cosecantphi

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[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Doctors still think the Naloxone in Suboxone actually prevents people from "abusing it". The patent holder fed them a bunch of bullshit decades ago about how it causes precipitated withdrawal if you snort or IV it instead of using the prescribed sublingual RoA.

But despite the universal experience of people who have snorted and IV'd it being that the Naloxone may as well be inactive due to it having a significantly lower mu-opioid receptor binding affinity than Buprenorphine, doctors still to this day insist on prescribing Suboxone instead of plain Buprenorphine, often at double the cost to the patient.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

When most subreddits went offline last year, google became absolutely, profoundly useless. That really exposed this issue to a lot of people who actually hadn't noticed before. If I'm a google exec right now, I'd be looking to prop up reddit by any means necessary because at this point if reddit were to ever digg itself permanently, it'd probably take google with it.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I think it's about bidets not being common in the west

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know who any of the people involved in this screenshot are, but is this twitter post not just a joke? Like the therapist wants her to take her mask off as in be her true self, and she misinterpreted the therapist as saying to literally take off her covid mask?

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The ask a doctor shit makes me especially mad, like motherfucker, if I had any sort of timely access to a doctor do you really think I'd be asking fucking google?

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

It's been a while since I've seen this show, but the vibe I get is that Aang's grasp on his power is still very rudimentary, so there's not much he can do about it in the moment, and so he just wants to take the edge off and have some fun to keep his mind off the fact his people were all murdered after he abandoned the air temple and deprived the world of the avatar for a century.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Joe Brandon got a telephone cord IV to keep his brain liquid up to date on matters of national security

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

These guys almost certainly have investments in private prisons, I have no doubt about that. While it's not quite the same as outright owning a person, they own shares in companies that preside over and profit from ongoing slavery to this day. Our modern financial system has done a bang up job of obfuscating slavery by making it too abstract for most people to notice, but today's policing and prison institutions are direct descendants of yesterday's escaped slave patrols and plantations.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

To think I lost sleep after Super Tuesday in 2020 over this fool

God, I was such a fucking wreck. Electoralism had never hurt my mental health as badly as that did, and I'll make damn sure it never will again.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It honestly makes me real sick that fentanyl has been such a gift to the ghouls ruling this country. They caused the crisis by first over prescribing people pharma opioids and then suddenly taking them all away with absolutely no regard for how fucking horrid the withdrawals are, leading people to use stepped on street drugs out of desperation. And no matter how hard cops go after distributors, fentanyl will always be the most profitable opioid to smuggle and sell because it's synthetic and insanely potent. The only way out is legalization of other opioids.

But now the media and cops are driving people into a frenzy by making it seem like you can overdose on fentanyl just by looking at it, and voila they've got swelling support for the war on drugs once again despite overdose rates correlating highly to drug enforcement. There's now talk of categorizing fentanyl as a WMD to start getting addicts and dealers on terrorism charges.

As a massive bonus, they can also pin this on China to help distract from the domestic policy that's actually causing this. Lord knows people in this country are fucking eager to eat that bullshit right out of their hands. A real disgusting move considering the horrific history the west, opiates, and China share.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I know this is going to make me sound like an insufferable asshole, but I'm kinda fucking sick of Uranus jokes, and would really like to change the planet's name to be rid of them forever. I love astronomy and all that stuff, but you can't talk about this planet without someone making the one joke about Uranus. The first few times we're funny back when I was six years old and learning what a planet is. The next couple dozen times were pretty amusing as well, kids love butt jokes. But it's time to stop. I've heard it all before, you've heard it all before, and no one has laughed at this joke in several decades at the least.

You know how you'll click on a reddit-logo thread about an interesting topic that you're looking forward to learn about, but no matter how far you scroll down all you can find is an endless horde of dipshit fucking redditors churning out the same assortment of the worst puns and references in the universe that they've been congratulating themselves about for the past twenty years? Uranus jokes are kind of like that, but worse.

Rename this planet George for all I care, I don't give a shit. Just please end this nightmare.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm still in line waiting to vote for Bernie at the South Carolina Democratic primary. They can't refuse you if you showed up before the polls closed, and I've been camped out here to make sure my vote counts. Others are here too, my hope is that we'll get the SC primary to swing toward Bernie so people still waiting in line in Super Tuesday states are more likely to vote for Bernie on the momentum. It's never too late, and you're just a doomer if you really think Bernie has no chance.

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