• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    “Cant wait for Social Security to be abolished, these useless old people should just die and not waste our resources.”

    elderly relatives sitting nearby

    (/s Lol, luckily I don’t know anyone that voted trump, I mean I don’t know what distant relatives voted for, but they’re in another state so I don’t care 🤷‍♂️)

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      9 hours ago

      You’ve already received a joke answer, so yes, breast reduction surgery for guys is a thing. And sometimes the doctor can convince some insurance companies to cover it. But ymmv, because USA.

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        6 hours ago

        What if I have access to TJ doctors? Any downsides? Scars or whatnot?

        Just asking for a friend. Don’t tell him I asked

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          4 hours ago

          Honestly I don’t know more than I already said. But at least now you know to start asking those questions to some doctors. Since you wouldn’t be left with any breast undercurve to hide a scar, I should think you’d want a good plastic surgeon who’s done men.

  • Ekybio@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    “How do you deal with the fact that Trump will die of old age soon and you basically voted for J.D. Vance instead?”

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      7 hours ago

      That’s literally why my several members of my family voted for Trump. They really don’t like Trump (they voted for Nikki Haley in the primaries), but they really like Vance and hope he’ll take over at some point.

      I was blown away, because I was under the impression that Vance was fairly universally disliked. I immediately responded with some equivalent of “clearly we watch very different news.”

      • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Here’s a fact, there are an overwhelming number of north Koreans that support kim jong un despite it being insane. There is no saving these people. There is no walking them back. We either submit to their cause or they will drop the nukes themselves. The sooner we come to terms with it the sooner we know what must be done.

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          2 hours ago

          Asking north koreans rather or not they like their murderous dictator that will make their family disappear is not exactly a good indicator if average citizens likes him.

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      6 hours ago

      There seems to be a pretty strong correlation between the age someones parents die and the age they’re likely to die.

      Trump’s dad lived until 93 and his mom live until 88. He might be here for a bit.

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    11 hours ago

    Trump is going back to being a Democrat. I feel like I’ve been lied to, but you obviously saw it coming and was one step ahead of me all along. Well played.

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    13 hours ago

    I was thinking about explaining that trump legalized trans weed last time he was president so why not go fully legal?

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        11 hours ago

        Here’s the source

        It’s truly amazing that orange man legalized weed in 2018.

        You know for a goddamn fact that nobody in congress nor the orange man intended to do this.

        Yet another example of old white men legislating on stuff they don’t understand but at least in this case it’s a win for us

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          I mean, honestly I think it really cuts to the root of it - they didn’t care, because they believe in nothing.

          They wanted to create a business opportunity for the billionaires bribing them their buddies, and they literally give no shits about side effects (unless someone rich is willing to pay to change the side effects)

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          5 hours ago

          Thanks, that was educational. I had incorrectly assumed they were all synthetics when I heard they were selling in dry states.

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        12 hours ago

        I’ve tried to explain what delta 8 vs delta 9 is too many times so I’m trying to simplify it.

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            Weed isn’t a single drug, it’s a complex plant that contains many psychoactive compounds called cannabinoids. The best known and (probably) most intoxicating of these is what’s commonly called THC, technically delta-9-THC, though over 100 others have been identified so far. Some of these are highly (pun intended) psychoactive while some appear, at least to the user, to be pharmacologically inert. Regardless, a hastily-written 2018 federal farm bill which was partially intended to legalize commercial hemp essentially legalized all of them including even tiny (<0.3%) concentrations of delta-9. That has allowed for a massive market of legal (in states which haven’t since passed their own laws saying otherwise) weed. It’s not the same weed sold by regulated recreational/medical dispensaries in legal states, though. Rather, these are the products you may have seen in gas stations and head shops, most of which contain at least some delta-8-THC, a compound that is very closely chemically related to delta-9. The key thing to understand, though, is that despite very similar chemical structures, two related drugs can vary substantially in terms of their potency and subjective effects.

            I think that’s about as simple as I know how to make it but I’ll be over here spending my Thanksgiving evening in bed with my dogs and a bottle of wine if anyone has questions.

            edited because grammar and ADHD are hard

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                Eh, kind of but not really. This is where it starts to get complicated and where I’m out of my chemical depth.

                While (some) cannabis does contain at least trace amounts of many of these compounds, all of the intoxicating cannabinoids produced other than (most of) the delta-9 is actually semi-synthetic, originating from hemp-extracted CBD. Now, as long as the product of the reaction (iirc isomerizarion involving heat and something like citric acid) is pure, the fact that it was synthetically produced does not in and of itself make that resulting compound unsafe. Where it gets hairy is the fact that even delta-9 remains poorly studied today thanks to over five decades of prohibition, and we have basically no idea what ingesting large quantities of any one of these 100+ minor (think something on the order of <1% in the average plant) cannabinoids is actually doing to our bodies.

                The real issue, though, is that the lack of any regulatory oversight whatsoever allows shady, greedy distributors to cut an already dirt cheap product with even cheaper and potentially deadly chemicals like vitamin K. You’ll likely hear a disproportionately loud amount of “delta-8 bad” talk (and I’m not trying to promote its use, either) but the most serious harm probably has less to do with the compound itself and more to do with such toxic adulterants. That said, scientifically tested or not, there are reputable and entirely legal sources for many of these substances, although they aren’t necessarily gas stations.

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              9 hours ago

              Thanksgiving with dogs, wine, and Lemmy. You’re living the dream, man. Drink a bunch of water too, though. For tomorrow you.

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                10 hours ago

                It’s definitely far less potent than ∆9 and it doesn’t do nearly as much to me in terms of the head fuckery but it will absolutely put even the most seasoned stoner on their ass for a solid day if they take enough of it in one sitting, especially in edible distillate form. I say that having smoked for over 25 years. The diluted vapes are shit, though.

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                  10 hours ago

                  Well it doesn’t matter to me personally, anymore. I quit all of it nearly two years ago.

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    11 hours ago

    I heard his AG has plans to send in the military to take away your guns! For your safety!

    Heard about something about how his AG pick potentially making it so at least people must register their guns. No idea how true or if it’s gonna happen, but I imagine that alone would be enough to make a lot of his voters super angry.

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    12 hours ago

    I can’t wait for them to have the same kind of behavior that GOP voters did when they re-elected George Bush back in 2004.

    “He whuh” “Huh whuh” I voted for Trump whuh" As their head spins to see that he’ll do nothing for them when they believed that he would.

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      I have a prediction to make.

      I don’t believe Trump will pardon most convicted Jan6ers.

      He might pardon one or two here and there, but the bulk will stay locked up.

      The reason is twofold:

      1. Most of the Jan6ers have nothing to bargain with, Trump won’t waste his time pardoning people who he can’t use…
      2. These are dangerous people, they have shown that they are willing to attack the government, and that is not what he would want now.
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      12 hours ago

      Thing is a lot of those memories died when COVID hit the GOP constituency the hardest.

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    11 hours ago

    Replied to a comment in this thread already but dropping this here for visibility

    Orange man legalized weed on a federal level in 2018. Source here

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    10 hours ago

    everyone should save their grocery store receipts and compare them to similar purchases a few months from now