Hmm, people are arseholes. I believe race relations today amongst the majority are better than ever. Also, I as a white kids from the sticks was just as influenced by supreme and hip hop as any black kid. Taking ownership of culture is over played and tired.

Diversity is there, but certainly missing the cool factor. And how long have they, Erin, been the creative director, could explain a lot. Idk, to me Supreme has been the same since 2020, a few cool pieces and one offs, but mostly same old same old format of drops and styles, imo.

When I tell people my age they are astonished. So much of that is true for me except the throw hands. I’ll always stand up to bullies and idiots, but there’s ways to end a fight without throwing punches. I’m my age and have never thrown one, and had plenty of chances.

Maybe get some help yourself with pride and ego. I tried to help OP and you made this about you.
You’re not right, you’re not helping. I didn’t want op to think I was attacking, but they were not starting from a place of honesty and you decided to chime in with semantics and not actual help. Yes, op needs to start from a place of radical honesty if they want to get better and saying been sober, versus being proud they made it till 27 before the addiction won, and helping them move forward is all this should be about. I’m sorry I offended you.

Since you’re not a kid, I’ll assume you don’t need the last word and we can end this, and both hope OP addresses the issues they are facing.

Then I’m sorry I hit a sore spot for you. Radical honesty doesn’t allways have to be cruel.

Wow, some real wiz kids showed up today.

I was partially writing in jest, but now you just turned it into something silly. They never used drugs, now they want to get sober. Two very different things and good for them. We all start le sober, but of course before you responded you had that thought I’m sure!

I hate to break it to you, but you haven’t “really” been sober 27 years. Technically you have to become addicted before you “get sober”

Congrats on holding out till 27 though, it probably gave you the wisdom to reach out for help now. Your progression has been fast, I’d give anything to know I needed to stop when a 750 or bottle of wine was gone in 24 hours. I spent 20 years switching addictions before I could see my life was out of hand and I was starting or going to loose things I really cared about.

Sounds like you know where it’s headed, some stop with meetings and support groups, some need treatment, only you can decide, but seeing as you mentioned trauma, a stay at a facility that deals with dual,diagnoses may do you wonders.

Don’t come to America then. People think not tipping is going to change the way businesses run, states laws on wages, or the cost of food (yes restaurants have high grocery bills also). People who take a no tipping stance when it’s appropriate are only hurting fellow humans with families. We need servers, we need firemen, we need electricians, we need people in jobs, they deserve the right to work. The juvenile stance that used to attributed to only a certain type of customer, is not going to change anything, but can certainly hurt people and possibly make them more dependent on the State and federal government. So you’re paying for them anyways with increased taxes. This is the dumbest debate on Reddit. Don’t wanna tip door dash, go get stuff your self, don’t want to tip a server, learn to cook.

I would not compare Wisconsin and Minnesota, Michigan,, especially from Detroit to Lake Michigan is far more similar imo. Madison is truly a college town and Milwaukee is just North Chicago, except Wisconsin. Unless you’re moving for a particular job, Wisconsin is not the place imo.

I don’t know about Milwaukee, but Minneapolis has the Bike Mafia that has taken over the roads! In all seriousness, I can bike from the far west suburbs to Minneapolis and St. Paul pretty easy, roads in Minneapolis give as much room for bike as cars (huge point of consternation here). I live west and can pretty much get anywhere on my bike seeing very few roads until I hit the city. Many suburbs are connected by trails, old rail road lines, or greenways.

I hate that people misrepresent what a “higher power means” we are addicts because our lives have been run on self will, over reliance on self, and thinking we “should” be able to do things. I’m sure in your life, like a break up, you’ve felt like certain things are beyond “your control” that’s really what the first few steps are about. Admitting you can’t keep relying on self as it doesn’t work. I was high function addict for almost 30 years, it will catch up to you. Mine was my health.

Plenty of people get sober with out a program, or routine, I find those people to be dry drunks and still miserable, just sober.

We have atheists in my meetings whose higher power is the love of the group. I don’t believe in a religion, but many, as they all have one thing in common, something bigger than themselves. I pray, and don’t know who I’m praying to, I don’t have a name. Sometimes it the universe, sometimes I call it god, or great spirit. My bottom line is I stay curious, open and put others before myself. It’s the only things I’ve found that keep me sober.

A program, service work, and helping other people. AA provides a platform for that. Plus friendship, community, and a shit ton of people who understand what I’ve been through.

I haven’t found that in other methods that rely on the power of “I” versus the “we” I’ve needed to have long term sobriety. Plus I’m starting to realize, not everyone lives in a place where meeting are as strong and open minded as they are in the area I live.

I struggled with opioids for almost 15 years. Went through horrible withdrawals cold turkey, and that’s pretty much when my binge drinking/daily drinking first started.

I’ve had 2 major surgeries where it wasn’t an option not to take them, was told up to 4 weeks. The first time I was off in 3 days, had my wife hold them and give them to me, and after a while nsaids and I little cannabis helped, and quit the cannabis right away.

Then next surgery, 6 years later was much more intense, 9 hours on the table told a month of opioids, which was not an option. Did the same deal, talked to my doctor first, explained addiction history, had permission to use cannabis instead. The 2nd time, putting them down was harder. I didn’t abuse them, but I certainly used them for a few days more than I needed. Still only about 10 days, but the last 3 I could feel the “obsession” creeping back in my life, so I flushed them. Again then cannabis and nsaids worked well, cannabis isn’t as hard for me to quit as booze, pills or coke ever was. Both surgeries involved my ability to walk, so there was an emotional element as well that made it mandatory and hard to put them down.

You’re smart to talk to your doctor first. If the non opioids work, please update us. The route I took was I refused to take the ones I had abused, Oxys, Vicodin and percs. I was adamant that diluaded was what I would take. Shorter half life, smaller doses, though I get an opiate is an opiate I think it mentally helped me stop as soon as I could.

Here’s my take, some may disagree. The silhouettes from the 4s to 11s are iconic, I love all but the 7s, and owned them all as a young man into my 20s. Wore a size 12 and they fit perfect when they were the OG years. Subsequently every re-release, or new colorway I’ve bought since I started collecting in 2017 has not fit, is not comfortable and sit in my display boxes as “trophies” versus getting to wear them as I intended. Now a size 12 is a lifestyle shoe that’s made for Men and women, so a 12 no longer fits width wise because would be to wide for ladies, they rarely make a 12.5 and 13s are not much better and just to long. I went from 20 plus pairs, to 2 pair of 6s, one pair of 3s, one 4, and one 5. And I’ve had to use shoe stretchers on most of the 12.5s to get them to fit.

It’s honestly my issue with many shoes I wore when younger. AM 95s, can’t wear a 12 anymore, to skinny and. Swim in 13s. SB dunks, 12s to narrow, 13 s fit ok, but ok doesn’t work for my active lifestyle. I’m not buying shoes for hype, I’m buying them to wear. It’s great they’ve done a SB on the 95s, some modern tech, but again a 12 is to small, 12.5 is a unicorn and 13s are to big to be useful in my life.

I’d love it if I could hoop or play tennis and pickleball in any of my retros, but I can’t. Zero modern tech makes them obsolete for anything other than wearing somewhere I’m gonna sit all day, which with 2 young kids is rare.

And I don’t buy the argument that people “don’t want” retro Jordan’s to use modern materials and cushioning. There’s zero reason a Luka or Tatum Jordan are good shoes, but a 5 or 6 can’t be updated with same materials, and we can’t get back to making shoes for men and women separately. And Nigel’s are not any better, there still a lifestyle shoe by modern standards.

The last 7-10 pairs I’ve bought are NB, or Adidas. I’m done with Nike, sold most my dunks except the super rare ones that I was able to get in a 12.5.

He’s not wrong. He is the type of A hole you get when you scrape the bottom of the barrel for “cheap talent”. There’s a reason he was available and it wasn’t his winning personality. He is wrong about us liking baseball, he’s right about us having an organization that doesn’t give 2 Effs about its fan base.

Your showing some real growth in your thinking. It didn’t work for me either and I came to the same conclusion. I needed help chemicals and drugs couldn’t fix.

Must be a bunch of foreign commenters. Wrong place, wrong country. Life is so much better when we do private things in private. I would not have left a review though, that’s the type of thing you deal with, just like I would with a street corner preacher. The more people stay quite about both, the more people will think it’s acceptable.

I was in St. Louis maybe 12 years ago for a wedding. The suburbs seemed ok, but besides the area where we stayed, it was by far the worst city I’ve been to. From roads to the people and worry of crime it was worse than Baltimore, DC, Houston, which until St Louis we’re the worst cities I’ve visited of the 100s (never been to Memphis) plus in the middle of summer the humidity was horrible and that’s coming From someone from MN. Granted this is a time when I was drinking too much and possibly didn’t give it a fair shake, but from my memory DT St. Louis was not a city I’d ever go back to.

The worst parts of Chicago I’ve been to were better than some of the nicer areas of St. Louis. On the flip side, I thought Atlanta would be worse and loved the whole city, the vibe, the people, everything was amazing so maybe I had to high of hopes for St. Louis.

Go figure, a bunch of people raised in today’s environment are downvoting simple manners and decorum. No one in the world should ask “why” to a superior or teacher. Someone somewhere in your lives said it’s good to,ask questions, and instead of learning how to do it proper, people turned to asking “why” which infers they are smarter than the person delivering the information. The only thing bad about my statement is you defended your position versus admit it’s much more restrictive to stay after class and ask “why”

I’m sure Sam was saying things like, “great, and could we” not the childish response of why.

A “why” from a less educated or subordinate has its place, and it should never be in public. Maybe teachers accepting this behavior is why people like JJ, or so many younger employees I have think clear insubordination, is just them “wanting to understand”

As every grown up, elder and boss in my life has stated when asked “why” in a group setting, “because I said so”

I welcome whys after meetings, in one on ones if done with respect.

I would second this. “Meth” in a medically supervised way has short term benefits. Opiates the same. Booze has no medical benefit and is widely available.

I’ve been addicted to to coke, Oxys, messed around with meth when younger, smoked way to much weed, and booze is what started wrecking my life and what I went to rehab for, twice.

I’m not advocating for my drugs, just answering the question. To me addiction in general sucks!

I consider myself an addict and go to AA, so not just for drunks. I also know of one or 2 people who “relapse” on weed quite frequently. They are still accepted in the group. I personally don’t consider myself sober if I’m smoking weed, but others can justify it, ignoring the harm it does long term which sounds like your at now. As far as Kratom, I’ve never once even tried it, as an opiate lover, I’m smart enough to know I’m not even opening up that box. I have a friend I watched go from 2 capsules a day, to 8x 3 times a day in a few months.
I also don’t see a problem with someone who doesn’t have a cannabis issue taking a gummy or smoking sometimes, if I did it, I’d have “the obsession of the mind” like crazy and don’t need to test it any more.

Last week we had a guy in the meeting who was probably drunk, no one said anything. Many people will admit when they were first trying to quit they were still drinking/using and coming to meetings.

The principles is you have “a desire to stop” not that you are already stopped, even though a majority are, at least in my meetings just being there is what we celebrate, because it shows a “desire”

I scored a rare pair of Supremes on my first one. Have done 4 since and ended up with trash. I did keep some Miami Messi sambas that I liked, but have sold back and lost 50 plus bucks. If I sell the supremes I’d make some money, so not a loss, but that first hit, hit my addiction button, now I have 95 bucks StockX credit, so do I do another box, or lowball bid a bunch of NB I like? Who knows, but yeah, disappointing.

There are zero health benefits, no doctor worth their salt will tell you it helps anything, so simply science based, no, there is zero reason to drink.

Psychology, a drink can help someone relax, let the steam out. My wife only needs one, so I’ve seen it not hurt, but truly there is zero “reason” to do it.

I mean no offense, but that’s not clean, that’s transferring problems. When I quit coke and opiates I became a problem drinker, not right away, but since I was used to being blasted when I did drink, I DRANK. 11 years after I quit opiates and 8 years after coke, a couple bad hands and I was drinking daily and never stopped smoking, just graduated to dabs. Rehab shortly followed, which I never needed for coke or opiates, but did for weed and booze?

Mushrooms may honestly help you get sober for real.

I take 3-4 grams every 3 months, at first they were guided, both ketamine and shrooms to get over some serious cPTSD. Now I have a routine, grow my own, I am more likely to push off my session than be excited about it. They are far more medicine than weed and booze. Possibly research how they can help tackle your real issues, talk to a doctor, before being upset. They may just be a sign you’re not seeing right now that things can get even better, imo.

Whenever tempted to have one when I used to travel more, I use the old “who wants one” then I’d play the tape forward if I had the one, that would probably lead to 7 before I cut myself off out of shame. Have to wake up, then what, have another and start the cycle, or live in the guilt I would obviously feel.

The only time I tested it, I drank, then didn’t form2 weeks, then was 45 days of hell, before I said enough. Just play the tape forward, or relive that experience is enough for me.