I straight up told mine I require significantly more anesthesia because of my genetics. He made the incision, asked if I felt it, I said yes, then he started.

I did find out that I have an enormous pain tolerance, though. Fortunately the recovery was a breeze, so I guess I speed ran the pain.

For a time, at least.

I woke up during my colonoscopy. I distinctly remember asking for more anesthesia, and them telling me I already had the max.

There are 100% people with a gene that makes them metabolize anesthesia super rapidly, myself included. It’s linked to the gene for red hair, but red hair isn’t a requirement (I have it and I’m not a redhead, although my mom is).

I’ve 100% woken up during surgeries I should not have been conscious for, because the anesthesiologist didn’t believe me. Those include a pediatric colonoscopy, surgery to set a broken arm, my TEE (I was conscious, but in twilight sleep. Took 3 vials of versed and I still remember it), and my septoplasty.

And it’s not just general anesthesia either. It takes a fuck load of local anesthesia for me to feel it. My last filling they had to give me so much it paralyzed half my face for a while. Also, I wish my urologist had believed me when I said I wasn’t numb for my vasectomy.

Claiming there will be no withdrawal symptoms when taking it properly is factually incorrect.

Just because you didn’t experience them doesn’t mean others won’t. They might not be at the level of meth withdrawals, but they definitely exist.

He does, because he sees the world as a zero sum game. For him to prosper, others have to suffer.

That would require me being able to find anything in my rats nest of an office.

Yeah, that star is insanely popular in American traditional.

Lol, no. The US won’t even comply with it’s own.

Pure sugar is a preservative because it will dehydrate anything that tries to grow on it.

I mean, stuff will grow in water with salt in it too.

It makes me wonder why the founding fathers left that out.

I know a large reason we don’t have a direct democracy is because they didn’t trust the general population to not fall victim to a tyrant (which is super ironic).

I’m curious if the system was intentionally designed so that the only way the people can remove someone was through violence, or if they thought 2A would prevent the need.

I really wish the US had a democratic process for removing a member of the federal government.

It might be making more people be open about their pedophilic tendencies.

But, being attracted to kids is based on how your brain is wired, not the media you consume. I’m sure that the people whose job it is to moderate content to weed out CSAM don’t start wanting to fuck kids because of it.

Like, I’m sure incest rates didn’t skyrocket when porn started pumping out step-family scenes. Also in the same vein, violent video games didn’t make people violent.

That’s just because sugar is a preservative.

It shouldn’t be, unless the falsely accused was sentenced to death based purely on the accuser’s lies.

That would be murder, which can carry capital punishment.

The thing is that in the past our government wasn’t intentionally doing irreparable harm to our economy by giving nearly every trading partner we have the middle finger.

Maybe the markets will recover, but we might be looking at a situation similar to the great depression, especially if people start making bank runs.

Didn’t you hear? Vance is saying that manufacturing is never coming back to the US.

So even working in a sweatshop won’t be an option. Well, I guess until we’re colonized.

Their lore makes 40k seem like a children’s book.

There’s two types of homeless people. Temporary or chronically. The percentage of chronically homeless who are drug addicts, severely mentally ill, or both (self medication) is around 60-80 (this can vary largely by area).

That’s not to say that drug addicts and severely mentally ill people don’t need help, but it’s like people want to pretend that they don’t exist because they make addressing the homeless issue way more complicated, because at a certain point you have to talk about involuntarily committing people to mental asylums.

And heroin, and severe mental illness.

People forget that not every homeless person is just someone temporarily down on their luck. Iirc that $20b figure is just housing the homeless, which doesn’t fix things for people who are mentally ill, drug addicts, or both, and that’s like 60-80% of the chronically homeless.

It’s a massively complex issue with no simple fix.