snowden.st
A scholar with a slight flaw in my character. COan. Cannabis regulatory analyst, a poorly-fit Lutheran, Go Blue + Ski-U-Mah! Nuggets + ABA team loyalist. Can't stop thinking about sports, religion, history, weed, and beans. He/him
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i love this story, I always imagined he had an Aura about him that is pleasing
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yeah, he’s the definition of a flawed vessel, but he’s got generational instincts and speaking skills. if not running the party, he could be the new congressperson mentor, or a trainer for progressive electeds, he’s got wisdom to share
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Keith Ellison should run the Democratic party, imho
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I’m only insufferable on a strictly theological plane with this person, I welcome their political inclusion.
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lmao
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I was thiiiiiis close to wearing my Rasheed Wallace jersey, our No Kings king
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I kinda dance around it here, but I think a technological lens suggests that, in the 21st century, we have vastly different comms networks, state capacity for surveillance and violence, and horizons of possibility than even like our grandparents had.
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lol, I truly don’t know what was offensive about this
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that’s the good shit. i took my partner from NM to Milwaukee last year for my birthday, got her into the Lake Catholic lifestyle, pony beers and fish fry were her jam.
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thank you!!
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I grew up going to the TX state fair, and the first time I saw how Glaswegians got down for food, I thought “y’all…no, this is special food, you can’t have fair food for breakfast in November”
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Texas medical institutions are good! Texans’ Medical Advice, less so
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I love Scotland too, but the day I take health advice from a Scottish fellow is the day I quit the game
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Now, you should take football basketball, baseball, or soccer scouting tips from someone living in Texas, I’ll give them that.
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dammit! who gave Ashwin the Foresight Goggles?! we talked about this!
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the young men will always have the prestige FX drama “Rescue Me”, starring Denis Leary
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Love you, brother!
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The context of the age matters— I bet Pritzker gets dinged more in 2018 for these failures than in 2025, as an example. There’s just a pall over everything until fed taxes and treatment change, I don’t think many folks think governors are holding back state markets right now.
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Ah, okay, fair. I don’t know of any working-class folks getting into the Cali markets these days, but I agree IL is more restrictive than CA in theory. I don’t think there’s a case that Pritzker is at fault though. I’m talking about perception as much as reality, it’s politics.
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by what standard? i’m down to learn, but I don’t know what standard is used here: potential market size (which seems speculative), amount of licenses per month released, per-capita spending, jobs given?
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for better or worse, I don’t think enough people have the expectations of IL cannabis that they do for CA, which drives a lot of attitudes about state markets, I’m finding.
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less negative headlines, less pissed of money, less reason for anyone outside the industry to be aware of problems. I monitor CA and IL state markets for work, and the negative sentiment in IL is roughly half as loud as CA, and has been for awhile, even with the negative IL press.
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I agree that IL is not good, but by the dumb standard: it’s better than NY and CA weed, so I don’t think it’s gonna land in the national consciousness.
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A couple theories:
- you take a lot of pics that are dancing between candid and posed in a way that looks like “fun or pensive in-between shot”.
- you take a lot of pics that are kinda Fairport Convention cover-coded, the stuff that served as reference for later indie acts styles
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i honestly think about his diet like once a month, for years, lol