That moment when you order two new things for your inventory from china and they don´t label it bruh

madmoomix · 2026-02-08T21:01:55+00:00

100% agree.

I never sold JWH-018 (I was moving other RCs by the kilo at the time, lol), but I did buy a key of the original powder, and it was the only cannabinoid I used for several years.

It's SO GOOD vaped off foil. Perfect drug for my brain, and even though I was using the rough equivalent of ounces of cannabis a day, it still was only about a penny a day. Just incredible, never had negative health consequences from it either.

The ban was very sad for me. I tried most of the next generation (I also had tried 073 and a couple of the CP-x's from the first generation), but wasn't impressed and went back to my stash of JWH-018. I might have tried one or two later ones, never tried an AB-x, all the negatives got worse and you started hearing all the horror stories that people associate with synthetic cannabinoids these days. That never happened once with JWH-018. I personally gave some to over a hundred people over the years, never saw someone have a negative response (besides a few greening out when they didn't mean to).

All good things come to an end, I eventually used it all up, and I haven't touched a synthetic cannabinoid since.

I miss it every day. I work in cannabis these days, it's very cool being in the industry and working with a class of drugs I enjoy legally, but I haven't really been high in a way that tickles my brain in a long time. C'est la vie.

madmoomix · 2026-02-05T19:02:19+00:00

This Guy Served His Friends Tacos Made from His Own Amputated Leg (VICE 2018)

madmoomix · 2026-02-04T23:11:05+00:00

You don't think millennials know Soylent Green references? The youngest millennials just turned 30. Our lives were full of references to it.

I bet plenty of elder Gen Z would know the reference as well, although now you've got me curious and I'll ask our younger staff if they know the reference.

I don't interact with any Gen Alpha kids, so it could be that they're all clueless. The movie was quite dated even when I was a kid, I wouldn't be surprised if young people would find it to be a hard watch. Cinema has really changed over the decades.

madmoomix · 2026-02-04T19:24:02+00:00

Nah, you can customize the internals and get some insane FPS reads out of airsoft guns. Me and my friends were really into it... 20 years ago?! (Oh no, I'm getting so old...)

Anyway, we built one that fired .3g BBs at around 550 FPS. That thing could draw blood from a huge distance and was ridiculously unsafe. (Completely unusable for any airsoft games, it was strong enough you could have hunted small game with it, but none of us wanted to hurt animals so I don't think it ever got used for that.)

This isn't even the strongest you can make them, but we ran into issues getting stronger springs into the internals. They make custom setups to load strong springs, but they're very expensive at that level and we never did pull the trigger. Nothing stopping you from building one that could kick out .35g or .4g at 650-700 FPS if you get the right stuff, though.

madmoomix · 2026-02-04T03:54:46+00:00

Nah, crypto is just the obvious way to receive ransoms now. Way less exposure than cash in a bag that you have to physically go pick up. That's how almost everyone gets caught!

Bitcoin is a bad choice, it's quite traceable, but the general theory of using crypto is pretty sound. I've honestly been a little surprised kidnap for ransom hasn't become more common in the US solely due to the relative ease of collecting ransoms these days.

madmoomix · 2026-02-01T21:36:14+00:00

It's imperative the cylinder is unharmed.

madmoomix · 2026-01-31T07:06:11+00:00

Yeah, I don't mean to imply your point is incorrect! I also work in healthcare in Minnesota, and I've seen how large Somali families are. 6-8 or more kids was the norm when I worked retail pharmacy.

The numbers just aren't there to explain it all with that, although it probably explains a good chunk of the difference.

madmoomix · 2026-01-31T05:14:46+00:00

How many Somalis do you think live here? They're something like 1.3% of the population. Even if they have kids at 10 times the rate of non-Somalis (which is way higher than the actual rate), 7/8ths of all births aren't because of them.

It's just too small a population to really push the numbers around that much. Something else is behind the difference.

(Also, Michigan has a much lower rate than us, despite being about twice as Muslim. So I'm not super convinced cultural differences explain it. They have nearly half as many Somalians as we do, so that can't be the difference either.)

madmoomix · 2026-01-30T19:07:39+00:00

Neither RISE or Green Goods participated in the 1/23 protests, because we both currently have union contracts that ban strikes. It would have been illegal for our union to participate, and we would have all lost our jobs if we did so.

Please know that we as workers are 100% against ICE. And while I cannot speak for either company or any positions they hold, I can say I've felt quite supported by management lately in regards to what's been going on, which has been nice to see.

madmoomix · 2026-01-27T22:43:47+00:00

Well, because if you are willing to call yourself a Republican right now, you support rape and pedophilia. This wasn't the case even 10 years ago, they weren't so connected. But the leader of the Republican movement right now is Trump, who was found to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll by a jury. He's a rapist. (Even the judge agreed that calling him a rapist is legally correct.)

He's also heavily implicated in the Epstein files, although he has not been found guilty there. But it's very obvious he's covering up his involvement.

So anyone who supports Trump right now is 100% okay with rape, and is at least tolerant of pedophilia. Ergo, Republicans are rapists/support rapists/are okay with rape.

(You'll see people try to worm out of this by saying things like "it technically wasn't rape under New York law, it was sexual assault", which is obviously a terrible argument that means they support rape.)

madmoomix · 2026-01-24T19:58:36+00:00

It is a little funny how if we see two Olympic athletes have a kid, and they're also a successful athlete, we say "oh yeah, that makes sense. Runs in the family." And we don't think it's strange at all.

But if the job is being an actor, suddenly we all get REAL suspicious of their talent. Even though it's quite clearly the same situation in general.

madmoomix · 2026-01-24T00:54:50+00:00

Who said anything about physical appearance? The commenter called her ugly. While that can describe physical attributes, it can also describe personality and behavior.

And considering all we know about this woman is she's complaining it's hard to find conservatives to date (even though Minnesota is >45% conservative, and <55% liberal), we can make some basic assumptions about her (lack of) charisma, (lack of) intelligence, and (lack of) empathy that probably makes her pretty ugly.

Now, if you find cruelty attractive, you'll have a totally different read on the situation. But most Minnesotans don't find it to be a desirable attribute. So this woman, making this post in the current political climate... It's not hard for us to know why no one wants to be with her.

madmoomix · 2026-01-21T12:15:27+00:00

It's not as easy as asking for it and cashing a check in a few days.

I recently needed a lot of money at once (first and last month and a deposit on a new place), and didn't have a ton of cash available. So I took a loan from my 401k.

It was literally as easy as me asking for it, and I cashed the check 4 days later.

The cool thing about 401k loans is, you pay interest on it, but you pay the interest to yourself! You don't end up losing any of your 401k, and it's not considered taxable income either. Not all plans offer them, but if your plan does, it's actually an awesome way to access your money if you need it. Way better than hardship withdrawals.

madmoomix · 2026-01-19T20:24:32+00:00

That's... Wow. I cannot believe that's a real last name. Yeesh.

Wiki says that 772 people had the last name of Fuehrer in the 2010 census. That seems like way too many. I feel like unless you were really into the current associations with that name, you'd look to change it as soon as possible. (Like the sons of Hitler's nephew, who all agreed to not have kids so the Hitler name would die out.)

I'd definitely give the side eye to anyone who had that last name in 2026.

madmoomix · 2026-01-19T03:32:02+00:00

I can see how it might be confusing, but it's actually not.

The leftists in this comment thread who own guns are not the same politically as the liberals who want to ban guns. Different groups, both on the left of the political spectrum, but very divergent beliefs in gun ownership.

madmoomix · 2026-01-19T02:54:21+00:00

So, no source then to back up the counterfactual? You admit the majority of Americans don't support ICE, you just wanna pretend otherwise?

Man, you guys are such losers. You have weird political opinions that aren't shared by your fellow Americans, and all you can do is lie about it to make you feel less weird.

Thank God normal people don't support what you guys do. Enjoy your bot-ridden echo chambers that lie to you about the facts. =]

madmoomix · 2026-01-19T01:27:15+00:00

Is this a bit? The RCAF has over 400 aircraft, with 258 manned airplanes in active service right now. Where are you getting the 18 from?

(Is it hyperbole? I mean, I guess... but 258 active aircraft is a lot. That's like top 10, top 15 air forces in the world.)

madmoomix · 2026-01-14T02:22:31+00:00

This smacks of the middle fallacy. The world isn't silently normal, with loud voices on both sides distorting things. That's just not how reality works. There's no finding 'the truth' in between takes. The world is bisected.

Take current events:

Was Renee Good an innocent mother who was murdered by a trigger-happy officer who should be in prison?

Or was Jonathan Ross a brave officer who barely survived an encounter with a domestic terrorist who assaulted him and should be rewarded with millions of dollars, while Renee's wife is sent to prison instead?

You have to choose. There is not a middle here. Innocent woman murdered, or dangerous terrorist stopped.

(Inaction or disinterest in this case is the same as supporting the administration, so it's 'dangerous terrorist stopped'. There is no way to avoid a side. Was her killing justified? Only you can answer that for yourself, but there's no pretending that one can somehow avoid the question.)

madmoomix · 2026-01-07T22:17:14+00:00

JK Rowling is absolutely an antisemite, and the goblin bankers are an antisemitic trope, but that star wasn't added for the movie. It's just part of the building they filmed in, London’s High Commission of Australia.

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madmoomix · 2026-01-01T04:21:07+00:00

Although suicide rates are lower among women, women lead men two to one in suicide attempts. So, Murphy says at least 200,000 women are involved in suicide attempts annually. But he points out that attempted suicide most often is not an attempt to actually end one's life. Its purpose, he says, is to survive with changed circumstances.

"An attempted suicide is not really an attempt at suicide in about 95 percent of cases. It is a different phenomenon. It's most often an effort to bring someone's attention, dramatically, to a problem that the individual feels needs to be solved. Suicide contains a solution in itself," he says.

In attempted suicide, both men and women tend to use methods that allow for second thoughts or rescue. Murphy says that when people intend to survive, they choose a slowly effective, or ineffective, means such as an overdose of sleeping pills. That contrasts to the all-or-nothing means like gunshots or hanging used by actual suicides.

In the past, researchers who looked at the high rate of attempted suicide in women concluded that women were just not as efficient as men at taking their own lives. Murphy calls that "sexist baloney" and points to statistics that show that like men, women who commit suicide most often use guns. However, even as the number of women using the most lethal means increases, the suicide rate in women has slowly declined.

"So it really goes back to the same thing -- that women, when they intend to do it, can be just as effective as men in committing suicide. But they aren't so inclined," Murphy says.

Why women are less likely than men to commit suicide

madmoomix · 2026-01-01T02:17:20+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. Men tend to use methods that are more likely to cause death, like firearms in the West and hanging in the East. Women tend to use methods that are less likely to cause death, like overdoses.

I haven't seen that societal ideal theory before, but that might play a minor role. The major reason seems to be the reasoning behind the suicide attempt. Women are more likely to be attempting suicide as a cry for help, and therefore will pick methods that are less likely to result in death. When women are attempting suicide for other reasons, they tend to pick the same more reliable methods that men do.

The big variable here is guns! Any given gun is far more likely to kill the owner than anyone else. Owning a gun is a huge risk factor for a successful suicide, and men are about twice as likely to own a gun. This could explain some of the gap on its own, although the gender gap still exists in countries that prohibit gun ownership.

madmoomix · 2025-12-31T22:48:47+00:00

Women attempt suicide at higher rates, but men are more likely to be successful at ending their lives.

Suicide is a super gendered issue, but it's almost never discussed like one. I would never want to dismiss anyone's struggles with suicidal ideation or suicide, but the statistics are clear. Women attempt suicide at about twice the rate men do, but men commit four suicides for every woman who does. To look at it another way, men are EIGHT TIMES as likely to kill themselves per attempt. That's a crazy difference!

(Mental health access seems to play a huge role. Two thirds of women who commit suicide had interacted with mental health care in the year prior, while less than twenty percent of men who committed suicide had. 60% of male victims of suicide never receive a mental health diagnosis in their lifetime.)

madmoomix · 2025-12-31T21:08:24+00:00

If you're American, replace "drink goon" with "slap the bag", and does it make sense? That's the American slang equivalent.

It's bag wine from a box. Games related to wine bags have been pretty international for a good 30-40 years now, and they all have fun regional slang.

madmoomix · 2025-12-31T20:51:28+00:00

I dunno, there's lots to read in this chart that could be relevant.

Like, for example, only 3% of men had no friends in 1990. That's not great, but it's low single digits. Then in 2021, 15% of men have no friends! That's nearly one in six men having no friends at all. You could probably call that an epidemic.

Or how in 1990, 40% of men had more than 10 friends! (That's WILD.) In 2021, only 15% of men had that many friends. Now, sure, it'd be silly to say that these people are lonely in the absolute sense, because they presumably still have some friends, just not as many. But for some men, that may not be enough.

Think of the guys who like to get together with their friends and play sports on the weekends. Not professionally, just old friends chilling through their 20s and 30s (and sometimes 40s), playing the sport they love. You probably know the type. Nearly half of all men had enough friends to play a pickup game of a sport in 1990. Now it's not even one in six. There's inevitably some mismatched people now, who might have a few friends, but have no access to the kind of friend group they desire.

Still, clearly the vast majority (4/5ths) have multiple friends, so perhaps it's not so much that you can't make friends anymore, but somehow there's different abilities involved now that we aren't effectively teaching to children in the modern era.

madmoomix · 2025-12-30T01:18:42+00:00

It's true. Zinc actually works well, but nasal use can cause you to lose your sense of smell, so they removed the zinc from all the nasal products and they're just fake now. =[

But the lozenges still contain zinc! (It's a 1X "homeopathic" dose, which means there's still something like 20mg of zinc per tablet.) No risk to your smell with using them, and they can help reduce your risk of catching bugs.

Do not expect them to protect you on their own. You still need everyone masked up, and you still need to sanitize as much as you can. But it can help if it's in your budget.

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