US Politics: A democratic election Prospect Theory and practice

[Zorral]

3 minutes ago, Larry of the Lawn said:

I don't think z lives in Times Square lol

I sure frackin' don't.  But as usual, we must allow Mr. Chatywin et al. to shoot out of his fingers about everything he knows nothing about to the people who do.  It's so ... preposterous.  Not adorable.  Just preposterous.  Again he reveals his ignorance about everything to do with here.  In fact, back in the 1970's, there were no movie theaters of any kind in this part of NYC.  But there were stores where one could buy shoe laces, scotch tape, etc.  There was even a lumber yard, a live chicken market, etc. They long ago went kaput due to real estate prices.  

Though not too long before we moved in here, the mob social clubs were very active on our street.  It was a very safe neighborhood, as you can imagine, with exceptions at times, for those who had a, shall we say, an interest in being in those clubs.  After they too all closed I would hang out on the park benches with the old timers and they told me stories.  It was so interesting.  In fact, the very park-playground where we sat was when they were coming up a stables for the horses that pulled the beer wagons and so on. The stuff I learned from those old guys.  And they were old then. And now, they are all gone.  But never mind we have the reek of stink week 24/7 and garbage strewn sidewalk front because they guys who own, run, work the dispensaries are too important to clean up their messes, and somehow ... there are no girls allowed.  EXCEPT on West Broadway, the only dispensary located there, is wholly woman owned and run, and it is pristine, and very very very elegant.

 

[Zorral]

18 hours ago, mcbigski said:

Thankfully its still a drug we can wake up with for now.  

I see the day coming where coffee is colonialist and problematic.  And let's not get started on tea.

Let's face it, consuming coffee is adding too much to CO2 emissions.  You roast it, then you boil the water brew it.

Really if you're not chewing unroasted beans to get your caffeine fix, then I don't want to hear you talking about my real doll's carbon footprint.

 

When people don't read they let the most stupid drivel dribble out of their fingers, don't they.  The end of coffee and tea and chocolate, etc. has been in sight for a while now.

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/coffee-in-trouble-60-of-wild-coffee-species-threatened-with-extinction/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/business/starbucks-coffee-climate-change/index.html

https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ppa.13833

Bananas too, from disease, inbreeding, climate change.  So much else.

But no! a bigjerkiski howls -- it's the woke gummit taking away my gunz and not keeping up my gawdgiven rights to beat up anybody I want whenever I want particularly if female and / or not white.

[Kalbear]

Wait...Times Square isn't all of New York City? 

*shocked*

[DMC]

Quite the timing…

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Changes can’t come soon enough, according to legal sellers and lawmakers. Three years after legal weed became law, only 94 licensed storefronts have opened up shop to sell their wares to adults over 21. 

New York City officials have estimated it has at least 2,000 illicit cannabis storefronts — though the actual number is likely far higher — and illicit operators have sprung up all over the state to meet the demand of one of the nation’s largest marijuana markets.

The botched implementation is posing problems for Gov. Kathy Hochul, who ordered a review of the troubled cannabis agency and called her own administration’s handling of the market “a disaster.”

 

[Zorral]

Told 'ja. 

[Zorral]

Hoooo.  He's looking even more bizarre than he did previously.  Scareeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  What has he done to the top of his head now????????

https://www.wboy.com/news/health/ap-trump-says-arizonas-abortion-ban-goes-too-far-and-defends-the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade/

His third demand, this week alone, that the criminal trial here in NYC next week be delayed, has been again, like all the previous demands, been rejected.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/10/trump-new-york-criminal-trial-merchan/

 

Edited April 10 by Zorral

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

1 hour ago, Larry of the Lawn said:

I don't think z lives in Times Square lol

Look, we can't all be naked cowboys playing a guitar, but still, dream that you can make it.

@Week is obviously a shitty TMNT in Time Squares. At least @Fragile Bird put some effort into her Pikachu costume. But no one compares to @DanteGabriel. He's been doing the devil's work for years at the highest levels. He's 65% of the reason why Central Park smells like weed 23 hours a day. Being a kind devil, he gives one hour to enjoy the trees, but don't you fucking dare ask for a second longer. He will burn it all down if you do. Or so I'm told. 

[DMC]

30 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Told 'ja. 

Never disagreed with what’s going on in NYC.  My point is the botched rollout there/in Albany is a silly reason to be against legalization as a whole in the face of the myriad other success stories.  Not to mention the effort obviously keeps tons of people out of prison that should not have their lives ruined.

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

1 hour ago, Zorral said:

I sure frackin' don't.  But as usual, we must allow Mr. Chatywin et al. to shoot out of his fingers about everything he knows nothing about to the people who do.  It's so ... preposterous.  Not adorable.  Just preposterous.  Again he reveals his ignorance about everything to do with here.  In fact, back in the 1970's, there were no movie theaters of any kind in this part of NYC.  But there were stores where one could buy shoe laces, scotch tape, etc.  There was even a lumber

Lolz. I literally linked you an article about porn theaters being common in response to you saying they never existed, and they weren't just in Times Square. NYC in the 70's and into the 80's was a pretty slimy place. Don't get defensive about reality. At least I can laugh at growing up in a place called Murderapolis. 

[kissdbyfire]

41 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Hoooo.  He's looking even more bizarre than he did previously.  Scareeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. 
 

Sooooo scary!

41 minutes ago, Zorral said:

What has he done to the top of his head now????????

It looks like something died and fell on his head? Yeah, he looks dreadful, actually. 

[ThinkerX]

10 hours ago, Zorral said:

You all don't understand my objections -- it's not the decriminalization of cannabis I object to. 

I am deeply objecting to the manner in which it is played out, degradation to both the sanitary and aesthetic environment by the unregulated, non-enforced mess that the politicians created because THEY DID NOT THINK THROUGH, that mostly what we are getting are these 'dispensaries', which are way over-priced, way under-quality, and even sell stuff that is dangerous, the hypocrisy that decriminalizing the selling in licensed dispensaries would lead to an oppressed and abused population -- who were SUPPOSED TO GET THE LICENSES, meaning those imprisoned for possession of say, a loose joint, whatever -- getting economically ahead when instead of working they were in prison. And then the state tax revenue, which isn't happening either.

Instead we've got -- NO EXAGGERATION -- 3, 4, more 'dispensaries' on a single block, which don't follow the city rules of keeping their storefronts' sidewalks unblocked and clean, lots of loitering with boom boxes playing, and driving out other, important businesses due to all this environmental mess making the whole street unattractive for business. Nor does it appear there's eve walk-in business going on.  So what the eff is going on?

Other cities have rolled back their decriminalization of certain substances too, because of the reasons above.  Their rosy vision of what it would be, replaced by something closer to the corners, failed.  Around here we have noticed that though they are trying to keep it on the down-lo -- this crazy saturation of dispensaries is starting to make beef among them.  O boy.  Just what we need.

 

My state decriminalized pot a few years back. There are two cannabis shops within a mile or so of me and four or five more within five miles - and this is small-town Alaska. I have not noticed an uptick in crime hereabouts. What I have noticed is a sort of drop in competence and a lack of motivation.

 

The one pot smoker needs to cut down four or five trees in front of his off-grid cabin, so his solar panels get enough sunlight to keep his batteries charged. He can't be bothered. Several times he ran out of firewood because of living in a haze of pot smoke. There is plenty of deadwood near his place, he just isn't motivated to cut it. The same thing goes for fixing up his cabin or getting a job that is not at the bottom of the barrel - no motivation.

 

Another one decided to play lumberjack, cutting up beetle-kill spruce (fire hazard) and selling it for firewood. That lasted maybe three trees. Firewood sells a good couple of hundred bucks a cord.

 

I loaned one of my junker vehicles to another cannabis user. The transmission line sprang a leak. Instead of fixing it, he just dumped in new tranny fluid for weeks, leaving a trail of red dots wherever he went. I had to pester him for weeks before he finally decided to fix it. That took all of twenty bucks and thirty minutes. Same story with the broken mirror. He smokes the stuff in part for pain relief - he claims it 'moves the pain sideways.' Maybe, but he has major short-term memory issues. 

And it goes on and on like this. The issue in common is they all use cannabis.

A few of them have tried to 'grow their own' - efforts which mostly fail because of incompetence.

 

Edited April 11 by ThinkerX

[Zorral]

I use medical cannabis products for my own pain management.  This comes from a medical cannabis laboratory - dispenser. (Another reason I hate these crap storefronts calling themselves dispensaries.  Dispensaries are about medicine generally, and their crap products are anything but medicinal.)

One has to see a doctor and get a prescription, then register that, and a photo with the state to get a license card so the products can be dispensed to you.  The doctors (and only a few doctors are accepted by the state -- i.e. a medical money license!), dispenser and laboratory are registered with the state -- these things cost money.  Gads, people who oxy sort of meds don't have to go through the hoops I have to to get this state permission license.  There isn't any of that sort of oversight and regulation for the recreational stuff.

The product is also very expensive in comparison to recreational -- though not in comparison to other prescriptive pain medications.

I love these products because they don't get me high.  I can't stand that aspect of cannabis (though when I was young, I felt quite differently about that!).  If this was THC recreational kind of mixture I wouldn't be using it.  This stuff is a miracle for chronic inflammatory conditions -- the use works on the inflammation.  It is very effective for my spinal condition.  But we're all different and because it works for me doesn't mean it will for others. However, I am a fervent believer in medical cannabis and hope more and more research will be done on these aspects of the plant's products.

So I'd never be in the condition that ThinkerX is describing.

OTOH, I know a lot of people -- people whom I'm very close to, and have been for years.  They've been doing recreational all their lives -- or, at least since about age 15 - 16 -- and it hasn't ever hindered them in work or anything else. 

[Spockydog]

@ThinkerX Enough with your tired old tropes. Seriously. I use about two ounces a month.

I think I might start pulling up facts and figures of people fucking up at work and killing their co-workers, because of either: a) hangovers from the previous night's drinking, or b) straight-up boozing while on the job.

Tired of this shit.

 

Edited April 11 by Spockydog

[Zorral]

Ya Mr Murderapolis, keep telling me what was and wasn't in my neighborhood in the 70's and the 80's.  It was a huge deal when the Angelica opened on Houston and Broadway.

The Film Forum didn't even move down here until mid-1970's, but it wasn't in our neighborhood -- but way over on the west side.

My neighborhood was part of Little Italy -- which was much larger back then.  As I said, those guys were not about to allow porn theaters, drugs or prossies to walk the streets where their grandmothers, mothers, and daughters were going to mass.

 

[DMC]

10 minutes ago, Zorral said:

My neighborhood was part of Little Italy -- which was much larger back then.  As I said, those guys were not about to allow porn theaters, drugs or prossies to walk the streets where their grandmothers, mothers, and daughters were going to mass.

Gotta say while I enjoy you making Ty look stupid and understand where you’re coming from, it seems really odd how you keep pining for the days when the mafia ran your neighborhood as if that was a better community structure.

[ThinkerX]

42 minutes ago, Spockydog said:

@ThinkerX Enough with your tired old tropes. Seriously. I use about two ounces a month.

I think I might start pulling up facts and figures of people fucking up at work and killing their co-workers, because of either: a) hangovers from the previous night's drinking, or b) straight-up boozing while on the job.

Tired of this shit.

 

I described what I contend with daily.

[Larry of the Lawn]

11 hours ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

Look, we can't all be naked cowboys playing a guitar, but still, dream that you can make it.

@Week is obviously a shitty TMNT in Time Squares. At least @Fragile Bird put some effort into her Pikachu costume. But no one compares to @DanteGabriel. He's been doing the devil's work for years at the highest levels. He's 65% of the reason why Central Park smells like weed 23 hours a day. Being a kind devil, he gives one hour to enjoy the trees, but don't you fucking dare ask for a second longer. He will burn it all down if you do. Or so I'm told. 

You know it's pretty easy to say "huh, guess I was wrong"

[BigFatCoward]

8 hours ago, ThinkerX said:

I described what I contend with daily.

Were these people not losers without weed? 

In my experience  the average person who uses weed does it to wind down at the end of the day, not sit around all day all glakey. 

[BigFatCoward]

8 hours ago, Spockydog said:

@ThinkerX Enough with your tired old tropes. Seriously. I use about two ounces a month.

Calm down Snoop. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

1 hour ago, Larry of the Lawn said:

You know it's pretty easy to say "huh, guess I was wrong"

How am I wrong? Just use Google maps.