Daily Reminder:

Yeah that effing sucks. I really didn’t think they’d bend the knee. I can’t blame them, but it still makes me sad.

Don’t forget the 14 words! Someone screenshotted this at just the right time:

Jensy Machado, a naturalized US citizen from Virginia, believes US immigration agency profiles Hispanic people

According to Machado, the agents told him the name of a man who had a deportation order and had given Machado’s home address. He responded by telling the agents that man’s name wasn’t his – and offered to show them his Virginia driver’s license.

But he says that the agents did not ask to see his ID. Instead, they ordered him to leave his car, and they placed handcuffs on him. An agent then asked Machado how he got into the country.

“And I told him I was an American citizen,” Machado said. “He looked at his other partner like, you know, smiling, like saying, ‘Can you believe this guy?’”

I had to click through to reddit though. (And FWIW it did not link to old.reddit)

Not giving you a hard time though, just grumpy about reddit because reddit. :D

In any case it looks like you edited it and it loads fine now… 🙂

Just one man’s opinion, but I’d rather have the picture and discussion here than a link to reddit.

I think we can do without this sort of reddit-like passive aggressive backbiting here.

You are welcome but it’s not my OC. Please steal and use it! (even if it was)

So those “have the day you voted for” stickers are actually working in some cases!

Yeah it was rough. But in the same sense that I’m glad I didn’t own a sportbike when I was young (because I’m certain I’d have hurt myself or others with it at that age), it’s probably not a bad thing that I got some firm discouragement against that kind of experimentation. It didn’t end my experimentation, but it certainly helped me realize I wasn’t immortal.

(I do none of that kind of thing for decades now. Just nothing I want to mess with these days.)

It’s a great episode and late in the show - I’d suggest don’t skip to it. IIRC it’s an episode that will hit harder if you have seen everything that led up to that point. (Which will make sense when you see it.)

Clearly for some folks it’s great. I dunno maybe I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind. It hits you all at once, there is no buildup, and that may have contributed to me freaking out.

Don’t get me wrong, I intended my comment as a warning, but with a trusted sitter in a safe space maybe someone else will have a better first time.

My understanding is it’s not a particularly high risk drug, despite how intensely it kicks you (or at least me) in the face. (but again, don’t take my word for it)

Updated! :)

I had no hallucinations - they may have been inhibited by my absolute panic.

It was a very long time ago for me but from what I can recall -

I felt immediately mostly disconnected from my body, and like I was constantly falling or about to fall. I essentially laid there starfished on the bed telling myself over and over that it was supposed to be really short and wondering if I’d just killed myself until it passed, then got up and decided I’d never touch that shit again.

Salvia Divinorum

At one point in time I could probably have been convinced to try a lot of things. Fortunately for me (probably) Salvia Divinorum was the first thing I tried after marijuana, and it so thoroughly destroyed any notion I had that I could control my experience that it put me off trying just about everything else I was curious about.

Thank god the entire experience is single digit minutes.

Thanks, I’ll check it out, though it’s going to take more than motivational books to pull the US out of the current nosedive…