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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Erowid is still good, though I wish there was a little more info about current operations and projects outside of maintaining the experience report database. As far as I can tell, both Erowid Monthly and Erowid Extracts are dead, Ask Erowid is dead, DrugsData is not currently receiving samples, etc.

    There’s reason to play some stuff close to the chest, obviously, but there used to be more activity than just the experience database, and it’s sad to see the other functions languish. But as a repository of drug information it’s still pretty great.

    A newer good harm reduction/info site is tripsit.me, which also has a trip sit via chat service. Can’t speak to the quality of the chat service, over something like the Fireside Project which has been around for a while now, but the infosheets on tripsit are pretty good.

    Edit: Ugh, going through the other Erowid sections again…beginning to think I need to step up and see if they want more volunteers. Lots of dead links where Wayback can probably help a ton, the Character vault can probably be expanded quite a bit, etc. But this all might just be the focus moving on a bit. I just wanted to see Ralph Metzner’s blog, since you hear so much about Tim Leary and Ram Dass but Metzner was right there with 'em.


  • Real talk, it’s your common mass produced and internationally sold beers that suck. S’ok, a lot of mass produced Canadian beer sucks too (lookin’ at you, Alexander Keith’s. Pride of Nova Scotia indeed.)

    The issue is that the good stuff doesn’t often make it outside of your borders. I’ve had decent beer when actually in the U.S before.

    Will say I will drink a cold PBR if there’s no other valid choice, but if someone just has Coors or Bud (especially Bud - but especially Bud Light) I’ll stick with water. Only other American beer that reaches Canada I’d probably drink is Lucky Lager, but that’s more out of nostalgia for west coast teenaged mayham than its own merits, and Kokanee would produce the same effect and caveat anyway.

    Edit: After thinking about it more, I’ve enjoyed Sam Adams limited releases before, and we get those sometimes.



  • Legitimately, do you have a source/example?

    Marc Emery jumps to mind first, but admittedly that was selling seeds with some evidence of cross-border sales, and IIRC he was arrested by the RCMP and Halifax Police Department, though acting on a warrant from the Western District of Washington. If there was another mid- to high-profile case like that, especially if American enforcement made the arrest on Canadian soil [edit: or if this is about Emery and I’m missing some key details] I 100% want to learn more.









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    The only time I’ve drank Blue by choice was during an 80s costume party where I went as the most Canadian early 80s rock guy ever. Jean jacket, Rush t-shirt, mullet, the works.

    Fucking loved that costume, but I should of drank 50 instead. Both taste like sadness but 50 is slightly more authentic.

    Edit: Was trying to channel this guy





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    As someone who spent almost equal time on both coasts and in Ontario, my sense of Canadian slang is fucked because so much of it is regional.

    Whatcha sayin’, b’y? Sherbert headed buddy down the ways trying to fuck aboat*? Some stupid of this goof**. Fuck it, they can keep their 24s, mickeys and 26s outta here. Won’t be able to get my JDs - that’s a right sin. But she’s the best choice.

    Don’t care what the b’ys on the back of the bus might chirp aboat this, she’s alright by me.

    *Go to Nova Scotia and honestly tell me you don’t meet someone who says about, it almost comes across as aboot, but actually sounds like aboat.

    **Also, goof is used in the truest Canadian context here, and based on what we know about buddy and the guy who didn’t kill himself probably isn’t far off.


  • So real talk, what exactly is the angle here? Are these rogue instances in the links? Truly just trying to bait in the lonely and gullible to eventually solicit payment down the line?

    It just seems … weird for a romance bait scam. Average looking woman (though could be to lower guards), links to Fediverse service profiles rather than botted DM exchanges, etc.

    I could just be being naive, but idk. There’s a very particular brand of fishy to this, beyond the obvious. The other probable scammer I dealt with at least came with a sob story that I could see being more effective (end of his rope humanitarian worker in an African country, children dying due to lack of $ for the program).