Well, I live in a shithole state where it’s probably never going to be legalized, so “ubiquitous” is a bit optimistic lol.

especially since the farm bill of 2018.

My state criminalized D8 in 2023, and I believe the farm bill has expired or is expiring this year. I know a lot of shitty red states were pissed about the loophole, so I don’t have faith it’s going to remain.

We don’t even have citizen-initiated ballot measures, so we can’t even be like our neighbor Ohio and get it that way. Did I mention my state was a shithole? If not, let me make it abundantly clear that WV is a shithole.

Right. And know that I’m not attacking the messenger here.

It’s like some people have a drinking problem. For some people it’s gambling. Other people, it’s shopping, pills, Beanie Babies, masturbating, take your pick. Anything can be an addition, and any addiction can cause problems in life.

I think the negative response to this from the cannabis crowd is that these studies, regardless of their intentions, are pretty much always trotted out by the opposition to legalization. “See?? It’s bad so keep it illegal / re-illegalize it. Won’t someone please think of the children?!”

Basically, we assume this is going to be used against us.

They need “AI” for that?!

I use uBlock’s annoyances filter and never see cookie banners.

I mean, isn’t alcoholism common in every state where alcohol is sold (read: all of them)?

Not discounting the study, but it seems like it’s just pearl-clutching.

Hey, they can’t all be Siskos lol.

Am I remembering correctly, or are there actually scenes where the crew occasionally did enjoy Neelix’s cooking? Or was it just the Talaxian (plus or minus Leola root) dishes they complained about?

The one I bought ~8 years ago for my old house is what I’d love to find new. Everything’s mechanical on it (temp, ice/water/crushed ice selections, lighting, etc) and it “just works”.

Wish I’d have brought it with me when I moved, but the one that came with this house was only 2 years old, so figured what the hell.

On the bright side, the replacement board came in today and seems to have fixed the issues. So, at least I’m only out $80 for that.

For real.

Just going to like Walmart or the grocery store and seeing kids screaming and throwing tantrums is like an IRL billboard for condoms.

You seemed to have defeated OC with a simple but powerful weapon: the follow-up question lol.

I was about to start a re-watch anyway. Hardest part is limiting myself to just one per week. I may have to lap back around each week lol.

Just guessing, but for some people, their career/profession is their entire identity. For people in that group, retirement results in the loss of that identity with nothing to replace it. That’s probably terrifying to a lot of people.

oh, I meant IRL lol

So edgy. So reactionary. While I can’t speak for Jeffries, Booker has been working: https://www.distractify.com/p/why-is-cory-booker-filibustering

From March 31 to April 1, 2025, Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, delivered the longest recorded speech in United States Senate history while protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump and the operations of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Booker began speaking at 7 p.m. EDT on March 31 and concluded at 8:05 p.m. on April 1, 2025. The speech lasted twenty-five hours and five minutes, surpassing the previous longest recorded speech in Senate history: Strom Thurmond’s twenty-four-hour and eighteen-minute-long filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker's_marathon_speech

Semi-related, and I forget where I read it, but I think for Kanar, it was just corn syrup and caramel coloring.

Edit: Oh, yeah, Memory Alpha, duh.

Karo syrup was used for brown kanar to create the effect of a dark, thick liquid, which Damar actor Casey Biggs actually drank. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 696) Property Master Joe Longo joked, in Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 4, that “he was drinking so much he was getting wired, so we started using a thickened sugar-free pancake syrup.”

whatever Scotty has here

Aldebran whiskey

Romulan ale looks delicious, but that’s probably just me expecting the usual “blue” flavor I’m used to lol.

I bought one of these from my local hardware store last year, and it’s been great. Amazon Link for Example

The instructions say to place it like 20 feet from where you suspect there’s a hive if you’re dealing with an established nest. You’ll also want it a fair bit away from where people go since it will attract them, and they don’t always go immediately into it and tend to swarm around it.

This spring, I’ve just been moving the trap around every few days to catch the queens. They’re out foraging and starting to build nests, so I rotated through the spots near to where I suspected there were nests last year.

Since I made this post, I’ve caught 3 more. Those 3 were in the same day, and it was after I moved the trap into the tree by the front porch.

Update: Got 2 more today. I was going to move it, but I’ll prob wait until I go 1-2 days with any new captures.

TL;DR: Probably not illegal, but I doubt the post office would accept it.

Answering this off-the-cuff with no research, but probably not illegal per se (more of a dick move).

A slice of cheese, wrapped or not, definitely would not make it through the sorting equipment intact, would likely melt in the trucks, and would absolutely stink up the place for the postal workers.

Edit: That said, there are classes of items that are prohibited in the mail, and this may fall under one of those. Like I said, I’m answering w/o any research whatsoever and focusing more on the logistics of it.

Yeah, I’m not sure about the hosted/public ones and how reliable/performant they may be. Most people I know just run it themselves.

If you ever wanted to get into self-hosting, setting up SearxNG would be a good and pretty easy to get started.

I run SearxNG from home. It’s a meta-search engine and searches Google, Yahoo, DDG, Bing, and others and combines the results.

While it still uses Google as one of its sources, it doesn’t take any liberties, doesn’t “suggest” anything to me, doesnt’ have any AI summaries, etc.

Gonna add that GIF to my mod response list lol.