It didn’t surprise me that these passed, given the recent passage of a sweeping justice reform where cop oversight was removed and they were authorized to use drones and received a bunch of funding. But I am quite sad that it finally did get overturned - I saw it on nearly every ballot for the last several years; the Republicans were desperate to overturn it. I really hated that every time they wanted to tie the removal of theft and the removal of drug charges at the same time. Now we’re back to a state where many decriminalized drugs are criminal again, calling into question weird conflicts such as the sale of certain mushrooms in Oakland being legal but possession no longer.

Good study, findings aren’t super surprising. Wish the n was a bit larger and wish there were more statistics in the analysis (hard to draw a conclusion with no p-values), but I suspect because the n was so small nothing met statistical validity. Either way it’s an interesting look at additional/more data and I hope it inspires more in depth research.

@dipshit@lemm.ee

Just got around to looking at the numbers again-

kbin.social has the most total reports on their users, followed by our own instance, and then lem.ee and lemmy.ml. Everything past those instances has a fairly low volume of reports. The volume of reports is fairly manageable even from the top reported instances and is vaguely correlated with instance size/activity.

Discuss.online has hardly been reported at all and we have generally found that the person who runs lemm.ee has been responsive to our asks and values a safe instance - they might just be slightly overwhelmed by the size of the instance (they’ve got like 1.5k communities) and people might not be reporting content that should be removed. In general we do not try to police other instances, it’s more about blocking instances where their users are actively harassing ours or too frequently misbehaving on our instance.

In the US I’d completely agree, in that it’s impossible to vote for conservative folks who are not openly and actively bigoted against someone and attempting to strip away other’s rights. But it’s possible to not live in the US where some conservative platforms are different. It’s also possible to hold conservative viewpoints on issues which are not inherently bigoted (wishing for less government, or for more individual freedom) and not vote for conservative politicians who are bigoted. I think there’s some room for nuance, and there’s room for a healthy amount of diversity for individuals who hold different beliefs on some issues but are still inherently humanistic.

The presence of a conservative space is not enough to warrant defederation in my opinion. We don’t want to be an echo chamber. It’s entirely possible to be conservative on some issues and still respect all humans. I would also argue that voting conservative in the US currently would almost certainly invalidate ones respect for self autonomy but that’s a more nuanced discussion and is very US centric

This is probably worth a peek in moderator logs to see if they have an outsized amount of moderation. The two we defederated with happened when Lemmy was first exploding in size and were in direct response to size as well as moderation strategies and open signups policies. We don’t want to cut off our community from folks on these instances but if they’re causing a lot of trouble- we can certainly consider it

omg this is so cute! I wish I had a top like that

I’m not about to try and solicit the hatman are you crazy? the hatman will show up if the hatman wants to

hatman is such a chill dude, just be sure to pay your debts

Marking NSFW or placing CW: in the title are both perfectly acceptable. We’re likely not going to remove anything if you forget to do either, this is mostly a post about being nice and accommodating where we can 💜

Sold a '13 CR-V to a very good friend who had borrowed it for a few months about two years ago and loved it and wants to go camping more. Bought an '18 Fit so I could have a slightly smaller city friendly car.

And thank you for engaging in good faith! Appreciate you 💜

As an aside I have a degree in neurobiology and work in health care and would be happy to discuss things with you if you ever have questions.

Yes, antidepressants are not considered addictive by the same big pharma companies who told us that Oxycodone was not totally fine.

No, I’m talking about how researchers, who do not have conflicts of interest, have to say about these drugs.

What is the difference between a physical dependence and addiction?

Googling this will give you plenty of pages drawing the distinction between the two. For example, here’s a webmd article on the difference. In short, it’s meaningful to draw clear distinctions and definitions around where an urge is coming from. Withdrawing from a substance does not necessarily mean you desire the substance. Taking the substance to avoid withdrawal symptoms might happen because you wish to avoid the negative symptoms, and treating the symptoms could be enough to get someone off the substance causing problems. Addiction, on the other hand, is characterized by a strong desire to continue drug use despite the ways in which it is negatively affecting one’s life. It is possible for addiction and physical dependence to have overlap (and for many drugs this is common) but they are mutually exclusive - one does not necessarily imply the other and the presence of one does not mean there is the presence of the other.

If they aren’t addictive, but cause the same withdrawal symptoms which result from addiction, in some cases severely, then what should we call them?

While withdrawal symptoms can vary with the nature of addiction, one does not need to be addicted to experience withdrawal symptoms. Many common, non-addictive chemicals have withdrawal symptoms. Nearly every drug has some kind of withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal symptoms are the direct biological consequences of a human changing their equilibrium with the addition of or removal of an exogenous substance or the regular use of said substance and the long-term biological changes it can have on one’s body.

At a high level, I would highly suggest you educating yourself on drug dependence and recovery as well as the psychology of addiction. These are high level basic concepts which are taught to you in any human-centered biology and psychology coursework.

Sold my old car a few weeks ago. Finally got a new (used) car last Friday. I’m so glad for it to no longer be consuming some of my brains processing power in the background constantly.

I had a very slutty weekend, which was satisfying. I think I’m in heat. I think I’ve been in heat a lot the last few months. I wish I had a solution to this. Being slutty didn’t really seem to solve the horny, although it was a nice outlet.

I’m removing this because Sabine has repeatedly been lambasted by the media for junk science, and because she’s a known transphobe.

Antidepressants are highly addictive and it doesn’t get talked about

SSRIs are not addictive and almost no antidepressants have addictive qualities. Many can cause withdrawal symptoms, which is very different from addiction, and a few select agents have been misused in contexts where access to drugs are low and quality of life are low, such as prison, but this kind of use needs to be considered in context, as these individuals are desperate for escape.

Please do not spread misinformation.

It’s a big step up from literally drowning lab rats as an experiment, but we’ve got a long way to go before we get even reasonably ethical with lab animals 😔

To be fair if anyone was gonna not kill them when they’re done, this lab seems like they might be the ones.

very cute!

compress the image first, there’s a max upload size and I think a max pixel size (I forget)

Yes, but if a review board were to sign off on them and then someone managed to significantly hurt or damage themselves, one could theoretically apply some of the blame to the review board for not doing their job to ensure that a study was safe. The whole idea of having ethics as a part of the review board was born of some of the studies they used to sign off on that were ultimately problematic and resulted in seriously damaging some individuals, such as minorities and kids.