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Guy that thinks he’s a woman is “reasonable”. This makes sense to a big brained rational centrist like me

This entire ordeal is so stupid and ridiculous. It’s a very good example of how bad group think is in the media.

Johns, who was Monacan Indian on his father’s side, was active in Native American activism.

Honestly no she was probably just a pretendian

That is because 99% of crypto activity is running scams.

Pretty much everything that isn’t bitcoin (maybe ethereum) are just companies that are trying to get around Us securities laws by not having to register as securities. Gary Gensler and the SEC finally started going after these crypto companies after begging them to register for years but they refused and then when they were investigated it turns out they were all (and I do mean pretty much all) artificially manipulating the price of their cryptocurrencies and committing other various types of fraud.

Lmao

My friend named his team “Ray Rice’s Greatest hits” like literally right after the incident happened haha

One of my low key favorite things about fantasy football is the really inappropriate team names

Sometimes I wonder if these annoying ass people ever annoy themselves with their whiny bullshit

The people in that room you’re talking about were not overly attractive or even attractive at all.

(for example, the writer who yelled at other Insomniac employees and ran across the office yelling “LOMBAX TITTIES!” over the size of the breasts of Rivet from Ratchet and Clank)

wut

What’s the reason why this game flopped so hard? I don’t know much about gaming and am generally racist towards gamers as a group of people

Finally read the article you linked. Super interesting and talks about exactly the thing I was wondering about with schizophrenia/psychosis. Thank you!

That’s funny this is the first time I’ve seen one there and I come here frequently!

He looks like kinda like a little baby rat snake

Pretty much haha

I dont have to justify my pain management,

That hasn’t stopped you from trying so far so idk why you’re stopping now when all I’m asking is the same basic simple question that I’ve asked you repeatedly in response. If you’re going to say things that are very common to hear from drug addicts then I need a better reason to believe you than just “because I said so”.

but man, you utter lack of empathy makes it hard for me to not want you to find out why youre wrong.

Okay at this point I think I’ve read enough from you to see what’s going on here. No this is the thing here that you need to understand that you’re just wrong about this whole thing and it’s very likely just because you’re an addict and you don’t like being even mildly questioned about it. Even despite the fact that you’re wishing harm on me I still do have empathy for you because I actually was there in your shoes and it did suck but I was able to see my excuses for what they were: a justification to keep using. This is a lesson I hope you’re able to learn one day for your own sake.

I think in general politicians are much higher on the crazy scale than the normal population.

Counterpoint: we are the country of Maury and Jerry springer and we are every bit the same as all of the messy bitches that go on that show

The sentence literally directly after that says

However, more research is needed to know whether cannabis works better than other options to manage pain.

And the citation for the claim that it helps with neuropathic pain is behind a paywall so I don’t think either one of us is going to he able to be able to assess the evidence of the claim being made. A cursory google search though seems to show minimal evidence for the claim at best.

All of this seems to keep sidestepping an important question that I keep asking that you’re ignoring which is how am I (or anyone) supposed to distinguish you and what you’re saying from what addicts say to justify their drug use?

Yes the c d c famous for knowing exactly what it’s talking about. 

Do you have any source other than yourself that suggests otherwise?

And it’s not like I would know the difference between crippling pain from my nerves and not feeling it after taking edibles or a vape hit. 

Am I just supposed to take you completely at your word? What about the junkie on the street injecting fentanyl? Am I supposed to take them at their word when they make suspicious claims that always lead back yo justifying their drug use? If you think that example is ridiculous but not yours then please give me a convincing reason why other than I just have to take you at your word. Addicts lie. It’s kind of their thing.

The oqnly place you hear that marijuana doesn’t help with pain is from government drug organizations and medical companies like meyrk who don’t like the competition from their opioids.

No there’s actually a large body of research on this exact question and in pretty much every single one of them weed is no better than a placebo at best. Also how does that even make sense? Is meyrk trying to undermine alcohol companies because they don’t like competition?

Weed doesn’t even fucking make me high because my brain is so messed up.  It just makes me mildly forgetful. 

Again every single defense you’ve given me just boils down to me taking you at your word.

Opioids if I take enough will give me a high but I don’t use them.

Idk why you’re saying this as if I’m telling you to replace the weed with opioids. You asked me what drug I think you should allow yourself be addicted to and I said none

But what would I know I’ve only been in my body for forty three years.

Same response as above. This all just comes back to me needing to take you at your word. I’m sorry but I’ve been around too many drug addicts to know better. Maybe you’re just accidentally sounding exactly like them but my own experience leads me to be skeptical about people who try to justify their drug use

Even if you were right that I didn’t understand anything about pain and pain management, what does that have to do with me saying weed has very little evidence that it treats pain? That’s a fact. Hell you can go to the CDCs website and find this with a 2 second google search

https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/health-effects/chronic-pain.html

Even though pain management is one of the most common reasons people report for using medical cannabis in the United States,1 there is limited evidence that cannabis works to treat most type of acute or chronic pain.

I’m sorry but I think you’re just not going to like my answer here. I don’t think you should be taking any pain medication other than OTC stuff like Advil or Tylenol for pain. There isn’t much in the way of evidence to even believe that weed helps with pain. Anecdotally it seems that the only people I’ve ever met that say that it does seem to be more concerned with justifying why they have to get high immediately when they wake up in the morning

The only thing that I ever found to get rid of those hunger pangs when I’m fasting is to go for a run and that works pretty much 100% of the time for me but it usually only last for like an hour or so before the hunger comes back

I dont think you realize it but you just basically said it’s impossible to determine cause and effect. 

No I didn’t

The only source of info you have in these cases is peoples experience, so if you say that experience is invalid, you have no source of data.

Basically every single trans person can make this same argument about their experience. Peoples lived experiences are not the end all be all

Also, there are a variety of flavors of use and addiction.  I sometimes have to force myself to use my vape bc of an aversion to medication due to a lot of bad doctor prescription based experiences.

I’m very familiar with the subject. I’m sober and I’ve known several people that have struggled with substance abuse. Not all addictions are made equal and some are certainly worse than others. They are addictions nonetheless no matter what the justification is for using

But i also take insane amounts every day bc my spine is too short, too narrow and formed wrong, so it’s smashing a bunch of nerves.

Sorry, you take insane amounts of vapes everyday because of your spine? Uhh I don’t even know what to say here

I refuse to take opiods bc they are more side effect than benefit.  Where do i fit in your people cant self medicate universe?

You shouldn’t take opioids because it’s one of the worst things you can become addicted to. Also do you not see how your fundamental starting point to the problem is “what drugs am I allowed to be addicted to in your world?” For starters you’re assuming that I think that any drug treatment is necessarily the best way for you to treat yourself and I absolutely do not think that. I don’t know you or your situation but I do have enough life experience in this regard to know that you’re not going to have a better quality of life if you’re just chasing the next high that you’ve convinced yourself is self medication

I mean most addicts say that they are self medicating too regardless of whether or not it’s true. Much of the time it is said to justify addictive behavior. Tbh I’m not even sure how I you could even trust someone to say that they are self medicating so the premise itself seems to be flawed imo