Mangela Lansbury

Is there really an expectation of exclusivity after two dates? I rarely have any blowback if I mention on an early date that I went on this date with this other guy the other night and [anecdote].

I'm close to someone who works with drug testing, some of which is for FDA approval. The FDA is a joke, by all accounts. FDA approval is more indicative of your ability to work through a bureaucracy and adhere to a set of rules, most of which are more concerned with protecting people from lawsuits more than real safety. Safety is, of course, a concern for the FDA, but it's massively understaffed and incredibly complex. Something not being FDA approved can be meaningless. The amount to which the FDA is a system to be gamed is especially apparent if you look at the manufacturers of all cannaboids that have made it to market

Pretty much. Take crickets and make them into powder. Cricket powder!

For me, at least, Ambien isn't a pleasant experience. I hear I was yelling about people breaking into my apartment once when I was on it, but that's just a severe example of the sleepwalking that happened almost every night I was on it. Weed just makes me fall asleep fast and sleep through the night. I tried Ambien first, but it didn't work so I went for something else.

I got cricket powder today! I'm excited to cook with it. I do not know what to cook with cricket powder.

"Sorry man, weed just makes me horny." Trust me -- every drug can be used as an excuse. I don't usually find stoners repulsive, I just don't find people who have drug use as a primary aspect of their self-identity to be very engaging or interesting to talk to. I feel the same about them as I do about people who drink for the purpose of getting drunk several nights a week -- if you're that invested in using a substance that I only do sometimes and make a conscious effort not to overindulge in, we probably just aren't going to get along very well. It's like how I probably won't have much to talk about with someone who watches nothing but ESPN and is deeply invested in sports culture. I don't dislike them or judge them for what they're doing, it's just so outside of my interests that our conversation will probably never go further than the weather.

People on this thread's reaction to underwear prices is really making me rethink my underwear budget. My junk is super comfortable, at least...

It's not nearly as bad in video games as it is in comics (How do we give this woman depth? I know! Rape!), but it's a definite trope across media in what I guess is called nerd culture. I wish it would go away.

Maybe if we find more plagiarism in Milo's poems, he can be the QR Markham of goober goggle. (that is my favorite piece of news form the publishing industry this decade, i have to find excuses to shoehorn it into conversations, sorry everyone)

The prison population would be affected by legalization, but the crimes would also just be shifted slightly. It hasn't been legal long enough for there to be meaningful numbers, but I've seen strong anecdotal evidence that marijuana is still used to keep marginalized populations in the margins even after legalization. Because Driving While Intoxicated/Driving Under the Influence convictions have a stunningly low bar in most places, having smoked a blunt in the last few weeks would probably lose you your license if a cop decided he didn't like you -- and guess who cops don't like! So you end up without a driver's license to get to work while huge bills are piled on you, and things start to spiral and there's a possibility that you end up in jail anyway. Legalization isn't an end to the prison problem. It would help some people a little maybe, and it would definitely end up just demonizing the victims of the police even more ("I got an MIP" is a lot more aw shucks man i'm sorry than "I got a DUI" is). I still support legalization warily, and will strongly support it once there's a breathalyzer type test for it -- the current abuse of law stems from the fact that blood tests are required to test how much is in your system, and it stays in there for a long time after it's stopped affecting you. But I haven't read up on this in, like, a year so who knows maybe I'm wrong now!

Making fun of poetry for not being long enough or having too few words just makes you look like an asshole.

I've seen people on KiA call TB buttery, so it can only be that they think he's a real biscuit that could use some help maybe not being on the bland side.

I read 75% of Wolf in White Can last night, after finding it hard to get into for the first 50 pages or so. I'm exhausted at work today, but it was a really good read. Also, Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination and Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-war Detroit area phenomenal books and if you have even a passing interest in anything they cover, you should probably read them.

I put a nearby zip, since my last one would have been in Atlanta and I suuuuuuper don't live there anymore. Same concept though, I guess!

I want to examine some first folios and prove that Claudius' last words in Hamlet are supposed to be "O, yet defend me friends; I am butthurt."

I really enjoy their discussions of domestic issues. They're eye opening and insightful and offer new perspective. When they talk about anything foreign policy related, or about politics elsewhere in the world, it's just an infuriatingly uninformed discussion. I might keep listening and just zone out when they get into foreign things.

Throwing another link on the pile. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/yes-virginia-cartoons-are-worth-fighting-for-20150108

After listening to an incredibly racist discussion about muslims on the Slate Political Gabfest this morning, I think I'm just done with it. Are there any good alternatives to it?

Find someone to split one with. There's a burger joint back home that's famous for their Krispy Kreme burger and I just split it with someone whenever I wanted one.

I'm back at the house I grew up in, so of course I ran into an ex that I never knew grew up around here but who apparently graduated from my high school in my oldest sister's class! He was the happiest and most fulfilled that I've ever seen him and we still have really good chemistry, but he has progressive MS and isn't doing great physically so a part of me is relieved that I dodged all that heartbreak. I'm a shitty human being, hooray for me!

"I'm not racist, I'm just not into black people. It's a preference!" -racists

I always associate twee with a bumbling professor aesthetic, but I think that's because it's almost tweed.

There is no aesthetic attached to any kind if historical gamer subculture -- at least not one related to anything GamerGate is selling. Their interpretations of the way gaming used to be/is/should be rely on a revisionist history. They long for a time that, frankly, never was. Beyond that, it's as dumb as saying we should put poorly crafted felt capes in the Smithsonian to preserve the aesthetic of early D&D culture. Dumb dumb dumb.

Given my many conversations with a close friend who's a prosecutor, here's an even more concerning thought: Is McCulloch just your average DA facing a case where he has to justify his shitty decisions on a larger scale than usual?

I ordered three pints of ice cream from a local company this weekend and they were just delivered straight to my door. The butterscotch is made with enough scotch that it tastes like I could get drunk on it. The future is a wonderful, magical place.