As a smoker and one-time bar-goer, I’d agree those sound unlikely given the details. Shared lost time in that first situation is definitely an interesting one, strange world! I’m sure it was hazy, but did you both start the lost time (and/or come to) at the exact same moments?

Two other rational, though more sinister/unfortunate conclusions could also be that you smoked some bad (ie fake or laced) weed and someone spiked your drink at the bar.

Situation 1: did you have and smoke more from that same batch any other times? /Did your friend bring their own stuff?

Situation 2: could have gotten drugged unfortunately, but fortunately left before blacking out and managed to get yourself home.

100% the simplest and most harmless explanations are most likely, not suggesting that the worst case scenario is probable. Just thinking of other possibilities.

My only experiences with missing time are most likely epilepsy-related, so I’ve never thought much of one beyond that. Seizures can feel pretty strange by definition, so I don’t think I would know how to guess if something else caused a given episode.

Gosh I love that loam though

Just like many Russian accidents, those undersea cables just fell out of windows.

Apparently, if that context in the body is eaten, it will be remembered by the head

Nothing cringier than referring to yourself in the 3rd person.

There is nothing like interacting with real people to show you how unreal, unproductive, and honestly uninfluential the chronically online environment is. But when it’s your whole world, it feels like it is the whole world, and no one you’re interacting with has any proof to say otherwise. So then the most universally agreed upon things online seem like they must be true to all, until you talk to someone at a diner and realize no one gives a shit what these communities espouse online to other folks you never see or talk to outside.

First time I saw a meat content warning I thought it had to be making fun. But no, Grad be like:

"cw:meat

(also you should murder your landlord and their family painfully)."

Agreed History.com has some wacky articles, but these numbers come from Richard Overy, a respected and well-researched historian. But feel free to do some pleasure reading on these:

https://notevenpast.org/order-no-227-stalinist-methods-and-victory-eastern-front/#%3A~%3Atext=How+many+Soviet+soldiers+were%2Ca+couple+weeks+in+Stalingrad. (Numbers pulled from Russian sources)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion#%3A~%3Atext=Their+family+members+were+subjected%2Cexecuted+158%2C000+troops+for+desertion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes

Before anyone asks for a source:

July 1942’s famous “Order No. 227,” better known as the “Not One Step Backward!” rule, which decreed that cowards were to be “liquidated on the spot.” Under this order, any troops who retreated were to be shelled or gunned down by so-called “blocking detachments”—special units who were positioned behind their own lines and charged with shooting any soldier who tried to flee. Stalin’s draconian orders were designed to increase the Red Army’s fighting spirit, but they weren’t empty threats. According to some estimates, Soviet barrier troops may have killed as many as 150,000 of their own men over the course of the war…

Aaaand over 150,000 of their own soldiers for retreating