I've noticed a correlation between heavy herb smokers and not getting the virus or having mild symptoms. People that primarily do hash haven't had the same benefit, which is kind of weird. This is all anecdotal.
I'm a long-time THC consumer. The effects differ tremendously based on a wide range of variables. I've also retrained myself after many years to override my natural THC behaviors.
Let me give some examples. College days, my first real year of smoking, I got really high. I mean, really really high. Close to a psychedelic experience. I went to the cafe to get an ice cream sundae and when I walked in, everybody in the entire room stared at me. Or, it felt like it. 30 people making eye contact looking at me AND THEY KNOW I'M HIGH. It was extremely uncomfortable- for my entire life growing up, I hadn't really ever made eye contact with people and having a lot of it was intense.
A few years later, I get really high at a Grateful Dead show. Completely different experience- everybody was getting high and having a great time with strangers and I didn't feel judged and it was GREAT, socially speaking.
Following college I began my professional career, but I am also a full time smoker, so I had to learn how to deal with the "OH GOD THEY KNOW" feelings and forced myself to be highly social at parties, etc. It can be really weird to be a person who is very introverted and wants nothing more to curl up in a ball far from people, but walk around a party introducing yourself to everybody and making intelligent conversation.
Im interested in the psychopharmacology of cannabis and why so many people get the paranoia effect. I suspect it's probably a side effect of tweaking your endogenous cannabinoid system, in combination with the social pressures associated with cannabis consumption.
The right sees post-BLM riots which have led to numerous deaths and millions in damage and Antifa running amok in the Pacific Northwest and think the same thing.
We are too divided and it’s because of the media, both social and mainstream.
I think the poster meant that the Polarization is so acute at this point that the Polarization itself needs to be treated as distinct phenomenon (and remedied to some degree) before any progress can be made.
An analogy might be the phenomenon of Complexity in software.
That's not what it sounded like to me. It sounded like they were putting the blame for hazardous actions of others on the media (of an all-encompassing scope) for discussing the hazardous actions being committed.
Which to me seems like slinging jargon rather than registering any kind of context. To me, it sounds like a misreading of McLuhan more than anything. In fact, McLuhan's point was exactly that kind of misunderstanding and misreading should be avoided by not taking the context for granted.
But the presence of BLM-related riots simply isn't relevant to the stuff under discussion, where an upthread poster made a sideways argument that evidence for right wing violence was presumptivly suspect in the fact of multiple examples of exactly that kind of thing. The police station in Minneapolis that was burned down (to pick what most people would accept as the worst example of BLM-related violence) just shouldn't be part of a discussion about whether or not there was a threat against Amazon's data centers from the right.
This is pure whataboutism, basically. Even if you're right (for the record, I think you're right), you're applying it to deflect an argument against "your" side. Isn't that making the problem you are explaining WORSE and not better?
Surely you'd agree that step one to being less divided is to stop reflexively defending "our" side when bad things happen, right?
Okay, putting the ideals of the two events aside, the fact is the police (and national guard) presence was great enough during the BLM protest to make breaching the perimeter essentially impossible, as opposed to the much lighter presence on the 6th.
I'm not sure why you ask, but this seems like a potential bad faith attempt at whataboutism. I don't support any form of rioting. I also don't think what happened outside of the White House was in any way a riot. Certainly not in any way comparable to what happened this week at the Capitol.
I ask because it makes you think and hopefully prevent overreaction. Banning apps because of extremists and poor police presence is stupid. I think these people should have been treated the same as the second day of protest where Capitol police were stationed outside after the church was set on fire. There was a lot more time to plan for these event as it was less spontaneous and had many hundreds of thousands planning attendance. I think not having a bigger police presence was pathetic and it was likely political.
The actual Tweet is “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country”.
I do also recall that he called out Pence during the speech leading to the riot as well.
However the thing that stood out the most to me at that speech is that his son said they would make the party the “Trump Republican Party”, which seemed to indicate a coming purge.
Now at the time, I thought it would be a nonviolent purge, but considering the riot I am not sure what was actually intended since his followers took that to mean Pence should be hanged.
Take care of the education of your poorest citizens, stop orchestrating coups, stop imprisoning black men en masse, give people single-payer healthcare. Then we can talk about moral high ground.
While bad, not one of these rises to the level of genocide and oppression that form the core of China's tactics to control its population and exert influence abroad, and, yes, that does mean from a moral perspective the US is better. "Terrible" is still better than "inhumane".
I'm really sick of this. The Verge's article [1] is the yardstick for just how far America's own self-hatred will go. To compare the present genocide of an entire culture to America's sins, right now, would be laughable but that so many Americans have bought wholesale into its fantasy. If you were to gather up the prison industrial complex and the tens of thousands failed by privatized healthcare, it would be a drop in the bucket.
The CCP's orchestrated intent to scrub out 2 peoples and their religions from the face of the earth on their way to a 3rd complete, divisible nation (Taiwan) has not been seen since Nazi Germany. This is the scale of atrocity and disrespect for the basic right of a human being to say, "I am who I am", we are dealing with at this very moment in human history.
Please, please, consider that however tough things are in the US for very many people, it can change with a vote. That is a democracy, however broken and fragile.
Nk other nation in world history has caused more destabilisation and upheavel across the globe than the USA. Arming terrorists, starting wars for oil, dropping millions of tonnes of cluster bombs over vast areas, spraying civilians with horrible chemicals that caused birth defects for decades, dropping atomic bombs on cities, faking evidence of WMDs, assassinating leaders, constant drone murder-without-trial strikes in foreign nations with "collateral damage", overthrowing democracies, putting in dictators, mass surveillance and the most organised and terrifying system of rendition and torture that has ever existed.
The human cost in death, maiming and misery is absolutely incalculable.
Frankly, I'm really sick of people sticking their head in the sand and not looking closer to home before they attack others because "we're the gold guys" and "they're evil communists".
>. To compare the present genocide of an entire culture to America's sins, right now, would be laughable
Really? As much as I dislike cultural genocide, such as the still ongoing cultural genocide against Native Americans, I fail to see how it is a graver sin than the Iraq War. And please, tell me how my vote can stop it.
