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Milson said:
One of the things I like about living in the city....some buildings actually built with some god damn pride sometime
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Nice thing about much of the northeast coast. It's easy to find fixer-uppers built in the early 1900's or even earlier.
The house I just got has planed timber subflooring, plaster walls, leaded glass, etc. I look at all these bullshit condo developments going up around me falling apart in 5 years and smile while I'm drinking my coffee, watching them fall down in almost real-time.
Just gotta make friends with the spiders and mold. Hell of a compromise, if you ask me.
 
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Dirtbag said:
I understand and apologize if my position sounds crazy. Its not a good state of affairs. I truely feel for the US, but after the 2012 election seeing how they manipulated the media to trash Ron Paul, I threw in the towel and gave up any hope for political reform in the US. That election made it abundantly clear that the people in power have rigged the game to keep things in their favor.

I've reached a point in my life where I tend to avoid participating in games that are rigged for me to lose is all.
As for me considering it entertainment now, I guess the more accurate analogy is Its like seeing a bad car accident, you know you're gonna regret it but you can't help but look.
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That analogy i am 1000000% behind, with the caveat that I developed a car crash observation addiction and so I try to stay clear of it lol.

But if a car crash is headed my way, that does matter to me. Lol. And sometimes people I care about get caught in crashes and that hurts.
 
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beluga said:
Nice thing about much of the northeast coast. It's easy to find fixer-uppers built in the early 1900's or even earlier.
The house I just got has planed timber subflooring, plaster walls, leaded glass, etc. I look at all these bullshit condo developments going up around me falling apart in 5 years and smile while I'm drinking my coffee, watching them fall down in almost real-time.
Just gotta make friends with the spiders and mold. Hell of a compromise, if you ask me.
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Chicago has freaking incredible inventory of great pre ww2 buildings built by people who gave a damn. Love it.
 
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Milson said:
Yeah no doubt. Should not have passed.

Again, I'm not trying to argue any side of anything other than saying that these things are more than entertainment for some of us sometimes.
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Four years ago, my body stopped functioning properly and holding down a full time job became impossible. And through payroll taxes and my many years of work paying them, I was eligible and approved for SSDI. That decreased my income by 75%. Two years later, eligible for Medicare (eligible isn’t accurate because I cannot choose or use any other insurance). This isn’t charity. I paid into this for years and rely on it to survive. And I fear it being absolutely torn asunder to hell with everyone it harms. I honestly could care less wtf happens to me. But I worry for my kid. He actually still needs me.
 
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Milson said:
That analogy i am 1000000% behind, with the caveat that I developed a car crash observation addiction and so I try to stay clear of it lol.

But if a car crash is headed my way, that does matter to me. Lol. And sometimes people I care about get caught in crashes and that hurts.
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Yup, big difference between watching a car accident, and being in the car accident.

Honestly as a firefighter/FR for 10 years, I think my brain just developed odd coping mechanisms for dealing with horrible stuff. Its probably why I'm able to sit back with a beer and a bag of chips and watch the election unfold as though it was the survivor finale without getting emotionally invested in the outcome... I know I have no control over anything that happens, And I'm aware of just how corrupt BOTH candidates are, though ill concede Trump is a hot mess.. no sense picking a side though. May as well just watch and see what happens...
 
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Dirtbag said:
Yup, big difference between watching a car accident, and being in the car accident.

Honestly as a firefighter/FR for 10 years, I think my brain just developed odd coping mechanisms for dealing with horrible stuff. Its probably why I'm able to sit back with a beer and a bag of chips and watch the election unfold as though it was the survivor finale without getting emotionally invested in the outcome... I know I have no control over anything that happens, no sense picking a side. May as well just watch and see what happens...
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That's totally coherent and a skill this dumb brain does not have.

I do have lots and lots of pot though. And hoo boy it helps.

That and tunes 🙂
 
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Their agendas aside, I do get a little caught up in the vanity of it all and am absurdly embarrassed to have this dude as our figurehead.
Like.. I don't want to go abroad and have waiters hand me a bottle of cheese whiz when I ask for some local aged gouda.
 
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beluga said:
Their agendas aside, I do get a little caught up in the vanity of it all and am absurdly embarrassed to have this dude as our figurehead.
Like.. I don't want to go abroad and have waiters hand me a bottle of cheese whiz when I ask for some local aged gouda.
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What happens when you ask for beluga ? Mr B
 
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Milson said:
I think the fundamental problem is something I allude to in my thread, which is where it will stay.

I just hate seeing the erasure of a lot of hard work that activists have done to move this country's attitude toward cannabis forward as mere entertainment. It makes me sad.

Hell, college Milson actually did some volunteering re: Michigan and its pot laws in the 00s before the caretaker program was launched. Not that I feel like my efforts are erased by some people on the internet or that I did terribly much.

Just stings a bit to see.
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That's not what I'm saying at all, for the record. Getting involved with local issues to try and make a change is all good with me. I've dated quite a few very politically active women.

It's the grandiose, hyperbolic "soul of a nation" rhetoric. The frothing hordes of Fox News and MSNBC buying into the false duality presented by those outlets and focusing more on how the other is wrong than finding middle ground. It's no different than the competition between Apple and Google, trying to get consumers to commit to their ever broadening information gathering ecosystems.
 
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That's not what I'm saying at all, for the record. Getting involved with local issues to try and make a change is all good with me. I've dated quite a few very politically active women.

It's the grandiose, hyperbolic "soul of a nation" rhetoric. The frothing hordes of Fox News and MSNBC buying into the false duality presented by those outlets and focusing more on how the other is wrong than finding middle ground. It's no different than the competition between Apple and Google, trying to get consumers to commit to their ever broadening information gathering ecosystems.
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I think thats true of all news sources in the US. Fox, CNN all the major networks are just mudslinging, fact twisting, agenda running shit holes.
 
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Aqua Man said:
I think thats true of all news sources in the US. Fox, CNN all the major networks are just mudslinging, fact twisting, agenda running shit holes.
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I think it's true for all media where people can't check the facts for themselves. People's brains get hijacked into thinking something is very important to them because BIG but they don't connect it back to their world they actually live in. At that point, it's just which group dream you have faith in....then people get really tribal about their group dream. And it totally makes sense to do because making sense of the world is impossible. It's too complex.

But when that group dream collides with actual real life, sometimes things don't match up and that can be sad face.

This place is a group dream too, but so often I feel in my heart and my world a connection to things i read here (good music, how to cut clones, n-p-k ratios, what it feels like to love this plant and deal with how society treats said plant, etc). As such, I'm down to participate. But my main life project is recovering my life from an addiction to a group dream fighting ground (or putting my brain in that fighting ground) where nobody wins but people who are prone to crossing up real life with the online/media life of ideas (like me) definitely lose.
 
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Aqua Man said:
I think thats true of all news sources in the US. Fox, CNN all the major networks are just mudslinging, fact twisting, agenda running shit holes.
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CNN is owned by AT&T, and reports like it. MSNBC is owned by Comcast, and reports like it. Fox, of course, is owned by the Rupert Murdoch right wing media empire. And most of the local news stations in the US are owned by Sinclair, another right wing media org. Bezos owns the Washington Post, and they report like it. It's all propaganda, thrown out into the ether in the hopes of hooking someone's confirmation bias.
 
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I'm unusually nervous about this grow. Stepping out of my comfort zone for sure. So its always nice to see that they are still alive and green when I come for a visit lol.

Transplanting into 3 gal fabrics tomorrow.
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