Carwashes are a decent choice of laundering business, but are also a business with remarkably low overhead. They are a popular choice of business for someone who wants to buy land and sit on it in a place they believe will become developed so they can sell it later. There is a large initial outlay for building the structure, but the actual machines and installation can cost less than buying a car. Upkeep is surprisingly simple and costs less than you probably think. The soaps and chemicals are dirt cheap and sold in 30-55gal quantities that last a month or more depending on traffic. The only real overhead if you aren’t getting customers is your mortgage and payroll, and you’d be paying a mortgage even if you just bought the land and did nothing with it. Not to mention touchless carwashes only require staff when there is a problem and any touch carwash can be run by a single person.

Who drinks coffee out of a transparent pint glass?

You have been in IT for 20 years and don’t understand this? Has your career not made it abundantly clear that the average person is completely computer illiterate and has no idea what AI even is? How many people have you had to assist in 20 years who insist that they have tried every possible solution, only to find out that something isn’t even plugged in or turned on?

Took me a minute to decipher that too. But looking it up, the US president in the game mentioned above is a woman. So they are saying “in the game the president is a woman, in real life he (Trump) is just a bitch.”

I don’t think they misunderstood the context. The user is saying that while the broader point she is making is correct, specifically saying we didn’t have to worry about grocery prices under Biden undermines the message.

That is the goal in a functioning democracy. That description no longer applies to the US. Our country’s voter base is made up of political illiterates, our new voters get less educated every year, and our elected officials and their oligarch counterparts are running at full tilt in an attempt to normalize and formalize flagrant disregard for our constitution.

You’re right, we should send Bernie to CPAC. Bet he’ll win over lots of hearts and minds.

sharply criticized Chuck Schumer called Schumer’s decision a “betrayal”

That’ll show him.

That’s both hilarious and pretty much accurate to what color a pH strip would turn if the average person urinated on it, for anyone was wondering.

I enjoyed your comment for a few reasons, but have one question. Did you pick Dearborn Michigan at random off a mental map, or was there some specific reason for that city in particular?

I think the miscommunication here is in the function. I agree with you, that you can use Spotify to find all kinds of music, and even incredibly niche music if you dig around. What the user you replied to wants is to be able to find that incredibly niche/hyper-specific music with a single search query.

If that user wants to discover music like the band Tool, but has never heard of the band Tool, they want to be able to type “complex polyrhythmic prog metal with tribal trance undertones” and have it spit out Tool, Lucid Planet, etc. Spotify can’t do that. Tool is popular enough where it isn’t a great example. But even still the best you could do is look at their curated lists for prog metal and polyrhythm and come up with what you want after skipping through some bands. And you would find things like Dream Theater and Periphery on those playlists which couldn’t be further apart from Tool and each other, despite sharing a general genre.

That example proves the first users point. The answer to the German question is that they spend a great deal of money on having an excellent education system, and spend a lot of time educating their youth with an honest, unflinching look at the history of Nazism and fascism.

I’m not even saying don’t throw people in jail, I’m simply saying it is pure idiocy to believe that will do anything at all to help the underlying problem.

Their point is that not only does jailing them not deprogram them or prevent them from spreading their rhetoric, it is more likely to have the opposite effect.

maybe it’s time for native Americans to kick the rest of us back to the sea because we obviously don’t deserve their land

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Also, for those leaking info, please do better than the OOP of the screen shot contained in this post. Not saying this is particularly sensitive and I don’t even know if their intent was to remain anonymous. But just a reminder to think about the little things like the “You forwarded this message at 11:17” because if anyone cares, they could easily find out who forwarded that email at that time. I would guess that most government entities could pretty easily come up with justification to fire anyone based on the public dissemination of intergovernmental emails, regardless of whether the contents were specifically noted as sensitive.

I only felt compelled to comment this because this is the second post I have seen in the last day or so with an identifying feature like that. There are a lot of government employees who probably can’t stomach working under this administration, and I get it. But there is an argument to make that those of you who oppose the administrations stances can do more good from within, or at least do your best to minimize the harm that would be caused by the bootlicking henchmen you will be replaced with.

This meme sucks.

He was a brave Italian avenger and in this Lemmy instance, Luigi Mangione is a hero. End of story!

This letter isn’t actually directed to Mark, it’s an ad.

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There are endless psychedelics, but the easiest to obtain is likely Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, if you are in the US, or whatever your equivalent is in your country. They are easy to find in nature in many places and extreme led easy to grow yourself with spores ordered legally online.

In many countries, prodrugs of LSD are legal or semi-legal. A prodrug is a substance that is converted to a desired substance in the body, making them essentially indistinguishable from the end result. 1P-LSD and 1D-LSD are common ones.

There are tons of pretty easily obtainable and safe gray-market tryptamines depending on your country’s laws. 4-AcO-DMT (acetylpsilocin) is essentially crystal shrooms, as it converts to the active psilocin the same way that the psilocybin in shrooms converts to psilocin. 4-Ho-MET (metocin) is a nutty substance that is extremely visual with relatively little challenging headspace.

n,n-DMT is very potent and should be approached with respect, but it also extremely easy to make yourself. With one ingredient (mimosa hostillis root bark) purchased online you can perform a simple acid to base extraction in your kitchen, following a recipe as simple as baking something, using ingredients you purchased at a super center or hardware store.

Mescaline is a ton of fun and differs from the lysergamides and tryptamines mentioned previously. It is a phenethylamine, and the experience has a distinctly euphoric and stimulating aspect combined with the trip. Cactus species like San Pedro and Peruvian Torch can be found in the wild in western North America and Central America, or cuttings can purchased online from anywhere. Extraction can be a pain in the ass so a lot of people eat it with minimal processing, but you will have to eat several feet of cactus material and you will puke as you come up. While it is worth it, mescaline analogues like methylallyescaline, proscaline, or even allyescaline to a lesser degree are the easiest way to consume this and much more enjoyable, but you’d have to check the legality where you are.

There are also other mescaline “analogues” that stretch the definition further and are extremely interesting. 2C-B is the primary one that is still popular. It’s comes with great visuals and the kind of euphoria that you thought ecstasy would be like when you were a kid. There are other 2C-x substances, but most are hard to obtain in today’s age and very unforgiving for a beginner with powerful and overwhelming short trips.

Stretching the mescaline analogues even further we come to the NBOH substances. This is the next generation of the infamous NBOMes of the 2000s. Unlike the NBOMes, NBOH drugs have a great physical safety profile and are much more forgiving. 25B-NBOH is a great starting place but 25I-NBOH and 25E-NBOH are notables. Despite being a mesacaline analogue, the effects are a bit more similar to LSD, although it is way more visual and has much less headspace.

Speaking of things with more visuals and less headspace than LSD, there are also lysergamide analogues. AL-LAD is the holy grail, but I’m not sure if it’s around too much and is probably illegal everywhere. You can get to blinding visuals while still being able to generally function. ETH-LAD is another that is closer to traditional LSD-25 or ALD-52.

There are endless other that I could talk all day about, but these are some that are generally safe and/or friendly and/or easily obtained.