My sister got her hands on something similar (I think it was chips ahoy with sour patch kids? The details are unimportant). They were completely inedible, just disgusting trash. I couldn’t even bring myself to eat a whole one while I was stoned and had a bad case of the munchies.

I’m convinced no one actually likes these and they’re made solely to make one-off sales to people who just have to see how bad they are.

Edit: there’s absolutely zero chance she’s tried one of these abominations

Enjoying a slow morning with a cup of coffee, listening to the birds and doing a crossword.

Rolling and smoking a j alone late at night with no distraction, just the calm quiet ritual

Walking while the snow falls on a windless night, when all the sounds are muffled aside from the soft crunch crunch of your footsteps, you can feel the pinpricks of snow melting on your face, the night just feels so still and perfect.

I’m convinced that cars are a huge contributing factor towards that atomization of society. Cars turn everything that involves them into an isolated solo activity. They remove every possible opportunity for social interaction while at the same time raising the stakes of any single persons mistake.

Take walking in a crowd vs driving in traffic. Let’s say I let my attention wander and I bump into someone. I say “oops sorry my b” and continue on with my day. I do the same thing in traffic and I’ve potentially caused hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of damage, possibly injured myself and others, and generally caused a huge pain in the ass for everyone involved. And even if I didn’t hit someone I’ve contributed to the oppressive feeling of paranoia that accompanies driving and the fear of damaging the vehicle you’ve spent a ridiculous amount of money on.

Even something as inherently communal as waiting in line is reduced to a solo experience. When you’re standing in a line you can see the people immediately ahead and behind you, you can commiserate about the wait time with them, strike up a conversation, you generally see the people in the same boat as you and relate because you’re all going through the same thing. Waiting in line in a car you have no way of communicating even with the people directly next to you, everyone else is reduced to “traffic”, you don’t see a human just an ugly, smelly, loud monstrosity of metal and plastic.

Cars promise to expand your horizons but all they do is shrink your world

Carbrains don’t understand the true freedom that is taking transit on a night out. I never have to worry about a Designated Driver or dragging my hungover ass back to wherever I left my (hypothetical) car. As long as my drunk ass can find my way to the train station I can get home no problem

Same with living close to a grocery store, I basically never check what I actually have on hand since it’s less than a block away. I can easily pick up whatever I’m making for supper on the way home or dash out if I forgot something. I can think about what I want to eat on the train home, pick up any ingredients I need on the walk to my place, maybe stop by a liquor store for a bottle of wine for supper, it’s wonderful. I’d really struggle with planning meals if going to the store involved packing up a vehicle

You’ll see resistance/revenge killings once the Americans start killing people, but the average white Canadian won’t give a shit until they’re affected personally. So long as it’s not their family/friends/neighbours being blown up & shot they’ll roll over an accept it

It’s been a long time since I watched Stargate but I feel like that’s one that’s okay to set down before the end

I’ll try to provide a serious answer.

The difference is the long racist history of refering to Asian people as yellow skinned, phrases like “yellow peril” describing fears of Asian immigrants, so it’s not a stretch to see how depicting a Chinese man with cartoonishly yellow skin is racist as fuck.

It would be like depicting a black politician as a monkey, it’s difficult to defend something like that as just a joke against a specific person when there’s such a racist connotation/history there.

And if you still want to throw them a curveball you can always throw in the occasional bit of exotic ammunition that messes with them when they catch it (Use sparingly so they still get to feel cool)

CW: suicide

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hair-loss-drug-finasteride-side-effects-1.7483898

Some men experience side effects like reduced/absent libido, depression, and other negative mental health effects. I don’t know how rare they are but to me it’s not worth the risk just for my own vanity. Sure the pharma companies deny it’s a thing but they have a clear profit motive so I don’t trust a damn word they say

Yea that’s me rn. It hasn’t hit me yet (at least not noticably) but when it does I’m just embracing it. I know there’s medication/treatment but between cost and potential side effects (as someone who already struggles with mental health the possibility of Post Finasteride Syndrome scares the shit out of me) it’s not worth it.

Plus I have a personal aversion to the idea of clinging on to youth or denying aging. Nothing against people trying to look how they want to but I’m embracing aging, it feels so much less stressful than the alternative

Ugh I dunno if I just noticed it but the spread of “only x small payments!” financing for the smallest purchases can’t be a good sign