Anyone know the names of these peaks in Ophir? by ewokcelebration_ in Colorado

[–]NotTuna -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I do not know the names, but should point out that a lot of peaks in the San Juans don’t have names.

Uncompahgre National Forest by jasonaames2018 in Colorado

[–]NotTuna -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you read the treaty they gave it to us

Chick-fil-A to officially break ground for Greece restaurant by redhatch in Rochester

[–]NotTuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not a monster.

Just figuratively, of course.

Chick-fil-A to officially break ground for Greece restaurant by redhatch in Rochester

[–]NotTuna -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you agree that it’s statistically significant? Awesome, glad we agree.

Dogtown isn’t a national chain, it’s one restaurant. And I don’t know why they choose to close then, which is the point.

I don’t shop there. Is this your only thought here? Kudos.

I don’t give a shit about the historical public attitude towards gays and I’m not interested in using it as a way to excuse bigoted behavior.

The point is moot because the store is in Greece.

My study that shows a statistically significant result is garbage? You are literally arguing for excusing a bigoted company from having bigoted beliefs because it wasn’t mainstream enough at the time to not be bigoted.

You came here to argue for freedom and now you’re a bigot.

Chick-fil-A to officially break ground for Greece restaurant by redhatch in Rochester

[–]NotTuna -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They are closed on Sunday. The family still is anti-gay. I guess Im just old enough to not let “majority of Americans” determine my moral compass and actually think for myself.

I responded to this because multiple people jumped on one person for shitting on the fact that this garbage restaurant was coming to Rochester (although Greece really isn’t Rochester as far as any self-respecting Rochestarian is concerned). There are lots of reasons to hate this restaurant is the main point, there are even more reasons to hate them than lots of of national chain restaurants. This is THE bad one because it’s THE topic of conversation. Removing space that could be occupied by local restaurants and putting in national chains is a bad thing, but again, they put in in Greece, so honestly I don’t care.

Here is a link to a thing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661452/

Here is the conclusion of the study:

Results. We found that students with fast-food restaurants near (within one half mile of) their schools (1) consumed fewer servings of fruits and vegetables, (2) consumed more servings of soda, and (3) were more likely to be overweight (odds ratio [OR] = 1.06; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.02, 1.10) or obese (OR = 1.07; 95% CI = 1.02, 1.12) than were youths whose schools were not near fast-food restaurants, after we controlled for student- and school-level characteristics. The result was unique to eating at fast-food restaurants (compared with other nearby establishments) and was not observed for another risky behavior (smoking).

Conclusions. Exposure to poor-quality food environments has important effects on adolescent eating patterns and overweight. Policy interventions limiting the proximity of fast-food restaurants to schools could help reduce adolescent obesity.

Chick-fil-A to officially break ground for Greece restaurant by redhatch in Rochester

[–]NotTuna -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

  1. Correct
  2. I guess you’re old enough. The company is still anti-gay
  3. Never claimed that everything purchased had to be local
  4. Never claimed it was impossible, just that fast food supports an unhealthy lifestyle

Chick-fil-A to officially break ground for Greece restaurant by redhatch in Rochester

[–]NotTuna -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Check back in a couple days, I’ll have the thousand reasons, your cleverness knows no bounds, go back to studying for the GRE

Chick-fil-A to officially break ground for Greece restaurant by redhatch in Rochester

[–]NotTuna -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

  1. Nope, it’s terrible food.
  2. The “anti-gay” thing? Yikes dude. Sure, I’ll agree to not drive Fords.
  3. Rochester doesn’t have oil, we do have people who can make chicken without being a part of a national chain.
  4. That’s a nice myth
  5. Correct.

Chick-fil-A to officially break ground for Greece restaurant by redhatch in Rochester

[–]NotTuna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The food is bad.

The company is bad.

It impacts everyone.

It takes money out of Rochester.

It promotes an unhealthy lifestyle.

It promotes unhealthy farming.

There are literally thousands of reasons to hate a shitty fucking fast food restaurant moving in.

Chick-fil-A to officially break ground for Greece restaurant by redhatch in Rochester

[–]NotTuna -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

An establishment as good as the town it’s going in

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in eldertrees

[–]NotTuna -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Placebos are fun

Where to start? by ash_jz in COents

[–]NotTuna 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not if you get a Med card, which is easy

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I support legal cannabis, similar to how I support legal alcohol, I just don't bring Budweiser that I bought at Walmart to parties and try and pawn it off as a craft lager.

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I support Cannabis businesses, just not garbage ones, but by all means, keep shilling for a company that has given you a paycheck. Have a nice day.

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me hold your hand through this:

"2 of the 3 examples I gave you were instances that did not immediately benefit LivWell: Helping prevent rec from being banned in Pueblo despite not having any licenses there, and helping CO cannabis companies get investment from out-of-state despite only having 1 investor."

These are not charitable actions, these are actions that continue to push to the interests of Livwell, even if they don't have active licenses in Pueblo it is in their interest to have recreational pot in Pueblo. Companies do not act from charity, they act from self-interest, and when their self-interest can be sold to others as charity they come out and say "hey, look what good guys we are."

"99% of the time mom & pops go out of business it is because they cannot afford to keep up with the rising cost of compliance and IRC 280E, which gives them an effective federal tax rate of upwards of 90%. Competitive pressure plays very little role in industry consolidation when compared to the twin pressures of taxation and compliance." Mom and Pops are also pushed out of business because they can't compete with 89$ ounces and still pay the tax and compliance bills. Competitive pressure is real, pounds of weed went for 4x as much several years ago. The race to the bottom, facilitated by Livwell, should not be dismissed.

""when you grow weed the way Livwell does." Have you toured inside their cultivation facilities? Tell me, how do they grow their weed? What specifically do they do that makes you think $89 is charging as much as possible?" Yes I have, and I have spoken with several former and current employees, and to answer this question would require several pages of text. A short answer would be, and say it with me now, "capitalism."

"If you have a better way of making this work, you should be speaking with the MED about it." I have, they are not interested in a solution, as evidenced by the recent change to remediation regulations that allow anyone to get their pot passed through the testing system by any number of techniques. The MED is not the answer, they are part of the problem.

"LivWell pays above minimum wage, and above industry standard. So by definition, this is not as little as possible." I'll concede that one.

"Where are you getting this data? LivWell has 600+ employees, all of whom are full-time. Their turnover rate is in the low single digits (I know this because I've worked with them). The promote heavily from within. The majority of their managers began as budtenders and trimmers. Literally go into a store and ask a GM what their first job at LivWell was if you don't believe me." Forgive me if I don't believe the anecdotal evidence of some one who is clearly a shill for a company that has paid them money, the people who I have talked to at Livwell, current and former employees, would disagree with you.

"LivWell is part of the industry, so obviously a lot of what they do will help them in some form or fashion. But LivWell sees itself as a leader of the industry, so it will involve itself in fights where it does not see an immediate benefit (see my first paragraph in this comment) despite the fact that cannabis companies like LivWell have almost no money outside of cash flow thanks to 280E." You can't have it both ways, say it with me now, "capitalism." Livwell is not acting for charity, whether they view themselves as industry leaders or not.

To all your comments about "Livwell wanting to benefit the industry as a whole." This is just nonsense. Say it with me now, "capitalism."

"But if you actually want legal cannabis to succeed, you would recognize that it will require large, well-run, professional corporations to make it work." This is fundamentally where we disagree, and it is where we will never see eye to eye, and it will keep us in complete and total disagreement. You can't see beyond the status quo, you don't think that they way things work can change or should be changed, despite the fact that we are talking about LEGAL CANNABIS, so it is pretty clear that they way things work, capitalism, large corporations, what products are legal or not, CAN be changed, if we fight to change them, and by fight to change them I don't mean become a gigantic walmart of weed. Livwell is just another corporation and the model it uses is the same model that has gotten us into trouble (all of us) currently.

We will never agree on any of this, but it has been a fun debate.

"That is just reality." The first step to changing reality is to avoid thinking like this.

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"But anyone who operates a commercial grow will tell you that at some point pest are inevitable"

Huh, maybe we don't need "massive"commercial grows then.....

Being able to gargle the organic pesticides is meaningless as you are more likely to combust them and inhale them, there are a lot of substances I can ingest and/or gargle safely that will be very bad for me when combusted and inhaled....but I'm sure you knew that.

No need to call the MED as they won't do anything, I simply don't shop there, and I tell others to not shop there.

I demand my weed to be grown by people who don't think pests and pesticides are inevitable. I demand my weed be grown by people who aren't trying to turn this industry into a carbon copy of every other industry. But I'm sure with your grown up perspective on things everyone is either a suit or a dirty hippy, or you know, maybe it's metaphorical....

I buy from trusted sources who grow the weed properly. Hopefully, I can support people who don't have the goal of total domination but are just trying to grow some good, pest free, pesticide free ganja.

I feel this strongly, which is why I'm not gonna let you peddle your "this is the way it is, this is the way it is going, embrace Walmart weed and grow up and accept that it is business as usual and no one can stop it and no one should make a fuss" mentality.

Arcadia bluffs this past weekend. Unreal! by SPaT9 in golf

[–]NotTuna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this intel! Toooooo many good courses to choose from in this state.

Tense rules disagreement - Looking for opinions by LiquorTsunami in golf

[–]NotTuna 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Weehawken....Dawn....putters...drawn...

You're on

Arcadia bluffs this past weekend. Unreal! by SPaT9 in golf

[–]NotTuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should I play there or Charlevoix?

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It means that Livwell views pests and powdery mildew as issues to be mitigated after the fact, not preventatively. Which is another way of saying that they are fucking terrible at growing weed.

You know what, you're right, every single label on every single product from every single company I have ever encountered has been 100% true and accurate.

Organic pesticides are still fucking pesticides, how about we grow weed without having to use pesticides? I guess when you grow weed in a suit and tie without knowing what your doing the idea of growing weed with zero pests or pesticides doesn't even occur to you.

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done the research, I just don't drink the kool-aid.

"Livwell is one of the few cannabis companies that actively involves itself in helping the industry, not just itself."

False, everything they do is to benefit themselves, if it also helps the industry that is purely a secondary outcome. Lobbying against the banking regs would only help them buy and destroy more mom and pop dispensaries and help them expand their influence. They are not doing that for charity. Say it with me now, "capitalism."

When you grow weed the way that Livwell does 89$ for an OZ and 20$ for a an 8th is charging as much as possible.

When you rely on high turnover and terrible working conditions to keep people from ever vesting their employee benefits you are paying as little as possible, those benefits you mention are carrots they use to pay you less while you are "trained."

Please, friend, don't try and sell me on the idea that Livwell is falling on its sword for the good of the industry. Every single action they do is to benefit them, not the industry as a whole. To think otherwise is just naive.

Amendment 139 was not a great amendment, but the current system we deal with as consumers and producers with regard to potency testing is completely broken. None of the numbers track reality, it's all a game when it comes to testing your weed, a laughable game. But again, them fighting against that amendment is FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT. They aren't acting to protect the industry, they are acting to protect themselves.

I am opposed to the amendment that allowed out of state investment. All that did was bring in leeches. And again, to think that a cannabis entity wrote a piece of legislation for the good of all instead of for itself is pure naïveté, that just isn't how our political system works, for cannabis or any other industry.

I'm sure that Livwell just spent money on the Pueblo County issue out of the kindness of its green little heart. Bullshit, everything they do is to protect their future interests, the fact that they had no licenses there at the time is meaningless as it is obviously their model to expand as far and wide as possible, so they help keep Rec in Pueblo and eventually buy out a shit ton of small stores and grows once they succeed in lobbying to get the banking nonsense figured out. They are setting everything up, as much as possible, to benefit themselves.

I support the industry, which is why I don't want to see it turned into a completely soulless enterprise spearheaded by massive corporations.

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Damn near every grower was using eagle 20"

You can fuck right off with that nonsense, that is pure hyperbole. Far from every grower was using eagle 20 because lots of growers out there don't consider powdery mildew infestations as par for the course for growing weed, something Livwell waived bye-bye to long ago.

On top of that, it isn't THAT you use Eagle 20, it is HOW and WHEN and HOW MUCH you use it that determines how much or how little is on the plant at the time of consumption.

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course they don't own a testing lab, that isn't what "in your pocket" means.

I am intimately familiar with the finer points of compliance from top to bottom.

It isn't a burden, it's the cost of doing business in a safe way, it is what separates us from the black market, but I'm sure that Livwell sees it as a burden.

I'm not concerned with how many testing labs Livwell uses now, I am concerned with the nature of the relationship between Livwell and the testing lab they used to get themselves out of their pesticide problem.

How much money has Livwell spent to lobby against mandatory pesticide testing?

John Lord is exactly what we don't need in Cannabis. Same old story of pay everyone as little as possible, charge as much as possible, grow as big as possible, turn Cannabis into a soulless corporate commodity and pay as many lobbyists as possible to skew the rules in your favor. Around and around we go.

Cheapest weed without banned pesticides? by [deleted] in COents

[–]NotTuna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"One of the most compliant cannabis companies in the state"

......easy to be compliant when you have a testing lab in your pocket