Problem with recreational marijuana is that it’s so insanely strong. It would be like giving a child 190 proof azeotropic grain alcohol and being shocked that they immediately vomit. I can’t smoke pot - it’s just too strong.

I’ll admit to feeling a bit dumber and foggier after a few weeks of ingesting cannabis nightly though. That’s a real thing.

I've heard that the reason why marijuana is so strong is because it was illegal. The sellers wanted to have stronger weed to make it easier to transport; much like how during prohibition, people would prefer to import distilled alcohol, instead of beer.

Same logic applies to explain the popularity of fentanyl.

It's weird that people argue it's better for you to consume extra burned plant material to get to the same level of high-ness. If it's stronger, people just use less.

Problem is that they dont, actually

Vinay Hiremath has a blog post titled “I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life” so I’ll be charitable and say he’s willfully ignorant about what’s going on.

They literally put a tax cheat as head of the IRS last year.

People considering speaking frankly about reality as hyperbolic is how we got here.

We’re not allowed to call it what it is because otherwise the people that got us here might feel bad.

I feel like the most recent time you could reasonably get an nvidia *80 GPU at the store for a normal amount of money was almost a decade ago.

But that's a tautology. The Nvidia *80 GPU's MSRP has been unreasonable for that long (1080 launched at $600 May 2016, which IMO was already excessive).

But there was a window as recently as fall (3-5 months ago) where you could get most PC parts at MSRP. Granted it was a pretty short window, before the last dying whispers of crypto and COVID induced scarcity were overtaken by the surge of the AI bubble.

The 7800GTX was $600 too.

And yeah, fall is when I got my RTX 5080. It was still $1000 and I had no idea how lucky I was when I pulled the trigger. Still felt like I was trawling discord bots though to get a founders edition.

California - proposition 13.

No, this doesn't describe California. From the comment: "has since "stabilized" to +10% a year.". The whole reason people complain about prop 13 is that it wouldn't allow it to be increasing +10% a year. In fact, the OP is actually kinda non-sensical given that they are complaining both about property taxes not increasing quickly enough and about them increasing too quickly.

He interviewed everywhere and took the biggest offer. Good! Don’t piss on my face and tell me it’s raining.

I apologize for the obscenity. I hope it's clear that I was trying to make a point in relation to the article.

Ignore the downvotes, this group is finicky.

OpenAI isn’t cornering the market on DRAM for kicks…

SpaceX investors want to cash out, which is why they’re going public. Elon Musk wants to dump his X/xAI bags onto the public markets by merging it with SpaceX.

Essentially means that SpaceX investors are bailing out Elon Musk.

Don't forget that a lot of US mil stuff is launched by SpaceX so in a very real way they are the prime defense contractor in space for the country. If the public offering doesn't work, Unc Sam'll bail them out. Wonder if Trump will want a stake in the company this time.