Same but when I use it it’s not recreational at all.

Not really no.

Yes! It ruins people, but the people it ruins usually aren’t assholes

Or geographic. I was in SC then

Might be generational, but most people I knew who did serious manual labor/transportation were much more likely to be on meth.

Hah, more direct than my putting ironic in scare quotes

Genuinely horrid people. They made it very hard for me to hear millennials complain about anything for a while, because my first exposure wasn’t the ones in deep debt. It was wealthy kids still in college paying a fortune to snort dickhead powder while being “ironic” racists with shitty mustaches.

I like to think that’s such a natural flow state for me that it counts as inaction.

I have ADHD so mild uppers do calm me, but the harder shit makes me irritable and my jaw clenches hard enough to crack walnuts.

Yeah. I had a few friends get on the crack train, though meth was the thing that really fucked up a lot of my friends who grew up near I-95 in SC.

Then of course I aged out of doing anything ever.

Yeah. It was part of why I felt myself aging out of going out on the town anywhere but older crowd dive bars around that time.

My best friend at the time did coke for the first time in the late 90s and I told him later when he was sober I almost broke a chair over his head to get him to shut up.

And coming from my glass house as a talkative asshole? That’s saying something.

And as a young X who massively preferred psychedelics to coke: good fucking riddance. Expensive bullshit drug that in the best case scenario makes you an annoying asshole.

It would’ve been so bad. I love the host segments as breaks in between the movie segments, but I have no interest in seeing a whole movie of that.

My biggest problem with the MST3K movie is it was somehow shorter than the average episode.

I know this is a joke, but I have to say that 20 years ago, the biggest cokeheads I ever met in person were elder millennial hipsters a few years younger than me.

And trust me, I knew a lot of gen X cokeheads and a few boomer ones.

Tweet by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth: “The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.” Below there is a video of the announcement for his many, many illiterate fans

Behind Hegseth’s big stupid face, a painting can be seen.

The painting is of George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is by Emanuel Leutze.

An article from the National Parks Service: Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War Boston National Historical Park During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies. Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.

Disheveled, thinning grey hair attached to my head—at least for the time being.

Though Joe Strummer never reached this point in his life, he still absolutely called my daily existence if the last 5 years or so in the song Bankrobber:

“There's no point to want to comb your hair
When it's grey and thinning”

I think I’ve used a brush/comb maybe 5 times this year

Every middle aged man on here is saying the same thing. I feel like life juice has passed me by.

the elite aren’t powerful politicians or billionaires. common misconception. the elite is anyone i think is cooler than me, funnier than me, more artistic than me, or generally anyone i resent for daring to be happier than i am despite my immense wealth and political clout

Oh no. That’s not pleasant to see.

This is the ideal acid rotation. You may not like it, but this is what peaking looks like.

A pencil sketch on typing paper of a grinning dragon with upright ears like a dog on a huge hoard of gold.

Hey I couldn’t finish it but it was a slow school day for me, and that used to always mean draw a dragon when I was a student . This is an homage to Tolkien’s jaunty and smug drawing of Smaug. The scale gets off at points because I was drawing it FAST.

if you don't have anxiety about missing flights or whatever that's cool but a lot of people actually just have a different type of anxiety about feeling like they aren't optimizing their time

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

Oooh

I don't believe that the footage of the moon landing was faked but I *do* think that the laugh track was added later. "Filmed before a live studio audience" my ass.

*looks up from teaching himself Old English* Hwæt?!?!

That’s why I stock up at Costco. They all know that every member loves to shit

Wise move to hit towards the goose.