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I stumbled across a video of three boys singing the Total Drama Island theme song not long ago and I realized I had forgotten about that show

For those who weren’t watching cartoon network in 2008, Total Drama Island was an attempt to bring trashy, drama-ridden “reality TV” to child audiences when it seemed to be hitting its peak among adult audiences. But of course, it was an animated, scripted series, and it worked very very well.

The show was essentially a satire of Survivor. 20 teens dropped on an Island that housed an old-run-down summer camp with just a big angry man who was the chef and a handsome Ryan Seacrest-like show host who would torment them with dangerous challenges. There was romance, rivalries, alliances, betrayals, and [Spoilers]

the season finale saw the “funny fat guy” character winning the entire thing. The guy who farts underwater in the intro and kills a fish. It was very unexpected, especially since the 2nd place finisher, the goth girl, had sorta been established as the main character.

I LOVED Total Drama Island. I remember my siblings and I would watch the new episode together every week. It also had an animation style that didn’t feel very typical for Cartoon Network. In that it looked really good and cartoon network shows usually had pretty whacky or simplistic art styles.

And I just learned it was a Canadian show, set in Ontario, and written/produced by a Canadian studio. It aired exclusively on a Canadian cartoon channel before Cartoon Network picked it up.

And also learned that this IP clearly must have been popular as Cartoon Network created a “Total Drama Babies” series that ran for several seasons. What??

It is the Season 1 cast, but they are all toddlers at a daycare.

What other shows have gotten the muppet babies treatment after the 2000s??

I started smoking daily my Junior year of college. Well, nightly.

I never felt like I really smoked THAT much. Just one session at the end of the day. A dry herb vaporizor that I never filled up even half way to its capacity.

By age 26 I started feeling anxious when I smoked. Quit for a month, tried to smoke again, and it felt better.

Then about 8 months of smoking nightly later, I started getting this tight feeling on the left side of my chest when I smoked. And not just when I smoked. Any amount of nicotine or caffeine gave me that uncomfortable tightness. I quit weed for 3 weeks, and the tightness did NOT get better at all.

Went to a doctor, got EKG exams, went to a cardiologist and got bloodwork done, wore a heart monitor for a week, tried beta blockers, 3 different kinds of acid reflux meds. Nothing helped and the doctors said nothing seemed wrong with me.

So I started smoking again. And about a year later, it started to bother me less. Even when I was smoking. I thought whatever it was, maybe it was going away for good.

Well, in April of this year the chest tightness came back. Really bad. Kept smoking up to June 10 and then decided it was so unpleasant that it wasn’t worth doing anymore.

Haven’t had weed in 3 weeks. No withdrawal symptoms. Not even any insomnia in the first few days. Goes to show you how LITTLE I was smoking.

I don’t feel any better. My chest still feels tight periodically througout the day and every time I have coffee or tea or nicotine.

Everyone with CHS seems to have nausea. I never felt nauseous with weed ever.

If this is CHS, how long do you have to quit THC before the symptom improved??

I live in a building that requires bed bug dog inspections every few months. Aparently the dog signaled by my bed this time.

But no evidence of bedbugs was found. I dunno how thoroughly they look. But I stripped my bed and looked over every centimeter and fold of my mattress and saw nothing.

I have no itchy bites or anything.

Apparently if they don’t see any actual bedbugs they can’g force you to get it treated but they strongly recommend it.

I’m sure the dog just falsely signaled 🙄 I’m really not sweating it. But curious what you all think.

This is so unfair… I know I’m being childish… But I need to vent.

Started smoking weed nightly my junior year of college. I am 29 now.

Marijuana never fucked me over… it did nothing but improve my life.

I only ever smoked a small amount of weed at night around 8pm but I did it every night and never skipped a day. I was disciplined! I didn’t overdo it! I smoked a half ounce every 2 months!!

In high school I was a B- student. In college I graduated on the Dean’s list. And everything aligned perfectly in my life. I got a cool career. I bought a condo when I was 26. All while smoking weed nightly.

I never thought I was “addicted” to weed. I’d take a break for 10/20 days to prove it to myself sometimes.

It was something that fit WELL into my life!

And then in October 2024, I went to smoke one night like I always do, and for some reason, my heart felt tight. I felt this uncomfortable pressure in my chest.

Didn’t think much of it. But the next day, I felt it when I smoked again.

then I started feeling it with nicotine and caffeine. Then I started feeling it just after eating! Then I’d feel it if I even had a little bit of sugar!!

It drove me insane! I went to several different doctors. Got bloodwork done at a cardiologist, several EKG exams, wore a heart monitor for a week, doctors found nothing wrong with me! I went to a GE, got an endoscopy, nothing wrong with my esophagus, tried 3 different heartburn meds. It wasn’t heartburn. Went on beta blockers, nothing. Even Went to a woowoo earth mommy holistic medicine woman who was no help.

No one could identify anything wrong with me. And IT IS NOT ANXIETY… I KNOW anxiety! I have struggled with anxiety in the past and fixed it very quickly with SSRIs! This is something WRONG in my chest!

I’ve learned that if I smoke in a hot bath, the pressure doesn’t feel as bad. So that’s how I smoke.

The symptom get better and worse but never goes away.

I haven’t been able to enjoy marijuana in almost 2 years but I still smoke it EVERY night!

I quit for 3 weeks in early 2025 to see if that was causing the problem, and then folded and smoked again.

3 weeks isn’t enough. If weed is CAUSING the issue I need to quit for at least 2 months to see…

It’s just not fucking fair. I don’t want to quit. I was good! I didn’t overdo it! It’s like I got some kind of fucking monkey paw genie curse that has made all things that feel good (nicotine, THC, Caffeine) feel bad!

I only use nicotine on weekends, and only have a little ceffeine each day. I’m not oversoing anything to the point where my HEART would feel strained!

Edit: Day 2 of no weed today. Time to figure out for good if weed is causing the problem. Going to do at least 3 months… And the days of having THC every day are through.

No, I am not some investing savant. I have a friend I played high school hockey with who studied finance at an Ivy league school and he could very well be an investing savant.

Because he told me to buy this satellite stock when it was at $7 a share in 2023. I had cratered my little $5k portfolio to $1.6k monkeying around buying individual stocks.

(Disclaimer: I have a separate 401k I contribute to and don’t touch. I just wanted to just take this 5k and gamble and try to learn about trading through trial and error. I was okay with losing it and I know buying individual stocks when you’re inexperienced is a losing bet)

I sold all my shares at a loss and put all the money I had left in my account on this satellite stock. Now my shares are worth more than $21k.

My friend tells me don’t sell, that the stars are alligning on this stock, everything is going right and it has nowhere to go but up.

But 20 grand is a lot of money to me.

I know asking “should I sell?” depends on MANY factors and is totally subjective.

But assuming I did, what should I do with this money?

I own my apartment and have a mortgage loan. I could just make a lump payment of $20k and lower my monthly payment from $1080 to $860. That’s what I was leaning towards.

Should I dump it into my 401k where it will be invested more sensibly?

Are there other options I’m not considering that would be a lot smarter than those?

(I know I need to pay taxes on this)

How do they get away with this? It makes your brand look like you cheap out on shit and don’t care about quality. And you take consumers to be fucking idiots who will love your AI slop.

There’s a Jeep commercial featuring wild animals “reviewing” a new jeep model. A moose is inside it in one shot and its neck is clipping through the car. They interview an eagle whose feathers are all blurred because it’s AI generated. And then they show squirrels dancing on the seats. And the squirrels are three times the size of real life squirrels.

It looks like they made this ad in one hour.

Indistinguishable from something you’d see on some bot facebook account farming engagement with ai videos.