NielsBohron @ NielsBohron @lemmy.world

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Plus, they are amazing as mixers, so you can always make them alcoholic

See, I'm a chemist, but I also believe in the power and importance of organized labor, so I still read that as unionized.

Plus, I think most chemists would say "neutral" or use protonated/deprotonated rather than un-ionized

I thought for sure this was an Onion article

I think it varies by class of drugs (edit: and how they interact with your personality). I've used opiates and benzos before and enjoyed myself without feeling like I'd really care to try it again, but I definitely flirted with disaster/addiction with stimulants for a decade plus and alcohol for my entire adult life.

And it didn't take long; the first time I tried any stimulant, I chased it (and I've tried a lot of them).

Psychedelics, on the other hand, I love and in most people there is little to no danger for addiction. I'd go so far as to say that unless you have a family or personal history of schizophrenia, psychedelics are almost a must for understanding or coming to peace with life, death, and society.

A good psychedelic trip is literally life-changing, and even a bad trip is life-changing if you go into it with a decent trip sitter and the attitude that a bad trip is still just showing you yourself and the things you need to work on.

No, they don't believe him; they just don't care and this gives them plausible deniability

It wouldn't matter because the Senate will just pretend like he's a reasonable nominee regardless of his past actions or current beliefs.

It's a reference to the Ship of Theseus thought experiment

I don't know, the second ship looks like it's had some bits replaced with after-market parts...

I'm partial to Nazi Punks, Fuck Off, originally by the Dead Kennedys. Napalm Death does a great version, too, if you're more into grindcore

"you know how you get to Carnegie Hall?"

Under normal circumstances with everyday people, I try to make generous assumptions and "never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."

But in the case of the Democratic party, I have a hard time believing that everybody in the Democratic leadership is that stupid, which leaves only the possibility that their continued failure is intentional

I'm not saying that just because someone says you're gay, you can't correct them without being homophobic. I'm saying that the people that people that go out of their way to make sure everyone knows they're not gay, who get offended at the idea of being mistaken for gay are acting homophobic.

I grew up in approximately the same era as you in a very conservative area, and yeah, there was a lot of homophobic behavior and slurs. But if someone asked if I was gay in this day and age, I think anything more than a quick correction is over-reacting.

But hey, that's just my opinion; you're welcome to yours. Have a good day friend!

And if they work that hard to make sure everyone knows they're not gay, then bonus! You also found out that they're homophobic.

One might even say it's a holy duck?

I know I'm over explaining the joke, but "cool as duck" took me way too long to figure out, and I figured I can't be the only one...

I don't know; Vance is even slimier and has more devout and regressive religious beliefs, so Trump dying actually might make things worse (as satisfying as it might be)

Yeah, the tone of the article just reeks of American exceptionalism

Seven Tenets for life, friend! Card-carrying member over here, and yes, I too distance myself from the leadership. But that's the thing; flawed people can still have a positive impact on the world

I am here for more Barbie's Dreamhouse memes

I teach college chemistry, and half the time it's to STEM majors that see the obvious applications, but the other half the time, my students are going into nursing or other "STEM-adjacent" fields and I try and try to get them to see that the applications are there, if they just look, but many of them never do.

Australia has no strategic importance to Russia, therefore Trump doesn't care about it.