my neighbor has a ketamine telemedicine startup. I might try channeling my anxiety there instead.
ha, I did actually order some gummies, under the general "better to have them and not need them than need them and not have them" principle.
Is THC actually helpful if your issue is grounded anxiety? I guess it depends on the person.
I really haven't used enough in the past 15 years to say.
I know I exist in a bubble of delusion, but I'm sure Kamala's going to win, and it's not going to be close. Otoh, I have a tennis match scheduled for Tuesday evening and I'm really questioning the wisdom of that decision. I'm going to be a wreck.
I canceled my WaPo and LA Times subscriptions. I'll probably resubscribe to LAT before too long - even though it's kind of a garbage paper, it's *my* garbage paper. I might replace WaPo with NYX, but I last renewed WaPo in July, so I have most of a year to say goodbye to my beautiful, cherished Keyword score.
I have been really loving legal cannabis tincture for occasional insomnia. It's not perfect, I wake up dry mouthed and a little groggy, but it breaks the cycle where I can't sleep for a couple of nights and then I keep myself awake fretting over not being able to sleep: 5-10 mg and I am guaranteed out like a light.
Can you share brands and specifics re: THC/CBD/CBN mg? I've tried a couple different formulations and the THC ones have made me hyperaware and awake, and the CBD ones have done basically nothing.
I read this recommendation and followed her advice to buy these.
Which should not be the top rec because I haven't actually tried one yet.
"Hello fellow youths. I would like one weed please."
I'm sure that's a reference I don't get, but I laughed as though it was fresh.
You should be picturing Steve Buscemi.
Anxiety with caffeine while playing video games is a great way to induce insomnia.
8: I'll go home and look at the bottle. I am not an educated consumer, so I bought something branded as "Sleepytime" or something like that, and I've been pretty satisfied.
I've done my part (postcards and donating money, mainly; I always could do more, but it feels like that's a reasonable sacrifice given where and how I live). This week I'm too busy. Over the weekend I hope to clean and relax about everything in life other than the election, after several weeks of being busy with one thing after another. Laundry, shopping, maybe some winterization-related chores, maybe a family bike trip just for fun while the weather is still good because we might as well enjoy the one advantage of the climatic apocalypse...
In the short term I'm mainly worried about how Cassandane will handle the stress between Saturday and the election results. She might be out of town volunteering as a poll watcher. The last time I checked it was still up in the air. If she's not, she's going to be driving herself and maybe me nuts. What are the chances that an edible or other pot-based drug would actually help?
The last big story of the cycle -- the comedians in Madison Square Garden -- seems to be reinforcing what a racist jerk Trump is, and that has me feeling pretty good.
The wildest part of that story is that the Trump campaign looked at all the jokes ahead of time... and vetoed exactly one joke while saying the rest are fine.
It is kind of boggling to me that while everyone is (deservedly) enraged at the Puerto Rico joke, the horrendously Islamophobic and antisemitic I/P joke hasn't gotten nearly as much attention.
I don't know from gummies because they aren't cost effective for me but I can make recommendations for direct mail weed with low anxiety profiles.
22: Also what other speakers said.
But I think the PR one was assessed as having potential importance for PR voters so it got more press attention. Which is a huge indictment of how the press covers politics and campaigns. Also see Biden's little misspeak last night. Holy hacks in a barrel.
24: Well, yeah, of course. But there are lots of Jewish voters in Pennsylvania and Florida! It doesn't need to be either/or. There is rage enough for everyone.
(I actually just this week got my first-ever piece of voter mail with Yiddish on it: "Don't kvetch, vote!")
22: On Sausagely's podcast, he theorized the thing about Puerto Rico is there are a lot of loosely-attached Trump-gettable voters who are pissed off, and that makes it a story. Republican's being Islamophobic, antisemitic and anti-Black is a dog-bites-man story, but also you need a Muslim, Jewish or Black person who might plausibly vote for Trump to criticize him for the jokes, and those people aren't speaking up. What makes it such a delicious own-goal is that their apparent theory of this election was that they could pick up low-propensity voters like young hispanic men and there was no reason whatsoever to kick this hornets' nest.
25: Yeah I think 25 is right, and the press basically anticipates that and assumes it is man bites dog. One of my main beefs with them. Reading the press coverage of htis campaign you would have no idea what actually transpired unless you understood all of that context in mind. (Which I maintain fewer voters have than reporters and editors think.)
I'm heading to Scranton to do GOTV with Mass Dems. I may stay through the election. If I come back before election day, I''m goong to try to go to Mass Dems election results party/ victory party for Elizabeth Warren.
I've done some stuff in NH as part of the coordinated campaign. Planned Parenthood got defunded there, because the Republicans on the Governor's Council blocked the contracts. They have veto power on any K over 10k - even if the legislature appropriated the money.
Isn't it mostly that a bunch of apolitical Puerto Rican celebrities were upset about it? Thats how something becomes a bigger story that leaves the horse race bubble.
Which is just another way of agreeing with 26.
I'll do GOTV on Saturday and Sunday. And Tuesday.
I have not done anything national besides donate money. I did some campus voter registration stuff, and local candidate stuff.
How worried should I be?
https://x.com/elienyc/status/1851661262289338469?s=46&t=nbIfRG4OrIZbaPkDOwkgxQ
I have done some phone banking and text banking. Very hard to stay motivated but at least I haven't yet run into any surly Trump voters.
33: It is very hard to imagine what would happen in that scenario. But it's also very hard to imagine Biden or Harris saying, "You won that game of Calvinball fairly enough, here's the keys to the government and command of the military." It would basically be a coup.
I heard multiple anti-Harris ads yesterday on the national tv network news broadcast my parents watch and no pro-Harris ad. One of the anti-Harris ads was just wild lies that people might not realize are lies, like Harris being the one who will damage Medicare and Social Security while Trump will be their savior, but the other was actually pretty effective if you're just vaguely unhappy about the last four years, mostly just that clip of Harris saying she wouldn't have changed much from what Biden did, followed by "Do you really want to vote for more of this?" They did make it clear they were talking about inflation, etc.
There must be Harris ads that call back to various chaotic times in the Trump admin, plus January 6th that ask "do you really want all this again?" Right? Maybe? i know they've got the "we're not going back" slogan, but I'm not sure everyone who could be persuaded by that remembers the "back" all that well.
33, 35: Yeah, for that sort of plan my worry isn't so much about the plan itself, it's more that they'd kind of need to have won already before they could carry the plan out.
33: that would be ludicrous. It would actually look more legitimate to march on the WH with a mob.
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I don't know from gummies because they aren't cost effective for me but I can make recommendations for direct mail weed with low anxiety profiles.
Any particular strains or delivery methods to recommend? It's decriminalized where I live. I can go into a shop and someone will give me weed as long as we go through a rigamarole about buying a $20 cookie or keychain instead. $20, $80, I have no idea, I've only been in those shops once, but I'd rather deal with that than with the hassle of figuring out shipping at this point.
Upetgi, your "endlessly" is endless again.
Thanks! Fixed.
At first I thought "endlessly" being endless meant the (9) was missing.
(I'm kind of desperate for distractions this week.)
I'm waiting for a legal business called Keta Me Mine to open.
Ketamine queen, now we're sharing the same dream.
I lol'd.
Putting the final touches on Rascal's Koreidon costume, involving sewing a fake tire on a hoodie.
Jms: the stuff I've been putting myself to sleep with is 1/2/2 THC/CBD/CBN, brand name Head and Heal Sleep Tincture. So, .5 ml of the tincture is 5 mg THC, and 10 each of CBD and CBN.
"Cannabinoid" is a great word though.
39. Takoma wellness center or Happy Bud. Ask the folks there what's good and soothing from Garcia hand picked.
THC degrades over time into CBN, which still binds to the CB1 receptor, but much less tightly so you don't get the high but you do get sleepy and a general anti-inflammatory effect.
Any particular strains or delivery methods to recommend?
Why yes! Every vendor uses USPS because they 100% will deliver it, under the 2018 Farm Bill and the 2023 Hemp Act. If you're looking for something to keep anxiety low, go for type 2 strains* as the CBD greatly takes the edge off of the THC. Best vendor for T2's are Flow Gardens in Tennessee (especially Bordeaux and Flows Cookies) and Holy City Farms in South Carolina (especially Dr. Theopolis). For T1's, there's a world of options.
*Type 1 is high THC, little to no CBD; type 2 has both THC and CBD; type 3 is high CBD, little to no THC; type 4 is high CBG, little to no THC or CBD.
Bah. Despite being in a legal-cannabis state, the person I know who could use it for insomnia the most works is in an industry that gets Federal money in a way that makes them formally a Drug-Free Workplace and subject (technically) to random testing. They're a mostly-work-from-home desk jockey, though, not someone who operates equipment heavier than a laptop.
I've never been drug tested in my life. So far as I know.
52, 55: thanks!
57: Yeah, that's a sticking point. I've worked in formally drug-free workplaces for, wow, 16 years, but I've been fully WFH since the pandemic, even before that had never been tested in all that time, and I can't imagine anyone caring even if they did find out. Cassandane has also never been tested, but on the other hand she works in a place where they really, really would care, and she's in the office four days a week.
There's probably no point in suggesting it before the election, but it might be good to have something in my back pocket if Harris loses outright or it looks particularly bad.
We had an odd experience when my wife's mom and stepdad visited us last month. They had a pleasant conversation about strains and various cannaboids, then she took her mom to her favorite pot shop. She reported that it feels very odd to take your mom to a pot shop.
Taking my mom to a pot shop was a hoot the first time. She approaches everything in life with this combination of anxiety and wide-eyed wonder; the point of the pot, of course, being to boost the second at the expense of the first. I wish it worked for me as well as it does for her.
She massively overbought and didn't want to take the goods home on the plane, so they just sat around our bathroom for years until, inevitably, they were stolen by teenagers.
Last time I spent appreciable time with my aunt, who later in life has married a smarmy surgeon who's at best anti-anti-Trump, she got my brother to sneak her a legally purchased baggie out of husband's sight.
That was pre-pandemic, no idea if that subterfuge is still needed. We don't talk much.
My insurance inexplicably stopped covering one form of estradiol and switching to a different formulation caused the pharmacy, also inexplicably, to start sending more than I needed; so at this point I'm relieved to have a few months of extra supply stashed away. This agenda obviously has minors first in line, but the supply chain seems fragile at the best of times and it's not hard to imagine knock-on effects fucking it up for everybody. I figure if I don't end up needing the extras, someone I know probably will.
The October surprise was late in coming, only just sneaking in on night of the 31st of the month, but it turns out to be Trump fantasising about having Liz Cheney face a firing squad, straight to camera, literal, no irony, as explicit as could be.
The precision with which this targets (and motivates?) an intersection of voters, truly outstanding.
Know your enemy is on point.
https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/the-infernal-triangle-w-rick-perlstein
I am feeling quite anxious as the election goes on. In both 2016 and 2020 I felt confident that a Democratic win was likely. I don't know how I'd feel if there was a clear Republican lead this year, but the uncertainty means that I have a significant amount of free-floating anxiety weighing on the back of my mind.
I went to see Bill Clinton speak at a rally in Nashua this evening. He had a Grampa Simpson quality. We bailed early.
And - the fucking Democrats - they hold this rally in Nashua, where there is a very close race for Executive Councilor that will have huge ramifications on statewide policy, and our awesome candidate was in attendance and they didn't give her a speaking slot. They give speaking time to a former Governor's daughter, but not to a Black woman who could flip an important office.