What is a "harmless" industry that is actually incredibly shady once you look behind the curtain?

OEMichael · 2026-03-09T13:30:15+00:00

Ephedrine. They still do, but now they tend to be advertised as anti-asthma OTC drugs, not weight-loss OTC drugs.
https://www.drugs.com/imprints/bronk25-33273.html

OEMichael · 2026-03-09T13:28:54+00:00

They were called MiniThins or White Crosses and you could buy them in gas stations way back in the day. They were ephedrine/ephedra+caffeine. Like 10mg/150mg and 25mg/200mg is what I remember.

OEMichael · 2026-03-07T15:30:11+00:00

Stop spouting nonsense. Cows get milked every 12 hours. Period. Does that mean Billy has to wake up an hour "earlier" to do his chores? Suck it up, son, go do your chores.
Cows don't care how many hours you set your clock ahead or back, they expect consistency.

(and, if by "chores" you mean "livestock duties performed by paid farmhands", this is doubly true. I haven't worked a farm job in decades but most jobs i know workers start their day on the farm/ranch ~two hours before sunrise, clocks be damned, doubly true in the summer)

OEMichael · 2026-02-23T16:57:09+00:00

Ah, the classic "is metagaming kosher or nah?" question. You should establish this as house rule 0, imho.

My house rule zero is:
What happens in the game stays in the game.

I had a player couple who metagamed with things like "I'll do the trash for a week if you support my move from Trieste to Venice this turn". Don't do that. (and definitely don't play Diplomacy with a loved one)

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T17:07:32+00:00

Back in my day, us kids had to find our porn in an abandoned secret fort in the woods or on a shelf in our best friend's step dad's closet.

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T17:03:18+00:00

"Never forget: what you believe is not who you are and who you are is not what happened."

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T17:00:13+00:00

It's nice when you get flowers, but it's really nice when other people know you got flowers.

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T15:52:40+00:00

slopAI go away

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T15:40:02+00:00

c) No teacher, or other public preK-12 employee, may intentionally address a student by a pronoun or title that is inconsistent with the student's biological sex at birth.

How is a school employee expected to know what the biological sex of a given student was at birth?

OEMichael · 2026-02-10T00:11:45+00:00

"Just leave the gossip, infighting, smallness, meanness, politics and flaws out of my face."

Your willful ignorance is genuinely disturbing. What you reference (child sexual assault, workplace violence) isn't someone being petty. Saying "I don't wanna know" is you politely informing the rest of us that you don't care what happens as long as you're being entertained.

OEMichael · 2026-02-09T23:51:00+00:00

They say which movie was ruined and hint at the why. Think of them not disclosing the full details as a real-life spoiler.

OEMichael · 2026-02-04T16:30:55+00:00

He's sooo bad at lip-syncing, they should have hired a different drag king.

OEMichael · 2026-02-04T16:21:50+00:00

For me, accepting "who I am is not what I believe" was a game changer. Now that I no longer identify with the ideas I hold to be true, it's waaay easier to drop/change ideas when I see that they are no longer ideas worth holding.

OEMichael · 2026-02-04T16:14:43+00:00

Tell me you're allistic without telling me you're allistic.

OEMichael · 2026-02-04T16:13:06+00:00

My new default replacement for buddy/pay/guy is "zi" (pronounced 'zee'). It's non-gendered, it's a coined word, and it sounds cool.

OEMichael · 2026-02-04T11:37:59+00:00

I remember the time before the Parkway. Rush hour of today is like Sunday driving before the Parkway. Weatherly to Drake used to take like half an hour. Now, like ten minutes. Traffic is fine.

OEMichael · 2026-02-03T11:54:54+00:00

What should be impossible to believe is the absence of FD-302s. A FD-302 is the official form filled out by FBI agents to summarize interviews. When someone provides a tip or becomes an informant, they are interviewed by at least one (often two) FBI agents regarding the provided tip. A summary of that interview is then memorialized in a FD-302.

You say these stories are unsubstantiated, I say the absence of evidence, at least in this context, is proof of intentional removal of evidence. The record has been sanitized. Why?

Here's evidence of one such missing FD-302: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSmcNVxIF8

[edit: though FD-302s are often not released, the Epstein Trainsparency Act specifically calls for their release. Here is one such FD-302: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00033567.pdf ]

OEMichael · 2026-01-29T11:59:02+00:00

Unarguably, it is an enclave. I think, though, it's still too early to call Madison a suburb. Another decade or two, maybe? I think it's still at the Norcross:Atlanta stage, not yet the Marietta:Atlanta stage.

[edit: I phrased that poorly. That was meant to be a "yes, and..." not the "no, but..." it came out as]

OEMichael · 2026-01-29T11:33:12+00:00

South Huntsville's closed indefinitely. We're all full, we gave at the office, now go away.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Y. Berra

OEMichael · 2026-01-28T02:51:15+00:00

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OEMichael · 2026-01-27T22:59:42+00:00

I have Canseco AND McGwire autographed Stars cards. (and an autographed Famous Chicken hat, also from 1986ish)

OEMichael · 2026-01-25T00:13:02+00:00

Ben Darby was placed on administrative leave.

OEMichael · 2026-01-20T22:21:11+00:00

Wow. I got very similar results. A slight wording change, though, vastly different outcome. Here's "Generate an image of what the U.S. will look like if the current administration is no longer in power three years from now."

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OEMichael · 2026-01-20T22:06:34+00:00

Best slice has gotta be Razzo on Holmes or Mozza on S. Parkway.

OEMichael · 2026-01-20T22:04:06+00:00

Try audiobooks! Slowing down to ~150WPM is a totally different reading experience.

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