I’m doing a lot better now, and I have a better and more trustworthy support network. And I don’t take drugs from people I haven’t vetted.

cw: sexual assault and nonconsensual drugging

I was drugged by someone who I thought I could trust to give me enough weed to get me high but not lose my mind. Instead, they drugged me and I honestly don’t know with what. The situation was dangerous enough I never bothered to ask, never thought to get tested. But I believe they may have had access to ketamine and who knows what else.

They shotgunned (they inhaled and passed it to me via mouth) me a massive lungful of what I assumed was weed and I genuinely lost all touch with reality >!while they proceeded to rape me (with another person whom I was not familiar with and I assumed was sober).!<

For context, at this time I was vaping and taking edibles pretty regularly, so my tolerance wasn’t that low for me. It clearly was much lower than tolerance of the one who shotgunned me though.

I was so high I couldn’t see straight, and I fell into a deep disassociation and may have blacked out. I only remember slivers of consciousness as it rolled over me for what seemed like hours.

I later puked after I had gone through most of the trip.

Honestly, I think higher ed is more at risk because the people on the top keep skimming for more funds, leaving everyone below struggling. Pay your faculty, staff, and working students (grads and undergrads) well.

Oof, while the EU pressures Apple to actually improve their products with USB-C and replaceable batteries, the British government fumbles again. Seriously, E2E is a basic requirement for most companies and should be standard across the board. All this clamoring to try to detect CSAM just stinks like government surveillance and a threat to everyone’s privacy, and the US is no better.

Eh I think it’s pretty neat. Means a majority of users are tired of or willing to subvert capitalism in some aspect and that gives me hope.

Rise Up VPN seems to work pretty well and is based on OpenVPN. It crashes less than my qbittorrent client so I’ve had minimal issues with it.

and DOLBY Vision or DV movies if your hardware doesn’t support it.

I understood you correctly, but were you aware that American corporations including McDonald’s, Target, Whole Foods, and Microsoft have been profiting heavily from US prison labor without the the legal requirement to compensate the laborers fairly, provide sick days, or provide decent working conditions? https://sites.law.berkeley.edu/sustainability-compliance/corporations-use-of-prison-labor/

Shit’s fucked if/when you get convicted of a crime, whether your Gary or anyone else.

Edit: added context

that’s not technically true, the 13th amendment only outlawed slavery if you haven’t been convicted of a crime.

Edit: besides that technicality, I do agree.

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Besides promoting Joe Rogan during the height of the pandemic when he was on a real stream of misinformation about COVID? Yeah it’s mostly how they treat artists they’re just like YouTube (and Tidal for that matter) where they claim to care about artists but there’s no way anyone but the top 1% is actually making living wage money from streaming. I just use Tidal cause pirating music took up too much storage for me and it makes music discovery a little more convenient.

fuckin well said.

Gotta love itch.io bundles for shopping indie games on a tight budget.

Tidal. I lowkey hate spotify and I think the audio quality is the same or better, for the same price (I don’t shell out for the highest tier).

there’s also Newpipe x Sponsorblock on android.