Juice

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"You made me be rude after I insulted you and you called me out on it"

Leave me alone. I've wasted enough time on you. You clearly have your mind made up and can't even comprehend why someone would be skeptical of a company that is driving away its users and advertisers, of which I provided many examples. I wrote several paragraphs supporting my argument, and several sources. You responded in seconds with two sentences. Hopefully you wise up before taking a bath on whatever your investments are. I wish you all the best in life, but this is finished.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

I have been saying this for years

[–] Juice@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Google is having problems, they can't make profits anymore. Its different because reddit was never profitable, but googles been profitable for years.

Edit: I said they can't make profits, but what I should have said is they can't innovate and produce new value, they can only cut expenses and squeeze consumers with subscriptions and advertisements in order to remain profitable. Eventually there won't be anything left to cut and will then cease to be profitable. Google is on the decline.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 40 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I can't wait for google to crash and burn. Bring back GeoCities and Netscape navigator.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

I think its pretty normal to have dreams if you're not a regular user, THC suppresses rem state but I think its a cumulative effect since I can still dream if I smoke once after not consuming for a long time. But when I was consuming multiple times per day, every day, I almost never had dreams.

But quitting will give you the craziest fucking dreams. Takes a while to get back to regular sleep. Usually the day after a long period of consumption I'll just straight up not sleep for a night or even two.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 116 points 1 month ago

In college I got invited to hang with my Korean neighbors downstairs who were making brownies. One guy is stirring the butter, another is breaking up the weed to add to it. As this is going on, they're packing bowls to pass around, everyone is getting stupid high, just me and like 8 Korean dudes.

Brownies go in the oven, bowls keep getting packed and passed around. Finally the brownies come out, and everybody there has an acute case of the munchies, so we are all like desperately reaching our hands into the warm brownies, stuffing our faces with them until we devour the whole pan. 40 minutes to an hour later everyone is laying on the floor, groaning, giggling, just a room full of deleted dudes. I don't remember much else but that was an important lesson, don't get high while making brownies without any other food around, cuz when you hit those brownies they're gonna hit back

[–] Juice@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago

It was colonialism and the primitive accumulation stage of capitalism, but racism often runs in the same circles

[–] Juice@midwest.social 38 points 2 months ago

During the American War of Independence the reins were loosened a little. Further concessions had to be granted during the French Revolution. Ireland rose so quickly that her people threatened to outstrip the English. The English government drove them to rebellion and achieved the Union [390] by bribery. The Union delivered the death blow to reviving Irish industry. On one occasion Meagher said: all Irish branches of industry have been destroyed, all we have been left is the making of coffins. It became a vital necessity to have land; the big landowners leased their lands to speculators; land passed through four or five lease stages before it reached the peasant, and this made prices disproportionately high. The agrarian population lived on potatoes and water; wheat and meat were sent to England; the rent was eaten up in London, Paris and Florence. In 1836, £7,000,000 was sent abroad to absent landowners. Fertilisers were exported with the produce and rent, and the soil was exhausted. Famine often set in here and there, and owing to the potato blight there was a general famine in 1846. A million people starved to death. The potato blight resulted from the exhaustion of the soil, it was a product of English rule.

Through the repeal of the Corn Laws Ireland lost her monopoly position on the English market, the old rent could no longer be paid. High prices of meat and the bankruptcy of the remaining small landowners further contributed to the eviction of the small peasants and the transformation of their land into sheep pastures. Over half a million acres of arable land have not been tilled since 1860. The yield per acre has dropped: oats by 16 per cent, flax by 36 per cent, potatoes by 50 per cent. At present only oats are cultivated for the English market, and wheat is imported.

With the exhaustion of the soil, the population has deteriorated physically. There has been an absolute increase in the number of lame, blind, deaf and dumb, and insane in the decreasing population.

Over 1,100,000 people have been replaced by 9,600,000 sheep. This is a thing unheard of in Europe. The Russians replace evicted Poles with Russians, not with sheep. Only under the Mongols in China was there once a discussion whether towns should be destroyed to make room for sheep.

-- International Workingmen’s Association 1867 Record of Speech by Karl Marx

[–] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's this thing where when you need to italicize something that is already italicized, you change it to a sans-serif font? Looks bad

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