I’m not sure on the psychosis part specifically, but it took me many, many years of trying it over and over with different friends in different ways before I finally figured out that it just doesn’t work for me. My body’s endocannabinoid system appears to be in great balance and marijuana of any kind throws it completely out of whack.

I thought getting the spins and vomiting for hours the very first time I tried it was just because I was already drunk so I only did it after that when I was sober. But the effect was always bad and I never felt good on it, no matter what kind it was or what the social situation was.

It wasn’t until I tried some really strong stuff with a friend who was a big stoner that I realized I just shouldn’t have it because different people react to it differently and my body fuckin hates it. Every time I would do it, I would have a kind of hangover afterwards that would last for at least a day where I would just be depressed for no fucking reason. Then one time we did some really strong stuff, and I ended up sitting on the bathroom floor for hours with the spins, nearly unable to control my thoughts or communicate. It literally felt like my consciousness was drowning and it was trying to tread water just to utter a single word out of my mouth.

So, CIS? I have no clue. I’ve never asked a doctor about it, but even if it wasn’t, I wish all the propaganda around weed wasn’t just about how amazing it is and that it’s a miracle drug for everyone, because just like any substance, it truly affects different people in different ways; not all of them good.

I will happily stick to my alcohol for mind and body altering experiences because my body loves that and only has positive reactions to it.

Oh, really? Mine does not have any lights at all.

Seconding/thirding/whatevering the Logitech G502. I have one and it’s one of the best mice I’ve ever owned and all the functions seem to work fine on Linux.

I guess my only question for you would be… Why did you stop doing the two hobbies you enjoyed? You called them addictions; were they interfering with your ability to work and get necessary chores/tasks done? Or were you only doing them in your free time?

If it’s the former, then good on you for the self control! If it’s the latter, I’d honestly just be confused as to why you gave up what you love doing and would just encourage you to stop punishing yourself.

Yep.

Yes, full support from me. Multiple localized tests of UBI have been shown to drastically improved people’s lives. I think there are multiple other measures that would need to be put in place too in order to help minimize corporations just obliterating it’s usefulness by raising prices.

I’m not as informed as I’d like to be, but my understanding is that things like VAT taxes can help get around online retailers like Amazon dodging taxes, as well as CEO to base worker pay ratio caps to ensure the people in a company that are actually producing the profits get rewarded for doing so. The CEOs could keep giving themselves raises, but it would come with the requirement of actually giving everyone in the company a raise too, which, quite frankly, is what should happen when your employees do a good enough job to bring in record profits.

My understanding is that Alaska already has something similar in nature to a UBI where every citizen gets a dividend from the state each year based on taxes collected from certain businesses. This is a dim recollection from me and I am probably completely mistating how it works/where the money comes from.

That Linux command line book is really, really good. I love how it actually explains the commands and why to use them instead of just being a copy of each commands help document or something.

Congrats on ditching Windows!

As far as move sets go, you could always base them on things about the animal for animal based mascots. Like an ice slide for Tux, a charge for the GNU mascot, a long distance tongue grab for the KDE mascot, etc.

Also, as far as characters go, you could always include any public domain characters, like Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, Steamboat Willie, Winnie the Pooh, etc.