Did you eat it, or give it a pet funeral? Genuine question, as I'd have done the former with a pet that is also a 'meat' animal. Whatever happened, I'm sorry for your loss and I wish health and contentment to you and the remaining five <3 I'm also intrigued by your use of the term 'best' and what it was you used to judge that by, but I'm guessing you meant it in thw swnsw of 'favourite'?
Ah, classic
I think most everyone who is into edibles was in that situation at least once. My girlfriend is currently into it because she wants to stop smoking and i am just counting the days until i hear her go "[My name]! Call an ambulance! The spirits are coming out of the walls!". Talked to a friend who is a heavy, regular weed smoker, last weekend about this and he was laughing while saying "Man, fuck edibles. They hit differently. I never had an edible where i thought there's not enough weed in it, they send you to the moon if you're not careful".
Hookup culture sounds horrific to me in general. Doesn't mean much coming from me I guess because I personally don't like the idea of hookups.
Holy shit she's going back again? I need to catch up with the thread.
Bosses howling at their employees seems really shitty imo. Maybe that's just a work culture thing from another nation because doing that here will get the unions on your ass..
It's ridiculous how many people i heard saying this (finding their current wife/husband on a dating app) 2-3 years after Tinder got popular in my country, your brother isn't the only one by far. I am forever thankful that i met my current girlfriend long before that shit got popular and never had to resort to dating apps. I'm a 5 on a good day, just completely average, so i can only imagine the crushing disappointment these apps give males, that shit starts to gnaw on your ego. Even my kid brother, who is literally male model-tier, complained to me about how hard it is to get an actual date/hook-up via these platforms when he was still actively using them.
I got big time into Speed around four years ago and i can't really enjoy vidya anymore when i am not high. Approaching one month off of that shit again and i haven't played vidya since. Speed and weed are a different pair of shoes but i get where you're coming from. Inscryption i fiended through in a three-day binge, i am hopelessly addicted to deckbuilders.
It might help to find an investment advisor that you can trust. Maybe there's a big project that you could work on, like building your dream home? I'd say get a boat, but those things are such money pits that they really aren't worth it. If you're in a good enough spot with your job then you could probably take time off to go on cruises. There you could probably find people in a similar mindset to connect with.
Can't speak for anybody else but its easy to try to fill a lack of good companionship with casual sex. Relationships require a lot of effort, compromise, give and take for rewards that can take years to pan out. Meeting somebody explicitly for sex can seem like a good way to feel less lonely for minimal effort compared to dating. What I really wanted was a good friend or romantic partner, or even to be happy by myself, so it didn't actually make me a happier person on average.
haha I know that feeling with a nice edible dose I can easily sink 8 hours into inscryption or slay the spire. Idk what it is but I guess getting older games aren't as fun anymore so having a little THC kinda brings back that youthful zeal for games, makes the music and gameplay all much more immersive somehow. I managed to unlock I think about 8 of the challenge skulls so far using that.
We've been told about a financial advisor and have been planning on sitting down with one, but I think my concern is like you said, finding one I can trust. Also there is a big project we're looking at getting done, our house has an addition that were planning to turn into a studio apartment and I've just been putting it off as a spring/summer project but I really should get started on it soon. Lastly, my job is in a weird place, suffice to say the industry I work in is a bit turbulent at the moment and I'm just trying to ride it out until things calm down so it might be a bit before I can take a real vacation. That being said we have looked into cruises as something to do, mainly because it seems like a solid entry point into vacationing.
Is there some sort of local golf club or country club? It might be worth it to try networkong with more people in your tax bracket who could give useful advice
What are your long term goals in life? I know some people in your situation are into FIRE, so they save their money for that. If you are too risk adverse to live the Wall Street Bets life, just put it in a solid low expense ratio index fund like you can find at Vanguard or Fidelity. Bogleheads is a great forum full of high earners like you so they might be able to help you out too.
I've tried edibles but I don't like them because I have no idea when they will take effect and for how long and what the effect will be. Even out of the same bag they all had wildly different effects. I don't smoke. Tried vaping but it wasn't my thing either.
Cruises are fun. Royal Caribbean is starter good line. I'd avoid Carnival.
I had a instance where I thought I was going to die. I have a allergy to a lot of things (like nuts is a pretty big one) so one night I had a edible before bed, a little while later I was finding it hard to breathe. I didn’t know if I was having an allergic reaction or a asthma attack but after awhile I just kinda stopped freaking out and said “welp I guess I’m dying” and curled up with my pillow.
There is a weird dream thread if you want to transcribe it.
I'll be honest, we're pretty anti-social so when we go out it's generally not to stuff like that. We've mainly taken smaller trips to different states to visit things in them and go camping. We moved far away from family to our current location to start our life and we've been having a hard time finding community due to that, and being pretty anti-social. We know people here, but it's a lot harder to maintain social interactions when you work fully remote and don't have the consistency of living around/seeing family or people you grew up with and the sort of forced interactions by proxy.
Fuck man, honestly, I don't really know. 10 years ago if you would have asked I would have said "to be rich" but life has taught me that it takes a certain level of dedication and drive that I just currently don't have. If I were to give my best answer though, it would probably be to have as little stress as possible and be able to enjoy just existing, along with that when when we have kids I want to be able to set them up to be as well off as possible. Well educated, have talents and hobbies, and be responsible enough to handle themselves in a world that feels like it's going to be going to shit more so than it already is.
That's partly why I mentioned golfing, as something focused around an activity that can be played independently. You can just focus on the game and play alone, and just dip into social interactions occasionally. As you get more familiar with the regulars you'd probably find people you'd be happy to golf with more often, or just do ideal chat when it comes up. Could be similar going to stuff like an art auction.
I’d be careful with something like golf because that takes a lot of patience and understanding how to set up your body also a lot of fields can get muddy and the course could close.
The older you get, the more comfortable you get with the idea. Or at least that has been true for me. Maybe I won't even reach retirement age. I could die 10 minutes from now for all I know. It is why I don't take things too seriously. Living isn't a given.
