I can see how some people might like them. I’m not sure exactly what I don’t. I think I got a good one. I just didn’t like it.

Yep basically but also intelligent. They wear space suits. Build space ships.

He and the other Dems that won offer hope. But as op pointed out. Most of the Dems in office are corp Dems.
Wolves in sheep’s clothing.

It’s going to be so hard to get rid of those without literal new meat for every seat everywhere.

Honestly it’s time for some of us to look at our lives. And consider that we. Yes, you. Me. . We.

The ones who won’t be bought.

WE Need to run for office. Local positions. School boards. Auditor. Alderman. All those local positions. Treasurer. The mayor of our small towns. City council.

We need to step up. Because if we don’t. It’s lost.

Those who don’t want power are the best people for the jobs.

Ask yourself. Could you do the job ?

Ask yourself. If you want the job.

If you said yes to first and no to second. You are the right person.

Do it.

So many of these positions are easy picking. Very little competition.

I believe in you.

That depends on theee things.

The dosage and the person’s tolerance. And genetics.

Drugs that are ranked higher for drug addiction typically have strong fast effects and fast loss of the high.

But all drugs have addiction capabilities because of how tolerance in the body works. Tolerance, withdrawal, addiction. All part of the same process.

So back to addiction.

Cocaine. Immediate and intense high. But doesnt last that long. Same for the heroine.

Drugs like meth and adderall are basically exactly like cocaine in many ways except the high is actually more mild (per dose) and lasts longer.

Opiate medications can be seen as similar to heroine but. Last longer and not as strong.

Of course you can take larger doses of either of those two and get a stronger effect.

Even if you don’t tho, people still get addicted to both of these more milder forms of cocaine and heroine. But just not at the same risk level.

And the risk declined drastically if taken at therapeutic levels (like following prescription drug directions).

Another thing you have to consider is genetics in brain receptors.

Some people’s brain responds strongly in eurphoria to a drug while someone else’s does not.

For example. Opiates. I personally do not get euphoria from opiates. I instead get a bad headache and extreme nausea. I had an injection of morphine about a year ago for a ER visit. Not only did it not help the pain at all, I had unpleasant effects from the drug. I was not high. But I was woozy. It was incredibly awful.

I actually told them not to give me optiates because I already knew I didn’t tolerate them but that’s what I get for going to a 1 star ER.

So how is it possible that a drug like an opiate wouldn’t make me high or at the very least block the pain I was having ?

Genetics. My mother is the same. The part of other peoples brain that the opiate drugs bind to, will not accept the drug in my brain. Instead the drug is binding to some other receptors. Starting a cascade of signals that give me delirium, nausea, and a headache.

They are different enough to make a drug have a completely different effect in two animals of the same species.

It’s things like that, that make designing drug therapies incredibly difficult.

So even when we try to give a basis run down of what drugs are highest risk, we can’t say that’s true for everyone.

There is zero chance I could become addicted to opiate based drugs. They literally are aversive to me.

It also means if I get injured and I’m in severe pain, there isn’t much that can be done (so pretty big trade off. Here’s hoping I don’t get a painful terminal cancer).

So at present. Schedule 1 drugs have a specific definition. And that definition indicates a high risk of dependency.

You can read up more about how a drug qualifies for schedule 1. And schedule 2. I think that will help you understand the system better.

That’s what I thought too. Or a vase. Measuring a vase. ?

Surely. But I’m still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.

Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.

I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can’t think of anyone else with either.

Maybe it’s just that culture at that university. Swansea was just really different to me.

Also something funny about Wales.

So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn’t you say,?

Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters. All hanging around starbucks. But not in Wales.

Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain. Starbucks was like. … idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I’ll try.

Rough people hung out at Starbucks.

Like. People who looked like drug addicts. Always outside chain smoking. Rough people. The 2 am Denny’s crowd. You know.

Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn’t know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.

I’m 100% serious.

Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.

I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).

Nope.

That’s endorphins.

Dopamine works in the background to condition motor behaviors to seek out the reward. It’s not the reward. It’s not a feeling or emotion.

No. I’m not a eugenist.

You are seeing things in black and white. That’s not how reality works.

I do not support endeavours like creating someone like khan.

I do however support endeavours to remove genetic diseases.

Not the same things.

Also. Lots of people are genetically superior to me in various ways. Healthier. Better brains. More athletic.

Humans are not equal. Genetically.

That’s just objectively a fact. .

However, we have to clarify that specific races are not genetically better.

Mostly because race is a social construct. But even biologically, specific ethnic groups are not superior to others.

Though some may be more predisposed towards specific diseases.

That’s a complicated area of research tho because diet and environment are bigger factors for many diseases.

My point is. Yes. Individual humans are different in traits. Both behaviorally and biologically. And some are better than other humans at those things. Making them superior. Like how an NBA player is superior to me in basketball.

It’s not eugenics to acknowledge that.

I think you need to read up about what eugenics is.

Understanding biology is not being pro eugenics.

"Eugenics is a discredited, immoral pseudoscience based on the belief that the human population’s “genetic quality” can be improved by selective breeding and the elimination of individuals or groups deemed “unfit” or “inferior”. It is strongly associated with scientific racism, ableism, and human rights abuses, culminating in the atrocities of the Holocaust. "

Like a legit one.

I did some lighting photography about 15 years ago. I did 30 second shots too. And then I also stacked some in processing to get some more dramatic shots.

Spent 2 occasions out in a storm trying to get photos. Probably nearly an hour each session

Nothing I got was that good tho.

Probably something that takes a lot of sessions to land the perfect shots.

Like wildlife photography.

I never had that kind of patience.

I just generally don’t like musicals as a rule. I think it stems from me not understanding musicals as a kid. I always thought it was so illogical that people would start dancing and signing in the middle of something serious. And I just thought it was so dumb and why didn’t anyone else realize that no body behaves like that !?!

I don’t know what age I was when I realized that it’s a type of story telling.

Probably way older than I should have been. But to this day I still seem to resent musicals because “they don’t make sense”.

😅

I actually am slightly embarrassed to admit I was that dense as a kid/teen. But I was.

Only person who got my joke. Thank you.

It was a joke. - cause Americans are so illiterate now days.

I don’t think they taste that great and I dislike the texture.

However they have a pleasant smell and are an aesthetic looking fruit.

I bought one at some ethnic grocery store because I saw them on animal crossing new leaf and was curious what they tasted like.

Not for me.

Do longer exposures. That’s the key.

It’s still relevant.

They won’t swear in the gal from Arizona. Until TN elects a red seat.

Everyone in Illinois is just waiting to get rid of durbin. Pos. He voted for the BBB too.

I kept dying. And I couldn’t figure out how anyone dies in a narrative game. I couldn’t really figure out how to play the game and gave up after dying 2x in the same conversation.

I’m still so confused how one dies from conversation.

Instead I watched a video about the game.

I play a lot of games but nothing like this one. I wanted to like it but I’m too dumb to figure out the mechanics. And I even tried watching videos and found them convoluted and confusing.

Meh.

Loved the art style tho.

I really liked and the story. But after taking a year break and then playing the dlc phantom liberty. I kinda was over it. Just felt like work. Not really fun.

So idk. Maybe you just have to be in the right mood for it.

Well just fyi. The end missions are currently, still today, broke. So only one ending available that is regardless of whatever choices you made.

I loved the first one. I like this one but they made some bad changes.

But mostly they need to fix the mission bugs.

First one you could change the armor and weapons on the companions.

Also I really liked the vicar and Parvati. Vicar was like a snarky gay guy and I loved it. I will admit the other 3 were blah. But the new companions on OW2 are kinda bland.

I don’t really like any of them. Niles and inza had potential but wasn’t developed.

And I straight up dislike Tristan’s personality. He’s just awful.

Aza can be entertaining. If they made her more impulsive I think that could have been fun.
For instance if you take too long in negotiations and shes present. She just starts attacking people after some time limit.

Or randomly attacks strangers she doesn’t like the look of.

They could have done something interesting with her.

But mostly they need to fix the damn quest bugs so I can finish the game.

Also there was a quest in ow1 where some sketchy dude asks you to do some sketchy thing. And you realize this during the quest. You can go back to him and get the reward. Or sucker punch him.

I wanted more of that in ow2. Didn’t get it.