There’s a distinction to be made here. If I stop drinking coffee for a few days I tend to get a withdrawal headache, but that doesn’t mean I’m addicted, it means my body has developed a dependence.

Addiction is a biopsychosocial disease while dependence or tolerance is physiological. Dependence can lead to addiction, but that’s why there’s annoying restrictions on prescribing stimulants. And you have to wean shit like that off, you can’t just stop it stone cold turkey.

It is fun to shit on big pharma and medicine and they sure as shit won’t sell us cures, but stimulants work really well despite the trade offs. Same with pain medications, it’s only an addiction if you let it get to that point.

I think TSA isn’t getting paid so presumably they’re understaffed

_Noooooooo

Can second that… you know the website already

Hell yeah!

The mileage you can get out of $20 of weed is substantially more than $20 of wine, even with taxes and price inflation

Ahhh, that was a good Mythbusters episode RIP Grant Imahara

Am I reading that right? Over 1% of moms in Mississippi were found to have syphilis? Imagine all the people they didn’t find.

In my opinion, shaming people for bigoted opinions can be effective and even necessary at times, but only serves to change people’s behavior.

I’ve found that the main thing that changes people’s thoughts or values are measured explanations or evidence to the contrary.

Honestly I stopped watching it halfway through when I realized it was just gonna be a jerk fest. Some of it was funny but the whole thing felt like comedy for controversy’s sake rather than controversy for comedy’s sake. It just felt… forced in a way that I didn’t really vibe with. I think his circular style is kinda trite at this point too, the older he gets the more rambly it all feels.

I mean, racism against brown people ranges pretty far and wide on the internet and I’d frankly be shocked if lemmy proved to be an exception

Thanks for reminding me to not renew my annual subscription!

Boy this is real deep if you think about it /s

Personally I think the traffic on the GWB has gotten a lot worse, which makes going to LaGuardia for instance quite a bit more difficult but I can’t deny everything else has gotten better. Wish public transport was better too but I’m hoping that’ll come with time.

No worries wasn’t trying to call you out just making a point

Say his name y’all

Suchir Balaji

Are google and Apple gonna go along with this as well?

The ones I delete deserve it

This isn’t as relevant as you think it is.

Remember not to feed the trolls y’all

Thank you imma introduce him to an Italian friend o mien