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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • You can kind of see this as a general win for anybody who is a fan of using psychedelics for treatment of mental health issues, but it’s important to point out that both of the people mentioned in the headline have ulterior motives for this move.

    Trump wants to get Joe Rogan back on his side after he alienated him with his Iran antics. Joe Rogan is one of the biggest conservative megaphones in the nation and he can’t afford to have him be talking shit about MAGA before the midterms, so he’ll throw him a bone about this one issue that he doesn’t give a fuck about anyway.

    Joe Rogan is doing this to be able to hopefully one day self-administer psychedelics, not get meaningful treatment or aid from a professional to guide him through the process and change himself for the better.

    I’m not sure which of these two are being more selfish at this point.











  • In my own personal opinion, there are at least two major things that bring the prequels down:

    1. The pacing sucks. They tried to cram too much shit into three movies, and the Episode 1 was kind of a wash for character development because they spend the entire movie simply introducing us to the main characters for the next two films. If they had either spread it out over more films or narrowed their scope a little more, it would have been a much more enjoyable viewing experience.

    2. The dialogue is bad. The wooden acting, flat delivery of the lines, and lame slapstick I attribute to George being high off his own supply - both fans and the creative team puffing him up and telling him what a genius he is when what he really needed was someone in the room to step in and write and direct for him when he was clearly having issues with both late into production. Just in general he needed someone to tell him “No” from time to time.

    There are probably more things than that, but just taking the prequels in a vacuum and not considering their greater impact on the lore, those are the two most glaring issues with them. Supplemental media spends a lot of time trying to plug plot holes and lore inconsistencies that were created by the prequels.

    Overall I think they are decent but flawed films. I never thought that the political intrigues were bad, but they could have shown us more and told us less to really drive the point across.





  • Jesus Christ, what the fuck is going on in the UK and the rest of Europe right now with this age verification nanny state shit?

    If I ran a website that would be subject to these new regulations, do you know what I would do? I’d fucking IP ban all of the United Kingdom, not comply in advance with this fascist horseshit.

    If there’s one silver lining about this digital insanity going on right now, it’s that governments and corporations are essentially forcing users underground, and the dark web (unindexed websites) has the potential to grow and thrive as a result. We might have an opportunity to take the internet back from those who are trying to tighten their grip around the free and unfettered flow of information.