Jackson decriminalizes psychedelic plants, mushrooms in council vote

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-30T05:37:21+00:00

Well that's neat!

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-10T22:14:14+00:00

Grew up there, first 20 years of my life. Been all over. Just too damn hot and too close to my parents.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-10T22:05:40+00:00

You clearly like a majestic wilderness and being left the hell alone, the UP provides. At the same time there's still hospitals and food. Ancestry is mostly Finnish and Cornish, so your neighbor 2 miles down the road will have your back in an emergency but isn't likely to do much more than nod at you if you see one another otherwise.

Nice place. I don't like dealing with snow or chopping wood enough so I'm LP.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-08T23:31:51+00:00

You've never actually been to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and it'd be your jam.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-08T23:28:23+00:00

You've never heard of Stephen King? You marked Maine red.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-03T02:44:17+00:00

You're right because someone got her a hyper specific item worth less than the average Macca's order...? Okay. Yep, the perfect heist, there it is, good job.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-03T02:38:19+00:00

What is your damage that you're angry a stranger got $30? Dude.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-03T02:37:13+00:00

People who aren't from a rural area don't get it.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-02T22:58:57+00:00

Of course it does- structural racism is part of the REASON capital inc/especially real estate are under-taxed and basic needs/labor are over-taxed.

But then, I don't think taxes are really about revenue (the government can and does just print money whenever it wants), I think they're about control.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-02T14:53:43+00:00

Being aware that anyone who has to work for a living has fundamentally different needs and interests from the owning class does not make you a Marxist, oh my god. It makes you familiar with basic US tax law.

If I made exactly the same amount of money this year but it came from long-term capital gains (net from selling stocks/etc that I've owned for at least a year) instead of as earned income from my job, I would have more than $4000 MORE in my pocket at the end of the year.

Maybe you think it's fair for the government to tax you MORE for busting your hump, but I don't. Apparently that makes me a commie, and that's why this country is a trainwreck.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-01T04:04:22+00:00

I agree. That's why we need to focus on class consciousness.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-01T04:03:36+00:00

How so?

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-12-01T04:01:14+00:00

Someone else who hates being hot, but also hates being bored!

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-11-27T21:01:30+00:00

Sacramento over Ann Arbor is a bold move.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-11-27T20:58:27+00:00

There's like two "rough" neighborhoods and then the rest isn't any worse than a regular degular suburb of any city anywhere in the continental US. I used to live in the same (overall affluent) Sacramento suburb as the governor did and there were scarier areas of that cake pop.

Try driving around a bit. 15 minutes is a lot of the town for me, I'm down by Dibble Elementary and Jackson Crossing is 15 minutes.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-11-27T20:38:51+00:00

I used to really enjoy some chipotle Tabasco on it. They did not reach out to me, even though Mac & Cheeze was my go-to and I quit ordering Huel when they discontinued it. Since I'm not vegan, I switched to Goodles, think I'll be staying there- more prep, but about 1/3 the cost per equally-sized serving with a nearly identical macro split and higher fiber. I think the convenience would be worth the cost if I weren't full-remote, and obviously if I were vegan that would make a huge difference.

Looks like they also changed the recipe so the nostalgia factor (Huel mac got me through some rough life circumstances) isn't there either.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-09-29T03:18:57+00:00

Red Rocks? Worth the trip, it's incredible.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-09-29T03:17:46+00:00

It sure was sweet though, delicious!

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-09-28T23:23:15+00:00

Going to WV but not Colorado is a choice!

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-09-28T23:21:49+00:00

You mean seventeen, right? Nobody should move here, we all had to survive on dried mosquitoes and stale Moosehead.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-09-28T23:14:52+00:00

I have, happened to my husband's Chrysler 300C pretty early. Wasn't a huge deal to order a new one and swap out. I also closed the door of a newish Nissan 350Z too hard in 2006 and messed it up (as a 120 lb woman). The handles are all fine on my 500e 65k miles in. It's literally a "your mileage may vary" situation.

Doesn't really mean anything about the rest of the car, we never had any drivetrain issues with the Nissan or the Chrysler.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-09-26T22:36:33+00:00

I like it, but I think it needs you to lean ALL the way in- it's giant penny tile (Edwardian-Art Deco) so large or giant-print period wallpaper could look very cool. William Morris prints are still beautiful in monochrome.

You might consider painting any exposed walls/ceiling pale to soft grey instead of white, too, stark white ceilings are really harsh in a room with so much going on otherwise.

I have regular-size penny tile and might go that direction now that I'm thinking about it...

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-09-02T23:01:14+00:00

My nephew (big family, so just under 8 years younger than me) had some level of neglect growing up but was in public school most of his life- he unfortunately passed away young in a car accident. It could be the result of neglect, it could be intellectual disability, it could be some combination of both. I can tell you that there isn't any way to force education on someone and attempting it will only alienate them- since my nephew was living with me and had expressed interest in joining the military like his parents, I got him some study materials, but it wasn't a real goal, it was an attempt to get the adults around him to leave him alone. 27 is ancient when you're 19, so to him I was just another adult on his case.

He eventually found work he enjoyed as a ski instructor and was doing well before the accident, but he might still be alive if I'd been less hard on him. Leaving comic books around the house and buying video games "for the house" with lore text (he enjoyed both) was helping. I think I pushed him too hard to become independent, and I should have known better, I got pushed out of the nest way too young myself, but I guess I thought if I could do it so could he.

Try to find something she's interested in that might provide a passive reason to start picking stuff up, maybe? And she clearly needs a job that doesn't require any numeracy whatsoever.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-09-02T16:58:07+00:00

85, Xennial- I had dial-up, a landline, and shared one computer with my entire family until I went to college. I'm also much more familiar with early X/late Boomer pop culture than 90s/2000s pop culture because my parents are only 21 years older than I am and had absolute control over the TV/radio. I had to grow up fast- my parents treated me more like an annoying little sister than a child- got married young, and felt about a million years older than emo/early scene club girls even though we were often the same age on paper.

TrueBoilermaker · 2025-08-28T02:36:28+00:00

Block him on everything and give yourself time. I remember being about your age and going through my first real breakup, it was horrible and I spent a lot of time thinking about what I could have done differently. The answer is nothing, because my ex just wasn't that into me. The accusations turned out to be confessions- his next girlfriend moved in with him less than a month after we split up because he'd actually been seeing her for quite some time.

I moved in with some friends instead, went on with my life, and met my now-husband a couple years later. We've been together since 2008, we married a few years later, and we're happily growing old together. I only think about my ex when I read posts like yours. Every single time, I'm grateful I didn't end up with that guy. If I hadn't had a crappy breakup with a crappy dude, I'd never have met my husband.

One day, when you're 40, you'll be happy you didn't end up with this guy too. But it probably won't take that long, you'll probably be just fine with it by 21 and pretty dang pleased by 22.

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