(The)m (a)r(e) snakes!
(The)m (a)r(e) not!
O(h), (ye)s (Th)a[sic](y) (a)r(e)
(See)(The)m (itty)b(itty)(eye)s
(Wel)l, I b(e)
(The)m (a)r(e) snakes!

Rom com setup trope.

Actually, if you’re two or three deep and nothing is happening after a long enough time, you might be genetically deficient and unable to metabolize the good stuff.

Ehh, this feels like some kinda survivorship bias / frequency fallacy. I’d argue the people that post and leave comments on social media are already way outside of the norm. It is a power law distribution when it comes to social media participation. Your outliers in this case are very likely outliers in other ways such as in opinions/thinking, risk taking, etc. Drugs really aren’t all that normalized. Sure all my friend circle is full of degenerates, but I am still going to be guarded about my “hobbies” when meeting new people.

Don’t use an apple, use a properly designed device to vaporize the magic smoke out of the flowers without actually burning them and save your lungs a little.

Still counts as a win if you finish it with only one person alive

Awesome, so glad you found it!

lol, I think within the last week here on Lemmy there was a story from someone working at an animal rescue about a hawk that got too fat to fly. It had been nomming on some local free-range chickens and someone found the too-fat-to-fly hawk and called the rescue.

🎝 Cotton candy, sweet as gold, let me see your pumpkin roll 🎝

No thanks. I don’t need nazi slop

Oh, I didn’t have a specific one in mind. I was just volunteering to help. Yes. I can help you. No, I don’t have any jobs to give you.

So glad I am not the only one to have seen this lol

Yes.

lol

There are always additional choices available beyond the ones presented to you. They may not be optimal, but they are yours and they are there. And a principled choice with negative consequences can still be worth it. People get emotionally invested into all sorts of stupid shit, or never question why something is the way it is, or never express curiosity for alternatives. And you simply don’t need to accept these people’s framing for anything. It is even a parenting technique using the illusion of choice on children to force a decision that was never a choice to begin with.

EXACTLY. What a pain in the dick. And of course, how do you evaluate if that private security is actually working? It is basically insurance that you hope pays out if something goes sideways.

Sure, but then you still need to deal with people. And people aren’t trustworthy with money, so now you gotta worry about that too. And what kinda rubric do you even come up with for those interviews for smart people to make sure they aren’t going to just steal your money or lose it through negligence? So now you gotta think about that shit too. Ever done interviews? No thanks. Again, giant fucking hassle.

It depends on how much risk you want I guess. Amounts that big aren’t covered by deposit insurance in a single account. Banks also fuck up all the time. They could give someone else access to your money without you knowing. And if you have that much money, it makes you a target. There will be tax things you have to do around that money too.

That much money is a fucking hassle. Everyone wants it and bothers you about it. You can’t just leave it alone, it needs to be managed. Some portion of that money goes to pay for the management of it. And if anyone finds out you have that money, they treat you differently because generally, only shitheads and assholes have that much money. Money is fucking toxic and humanity is a giant disappointment

Long stick engineering at its finest