According to the Bible Satan gave us knowledge and God wanted us to remain stupid so he punished us. Fuck God, Hail Satan

Let it go

I would definitely have them know to check out Erowid + Wikipedia + Lemmy/Reddit and do their “homework”

Isn’t the Internet amazing?

Absolutely, “drugs are bad mmmmkay?” is still how schools teach it.

I remember smoking weed for the first time and not even having a hangover. It me question EVERYTHING about drug policy.

I don’t want my kids to question it, because they’ll already know it’s bullshit. I want them to ask their Dad.

My kids already know that “Drugs” means all the bad shit plus all the good shit. Cocaine, alcohol, paracetamol, ibuprofen, all drugs.

If you take too much paracetamol you can die. You can get addicted to coffee.

I heard in a film “If it comes out of the ground it’s probably ok, pills and powders are bad news” and I couldn’t agree more when it comes to recreational, so that’s the line I’m gonna take.

Personally I think it’s human nature to get off your box once in a while, I think it’s what’s shaped humanity into what it is today. I believe most religions probably came from a dude doing psychedelics and writing shit down.

Tell me Buddha never got fucked up. Jesus’ holy oil was probably made from cannabis. Santa Claus is actually the Fly Agaric mushroom, it’s red and white, and if you drink the piss of reindeer that have eaten it you can get fucked up and not die, a gift. Mead was originally magic mushrooms preserved in honey, until some started fermenting and they realised you don’t need to put the mushrooms in there to get wasted.

So my kids will probably want to get off their box in the future. I need to educate them well enough that they get off their box on the safer stuff, not blindly take that pill their mate offers them.

I’m weekly paid and have monthly bills, so I saved up a month’s worth of bills money and set up a second account. Then I worked out what each monthly bills costs me a week, added it all up and set a direct debit from my main account on pay day every week. That way I always have a month of money for bills as a buffer in case anything stops me getting a pay check.

Then I set up a little bit into a savings account every week too.

Now when I get paid I know that money is for food, petrol and fun because my bills are deducted before I even get out of bed.

When I run out of weed I go “Oh no I can’t afford weed” then look at my savings account and go “Oh yes I can!”

This shit should be taught in schools.

I got myself debt free at the beginning of the year for the first time in a while. Slipped into my overdraft last month (cars suck!) and I’ve been hitting the overtime to whittle it back down. Goal is to start the new year debt free again.

I use my drugs policy for me-time too. Jobs get done before me-time. I’m trying to teach this to my kids then I can hit them with the Drugs Policy when they’re older and just tell them it’s the Me-time policy for money.

I shall! Gambling has never been my thing anyway, I lucked out finding my Wife at the age of 17. Hypersexuality? Well I may have been with her for over 20 years but she still puts out, so I should be fine with that. Drugs? I have a rule that I don’t buy em unless I can afford em after all my bills have gone out, it’s a spare change rule.

I think I’ll be fine.

From my reading on Pramipexole it’s about 10% of people that have these side effects. It worried me when I started taking the pills.

I read the documentation that came with them and it had in bold DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION WITH ALCOHOL AS THIS CAN MAKE SIDE EFFECTS WORSE so I read the side effects and it was compulsive gambling and hypersexuality.

So I gave up my nightly rum for a few weeks. Then I thought “Meh, let’s see what happens” and reintroduced my nightly rum and coke before bed. Honestly I’ve not had anything noticeable.

Nothing compulsive. But I can spend an hour or more solving Rubik’s cubes or playing the guitar without even noticing. I had that before the pills though.

Pramipexole

It’s used for Parkinson’s and restless legs, I use it for restless legs. I’ve suffered with this condition as far back as I can remember, I’ve always referred to myself as a part time insomniac because this would keep me up a lot of the time.

I had a period of mental health problems and was prescribed Metazapine for it, which kicked up the RLS a notch. Despite being off them now for nearly a year, the Restless Legs are still kicked up.

Pramipexole, when taken at the right time, sorts the RLS out, I can finally sleep and when I do sleep I don’t kick my wife up the arse.

Side affects include hypersexualality and compulsive gambling, but I haven’t experienced this yet. I have warned my workmates that it could come up in the future though so if I ever say “I bet you a fiver you can’t wank me off” they know why.

Edited to bold Pramipexole

As someone who has done both I couldn’t agree more.

I run Home Assistant and could just pay their subscription to get external access, which also supports development. But I’m a cheap Yorkshireman so I went with DuckDNS, Let’s Encrypt, Nginx and all that jazz for a long time. I’m just trying to hook my home up to Google so I can talk to it, I don’t wanna pay money!

I had so many bloody glitches! I’d have to sign things in on a weekly basis, Google lost access all the damn time and it was just a nuisance.

I have a rule for hobbies, I do it cheap for at least a few months to see if I lose interest. If I get a bit obsessive, it’s worth spending money on the hobby.

So after a year or two of fucking around with Nginx and DuckDNS I found the cloudflare plugin, which worked for free for a while. It was night and day, everything remained connected!

It ultimately bugged out one day and I decided to just bite the bullet and buy a domain. It’s a hobby I’ve invested enough time in that a few quid for a solution that just works is worth it.

I think I dropped £35 for 5 years (I forget, it might be a decade) of owning my own .com domain name, which cloudflare manages for me.

I now have to reconnect my Google home to my home assistant once every couple of months instead of every week.

I haven’t missed the money, and I certainly haven’t missed the fucking tinkering to get it to work.

I liked the idea that this was King Sausage Fingers’ way of saying the headline “Fuck you, Bastard!” to Midget Jug-ears.

It’s much easier being a Poor, you just say “Fuck off ya cunt” and get another minimum wage job next week. Cheaper too, you don’t have to buy a new insulting tie for every work meeting.

But then, when you get all the assets of anyone who dies in Manchester who doesn’t have a Will, money starts to lose all meaning and you just buy ties for the fuck of it.

Probably, but the ROM support on my OnePlus Nord was Nordne Existent

I do both, so kinda the same but not quite?

https://www.picoreplayer.org/

It’s not the fall that kills you it’s the landing

Perhaps this is just another facet of Project Fear, get 50% of the population worried they’re having their rights infringed and we may go the way of the US and ban abortion in the future.

Remember kids, be scared.

Thanks for this info

You can relock the bootloader though can’t you?

Genuine question. I used to be an avid ROMer back int day until I got really really annoyed at all the hoops I had to jump through to use Google Wallet.

Now I have a Pixel 7a and I’m considering ROMs again. So I am wondering if I can just relock the bootloader once I find a ROM I like and it’ll pass all the Safety net bullshit and allow me to use my phone like it should be, just with a custom ROM on it.

If the lawmakers are doing drugs then just legalise them so we can all be happy for fucks sake.

Well life goals next year, throw a party and invite everyone eh?

We didn’t do Halloween parties for a long time but fell in with a new friend group a few years ago and they do a proper bash every year, so glad we found them it’s now the highlight of my calendar!

Everything is better when Rum is involved, except maybe driving.

Friday night we’ll be making onion bhajis for Goth Christmas on Saturday. Wifey suffers chronic pain and has been really bad this week, so it looks like I’m making bhajis and taking directions, which is fine I’ll just smoke a little toots-a-roots beforehand and drink rum throughout.

Saturday daytime will be party prep. This year is Sugar Skull themed so I’m bucking the trend and going in Misfits Skull Face in a Satanic hoody and cloak, I’ve even got some black contacts coming. No colour for me!

Halloween is a proper event for us, I’ve been working overtime so I have the cash for all the food and beer and costumes, and I’m gonna get blitzed. The kids are wearing hoodies so I can just grab their hoods like reins and shout “HOME!” and know I’ll get back fine.