If you’re only playing one instrument at a time, you are not a band.

If you are indeed a one man band, I wanna hear your stuff. Edit: actually, even if you’re not a one man band.

Manhood, throbbing, pgs 1-320

(This is what I imagine indexes would look like in your trashier historical romance novels)

Don’t mind the copy-paste at all, and I happen to (more or less) agree with the statement as is.

My counterpoint is despite these pressures, it is something you do not have to accept for yourself, but not at the expense of violating the trust of someone you promised you’d be monogamous with. You can be poly, you can swing, you can have mistresses/whatever the masculine equivalent word is, whatever. But you have to be honest in your romantic/sexual dealings, so people can make choices that are appropriate for them with a full understanding. And if you are in a relationship where you can’t be honest, then IMO you need to get out. Nothing good will come from staying, and much worse can come from cheating.

I will admit, however, that I have not been in a abusive relationship in the strictest sense of the term (what’s a little financial abuse and gaslighting between friends - I’d put an emoji here but can’t find one bitter enough. I understand what you mean though), and that does inform/limit my perspective.

We may need to agree to disagree here.

Then don’t enter into relationships where that’s a rule, or negotiate alternatives 🤷‍♂️

I’m not going to say there aren’t circumstances where cheating is understandable, but it’s still a bad thing to do, even in the scenario you describe. Taking the abused and neglected cheating partner’s perspective - what happens when your partner finds out? What happens when someone else finds out and uses this information to blackmail you? Are you really going to be better off than you would’ve been making and executing an escape plan instead?

Cheating almost always outs. Everyone thinks they’re going to be the exception, but by definition few are. If you’re unhappy in your relationship, either get all people in the relationship onboard to start addressing that, or leave. If leaving is going to create problems, prepare in advance to address those problems. IMO you’ll be better off for it v. cheating.

Imagine you have a relationship where one of the rules each person is expected to follow is “Do not have sex with other people.” You both agreed to it. Then you find out the other person broke it. Trust is gone.

This would be different than someone saying “Hey, I know we agreed to this rule, but can we revisit that?” and having a grownup discussion about ENM alternatives, where someone has the opportunity to say that is a dealbreaker for them or declare boundaries that make this OK with them.

Nonmonogamy is cool if everyone is aware and onboard. Fuck cheaters. If you’re going to claim monogamy without actually being monogamous, don’t enter into a relationship on those terms and save everyone the grief/waste of time/psychological damage.

smoking my joint and sipping my beer no

[Real talk though, know your substance, use test kits, and know contraindications to avoid. Be safe y’all]

If I recall correctly, a lot of the gastric stuff is due to chitin in the cell walls, which humans generally can’t digest. Probably also related to the fact that most people eat them dry. I could be entirely repeating bro science, idk.

People have reported making tea with the mushrooms (unlike THC, psilocybin is water-soluble), or soaking them in lemon juice (idea, I think, is that the acidity breaks up the cell walls a bit more) prior to ingestion helps. Don’t trust me, though, look into these independently if it’s of interest.

Output that made me want to check on this, if anyone is curious. Glowy glass plate with blacklight over a comic book image, then hit with the ‘Pastel’ style. Looks cool but very AI-esque.

More a series of cosmically hilarious but directly infuriating/extremely disappointing events upending the plans of myself and people I care most about, delaying a series of very important life events.

eyes this comment suspiciously, knife hand at the ready

Later: reads about European Hornets in Vermont, slowly but not entirely lowering knife hand

Most years I enjoy it, this year someone’s liable to get throat-chopped. March has drained my tolerance for shenanigans (which is a shame, as I usually love shenanigans).

Not comfortable enough to wear a sundress I guess, but if there wasn’t a cultural element that could create a problem, I would wear the fuck out of those breezy robes you see Muslim guys wearing to mosque in the summer.

It’s fucking hot and I trust the fashion choices of people from desert climates. A good idea is a good idea. I have watched these guys while sweating my balls off with severe envy before.

The day I’m told by an Imam “Dude, no one would give a fuck”, I’m making a purchase.

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Suggestion: LSD or LSD analogues in an amount just north of a micro dose. Have had folks report back feeling alert, chatty, and very open to having silly and/or indepth conversations with strangers. That and (compared to a night of drinking) waking up feeling like a million bucks, if a little tired depending on how late they stayed up as a result.

Your mileage may vary (perhaps significantly), but hey, it’s an honest suggestion. Comes with its own risks too, but doesn’t everything that isn’t just clean living and self-improvement? If you end up taking this seriously, I recommend doing a little reading first to make an informed decision (erowid.org has a lot of useful information).

Eh, I’d argue the current industrial practices in legal markets are geared to the consumer base that experienced a trend that started with the black market. Most places didn’t go from mexi-brick to legalized industrial weed. It went mexi-brick -> homegrown -> Emerald Triangle style shit of increasing potency -> legalization.

There’s still a market for the milder stuff (👋), but if your bread and butter is chronic smokers with high tolerance who used to smoke shit trafficked from California or BC or what have you, you’re gonna focus production on that market.

My kingdom for a good ol’ fashioned White Rhino at average early 2000s potency. Could just be nostalgia talking but that always seemed to be a right on the button experience for me (relaxed but no couchlock, silly thoughts, nice flavour profile, good times all around).

Welcome to my thoughts after my (adult) stepson gave me one of the infused joints their biodad got them for Christmas.

…well, the day after I smoked it anyway. What I actually thought during was “Well, since I’m obviously going to die tonight the beanbag chair isn’t such a bad place to do it.”

Had a conversation with my stepson afterwards where they said they were smoking very infrequently due to how it impacted their anxiety. I said “Well yeah, you’re not smoking weed, you’re smoking joints that can’t actually kill you but try their damnedest anyway. I’ve had mushroom trips that were easier on the ol’ noggin.”

You are a treasure, please never change SMCF <3

Very true. Realistic context behind this comment: thinking about early puberty (where a stiff breeze could get things stirring), and times I’ve met amazing women where there was lots of chemistry and tension one evening, but nothing happens and probability of seeing each other again is low (hey, people are in all sorts of situations, nbd). The next morning is … well, annoying. Just when you think you’ve settled your system, you zone out for a moment and bam, you’re back in business.

This experience is more like ‘a lot of boners in a 24 hour period’ v ‘one sustained boner for more than 4 hours’. Idk if that makes a difference. But yeah, priapism is serious and if you have a boner that last more than 4 hours 100% go see a doctor.

As someone who has been bricked up for pretty much a full day before, it sounds a lot better than actually is. At a certain point you’ve got stuff to do, and practically no one wants to see your boner at the supermarket.

sad OSCAR noises

I’m not searching for examples, but I’m 99.9% sure your particular set of organs are accommodated, assuming the correct choice of peripherals.