Oh shit, I guess that wasn’t a microdose…

Thing is, a lot of information about the current state of political affairs is blasting through all channels. Some people just want to use Lemmy to shitpost, hang out in CasualConversation, or look a funnies from Stamets.

I think that’s a fair use case, and doesn’t necessarily mean someone who does this is sticking their head in the sand about the current political order going to shit.

Day 24. Fuck I’ve missed weed in the past 48 hours.

Purely for the purpose of fairness/general interest, here’s what I’ve found from Dessaline in this thread re: debunking on various topics. What you make of them and their merit is up to you, I’m just here cruising this thread for jokes myself.

Will say I think they’d be better served with adding the links when saying this, or under deleted comments saying “topic was x, debunked here [link]”, but that’s just me. I also cannot say for certainty I’ve captured every relevant post, particularly re: the content of removed comments [going into the mod log is an extra step I’m not doing rn, but you could if you wanted and try cross-referencing]

https://lemmy.ml/comment/16149912

https://lemmy.ml/comment/16149886

https://lemmy.ml/comment/16136497

https://lemmy.ml/comment/16135781

Edit: Removed one link, as it’s a different instance of the same message. Again, think I’m missing stuff but I’m about go offline, so out of time.

The biggest career mistake I’ve ever made is opening an Excel macro and changing two characters to make it count a thing again.

I was then permanently labelled Cracks the Technomancer, master of all things technology. It fucking sucks.

A little niche, but

Take this fist bump, fellow cheating-partner-cost-me-a-house human.

sad fist bump

My literal first thought when seeing the title was “Certainly they’re referring to character actress Margot Robbie”

Problem is, many otherwise good doctors are not very knowledgeable about illicit drugs, particularly those that are comparatively rare/aren’t a public health crisis (LSD, while popular, is kinda niche compared to meth and opioids).

A big chunk of the time you’re just going to get “Don’t use drugs”, simply because they don’t have much else to say about it, and don’t want you taking risks based on something they’ve said. Doesn’t mean don’t ask*, but know you may not get useful harm reduction information from Dr. F. Practitioner.

*That said there IS a risk that such a question can paint you as a potential drug seeker, and so create barriers to care if someone decides to add that to your chart when you were just trying to minimize risk.

Closest we have are bodyweight exercise parks - and they are not nearly as common as they should be.

Sure, no slides or seesaw, but monkey bars for dayz.

Edit: Also, y’all remember parkour? IIRC somewhere in the annals of history there’s a design for an adult jungle gym built with Georges Hébert’s fitness philosophy in mind (more jungle gym-ish than military obstacle courses). Vaguely remember seeing a translated book with the design. Anyway, some of those, please.

Water under the fridge, boys.

Don’t really understand why I’m jumping into the garbage fire here, but here we go.

Let’s assume it’s accurate to classify being trans as a mental illness, just for the sake of argument. What if I told you we’ve tried pure psychological treatment and other medical interventions for trans people before - similar, interestingly enough, to L, G, B, and Q people* - and it is simply ineffective? What if I told you, after many years and unnecessarily dead humans, affirmation of identified gender, hormone treatment and surgical intervention were found to be the most effective means available for resolving the suffering inherent in the condition?

Let’s also assume that despite this illness, a trans person is otherwise deemed fit and capable for rational decision making. You’d need evaluation by a psychiatrist to ensure this is true (which generally happens), but if so they have a fundamental right to bodily autonomy. Who are you or I to tell them what they can or cannot do to their bodies? Hell, if you right now wanted to surgically alter your dick to be comically large, if you’re otherwise capable of decision-making (and a third party can attest to this), would you accept someone saying you can’t, assuming you’ve accepted the possible risks?

End of the day, trans people are normal people who happen to have a disconnect between self-image and physical presentation based on hormone makeup and bodily form, and suffer quite a bit due to it. Transitioning is a game changer for most, and allows them to participate more effectively in the wider world without that baggage.

All you need to do is use a preferred pronoun, as community acceptance is a big, if low effort, part of the ‘cure’. If you get it wrong, 99% of the time you’ll be politely corrected. No one is going to crucify you for this.

Now, you can actively choose not to for whatever reason - but all that really does is make you an asshole in the eyes of many. Why? Because you’re reinforcing something that causes another human pain, and what for? What does this accomplish for yourself, the trans person you’re talking to, and your wider community, exactly?

I’m personally shocked this is such a hot button issue. Let other humans be whatever the hell they want to be, if they are competent to make decisions for themselves and ‘changing’ reduces their suffering. The world’s burning, we have more pressing concerns than what our fellow humans have or don’t have in their pants.

*A omitted simply because I don’t know if asexual people were subject to anything like treatment for gay, lesbian or queer people at the hands of psychiatry and medicine more broadly historically. I imagine not, but I could be 100% wrong, and am without question uninformed.