• toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    3 days ago

    I go to the doctor a lot. I’m not young but most of the patients my doctor sees are probably around twice my age … And they love to gossip. As I live in a small town, they all seem to know each other, too. The most recent time I went there, a small gaggle of seniors were gathered in the room bragging to each other about their stereotypical old person injuries.

    One of the first times I was at the office of the particular doctor in question, there were three older ladies chatting in the waiting area. They were specifically discussing their plans once their (presumably similarly aged) husbands died.

    I don’t remember what the other two said, but one of the women declared that she had a cache of drugs stashed and planned to take all of them.

  • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    4 days ago

    Are drug dealers actually colouring meth blue to cash in on the popularity of Breaking Bad? As far as I know the show just made it up and real meth is never blue.

    • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      392·
      4 days ago

      rich white kids expect street drugs to look how they saw it on TV. it’s easier to add food coloring and close a sale than to explain you’re not shorting them, they just don’t know shit about fuck.

    • ElectricVocalist@jlai.luEnglish
      18·
      4 days ago

      The show has an explanation for the color tbh, it’s because they can’t get their hands on the perfect ingredients and what they manage to get has dye on it. Becomes branding later on

      • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
        121·
        3 days ago

        I know, what I’m saying is that explanation is fictional. It wouldn’t be blue anyway in real life. The ingredient they used wasn’t claimed to be dyed, the show just invented fictional chemistry that makes it blue.

        • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          102·
          3 days ago

          You are claiming breaking bad made up that old school biker meth bit?

          Because their other stuff is all real. The mylar baloons, the battery with an aluminum wiper across the terminals.

          Maybe you just are not familiar with the chemistry in that old school formulation where the ingredient became controlled so it was no longer used?

          I would remind you as to the enshitiffication of the internet, and bad results being put forward on search engines. Google is not the arbiter of knowledge.

            • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              3 days ago

              They never gave the full process, and other dangerous things were real, as is typical, even in like Burn Notice, they just didn’t give a full picture, but they didn’t lie.

              Like the Mylar Balloons Mike releases that drift into the power lines and short out the wires, that’s real. That is when the cartel sends dudes to kill gus and mike kills them in one of the later seasons.

              • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                https://www.tvline.com/2113742/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-meth-inaccuracy/l

                Is from the creator’s mouth a good enough source

                In a 2011 interview with NPR, the AMC show’s scientific advisor, organic chemist Donna Nelson, confirmed that creator Vince Gilligan took great pains to remix the process in order to avoid accidentally describing to millions of people how the drug is really made.

                “That was actually one of the concerns of a lot of people, but Vince Gilligan has been very clever,” Nelson said. “You know, there are multiple ways to make meth. And so although his scenes are very accurate, he will sort of [combine] together parts of different syntheses, so that if you just simply followed the one synthesis as it’s presented, you wouldn’t come out with methamphetamine.”

          • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
            9·
            3 days ago

            You are claiming breaking bad made up that old school biker meth bit?

            The blue color part of it, yes.

            Because their other stuff is all real.

            Yeah, not sure how that connects to the blue color, what do you mean?

            Maybe you just are not familiar with the chemistry in that old school formulation where the ingredient became controlled so it was no longer used?

            I sure aren’t, I’m just repeating what the showrunners said, the show creators said they made it up as a plot device.

            • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              Huh I will have to look it up I don’t disbelieve you I suppose I don’t know much about cooking meth admittedly.

    • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      4 days ago

      It was the same idea of Aldous Huxley, writer of ‘brave new world’ and ‘doors of perception’.

      Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for “LSD, 100 μg, intramuscular.” According to her account of his death[107] in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 am and a second dose an hour later; Huxley died aged 69, at 5:20 pm PST on 22 November 1963.[108]

      Basically no one remembers his passing, though, look at the date. JFK was assassinated on the same day Huxley left the mortal plane on a trip, so the news was completely snowed under.

      • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        Never knew they died on the same day. That’s interesting enough as a standalone fact, but also given the JFK and Timothy Leary connection.

        We always hear about Marilyn and JFK, but it seems like Mary Pinchot tends to get swept under the rug.

        She was an artist and the ex-wife of a CIA big wig who had an affair with JFK. She almost certainly smoked weed with him at the White House, and her friend Timothy Leary (along with the CIA’s counterintelligence chief, James Angleton) claimed she also got JFK to take acid at one point.

        JFK actually taking acid is unverified, but Leary alleged that Pinchot’s influence on JFK was making him less willing to back war hungry policies of some very powerful men in the U.S. government, and that as a result, he became a bit of a thorn in their side. He also claimed that the day JFK was assassinated, Pinchot called him and said “he was changing too quickly.”

        About a year after JFK’s assassination, Pinchot was killed in a still unsolved murder, and shortly after her murder, her sister and brother in law claimed they found James Angleton breaking into her home to steal her diary.

        https://archive.is/2021.04.29-040456/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1998/10/11/the-woman-who-knew-too-much/47b45afd-5676-47d4-b035-56287b129d07/

      • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon.

    • Lag@piefed.worldEnglish
      81·
      4 days ago

      Sounds too stressful and too thoughtful. Smooth brain happy.

  • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    4 days ago

    A nice way to go.

    My way of doing it: build a large catapult at the edge of a cliff to the ocean. Take loads of heroin just so I don’t overdose. Get on the catapult and shoot myself into the ocean.

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    113·
    3 days ago

    Ok, so anyone terminal, why not do some good on your way out? There are a lot of, uh, wrongs, that could be avenged. Obviously you would have to be smart enough not to be tooled by a malicious person to target the wrong things.

    But think about all of these, can I say, uh, mario brothers type targets? Can’t go wrong there.

    Go out in a blaze of glory, you will be remembered as a saint and hero.

    • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      I don’t know anyone terminal currently, but the guaranteed imminently terminal patients I’ve known were pretty much unable to leave their beds, regardless of how they may or may not have acted if they were ambulatory.