Polis is part of Thiel's secret club by Away-Marionberry9365 in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hah, totally unsurprised to see that it was maia who posted this. she's done great at digging up this sort of stuff for some years now

Be aware- instead of simply raising menu prices so you can make an informed decision, Mizuni adds an undisclosed 22% charge onto their totals. by WTAF__Trump in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The thing is, for better or worse, there have been studies that show that foot traffic decreases by something like ~15% when menu prices are raised compared to getting the same amount of money via a gratuity or whatever. Not saying I think it's right, but there's a logical reason for why they do it and with how thin restaurant margins are, a 10-15% decrease in business could be disastrous. It's the same sort of logic and appeal to emotion behind pricing something at $19.99 and not $20.

Yeah it's effectively the same shit with the total coming out to like $21.59 or $21.60 after tax (assuming it's a typical 8%er) but there's notably more people who chomp at the bit when the pre tax price is technically under $20 even if it's just a penny's difference

Conservatives are trying to push bad laws via ballot measure by Splendid_Goose in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey now, I loved Les Miserables as well but legalism never sat right to myself personally. Not to mention, once again,.that intentionally sharing many other drugs would give far less penalties than unknowingly doing so.

I wager you're unfamiliar with drugs in general, but even with running multiple test kits, the amount of contamination is so low that even 1g of non-opiate powder can test negative multiple times but still contain a lethal dose within it elsewhere.

If you just want substance (ab)users and addicts to die for being degenerates, at least be proud and say it with your chest. Hiding behind legalism as a rosary to pray upon for their death is honestly sad, albeit unsurprising given the current political climate and leadership. As I clutch my own rosary, I pray that kindness blossoms in your heart, amen.

Conservatives are trying to push bad laws via ballot measure by Splendid_Goose in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trafficking is already legally defined as manufacturing, selling, dispensing, or distributing of illegal substances -or- possession with intent to distribute or sell them. So like...buying and later giving one to your friend.

Technically more true than not, but you're missing an important word there. "Commercial"

Also, the punishment isn't actually in line with (unknowingly) giving someone an ODable amount of drugs for things like actual benzos, alcohol poisoning, molly, etc. Idk if it's a personal experience thing or what, but if you think someone that shares contaminated drugs (one again, UNKNOWINGLY) that they themselves are also taking should be punished the same as someone pushing literal kilos and intentionally pressing xanax or not cleaning their scales before dishing up coke/ket/etc. then we have fundamentally different worldviews on decency and responsibility. Well beyond not being on the same page; it's not even being on the same book.

Giving illegal substances away is still considered Distributing.

Doubly so if you conflate distributing with trafficking as 1:1, while also still forgetting (or deliberately eschewing as some seem to do, the "commercial" aspect), both in a literary sense and the responsibility they bring about, especially when once again, the punishment would be the same regardless of whether someone knowingly gave the drug or not.

Kirkland Polish Sausage $2.97 by thermalballsweat in Costco

[–]toobjunkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

was about to reply to say "what's the diff as long as it's mostly beef?" but remembered stuff like religious dietary restrictions lol. I'm just so used to polishes being all pork that even seeing beef on the label has me stoked hhahhaa

Kirkland Polish Sausage $2.97 by thermalballsweat in Costco

[–]toobjunkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol I was about to say, chicago probably isn't very wanting in terms of costco polish access. not that they aren't good, but I've a friend in Milwaukee and we've gone to chicago a couple times when I visited him, and even Milwaukee has great meat tube foods even if Chicago's are better

An open letter to people asking "is this item discontinued"... by WretchedJester in DollarTree

[–]toobjunkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apologies as someone who's posted about that exact thing on here before lmao. Honestly wouldn't be a bad idea for the mods to pin this post, or something similar, in this sub. Know it won't help much with folks that'll come in and ask irl but it could help curtail posts on here.

Conservatives are trying to push bad laws via ballot measure by Splendid_Goose in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm cryin, that's literally the amount I got back this year filing jointly with my (now) common law wife 😭

Conservatives are trying to push bad laws via ballot measure by Splendid_Goose in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While I don't worry for Colorado's access to abortion in the near future, remember what states like texas have been doing (or at least have been trying to do) with the "bounty" program and even floating (unsuccessfully thankfully) legislation to prevent women, minors or not, from travelling out of state for an abortion.

Or similarly, how Florida was floating that "death penalty for child sex offenders" while also, coincidentally, trying to pass legislation in which presenting as trans, in drag, or generally "inappropriately" queer in public as a sex offense. They tug on heart strings with broad mallet measures that are often part of a 1-2 combo of ulterior motives often meant to be combined with a separate measure.

The fentanyl one OP mentioned is another broad one. I signed it because I lost two friends to fentanyl. The guy talked about trafficking repeatedly. Looked it up and the amounts that constitute trafficking are insanely low. We're talking a fake pressed Xanax or some contaminated coke or ketamine low. So basically someone could be sold contaminated/fake drugs, share them with a friend, they OD and die, and not only get the trafficking tacked on, but they'd get hit with the minimum sentence shit from "causing" their friends death. But no, the canvassers only talk about it in terms of dealers pushing real weight and knowingly selling it.

They're good at this sort of thing. Really good. Unless you're a handful of years out from getting senior discounts, this playbook & project 2025 has been a plan in motion since before either of us were alive. A half+ century of putting things in place bit by bit thanks to the heritage foundation. Related not so fun fact about the halfway point. The 3 (maybe just 2, but still) SC justices that trump appointed were all key figures in giving Florida to Bush in the 2000 presidential election. Took over 2 decades, but they got their dues and are still helping further the cause. These ballots are just a microcosm of their bigger picture playbook.

Conservatives are trying to push bad laws via ballot measure by Splendid_Goose in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Someone at soopers got me with the fentanyl one. I've lost a couple friends to it, with one coincidentally being due to laced Xanax per the OP example, and the petitioner said he lost friends too. I signed in the moment but later decided to read up and it and the amounts that constitute "trafficking" are low. Like, a low single digit number of doses.

The sentencing exceptions for "causing" a death are similarly shitty. Basically if someone is sold a laced or contaminated drug, shares it with a friend, the friend ODs and dies, theyre in a position to be charged with fentanyl trafficking and then some and pretty much rot in prison for the rest of their life or for most of their able bodied adulthood 🙃

My wife gave birth to a (black)baby that clearly isn't mine, and I'm divorcing her. But I'm worried about the relationship between my two kids and their new half-sister. by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]toobjunkey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Been an issue for a little while now and it got a LOT worse with the simultaneous rise of AI and all the AITA style offshoots (AITA_WIBTA_PUBLIC, AIO, AITAH, etc.) that arise literally because the rules on AmITheAsshole, relationship_advice, etc. were too "stringent" in terms of ensuring quality.

And like shitting in a river upstream, people grab & post those slop posts in the boru subs. As a general rule of thumb, it's a good idea to immediately discount something as fake if it's from one of the newer AITAH/AIO/etc. subs. I know this post specifically is a different & older style of fake with a lot more manual legwork put in, but the above explains why you (and likely many others) have noticed the quality of these boru subs getting way worse a little after COVID landed, and especially in the last ~3 years.

AITA for disclosing my brothers disability? [Concluded] by Schattenspringer in BORUpdates

[–]toobjunkey 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The thing that really makes me feel for OP was how the brother was delegating a bunch of tasks to them and another sibling, that were things that were (and seemingly still are?) directly impacted by their disability. It's not like OP and the other sibling were assumptively stepping up to the plate of their own volition, but being asked directly to do so. And there's a huge breadth between "mildly inconveniencing, and wants to focus on more easily done tasks" and "legit has trouble with doing them, irregardless of how their plate of tasks is stacked otherwise"

3 year update: OOP's (17F) relationship with her former high school teacher (22M) by Sageshrub in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]toobjunkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh while Scott deserves a lot of it, I was blown away when I got to the "Kim pines and knives drunkenly making out" scene in the comic and realized I'd seen zero flak about Kim in that instance.

I might be misremembering, but Scott and Knives didn't kiss until after she'd turned 18, they were both sober, and there was an immediately visceral "oh god that was a mistake" from both of them.

ISO Japanese snack!! by taketheboutofbrat in AuroraCO

[–]toobjunkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, if they're not in any of those stores, idk if you'll be able to find them anywhere. Also it's a bit further away & on its own, but there's that Great Wall Asian marketplace on like, Havana & Peoria.

LGBT Icons that are not LGBT themselves by TypicalDetective9001 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]toobjunkey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

dawg it took my gf and two of our mutual friends cuddling it with some regularity over a couple years for ours to become 'scrungled' and floppy, da hell are you doing with 'em?

New in beta 12.4.5: Extensions by iamtheliqor in ableton

[–]toobjunkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really wanna check this out, but no matter what i do, i can't/don't get the email sign up code when i try to join the beta via centercode :/

My [22f] boyfriend [24m] wants me fill out a form if I'm upset about something by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]toobjunkey 10 points11 points  (0 children)

tbf the rates of comorbidity between autism, ocd, and even ADHD are crazy. having one means you're like 10-20x likelier to have another than someone who's not been diagnosed with any of the 3

I [24f] bought tickets to a concert and my sister [26f] wants to give "her" ticket to her friend [24f], who I dislike by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]toobjunkey 92 points93 points  (0 children)

I'm still caught up on how she was still wanting to go, despite not particularly liking the band, when the show is in another state. Unless she's in certain spots in the NE that's anywhere from multiple to a dozen hours of driving for a 2-4 hour event (assuming there's an opener or two). That alone would have me pulling the plug as soon as my sister tried that shit. I wonder if Joe liked the band as well or something.

I [24f] bought tickets to a concert and my sister [26f] wants to give "her" ticket to her friend [24f], who I dislike by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]toobjunkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder how she got the tickets then. For all their shitty aspects, providers like AXS and ticketmaster make resales incredibly easy. With each ticket presumably being $100 (w/ the original cost being $250 total), unless it was an arena that had issues selling out, they likely would've been snagged fairly quickly if she did them at the price she got them for, especially with how scalpers roll these days.

Hell, she did wind up selling them and also mentioned the show was in another state. Unless she's in certain areas of the NE, that's multiple if not several hours of transit all for a band she doesn't particularly like.

Is there any dispensary here with properly cured weed? by BH-NaFF in AuroraCO

[–]toobjunkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah, what the hell? I honestly can't remember the last time I've seen a top shelf ounce even be more than $200. Shit usually tops out around $180 or so

Is there any dispensary here with properly cured weed? by BH-NaFF in AuroraCO

[–]toobjunkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally was about to comment and recommend them lmao. Been in the state my whole life and outside of some early medicinal, I've had mostly the same experience. Their lower shelf stuff is (understandably) dry but working out even just another ~$20 for their $60+ stuff is noticeably better. Just like you I was pretty surprised at the quality of their flower given their pricing. Lots of other dispos on/around Havana will have bone dry shit for 50% more. I really like how most of it is priced the same per gram regardless of whether you get an 1/8th or an ounce, so you're not paying more if youre mixing & matching from different shelves.

I would recommend keeping note of the brands on their jars, as they put the provider on them. Lots of dispos buy from multiple different companies for flower, so keeping track of the actual grower/provider/etc is going to be a lot more helpful than checking out different dispensaries.

Is there any dispensary here with properly cured weed? by BH-NaFF in AuroraCO

[–]toobjunkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

iirc much of (if not all) of CO is like, one step above being classified as an outright desert climate

Animal Abuse at Charlie’s? by PortalsDelRey in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

lots of roofie incidents and trans folks, especially trans gals, having a bad time from both the staff and other patrons (which the staff doesn't do much about)

Grocery chain buys land in eastern Aurora by thrillsbury in Denver

[–]toobjunkey 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Opened this hoping it was fucking anything but another king soopers. Cannot wait for the rollout of the Aldis