PostmodernPythia @ PostmodernPythia @lemmy.world

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Don’t. Frankly, I’ve stayed on top of the news for 20 years. The ideal of an informed citizenry comes from a time without a 24-hour news cycle, and a time before the US (if you’re here) was downgraded from a democracy to an enocracy. The only thing you’ll get from being informed 24-7 is unneeded stress. Look at a news website once or twice a week, that’s plenty informed for most purposes. (Within 6 months of a national election, maybe bump it up a little.) Don’t discuss controversial news online unless that’s fun for you. If I could follow my own advice, my mental health would be improved, honestly.

Because they’re rich and powerful. The law gives pathetic protections compared to that.

That last bit is not accurate. Search those terms with “is x real?” or “x controversy.” There is absolutely a debate rn about what constitutes addiction, and those things are regularly brought up.

100%. Weed kept me alive when no legal drugs worked. The second something else worked, I dropped my consumption significantly without a problem. After 15 years of daily use.

So addiction is a word so broad as to be practically meaningless, is what you’re saying.

Maybe start by not assuming everyone has normal brain chemistry. As someone whose brain couldn’t make “happy juice” on its own for years (I have a problem processing folate, which is an ingredient in a bunch of brain chemicals), if I hadn’t smoked weed before I found out what was wrong, I wouldn’t have lived long enough to do so.

I used weed to medicate when every drug my doctors gave me failed for years. Because of smoking weed every day for years, I lived long enough to take things that actually treat my problem, and was immediately able to drop my weed consumption as much as I liked. I do it maybe 2-3 times a week now. How do you tell someone who’s addicted from someone using it to medicate something else when nothing’s available, from the outside?

I also think the word “addiction” is so broadly used as to be practically useless at this point. I could stop weed, no problem. If I try to get off lithium, withdrawal city. But you don’t hear people talking about lithium addiction. Plus, if we’re using the same word for responses to heroin, weed, and porn, we need better vocabulary.

Is this the new right-wing line? Like the “abortion industry”? Gimme a fucking break.

Fuck yeah, linguistic punk!

I’m not giving the Economist my info to read this. However, you know what’s a lot less safe than puberty blockers? Teenage suicidality. I’m not trans, but I was a very suicidal teenager, and if trans people say puberty blockers make them safer and less suicidal, I believe them, and we should do everything we can to reduce the number of teens that feel that way. Including puberty blockers. They’re reversible, safe (we’ve been giving them to kids for conventional medical reasons for a long time), and the community affected says they help. How many kids are we willing to let die while we’re waiting for more evidence?

Since Trump has made clear that if he wins, he’ll use the power of the state to persecute his political enemies, sounds to me like this is the last free (I won’t pretend our elections are fair) election for a while, regardless of who wins.

They’re not stupid. Their other options are worse, or they wouldn’t come here. If drug cartels (largely funded by American consumers) came for your family, are you telling me me you wouldn’t go wherever you needed to to protect them?

American law works however the people with money and power decide it does in this 5-minute stretch. It’s meant to be inscrutable.

I’m not the one who called a stranger an asshole because they had different life experiences than me. My response was a joke. Maybe you should reconsider who you think is being a cunt.

I can’t debate a point with someone who either doesn’t know how words work or is deliberately arguing in bad faith. Have a good day.

So you made a sweeping generalization, and I came up with some counterexamples, and you think insulting me is an effective response? Wow, your skill at analysis and argument is literally indescribable.

Yes. It’s true that every technology was once experimental. But how experiments are done is important. And I certainly hope we’ve moved forward morally since we started executing people. We’re supposed to learn from our mistakes, not use them to justify future ones.

Look up sexual surrogacy. 😉

Wow, who pissed in your cereal?

I meant poor as in pitiable, not as in impoverished. Don’t purposely misread my statements.

Plenty of people in politics are very smart. Those people just tend to be on the policy side rather than the campaign side.