It’s not great, unfortunately. But there are also non-stimulant medications, and people can also respond differently to different stimulants. Even different isomers can have different effects (e.g. racemic amphetamine aka Adderal vs. L-isomer amphetamine aka Vyvanse).
e: You can always try a treatment and keep a BP monitor on hand to watch out for increased blood pressure. If you spy it, mention it to your doc and they’ll try the next option.
Thanks for the intel. That’s what I was looking for when I opened the thread today.
Too bad for them that they don’t have a monopoly on power within the state.
The earlier comments had me thinking that it was bought through write-offs of debt obligations (e.g. to the families) that were never realistically going to be repaid. If the families are considered investors, then they may stand to reclaim a lot more through long-term payouts from Infowars under The Onion’s administration.
But I could also be totally off base. I’ve absorbed a little info from others but I’m not actually that interested in the story. I haven’t done any due diligence whatsoever lol
That sounds to me like Jamie turned down an offer and Trump is doing damage control lol
Even the official appointments could fall through before he takes office so I agree there is very limited utility in speculating.
Sounds good to me.
I hate the word being misused almost as much as I hate being misunderstood when I use it correctly.
i’ve been upvoting everything in the sub lol. i want to see where this rabbit hole goes!
Yeah he does and Dems are lying to people by not admitting it, I agree.
I just think Trump says a whole bunch of other shit, too, and that makes up for the moments of lucidity. At least as far as being “real” goes.
tbh my intention was to crack a joke drawing attention to how hypocritical AOC looks broadcasting those words given her brand and rhetoric on Trump. Trump might have caught a stray but I don’t feel too bad about it.
I feel like Trump and you are both real
A reasonable person would take that comment like a slap to the face lol
I think I’m personally responsible for pushing a few until they snapped.
jk I don’t think they’re snapping so much as going mask-off. And personally I think it is better that we have clear lines in the sand rather than be weakened by impostors overwhelming our ranks.
One type of Dem is now lost (and was never really reachable), but another type of Dem will want to break rank and flee to other organizations now that the masks all around them are slipping.
Or maybe not. We keep marching on either way.
This has been… an interesting adventure.
I’m very glad I don’t rely on hexbear for health or happiness.
Thanks to everyone who has put in effort to get this sequence of ordeals resolved amicably.
Right now I think it would be wise to hammer on the DNC’s incompetence and demand the leadership be replaced. People need to lose faith in it before anything else can rise up - whether or not they mean to be controlled opposition, they’re having the effect of being one.
Legitimize people’s legitimate concerns, and provide context where you feel like they’re coming at it from a reactionary angle. Give them the bigger picture - the bigger problem. Use your intersectional knowledge to tie their concerns into leftist concerns.
Potentially even talk about dual power and how communities need to start taking more initiatives for themselves in the face of climate change, economic instability, food deserts, etc. Push against financial solutions for such initiatives that would require going into debt or giving special rights to investors. Try to pitch for solutions that get lots of people mobilized and organized instead. Contrast that to playing “follow the leader” under corporate political parties for so many years.
double groovy
I bet you can get at least 2 flushes out of that substrate if you keep it hydrated and clean.
I heard all of the libs were congregating so I decided to check it out.
groovy
The US is escalating its attempts to buy itself time and slow China’s ascent.
TSMC to suspend production of advanced AI chips for China from Monday, FT reports
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I did a deep dive several months back and I get the impression that many US bureaucrats/analysts see countering China on Taiwan as not feasible let alone beneficial for the US. [edit: I think some made the point that the US needs China for solar, steel, and other goods to have any meaningful green transition.]
I got the impression that they encourage de-escalation and a timeline of 10-20 years for a handover to occur. It seems to me like it’s the elected politicians who are using war-mongering to whip up votes among propagandized voters, using heated rhetoric and driving the resurgence of jingoism. 20 years gives them plenty of time to redirect their propaganda toward another, weaker nation.
Of course there is a very real fear of the propagandists drinking their own koolaid, or the crumbling empire lashing out. But every day the US’ edge is diminished more.
I don’t know what is best for China to do but I know that they shouldn’t wait forever to do it - however they are keen on playing the long game and good at it, and if they can afford to do so without hurting themselves, I think you’re “best possible outcome” is pretty likely.
I don’t think 20 years is going to be an acceptable timeline but I also don’t think it’s going to take 20 years for US force projection to collapse.
I agree that a lot is going to depend on who gets put into positions of power around Trump. Some outcomes seem more reliable than others but personally I don’t feel I can predict much with any reliability until there is a clearer picture of what the administration is going to look like.
(And if the admin sees turnover similar to the last one, then it’s going to be even harder to make reliable long-term predictions.)
With that said, I also share your cautious optimism. (e: Speaking in terms of the international political picture - I’m less optimistic about the immediate effects that many of our comrades around the world could experience.)
I’ll give this one a shot because I wrapped up my responsibilities for the day.
The most common medication for ADHD afaik is amphetamine. Amphetamine doesn’t just sound like methamphetamine, it is very similar in effects. Meth and similar stimulants were used at high rates up through WWII. Germany, the US, Japan, and presumably many other countries relied on them heavily for their soldiers. Then broken soldiers came home and the use of stimulants among the general domestic populations became “problematic.” Part of this was based in reality - addiction, stimulant psychosis, having energy to oppose the state - and part of it was the need to appear consistent in anti-drug propaganda against other substances such as cannabis.
An additional factor is that stimulants can be easily be made clandestinely, and that reality is inconvenient for strong states that desire economic control and the dependence of their residents on government-sanctioned revenue streams. Amphetamines are stronger than coffee and yet much easier to produce at home. Cartel financing is extremely effective in opposing orthodox power structures. And to be fair, homebrew amphetamines can be very dirty meaning that there are risks to the user that do not exist when using substances created by official producers.
We’re probably thinking about the medication from the perspective of medicating neurodivergent individuals to improve their quality of life, and in that sense you are correct that the evidence supports them strongly. However the rules are made by the states, and the states want a monopoly of authority. Such power structures generally care very little about patients as opposed to controlling “human capital.” Their concerns are more about weakening the argument for a war on drugs (which was never about the drugs themselves), individual economic independence and state loss of tax revenue, loss of donations and lobbying from pharmaceutical producers, and similar “risks” that would occur if their population accepted such drugs. The best way to turn individuals against their own interests is propaganda, and so a ton of anti-stimulant propaganda was created post-WWII.
We are still dealing with the consequences of those choices. The propaganda has pervaded pop culture. It even affects drugs that were never used recreationally such as SSRIs (although they can be criticized from different angles such as questionable efficacy, as opposed to earlier medications [TCAs and MAOIs] for example). As a result we have also become more worried about manageable side effects vs. the deleterious primary effects of the untreated conditions themselves. We are now in a state where “common sense” says that no drugs is better than some drugs even though that viewpoint relies on erasing the consequences of untreated conditions.
Are these treatments perfect? Are they free of side effects? No. Criticisms along these lines can be valid if properly evidenced. But that’s not in anyway a priority for society at large. It’s not what is really driving the Puritanical anti-drug sentiment imo.