I live in a legal state, so the other day I enjoyed the luxury of buying a THC cartridge from my local dispensary, and began using it as one does. Things were A-OK for a couple days, but suddenly the cartridge stopped working. I did some troubleshooting, and the best I could tell was that it was just faulty, and that as luck would have it, that fault wouldn't appear until I had already used about a quarter of the product.

However, the dispensary has an excellent return policy on cartridges, and will refund it within 30 days if it stops working. They've told me about this policy dozens of times as I've bought cartridges from them in the past, but this would be the first time I would put that policy to the test.

I had kinda low expectations that they'd accept it for a full refund, since I already used about a quarter of it before it stopped working. I thought maybe they'd give me 3/4 of my money back, at best. And I'd have considered that to be a totally fair exchange, honestly. But instead, the guy behind the counter was super apologetic and went to the cabinet to get a brand new cartridge for me.

There was a slight price difference, since it was a different strain, so he said he'd have to ring it up to issue me a refund for the difference. I told him I didn't think that was necessary since, again, I had already used a considerable amount of the original cartridge. But he insisted on refunding me the difference, so I let him ring it up.

"Oh, and since today's Saturday, all our carts are 20% off, so that'll actually be even more of a refund," he says as he scans the barcode. I'm kind of blown away at this point because, and I don't think I can stress this point enough, I had already used a significant portion of the first cartridge to begin with.

He asked me if I had a rewards account with them, which I don't. He says they'd prefer to issue the refund as a store credit, but that's also totally fine that I don't have an account, anyway. The lengths this man is going to is astounding. Then he says "so our cash refund process is actually kind of annoying and I don't like doing it, would you be cool if instead of the $12 difference in cash, I just hook you up with a $15 battery or maybe 3 of the $5 pre-rolls or something?"

I tell him "my guy, I would've been happy with half of what you've offered me already, but uh... I'll take a battery, I guess!" So he gives me a brand new battery that I get to keep as a spare, a full and fresh cartridge of a strain that I'm honestly enjoying better than the first one, and I basically got my high for the last few days completely for free. I almost feel like I robbed the place, a little bit.

That's been about the "coolest" thing that's happened to me in quite a while, so I feel this is sufficiently dull. I hope the rest of your day is adequate.

I found out about this movie while watching a Corridor Crew video discussing the making of this film (very interesting insights into the production, if interested). This is a really amazing stop-motion film from 1979 that was made almost entirely by one single guy, Mike Jittlov, in a time before CGI and digital editing were available.

This was also before you even had the ability to do frame previews, meaning that all of the stop-motion shots were arranged purely by muscle memory, with Mike maintaining his position and pose on set with perfect accuracy for every frame.

I just thought this was a really cool piece of film history that more people should be aware of. :)

http://www.bishopanimation.com/

This film "67" was created during the 1998 Ottawa International Animation Festival by a group of volunteers under the direction of Jan Pinkava. The film is stop motion, filmed in one long day and edited the next. It was shown on the closing night of the festival. If you look closely in the end, you'll see me, Floyd Bishop. I've got the brown sweater.

Credits: Jan Pinkava, Jordan Craig, Carolyn Craig, Rob Anderson, Jean Claude Kalache, Denis LeLong, Carol Beecher, Floyd Bishop Jr, Heather Hosel, Hugo Desrosiers, Karen Oxhorn, Susan Campbell, Charlie Hill, Ginette Brisson, Chris Mullington, Ed Eagen, and sculpture by Ulysse Comtois.

Apologies if this type of question isn't fit for the community, I'll delete if so.

I'm going to start working from home again soon, and my desk setup is going to get very messy. I'm hoping to find a device that will let me easily manage 3 monitors between my personal laptop, my PS5, and my work computer.

I'd ideally like to set up "scenes", like a work scene where monitors 2 and 3 are using my work computer and monitor 1 is acting as extended display for my laptop off to the left, or a gaming scene where my work computer isn't displaying anything and my PS5 uses monitor 3 while monitors 1 and 2 are extending my laptop's display, etc.

Are there any devices that would allow one to easily manage this sort of setup? I'd really rather not have to rewire all my HDMI cables every time I want to switch from working to gaming.

No politics discussed in this video. Dr.K uses neuroscience to explain why the association between Tylenol and ASD exists, and why it ultimately doesn't matter.

Texas’ booming hemp industry has survived another effort to ban intoxicating products.

Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s push to prohibit hemp-derived THC has died for the year after the Legislature adjourned its second special session Wednesday night.

“After long discussions last night between the Governor, Speaker, and me on THC, and continued hours of discussion today, we were not able to come to a resolution,” Patrick said Wednesday night on X.

So, my friend has a fully-remote job, but his employer only allows him to work within the state the company is based in. He is planning to move outside of that state, but isn't prepared to quit his job yet.

To evade detection from IT, this friend wants to set up some sort of VPN tunnel to leave with a relative within the original state, to route the traffic from his work laptop (which is locked down via JAMF software) through. The family he's leaving this setup with isn't tech savvy, and wouldn't be able to troubleshoot anything beyond powercycling a device or plugging in an ethernet cable.

What would he need to do to set up such a tunnel, ideally with remote access to adjust settings/troubleshoot, and how does he ensure that his work laptop never exposes an out-of-state IP to his employer?

Apologies, mods, if this post falls under Rule 3 for "professional" help.

This popped up randomly in my feed today, and I found it to be pretty interesting and informative.

tl;dw: All USB-C cables have a microchip inside them which runs a small bit of software that tells the devices its plugged into exactly what they're capable of, such as their power rating and transfer speeds. When you plug the cable into your device, it reads the data from this chip, which then dictates how much data/power it is allowed to transmit along the cable.

The problem is that when you use a USB-C extension cable, the device you're plugging into can only see the chip data from the first cable; the cables beyond that first one are completely invisible to your device. And if your first cable is rated for 200 watts, and your extension is only rated for 100 watts, your device will still send 200 watts down the line, without ever realizing that it's overloading the extension cable and creating a possible fire hazard.

Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.

HOUSTON — A Houston man is suing Whataburger for nearly $1 million after he says his burger had onions on it.

Turns out he had asked for a no-onions order.

On July 24, 2024, Demery Ardell Wilson had an allergic reaction after eating a burger that had onions on it at Whataburger, court documents say. He alleges that he requested the fast-food chain to take them off before serving him the burger.