, like, “Whatever happened to Jon Stamos?” or, “Do red pandas also have thumbs?”. Its not dangerous whatsoever to be walking high, though it might be a bit dangerous to drive stoned. I dont recommend it, but frankly, unless you are like, extremely inexperienced (like first couple times) or extremely high (did a ridiculous amount), its just a non-issue.
The walking somewhere to get weed, scrounging up enough to buy between your friends, then finding a place to go smoke with your friends, its practically a rite of passage in adolescence. And its fun. Its a good time. The walking and going somewhere is practically the point. Its a manner of socializing. Its also something that isn’t built into a “consumption oriented” experience. That’s changing with dispensaries, but there is decades of cultural experience around getting weed from friends. Embedded within your question are views around consumption, capitalism, and even what the entire point of smoking weed actually is. You might challenge some of those views and consider how they are impacting your thinking.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I mean they were openly fascist then, too. Its just that you had (more) liberals and centrists running interference for conservatives to defend the fascistic aspects of their own ideology.
- Comment on Dinner is ready 6 days ago:
Everyday we stray further from jod.
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 6 days ago:
- Comment on U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia 1 week ago:
So no bet.
- Comment on U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia 1 week ago:
Man, the reading comprehension level in this place is shockingly poor.
Did I make a statement of fact? No. No I didn’t.
I’m made an argument about a future state of the world. Its that she’ll be dying, because effectively this is a death sentence.
Would you bet against my prediction?
- Comment on U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia 1 week ago:
bet?
- Comment on U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia 1 week ago:
U.S. Tells Court It Plans to
Deport Scientist to Russiaput Scientist to death.ftfy nyt.
- Comment on i broke 1 week ago:
Haven’t really thought about it much
The system works
- Comment on NO TO AI 2 weeks ago:
cooked I tell ya
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. The draconian/ editorial banning selects for bad actions on the part of users.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, most of the communities that are heavy handed in their moderation like this, are building themselves to becomes extreme echo chambers. Examples include c/world, c/politicalmemes. One of the worst betrayers of this was @flyingsquid who would regularly get into flame wars with people, then proceed to use their mod authority to ban them. And as much as people complain about people like @jordunlund, they are far, far better as a mod in not abusing their mod authority in this manner (although they have, and its been documented).
However, lemmy is small. And the reality is that the “kinds” of conversations that might happen only in one community are actually happening all over the place. The “conversation” happens wherever the conversation might be.
So instead of worrying to much about it getting unbanned from fiefdoms, you might consider starting your own communities, or taking the conversations you would imagine happening in banned communities elsewhere. The fact is, that the attention and people will follow you if you have good things to say.
- Comment on There it is, that funny feeling. 2 weeks ago:
gee thanks I’m cured
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 2 weeks ago:
:cautiously lifts onions to mouth, taking a bite:
- Comment on Pope 3 weeks ago:
iblb
- Comment on do crimes 4 weeks ago:
science is principled on the concept of reproducibility.
If the information is behind a paywall, it’s inaccessible and therefore beyond critique, making it unscientific.
Stealing publications and releasing them open source brings rigir to science
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
If you’re still
- Comment on Zen 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 4 weeks ago:
The last twenty have half-lives shorter than Australian prime ministers, and are of equally limited utility to science.
Shots fired.
- Comment on longiboie 4 weeks ago:
Arent most cockroaches winged?
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 4 weeks ago:
at a typical temperature and pressure, sure.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 4 weeks ago:
So…
Like full swing or just a little tap tap?
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on In heat 4 weeks ago:
So she is in heat …
- Comment on its-a-me, Luigi 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Who's That Pokémon? 5 weeks ago:
Pokenmon
- Comment on The X-Files Reboot Update Is Good News For Scully Fans 5 weeks ago:
I just think like, Mulder as the “smoking man”, where its only ever in the shadows and never really explained. Skully only ever like, helicoptering in once in a while to be like “this didn’t happen and you never investigated this”, and the new team being like “what the fuck”.
Idk. It would really tie the manner of the first series together.
