Posts by Uair@autistics.life
(DIR) Post #AijRpIlNstIlOr4PB2 by Uair@autistics.life
2024-06-08T21:33:27Z
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@cy @heartofcoyote @olena @actuallyautistic What's your beef with benzos? I don't like them, but I'm curious about your take.
(DIR) Post #AijUkhxf4StPxsJWHw by Uair@autistics.life
2024-06-08T22:56:49Z
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@cy @heartofcoyote @olena @actuallyautistic You sound pretty misinformed about them. I've taken my share, and know about pretty much all the recreational drugs. I don't like benzos because they last too long. Addiction-wise, they're on the low end. Nicotine is the most addictive drug people do, the three powder drugs are all significantly more addictive than benzos...hell, I'd honestly say weed is more addictive. They're pretty harmless, health wise. Alcohol is far, far worse than benzos. Really, the only thing I know that's wrong with them is the duration. They linger about 36 hours, but you forget you're on them. This can cause problems, especially if you're drinking the next day.Oh--it's barbiturates that have the potentially lethal withdraw, but barbiturates were supplanted by benzos a long time ago.
(DIR) Post #AijXFG0pEaseATULXE by Uair@autistics.life
2024-06-08T23:35:38Z
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@cy wiki:Barbiturates have largely been replaced by benzodiazepines and nonbenzodiazepines ("Z-drugs") in routine medical practice, particularly in the treatment of anxiety disorders and insomnia, because of the significantly lower risk of overdose.******Opium isn't very addictive. It's a small dose of morphine and codeine. Heroin is far more addictive, and fentanyl even more so.**********I'm autistic, so my experience with drugs isn't a fair comparison. I break addictions like nothing. I can tell you a few things from personal experience:cocaine isn't physically addictive at all, but is the most powerful psychologically addictive drug out there. It's the only drug rats will self-administer until they die.I honestly don't know much about meth. I really didn't enjoy that drug. I spent 20 years on adderall, though.Narcotics (the class that comes from poppies, or big pharma substitutes) change your body. I spent a summer on them and could feel that change taking place, so I quit. I imagine that once your system rejiggers itself to want narcotics, you're pretty well fucked for life. Like a dry drunk.Hallucinogens are anti-addictive. Your tolerance shoots through the roof on one usage; the most frequently you can trip is once a week.Extacy/ molly/ MDMA is beneficial. The republicans needed a distraction so they emergency scheduled it in 1986. The doctors said it was very helpful in therapy, the judge said it should be schedule 3, and the DEA said, "fuck you guys!" and took it off the market. The DEA are basically America's religious police, and are completely unaccountable.Weed is addictive. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. When I go off weed, I stay awake for days.Coffee is really good for you and tea gives people kidney stones.A morphine addiction is easy to manage. There were still 1.5 million Civil War vets hooked on it in about 1905, when we took it away and turned them all into drunks.
(DIR) Post #Aijn33GUOxDMQN17FQ by Uair@autistics.life
2024-06-09T00:17:36Z
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@cy Oh, and--I've never injected anything and really haven't spent much time in the hard drug world, but I used to bring street level addicts home for the company.
(DIR) Post #Aijn6wXVLh1UivpbjE by Uair@autistics.life
2024-06-09T00:16:22Z
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@cy Most heroin users start on pills, but not codeine. Hydrocodone or oxycodone. Morphine is basically free to produce, and not patentable, so in America doctors prescribe pills like percocet, which is hydrocodone with acetaminophen. You may have heard of oxycodone. The Sackler family made a few bucks pushing it.These used to be kept out of the general population, but bush2 opened the floodgates. Then, once an entire generation had been strung out, he cut them off. They had to switch to dope. In my day, this was a self-regulating drug, since the acetaminophen would kill you in a couple months at high doses. Most people wouldn't go through the effort it took to go deeper into that addiction. It's very far from safe to go to the ghetto to buy dope.For clarity: opium is 10% morphine and 5% codeine. Heroin is morphine with a methyl(?) group attached to make it more potent. It didn't gain popularity until we banned morphine and the volume you had to smuggle mattered. Fentanyl and carfentanil are significantly stronger than heroin. Carfentanil is basically a chemical weapon. See: the Moscow Opera House siege.I'm pretty sure Kratom is a different class of drug, but don't know much about it. It's been my experience that anything legal that actually gets you high is a poison. The only legal recreational drug I'll do is nitrous oxide, which is harmless. And weed's semi legal now. I classify ethanol as a poison, not a drug.
(DIR) Post #Aijpvs7zi57XidJNlg by Uair@autistics.life
2024-06-09T02:58:49Z
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@cy Funny. I only use wikipedia.What narrative are they trying to push?The relevant part of that situation, to our conversation, is that putin used carfentanil to render everyone in the opera house unconscious, but didn't tell the paramedics the plan so they didn't have enough opioid reversal shots. Lots of people died unnecessarily.
(DIR) Post #AijqmiXS5s1hKGPyGu by Uair@autistics.life
2024-06-09T03:21:30Z
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@cy truth is in fiction any more.https://invidious.drgns.space/watch?v=g7gPegf76Mw
(DIR) Post #Ail9Le3kjOGtu2I5Am by Uair@autistics.life
2024-06-09T18:31:18Z
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@futurebird Give it ten years. Fifty six bil will probably just about buy a gallon of milk by then.:)
(DIR) Post #AjfyAGewppD3cEN4oi by Uair@autistics.life
2024-07-07T04:24:28Z
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@Ricardus How does it compare to the original?
(DIR) Post #Ajke4b8GmGOe54uA88 by Uair@autistics.life
2024-07-09T10:32:51Z
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@futurebird If you can not write, don't.
(DIR) Post #Ajn7s0GfOnpxDIfA9o by Uair@autistics.life
2024-07-10T15:16:15Z
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@stux If they were hoarding cats of newspapers, we'd recognize the behavior for the pathology it is.Not my observation.
(DIR) Post #Aju6vYjdxxiXlLJb5U by Uair@autistics.life
2024-07-14T00:08:37Z
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@stux If you use the same tools, if you use the same mechanisms as your enemy, you become your enemy. Violence begets violence. revenge is a wheel that only turns backwards. Yadda yadda.Not to be facile, but look at Israel doing the ethnic cleansing thing today.Or America. It wasn't that long ago we were patting ourselves on the back for winning a war against fascists. Now we're voting for one.
(DIR) Post #Ak0PtpssIfCQRnHgNU by Uair@autistics.life
2024-07-17T01:09:28Z
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@stux Scythes?
(DIR) Post #Ak0YT2RgO7qhAsrW1A by Uair@autistics.life
2024-07-17T02:45:31Z
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@stux You must not read Terry Pratchett. A couple times he points out that a scythe makes a crappy weapon, even in a peasant's revolt. It just seemed like an amusing inclusion in your list.I think I'd prefer the nuclear missile launcher to a scythe.
(DIR) Post #ArsYPvynWEbZlfTwfY by Uair@autistics.life
2024-04-15T16:33:02Z
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@actuallyautistic #politics Does anyone else hear echoes of the soviet union here? Mocking a strawman because you'll be punished for talking straight is a hallmark of totaliatarianism. Fuck amazon. Nationalize that shit. Set base pay for the most menial employee engaged in bringing us our consumer goods at a hundred grand a year. Or break up the monopolies and allow competition. Something. This needs fixing.https://www.404media.co/bad-amazon-bosses-wayne/
(DIR) Post #ArsYPwYFOQxfXc4FvM by Uair@autistics.life
2024-01-25T03:22:54Z
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@DemocracyMattersALot Am i the only one who thinks half a million rapes in 14 states in 18 months is...a fucking nightmare?!?!Gotta love those family values.
(DIR) Post #ArvmTL1ipep79SFNDM by Uair@autistics.life
2025-03-11T02:24:03Z
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@chemistry Hello. I'm watching 2003's "The Corporation", and a doctor of environmental science said, "Something happened in 1940 that allowed us to produce previously unknown chemicals, at quantity, relatively cheaply":It looks like he's talking about petrochemicals, but what happened? What was the breakthrough? Can you give me a term I can wiki?Thanks.
(DIR) Post #Audclvd1k4bo1htMO0 by Uair@autistics.life
2025-05-31T01:36:39Z
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#microfiction My apartment's a shithole. I'll admit it. I'm not much for cleaning and even less for straightening up. When the two cops walked in, the younger one fixated on the two thirty pack boxes of beer I had open on the floor. I suppose there's some proper way to open them, but I always simply tear a can-sized hole in the top and pry 'em out.The kiddie cop looked all of about seventeen. He looked like he should have been banging Joan Jett. After the grown-up verified my identity, his curiosity got the better of him."I hate to butt in, but I have to know--why do you keep two open boxes of beer?" he said."Well, in one, the beer is still in the can. In the other, not so much. It's a distinction I like to make. Keeps the place organized."Then he hit me.
(DIR) Post #AvMU4ueCqwKkpbLFrc by Uair@autistics.life
2025-06-21T12:30:56Z
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I'm in Minneapolis, and too poor to be allowed to adopt a cat. Thing is, I'd be a great pet owner. I'd value my pet's life more than my own. And there are always a ton of cats that need adopting, usually informally.Does anyone know of a cat I can love? I have stable housing and enough money to feed it. Older cat preferable; kitten if that's what's available.Boosts appreciated. Please help me give a good home to a cat that would otherwise be fucked. Thanks.
(DIR) Post #AxeTiibT8NzkcytIUi by Uair@autistics.life
2025-08-29T05:05:33Z
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#FantasticPromptsEnglish Aug 27. Do you have a favorite trope, or do you tend to avoid common tropes?I've long had a problem with the Black warrior-woman trope. Any Black woman in my stories is a quiet scholar or sensitive thinker.