"so, when are you going to grow up?"

i'm not going to "grow up".

but, i can write you an essay about how the state tries to use time as a coercive mechanism to push down conformity, if you'd like.

"growing up" is just another way to say "selling out". religion used to plan people's lives out for them, in the form of "sacraments" that celebrated checkpoints on the path, as the bureaucrats laid it out. marriage is important because it leads to a new generation of taxpayers. and, the purpose of labour is of course, to pay taxes.

out of all of the things that we're going to need to abolish in order to become truly free, this capitalist concept of "adulthood" that we've erected, which is truly when a human starts to pay out in becoming a taxpayer, is one of the most fundamentally important concepts to jettison, because it is so fundamentally irrational and so fundamentally enslaving.

and, if that kind of talk bothers you, then congratulations: you have been successfully brainwashed to the correct condition.

p.s. you're late for work.

in case i came off as confusing, i'll point out that balcony seats at the dso are only $15 (usd) - less than most of the rock concerts i attend.

and, you know - you're there to listen.

orchestras are the exception for me in terms of larger venues. i wouldn't want to see a rock band at that venue....

the ranking here is uk: 6, turkey: 8.

but, this is due solely to the uk's nuclear deterrent.

look at the actual numbers. it's not even close.

i'll remind all of you closet white supremacists that, despite not having a nuclear deterrent, turkey is, in fact, widely acknowledged as the second most powerful part of the nato alliance - an alliance that includes france and the uk - and a serious standing army, in it's own right.

you've probably heard that california would be the sixth largest economy in the world.

well, outside of nato, turkey would be in the top 5 militaries.

this is a serious, well-equipped force. it's a very large force.

and, the idea that it would have any issues with what it's up against is a joke, if it were waging the war with any serious intent.

and, i reiterate: i have never seen a gun before, and hope i never do.

no, i won't backtrack, i'll double down, and i'll push back for the next thirty years, if that's how long it takes for you to figure it out: a war on guns in america will be no more successful (and not very different from...) a war on terrorism or a war on drugs: it will utterly fail in it's intent, and lead to another flimsy excuse for the mass incarceration of black people.

i'm not prophetic.

i'm just not stupid.

oh, and the media blackout on doug ford is just demonstrating that the elite tory media is completely out of touch with it's base.

but, that's been obvious for decades.

as an aside, ctv has now taken out at least two politicians (the other was stephane dion) in obvious collusion with backroom tory and liberal hacks [i've always believed that it was ignatieff that took out dion, not harper].

as a country, we have a responsibility to treat the organization as untrustworthy, across the board.

this needs to hurt them, in the long run. not because i care about patrick brown. but because i care about journalistic integrity.

and who is responsible for this crisis, caroline?

the shock doctrine was not meant to be a user manual.

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/02/23/pc-party-in-crisis-says-caroline-mulroney.html

to clarify: the monkey for a president was bush.

person 1: i feel more open-minded & loose; it 'took the edge off' and helped me relax.

person 2: i feel scattered & unable to focus, like somebody put my brain through a blender, and dropped me 40 iq points in the process.

in fact, these people are describing the same thing, it's just a question of whether they're enjoying it or not.

i like marijuana at concerts.

i don't like marijuana when i'm reading or studying.

yeah.

i think at the end of the day, we're going to conclude that neanderthalensis was no more different from sapiens than a zulu is from an amazonian.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-cave-paintings-clinch-case-for-neandertal-symbolism/

this is what i actually feel like: like i inhaled adhd.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/childhood-adhd-linked-to-secondhand-smoke/

besides negative effects, i would not actually expect clinical trials to show a difference between microdosing and sugar pills.

this is the placebo effect at work.

fwiw, the idea that you don't get hungover from marijuana is a myth.

but, it's a different kind of hangover - not in your muscles, but in your forehead.

i find that the effects of second-hand marijuana smoke, or "microdosing" if you will, are like skipping the high and jumping right to the hangover.

the dso is doing la mer (+ more) this morning, but i'm just not feeling up to leaving the house in the rain.

the neighbour on the one side is smoking skunk weed like incense. it's not every day, but it's annoying when it happens. if it was just an odour issue, i'd spray something back, but the effects of second hand marijuana smoke are not enjoyable: headache and tiredness, without any hint of inebriation.

i will be agitating to have the laws changed so that you're only allowed to smoke outside. this is two nights in a row where i feel like shit in the morning, and am crashing early because of it. and, it's no doubt the ultimate reason why i'd rather go to sleep than go to the symphony.

but, this is one of the most important pieces of music in the history of western civilization. i hope they do it justice...

marijuana is fun once in a while. but, i've never been and will never be a daily smoker. i would rather be sober. and, it's really a crime to take that choice of sobriety away from people by smoking inside.

just go outside with it, people.

orange juice?

no, orange drink.

this could have been done in such a way that everybody had fun....alas....

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/us/nyu-kool-aid-watermelon-menu-black-history-month-trnd/

i don't know if my bike is still there or not.

but, i guess i'm bringing it home, next time i'm there, if it is.

this is huge, for me.

https://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/transitwindsor/Routes-and-Schedules/Tunnel-Bus-to-Detroit/Pages/Tunnel-Bus-to-Detroit.aspx