Chetzemoka

We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere

Lmfao

Oh no, phenylephrine definitely has effects. It’s just that decongestion isn’t one of them. Intravenous phenylephrine is sometimes used in critical care hospital settings to deliberately raise a person’s blood pressure:

https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/phenylephrine-neosynephrine

There are so many consumers MONOPOLIES now that products that aren’t good or exploit their users can still have a healthy market.

FTFY

Oh man, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite used book seller:

https://www.ebay.com/str/secondsalecom

Also, construction leftovers on eBay are a great way to get sink faucets, light fixtures, etc. for a house.

I only have WhatsApp because I have so many non-American friends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I dragged my mom and sister over to using it, and everyone has been warned that the second I see Meta trying to monetize it, I’m going to whine until they all move to Signal (which has pretty much identical functionality.)

It doesn’t recognize kbin.social? Maybe I input the url incorrectly. Just curious

For me, it’s the wholesome bro moments in Lock, Stock like Fat Tom constantly, sincerely falling for his nickname. I also think at least once a day at work, “Can we lock up and get drunk now?”

So the official GOP position is that parents should be notified if a 14 year old expresses any kind of gender non-conformity, if the 14 year old seeks medical care for birth control, but not if a small business owner or large corporation wants to exploit that child’s labor for profit.

Completely logically consistent.

I’m really surprised no one has mentioned Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels because I think it’s actually the better of the Guy Ritchie movies in this style. It’s stylish, perfectly-paced, and has the perfect “I think we…won?” type resolution at the end.

Lock Stock is one of my favorite movies

This is my comfort movie series. When I’m tired of dealing with the real world for a while, I’ll watch it in 40 minute stretches for a couple weeks like a TV series

Seriously, the handful of times I’ve checked back in on Reddit recently just made me think, “Wow I hate it here.”

I’m so much happier on the Fediverse.

Without this feature, I wouldn’t have known that Yeah Yeah Yeahs and PJ Harvey released new albums. So I’m torn. On the one hand, I’m happy artists I already love can still reach me; on the other hand, I hate that smaller artists I don’t know about yet still have to pay to play

I feel like maybe we shouldn’t make a habit of making viruses after chaos gods lol.

I’m also endlessly entertained by the “here are the symptoms” every time they report a new variant. Cold symptoms. The symptoms are cold symptoms. You can’t distinguish one viral respiratory infection from another based on symptoms.

Referring to dragging a country out of literal starvation poverty after two centuries of calculated, corporatized, colonial looting a “domestic issue” is a choice, I guess.

When you have 1.4 BILLION of the poorest human beings on the planet to protect, I think it means you can. India is not a rich, western, developed nation. They have different priorities by necessity. The citizens of the United States and Europe do not face literally starving to death based on our political decisions. If we did, you would see much, much different decisions being made.

Everyone in the world is allowed to protect their own citizens, except India. That’s not considered acceptable

And historically, India has suffered some of the most horrific famines in the history of humanity as a consequence of international trade decisions. So you can understand why they’re protective of their own internal food supply.

Jesus, pure intentional enshitification. It’s so disgusting

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