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“Cant wait for Social Security to be abolished, these useless old people should just die and not waste our resources.”
elderly relatives sitting nearby
(/s Lol, luckily I don’t know anyone that voted trump, I mean I don’t know what distant relatives voted for, but they’re in another state so I don’t care 🤷♂️)
Conservatives unironically agree. If you’re not successfully rent seeking by retirement age, you should work until you die on your feet.
No I don’t old people built the world we have now wtf
Obamacare and all.
“How do you deal with the fact that Trump will die of old age soon and you basically voted for J.D. Vance instead?”
They don’t care, they like Vance too.
They would vote for Kim Jong Un if they thought it would it would upset “libruhls”.
That’s literally why my several members of my family voted for Trump. They really don’t like Trump (they voted for Nikki Haley in the primaries), but they really like Vance and hope he’ll take over at some point.
I was blown away, because I was under the impression that Vance was fairly universally disliked. I immediately responded with some equivalent of “clearly we watch very different news.”
Wait, it’s physically possible to like Vance? I was sure the dislike is on a genetic level like uncanny valley.
I was blown away, because I was under the impression that Vance was fairly universally disliked
Different media diets create different opinions. You’re not shoveling Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Rogan down your ear holes every day. That shapes your view of the world just like Stewart and Colbert and Aaron Sorkin did for millennials.
There seems to be a pretty strong correlation between the age someones parents die and the age they’re likely to die.
Trump’s dad lived until 93 and his mom live until 88. He might be here for a bit.
Just learn to shoot straight.
They didn’t have the lifestyle problems he does though. His diet, lack of exercise, and possibility of long-term damage from COVID put him at a much higher risk of dying younger.
We can only hope.
You know what, I’m convinced.
Deport everyone with immigrant blood from America.
I think we should just deport everyone, no matter what. It’ll be a nice little sanctuary after.
Bro’s trying to deport the Indians on Thanksgiving 💀
Wouldn’t be the first time.
Do they celebrate Thanksgiving in India?
I can’t wait for white people to come up with yet another term to refer to the indigenous peoples of the present-day United States here in like 50 years
Yellowstone+
Make America native again!
Mormons would just start deporting First Nations people.
Hair transplants and testosterone supplements are gender affirming healthcare
So is removing breast tissue from teenage boys, give boys boobs back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynecomastia
Viagra and toupes
Yes, but the enforcement is selective so they won’t be targeted.
Isn’t it weird how theres a conservative “argument” about morningafter pills, “if it’s genuine rape, God has ways of stopping a pregnancy”, but the same people wouldn’t see anything wrong with taking Viagra despite their god-given sexual impotence.
The hypocrisy
You know, there’s technically nothing stopping them from voting for Putin as Speaker of the House.
Some mysterious falling out of windows later he could be president
What’s mysterious about a tragic suicide?
The convenience of it always happening to people who are harsh critics or in the way of putin. Just always to mysterious. That or standards for windows are terrible
Nothing mysterious about that, I too would suicide if I didn’t see the glory that is Putin.
blinks twice
It would almost be worth it to watch him having to deal with all the MTGs he’s put in congress
Mikael Trotsky Gorbechevs?
seriously tho what is the russian MTG equiv? I bet whatever it is, right now it’s squatting on a curb smoking a filterless cig
I was thinking about explaining that trump legalized trans weed last time he was president so why not go fully legal?
It’s truly amazing that orange man legalized weed in 2018.
You know for a goddamn fact that nobody in congress nor the orange man intended to do this.
Yet another example of old white men legislating on stuff they don’t understand but at least in this case it’s a win for us
I mean, honestly I think it really cuts to the root of it - they didn’t care, because they believe in nothing.
They wanted to create a business opportunity for
the billionaires bribing themtheir buddies, and they literally give no shits about side effects (unless someone rich is willing to pay to change the side effects)Thanks, that was educational. I had incorrectly assumed they were all synthetics when I heard they were selling in dry states.
I’ve tried to explain what delta 8 vs delta 9 is too many times so I’m trying to simplify it.
Well that clears that up
Weed isn’t a single drug, it’s a complex plant that contains many psychoactive compounds called cannabinoids. The best known and (probably) most intoxicating of these is what’s commonly called THC, technically delta-9-THC, though over 100 others have been identified so far. Some of these are highly (pun intended) psychoactive while some appear, at least to the user, to be pharmacologically inert. Regardless, a hastily-written 2018 federal farm bill which was partially intended to legalize commercial hemp essentially legalized all of them including even tiny (<0.3%) concentrations of delta-9. That has allowed for a massive market of legal (in states which haven’t since passed their own laws saying otherwise) weed. It’s not the same weed sold by regulated recreational/medical dispensaries in legal states, though. Rather, these are the products you may have seen in gas stations and head shops, most of which contain at least some delta-8-THC, a compound that is very closely chemically related to delta-9. The key thing to understand, though, is that despite very similar chemical structures, two related drugs can vary substantially in terms of their potency and subjective effects.
I think that’s about as simple as I know how to make it but I’ll be over here spending my Thanksgiving evening in bed with my dogs and a bottle of wine if anyone has questions.
edited because grammar and ADHD are hard
So like keeping sugar illegal but legalizing all the artificial sweetners.
Eh, kind of but not really. This is where it starts to get complicated and where I’m out of my chemical depth.
While (some) cannabis does contain at least trace amounts of many of these compounds, essentially all of the intoxicating cannabinoids produced other than (most of the) delta-9 are actually semi-synthetic, originating from hemp-extracted CBD. Now, as long as the product of the reaction (IIRC, isomerizarion involving heat and something like citric acid) is pure, the fact that it was synthetically produced does not in and of itself make that resulting compound unsafe. Where it gets hairy is the fact that even delta-9 remains poorly studied today thanks to over five decades of prohibition, and we have basically no idea what ingesting large quantities of any one of these 100+ minor (think something on the order of <1% in the average plant) cannabinoids is actually doing to our bodies.
The real issue, though, is that the lack of any regulatory oversight whatsoever allows shady, greedy distributors to cut an already dirt cheap product with even cheaper and potentially deadly chemicals like vitamin K. You’ll likely hear a disproportionately loud amount of “delta-8 bad” talk (and I’m not trying to promote its use, either) but the most serious harm probably has less to do with the compound itself and more to do with such toxic adulterants. That said, scientifically studied or not, there are reputable and entirely legal sources for many of these substances, although they aren’t necessarily gas stations.
Thanksgiving with dogs, wine, and Lemmy. You’re living the dream, man. Drink a bunch of water too, though. For tomorrow you.
There is a very good reason to know this information, because not all camnabanoids should be concentrated.
My stomach and the CHS disease I have is living proof of that.
There is one brand, FVKD. I can choke one of their disposables down every week with zero ill effects.
Another, bought blindly, after a month of use will cause my gut to go into spasms until I stop using it.
The only proof I get is trial and error. My only real guess is that a usual dosage of BHO extracted straight from the plant has a lower amount of some of these bad cannabinoids and the ones FVKD and similar companies who actually give a fuck have chosen for their blends are the ones we most benefit from.
More testing is needed for these products, 100%.
Tbf Delta 8 doesn’t do anything.
It does, you just need more of it. A lot more.
Well it doesn’t matter to me personally, anymore. I quit all of it nearly two years ago.
It’s definitely far less potent than ∆9 and it doesn’t do nearly as much to me in terms of the head fuckery but it will absolutely put even the most seasoned stoner on their ass for a solid day if they take enough of it in one sitting, especially in edible distillate form. I say that having smoked for over 25 years. The diluted vapes are shit, though.
Wait, I can get my moobs removed?
You’ve already received a joke answer, so yes, breast reduction surgery for guys is a thing. And sometimes the doctor can convince some insurance companies to cover it. But ymmv, because USA.
What if I have access to TJ doctors? Any downsides? Scars or whatnot?
Just asking for a friend. Don’t tell him I asked
Honestly I don’t know more than I already said. But at least now you know to start asking those questions to some doctors. Since you wouldn’t be left with any breast undercurve to hide a scar, I should think you’d want a good plastic surgeon who’s done men.
I used to work on a plastic surgery clinic and we did mastectomy/breast reduction (removal of all or some breast tissue) a decent amount for cis men, cis women, and trans men. I even did the insurance paperwork for all of the non-cosmetic procedures.
Different insurance companies have different criteria for breast reduction and/or mastectomy. You can call your insurance company and ask them to send you the “Medical Necessity Criteria” for mastectomy or breast reduction for an adult male. You can also schedule a consultation with a plastic surgeon and they can run it through your insurance after doing an exam and taking measurements and whatnot.
The procedure itself is pretty straightforward, it’s usually an outpatient surgery and you go home the same day. There will be a small, linear scar, usually along the underside of the breast, but they sew it under the skin, so the scar is very minimal when it heals. Depending on how much tissue they have to remove, you might have to have drains in there with tubes that come out through the skin for a couple of weeks to make sure you don’t end up with a fluid collection, and you’ll most likely need to wear a binder of some kind for 2-4 weeks to also help prevent fluid accumulation. Your individual situation might vary, so make sure to write down all of your questions to bring to your consultation appointment to go over with the surgeon.
Pro tip for in-demand medical specialties: the easiest time to schedule an appointment with them is usually January and February because everyone’s deductible reset on the new year and people don’t want to pay the out of pocket costs if they can avoid it.
Tijuana doctors? Just make sure you pay first and pay it in full.
If they moo-ed they are sentient cows already, and will produce milk any day now.
Replied to a comment in this thread already but dropping this here for visibility
Orange man legalized weed on a federal level in 2018. Source here
Technically Congress legalized it. It’s right there in the title of the article you linked:
“When lawmakers voted to allow hemp production in 2018, they quietly opened the door to legal THC in all 50 states.”
*Edit: typo
Can’t wait to pay for my compulsory advertising on X.
It’ll be really funny seeing people die from listeria after drinking listeria milk on purpose
Putting the CEO of a space ship company in charge of the government’s space ship funding makes about as much sense as letting Congress vote on giving themselves raises
I heard his AG has plans to send in the military to take away your guns! For your safety!
Heard about something about how his AG pick potentially making it so at least people must register their guns. No idea how true or if it’s gonna happen, but I imagine that alone would be enough to make a lot of his voters super angry.
Well it’s difficult to oppress people with weapons.
everyone should save their grocery store receipts and compare them to similar purchases a few months from now
Not a meme
