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sdifox

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Prices look a smidge high to me lol! :p (pun intended!)

Seriously if I WANTED an 8th of decent blow RIGHT NOW I could (allegedly!) get it within the hour for around $100 right down the street ... less $ with a little planning ahead. (delivered too if I wanted lol) "Crack/smokeable" cocaine I could get even faster and cheaper.

1 USD ~= 1.31 CAD
 

Captante

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1 USD ~= 1.31 CAD

However an 8th = 3.5 grams not 2.5 @ half (or less) the overall price.

To be fair although from what I'm told it's good stuff I would never do "street" anything these days. (except maybe weed)
Too much chance of it being cut with/made of fentanyl. (or worse)
 

sdifox

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However an 8th = 3.5 grams not 2.5 @ half (or less) the overall price.

To be fair although from what I'm told it's good stuff I would never do "street" anything these days. (except maybe weed)
Too much chance of it being cut with/made of fentanyl. (or worse)
These would be straight from pharmaceutical companies. 100% pure.


Plus everything is more expensive here
 
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Captante

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These would be straight from pharmaceutical companies. 100% pure.


Plus everything is more expensive here

No way "100% pure" on the coke ... it's "cut" to a specific "dose" it's just done with something you know is safe under sanitary conditions instead of "who the frack knows?" (meaning the "truck" stuff contains nothing nasty or drugs other than its supposed to contain)

;)
 

KMFJD

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BC has food trucks... for drugs.



Now crackheads can relive the childhood memories of running after the ice cream truck!
 

amenx

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There's a company called Hitler Enterprises that makes capacitors, apparently.

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I don't imagine they are very popular given the name and logo lol. Can't find them on Digikey or Mouser, and I'm probably on a list now.
Had to check. :D

hitler capa.png

you can buy them here.
 

sdifox

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Great, now Brazor is going to come here and call you The Left for mentioning a company in India makes product under Hitler brand.
 

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that reminds me of this old clip I remember seeing on tv or the internet back in the day of this asian cabbie in some country out east who looks into the mirror of his passenger who states they are german and he says and this isn't exact but hitler very good man yes with a smile. My understanding then was older generations as the cabbie was near retiring age, didn't have the luxury of a good education and a lot of hitlers misdeeds or anyone's from that time wasn't well known.

holocaust education wasn't even a considerment in the us until the late 70s or early 80s. I myself wasn't completely aware of how bad it was until I'd seen schindlers list a couple years after it'd come out and then looked into it. I'd heard of the holocaust and knew it was a terrible event, but the extent of which and facts were slim.
 
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Hitler was fighting the British. The enemy of my enemy is my genocidal, psycopathic friend.
The horrible thing is, the typical German in Hitler's time had higher intellect than what most Asians do now. Imagine how much damage an Asian Hitler could do, with almost a billion sheep to do his bidding.
 

Captante

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My dad had doctorates in history and teaching. (RIP) He had shelves upon shelves of history books I spent my childhood reading which is where I effectively learned history. The only things I remember from my time in the public education system on-topic are 5 straight years spent studying native Americans. (important to teach just like slavery/racism BUT a long way from the ONLY important topic to cover!)

School "history" (lol... more like "fantasy") classes glossed COMPLETELY over WWII and the holocaust (even in HS!) along with Vietnam, slavery and pretty much ALL "controversial" (to some white folks!) subject-matter.

Small wonder so many Americans are ignorant. :rolleyes:
 
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School "history" (lol... more like "fantasy") classes glossed COMPLETELY over WWII and the holocaust (even in HS!) along with Vietnam, slavery and pretty much ALL "controversial" (to white folks!) subject-matter.
We didn't even GET to WWII in my HS American History class. It was a college prep class - I was a bit miffed. Didn't get around to taking it again in college :-(
 
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The horrible thing is, the typical German in Hitler's time had higher intellect than what most Asians do now. Imagine how much damage an Asian Hitler could do, with almost a billion sheep to do his bidding.

You mean like Pooh Bear? Or Modi?
 
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Captante

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I don't have a whole lot of unbiased knowledge of the Chinese national education system (to the point that I'm assuming they have one!) but my guess is that the average Chinese student's TECHNICAL (math, science etc) education is VASTLY better then here in the US TODAY and blows the living daylights out of anything pre-WWII Germany could manage.

History "lessons" OTOH most likely read like a heavily "China-biased" epic fantasy novel. :rolleyes:

Considering that Asians as a rule have the HIGHEST IQ's overall (NOT caucasians!) I find the continued arrogance from my fellow white folks both amusing and disturbing.
 
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Considering that Asians as a rule have the HIGHEST IQ's overall
Not generally but they have the advantage in numbers. A university of thousands each year churns out several hundred bright minds who go on to contribute to humanity's technological evolution.
 

Captante

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Not generally but they have the advantage in numbers. A university of thousands each year churns out several hundred bright minds who go on to contribute to humanity's technological evolution.

You REALLY need some new (and more accurate) sources of information.

I understand setting aside ingrained bias can be difficult but posts like the above do nothing to make us white folks appear any smarter. (quite the opposite in fact)
 
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I was just saying that you equip enough monkeys with typewriters, sooner or later, a shakespeare will be born. Doesn't matter what color the monkeys are.

Survival in third world countries is hard enough that they focus a lot more on getting educated, even if they don't want to do that. Turns out, sometimes being forced to do something makes you realize that you actually have a talent for it.
 

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- The article briefly touches on my personal experience: My dad grew up around a lot of Hindu nationalists as a kid and they generally supported Hitler and Nazi Germany because it meant the collapse of the British Empire and the liberation of India from British rule.

My great uncle who passed away recently was one of the most sardonic men Ive ever met, when he was young he was a new college graduate in a free India and he was sure India would take it's place among the global elite as an advanced first world power. I was sitting with him watching news in his Mumbai flat decades ago and lovingly remember his dark, coldhearted barbs at news that 800 had died in a train accident because they were skewered on the unfinished rebar of a train tunnel while hanging off the exterior of a train. "I can't imagine a better metaphor for the state of India today" he said.
 
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