fun fact: on the Good Place podcast, Jason Mantzoukas said many of Derek’s lines were written by putting dialogue through google translate several times, which is definitely how they got this sentence.
I know no one likes to be sober around a bunch of drunk people but like, someone should be there to watch yall.
If they throw up for longer than an hour, I’d consider getting them serious medical help
Vomit that is black, shivers, profuse sweating,labored breathing and fading in and out of consciousness are all signs of alchohol poisoning.
Never do acid unless your with someone who can take care of you.
Pyschdelics: acid, shrooms are not for the faint of heart, and not drugs to do when sad, they amplify whatever emotions you are feeling, so doing them when in a bad state of mind can lead to a bad trip.
Always drink water when your drunk. And eat if you plan on getting drunk that night.
Once you can’t walk straight, you shouldn’t drink anymore.
Weed may make you paranoid, so if your not a regular user, do it in a safe, calm space.
Stronger, sweeter air fresheners cover the smell of weed better
Coke highs don’t last very long which is why they are so addictive. Wouldn’t suggest it.
Never do acid on a whim. Plan for that shit.
Laced weed is more common than you think. Know who your dealer is.
Lean can kill you, even the nyquil kind, be careful with it. Try not to drink to much, most people are knocked out after a cup.
Be careful with xanax, people tend to black out while trying it, its more of a sit back and relax kind of drug. I wouldn’t pair it with anything other than weed. Also it can kill you. And is addictive.
In pop culture, slackers are portrayed as playing guitar, but learning to play any instrument requires a lot of commitment and attention, the opposite of what a slacker stands for.
*psst* It’s the fact that capitalism doesn’t value artistic ability if it can’t turn a profit. Capitalism sees all the amateur buskers and starving artists and assumes that, since they’re barely getting by, they must not be putting in enough effort.
I
used to think the idea of aliens having human zoos was horrifying but
honestly if a bunch of aliens want to watch me sit and watch Netflix all
day in a cozy little environment where I don’t have to pay for rent or
food and they have human-specialist doctors on hand as needed, IDK,
like. I’d be all right with it.
white ppl: lol human zoos?? what a crazy made up concept! sounds fun! sign me up! lmao
I don’t know who said it goes but pretty much someone said that the reason a lot of shit in “Sci-Fi” is terrifying to white people is because it’s taking all the evil shit they’ve done to People of Color and show it happening to White people as well they just jazz it up to make it futuristic/alien.
Forced sterilization/Governmental control over Births, Eugenics, human zoos, extermination of humanity, chattel slavery, human breeders, poisoned evironments/foods, indoctrination, etc.
We all can think of at least on form of Sci-Fi media where that happens and if you google any of those with mention Sci-Fi you’ll get straight up examples of these happening to PoC in real life.
Spoiler alert: to steal from prisoners and their families.
Jpay has signed a contract with the New York Department of corrections
to supply tablets to 52,000 inmates, for free. Jpay is pursuing a
platform strategy: give something away that locks in users, then charge
over the odds for services built on the platform. Except in this case,
the users are literally locked in, behind bars.
How will Jpay make money on the carceral platform strategy? By charging
$0.35 for “electronic postage stamps” to use the prisoners’ messaging
service, a fake, hobbled version of email that lets prisoners contact
their loved ones. By gouging on financial fees – jacking the cost of
sending money to an incarcerated loved one from $0.10 to $3.15-$4.15.
Prisoners who have a positive balance in their accounts when they get
released don’t get cash refunds – they get predatory debit cards that
charge outrageous fees (including a fee just to check the balance!).
Also: gouging for ebooks, videos, and music.
Needless to say: you are way more likely to be imprisoned if you are
poor, and you are way more likely to be poor if you aren’t white.
Prisoners who are cut off from their families have a harder time
reintegrating on release and are more likely to end up back behind bars.
Access to media, family and the outside world are all fundamental to
even the pretense of rehabilitation.
There is a standard path that abusive technology takes through our
society: first it is applied to prisoners and/or asylum seekers; then to
people in mental institutions, then to people on benefits, then to
students, then to blue-collar workers, then to white collar workers.
The platform strategy – which has emerged from a tiny racket for
extracting rent from games companies and gamers by locking early
consoles into proprietary media – has emerged as the dominant form of
rent-seeking in the 21st century. It’s the strategy behind the printer
ink racket, Audible’s DRM for audiobooks, behind Apple’s DRM for Iphone
apps, for GM’s lock-in for diagnostic info, and, more broadly, for any
system that uses technological countermeasures and trade secrets,
anti-hacking laws, and copyright laws to lock users into consumables,
parts, service, or apps.
Remember, if dishwashers were Iphones,
you’d have to buy your dishes from the manufacturer’s “approved
partners,” and anyone who modified their dishwashers to wash
unauthorized dishes would be accused of tempting food-borne illnesses
and a lack of respect for the “thoughtful design and engineering” that
allowed a giant multinational to “revolutionize kitchen sanitation.”
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