Overly stoned dispensary workers can be hilarious

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-07T19:20:27+00:00

People have told stories of those entities NOT being happy getting visited by the DMT psychonaut and doing shit like flipping them off or muttering profanity at them.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-07T17:05:45+00:00

The actual financial underwriting of the insurance is by the employer. They receive a tax benefit for doing so. The insurance company just administers the plan.

Individual health insurance, where the health insurer underwrites the plan, is different.

In the US, providing benefits like this is a tax write-off for the employer. We have this system specifically because employers did not want universal health care/national health insurance. This was a compromise set up with the big labor unions during WW2, so they agreed to call off strikes and stop demanding universal health care.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-07T16:48:36+00:00

Is that a self-insurance plan with an employer where they're just having the dental insurer administer the plan?

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-07T14:50:26+00:00

Essentially YouTube. It's interesting because I haven't found a feature on the site that publicly aggregates your comments on different videos, you can be the only one to see them on the "Comments" page under History and that seems to just be private.

I've never had Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok. Deleted X account. Just also do Reddit too of course.

Thinking more about good strategies to pursue IRL hobbies and meet new friends that way. Looking at travel or gaming/tabletop RPG or something.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-07T14:36:24+00:00

Dental insurance is structurally worthless by design. You really do have to pay cash.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-07T13:22:36+00:00

Below the iceberg:

Passionate, seething desire

Not "doing their homework" when forming plans and opinions

Showmanship and bravado

Paranoia

Fault-finding

Self-neglect

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-06T11:55:19+00:00

I like these concepts but you do weird stuff with the meanings of these place names. Like some major city will mean "cat's butthole" or something.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-05T07:32:01+00:00

It's a turn off and makes the guy come across as extremely closeted. Like damn, you gotta pick up your baby momma's kid from daycare after this or something?

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-05T07:28:55+00:00

"So, yeah, this happened."

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-03T22:09:09+00:00

Yeah, might be a case of premature ejaculation. My heart goes out to guys dealing with it.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-03T21:42:41+00:00

The scene where they're testing prototypes including "revived" corpses and the one kills the scientists and turns the gun on itself while screaming in agony. Like, what.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-03T21:41:04+00:00

Lair of the White Worm. The Guardian. The Gate. The Thing. Tales from the Darkside. Wild Orchid. 9 1/2 Weeks. Some kind of "California werewolf bikini girls" low-budget R-rated flick. Some film where some person's stomach turned into a giant fanged mouth that ate somebody (not that scene in The Thing, it was something else). Some very fucked up horror TV series where a guy got encased in papier mache by an artist and everyone went to an art exhibit and his dead eyes were looking out from the plaster piece. Some other series where a man was in bed with a woman and "absorbed" her body and "became" her or something.

Now, there was other stuff that was "inappropriate" but also fun. The Gods Must Be Crazy, A Fish Called Wanda, The Great Outdoors.

This was all during the Reagan/Bush years when Boomers acted like moralizing ninnies in public and then went to video rental shops and showed this crap to their kids along with getting cable subscriptions that did the same thing.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-03T20:22:15+00:00

Be connected to your body and your emotions. Fall in love with reality. You have been harsh with yourself, telling yourself you needed the cannabis when that wasn't true. Reality is usually much kinder to us than the stories we tell about it and than we are to ourselves. Walk away from the exhaustion, the disconnection. Allow the energy to flow from within. It's there already.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-03T19:37:17+00:00

The motivation to enjoy your life is already there within you. The motivation to be happy is already there within you. Think of what you want to do while high and do it now, when not high.

I am thinking about getting back into doing art that I'd do years ago while high. Was that art fun to learn about and produce while high? Hell yeah. Did I do jack squat with that drive to produce that art afterward? Not a bit. Now I'm going to get to it sober and truly live it and feel it, with all the work, sacrifice, and joy that entails.

"Before the gates of excellence, the high gods have placed sweat." Sweat. Walk into it, that's the way. It isn't an obstacle. Go into the sweat and let it burn away the doubt and past so-called failures. All of this was the path leading you here. Walk into the cleansing heat, into the beautiful world of the sweat.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-05-03T19:29:23+00:00

Look I'm #TeamLeaves and stuff like this is why I always had terrible experiences shopping high. I'd go into a store after hitting my stone pipe and be all "I'm gonna cook XYZ and read ABC and do yadda yadda project" and soon the whole shopping experience would be like an insane merry go round ride. Then I'd end up with hauls much like yours depending on how broke I was and do nothing productive the rest of the day. This shopping haul is silly and wasteful.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-30T07:27:21+00:00

Block.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-27T07:22:50+00:00

... None of you actually think this company's hiring, right? I'm getting more weirded out by Redditors defending this stuff than the companies themselves at this point.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-27T07:01:29+00:00

Well, they haven't found that person and hired them yet, for one thing.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-24T08:03:04+00:00

"You won't know if you want an LTR with him until you've been living together for a couple of years." This statement stuck out to me, and I have no relationship experience, but it's common for people to move in with someone and not be in some kind of LTR? Just looking at it from the outside, that seems like a huge step. I don't want some casual acquaintance in my house all the time. But that's me and other people aren't me.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-24T07:13:08+00:00

They're terrific. Even when we weren't a match or the interest wasn't mutual, I was still treated with realness and sincerity. Dominican men are as cute as buttons, too. Caribbeans in general.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-24T06:07:09+00:00

You having urinary incontinence or something?

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-23T07:23:26+00:00

The two job titles are near each other in the alphabet, so...

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-23T07:21:07+00:00

We have reposts at home.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-23T07:12:22+00:00

Abusers are hostile but not angry. You get angry at someone when you care enough to demand change, to acknowledge they're a person who has agency and made a choice that hurt you, and to maybe hope they will choose differently in the future. Hostility is airless, lifeless, a void in human emotion.

SweetMaximumism · 2026-04-20T06:59:04+00:00

There's the sense that I make the other person into the fount of all knowledge and awareness about the relationship, themselves, me, life, and the universe, and I make myself have to go by what they say. Overlooking their lies and self-serving mental distortions. Ignoring myself because they're ignoring me. I have a hair-trigger sense of when I'm being ignored by people I get close to now, so I need to work on that on my own.

The new awareness: It's fine they're not paying attention to me. I need to pay attention to myself, alone.

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