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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I try and avoid painkillers whenever possible for two reasons:

  1. They're crazy addictive
  2. They build tolerance, and when it comes time where taking them is unavoidable, I want them to work as well as possible.
[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Neither of these are true for acetaminophen/paracetamol though?

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not that I would know, but don't all medications build up tolerance?

Like, I was under the impression that medicinal benefits are like a side-effect to what the body might otherwise consider a foreign pathogen. Does acetaminophen not trigger any immune response?

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

With some exceptions for medications that use the immune system to target therapy (such as monoclonal antibodies) or drugs that target the immune system specifically, there is no immune response to most medications.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can build a tolerance to both of those things, but their painkilling effectiveness is just not as strong as opiates.

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Both of those are the same thing, and any chance of developing tolerance is very low.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sorry, I was very tired - however, having taken ibuprofen for years - 2 pills will not give me the same pain relief as it did 10 years ago. I have to up it to 3, or 4. I'm not sure if this is tolerance or an increase in inflammation resulting in a need for a higher dose (hoping not).

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

You wont build a tolerance unless you're using it constantly. A few days for a pain a few times a year is meaningless for tolerance. As long as you RTFM, the hospital dose will always exceed your tolerance.

This doesn't apply to opioids but I'd argue people make too big a deal about those as well, just don't do them outside a prescription nor recreationally. You're probably more addicted to taking a shit every now and then unless your life is already in the drain.