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Cake day: August 21st, 2024

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  • I’ve always wondered how accurate those tests are to begin with. I have to imagine, based on my experience, it’s not great.

    When I was young and dumb and hanging out with the wrong crowd, I was a regular drug user, including the most dangerous thing of all … marijuana. GASP.

    I worked several jobs that did regular “random” drugs tests during those years. And I passed each and every time. It makes me think the tests are heavily flawed and/or there’s something unusual about my metabolism.

    One time, my employer did a random test right after I got back from spring break. Let’s just say, I probably wasn’t sober more than 5 minutes for the past month at that point. Strangely, they let us go into a private bathroom that had a toilet and a sink to produce the sample. I literally just pissed a tiny bit into the cup, then filled it up the rest of the way with warm tap water. That was apparently good enough. I even knew they supposedly tested for things like creatine levels (to detect dilution) and chlorine/chloramine (to detect tap water), but I was hoping for the best. Apparently, it wasn’t an issue.

    On the flip side, a friend of mine who rarely smoked weed got busted. She’d literally smoked up the night before, for the first time in over 6 months.

    Shit’s fucked up.



  • I was vising a family over the weekend. I mentioned that the only reason I had time to make it over to their house to help them with some work this weekend was because I was off on Monday for MLK day.

    Their response was to scoff and roll their eyes while sarcastically saying “mLk daY”.

    It’s stereotypical yet anecdotal, but they stopped working in their 50s and moved around the country shopping for states that would grant them disability. Other than a short-term odd job here and there, they haven’t had a job since. But yes, they are exactly the same folks that complain how nobody wants to work anymore and it’s everyone else who is lazy.









  • A lot of people are saying that the US government banned TikTok, but from what I’m understanding, that’s not really what happened and what’s happening. Or have I misinterpreted things? From what I understand, they were told they had to divest and sell, but they fought that and now are opting to shutdown rather than comply. Is that not the case?

    Either way, I’m gonna go all “I walked to school uphill both ways barefoot in a meter of snow” on this and say that my very little experience with TikTok users seems to suggest that its not much more than pure, unadulterated brain rot. So regardless of the fact(s) (i.e. shutdown / banned / etc), there’s maybe the tiniest sliver of a net positive here. Or not. It doesn’t affect me one way or the other and given where this country is politically (as well as where it is headed), I don’t give a rat poopoo.