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I take medication that would absolutely make me sick if I smoked or ingested weed. And I know this because I read the interactions list, rolled my eyes, tried it anyway, and surprise!

Why did I read this like patch notes on a game?

I’ve never been to LA but I find that easy to believe. Im proud of you for practicing. We can all use more practice.

I want to add, get in the habit of helping people and never telling anyone. Every day is a good day to practice helping people around you and not getting caught. Help someone take in their shopping. Help a stranger jump their car. Help an unhoused person get groceries. The less you hear strangers, friends, or family saying they saw you help someone, the more you’ll know you can do it in the future, when being seen is dangerous.

I do… a lot to help people. As often as I can. And every time I get zero recognition, I know I passed a stealth check.

Also, remember, if you’re helping someone and someone else asks what you were doing, now is a time to practice obfuscation.

Being that it’s cards against humanity, I expected them to email a disapproving message to your mother.

Danny Devito.

…I’m a woman.

That’s the beauty of the internet. There’s always a competitor. I don’t have to use someone who had a bad reputation at one point but is fine now. I can just use someone else.

My doctors office actually notified me that I’m on 2 medications that make me extra heat sensitive.

I appreciate it. This is a good reminder to folks to check.

I’m gonna add one I love trotting out from Oklahoma.

There’s a Miami, Oklahoma. It’s pronounced My-am-uh.

I’ve got about a billion from Oklahoma specifically.

Thank you for posting the bit and the link.

Holy fuck that’s so much energy!

The other comment got me curious and yeah! That was super interesting! Groundbreaking new science.

Where to go if you’re about to get hit by Walpurgisnacht.

Oh, no, I have a prescription for ADHD medication. I’ve just always been curious about whether I’d have that experience.

I haven’t done it by now and I’m pushing 40. Don’t you worry about me.

I have pretty crippling ADHD and I always wanted to try cocaine because of all the stories of ADHD folks trying it and feeling calm and normal.

Just curious to see if I have the same experience.

“Indians” don’t merely exist as a cultural concept in spaghetti westerns, and even if they did, fantastic racism is still racism.

Buuuut for fun, I’ll engage with your pivot to definition, and I’ll just add this quote for context that appears in the link you provided. Juuuust below your listed definitions.

Dictionaries are often treated as the final arbiter in arguments over a word’s meaning, but they are not always well suited for settling disputes. The lexicographer’s role is to explain how words are (or have been) actually used, not how some may feel that they should be used, and they say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word, much less the significance it may have for individuals.

Isn’t that amazing? “They say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word.” Your authority explicitly states that they shouldn’t be used as an authority in this context! Remarkable…

And now, in addition, I’ll provide the rest of that passage, which is also the absolute end of me interacting with you in this manner.

When discussing concepts like racism, therefore, it is prudent to recognize that quoting from a dictionary is unlikely to either mollify or persuade the person with whom one is arguing.

Not only not meant to be used as an authority, but also unlikely to settle any dispute you might have about the word.

I’ll take their advice. You can reply however you like- my interest in this conversation has vanished. Hopefully someone more patient will come along.

Racism doesn’t have to have intent. Racism can’t exist in a vacuum- that’s true- but the only context it needs is the concept of race.

A fantastic example would be rolling up all the Native American tribe into one group. Or attributing anything, even conceptually, to that group.

You don’t have to be aware that this is incorrect for it to qualify as racism, and you don’t have to have an intent about making that attribution to be wrong in doing so.

This argument holds no water.

The idea that it’s exempt from accusations of racism because it’s unaware that it’s being racist just doesn’t track.

My Dad died almost 20 years ago and I went NC with my abusive mother at about the same time. I never knew my grandparents.

I wanted to add my data to the set, even if it doesn’t help much.

An apt comparison, since Zoidberg is a fine physician… for aliens.

I just got a job at a place that does batch interviews. You go through the process, then they tell you they want to do an interview. You get a text or email with slots available and you and every other applicant fights for one of 50 interview slots available.

It’s a competitive job so you have to click the link within 5 minutes or you don’t get a slot.

I missed the first one (slots were all full) but I got the second round. Came in with all the other applicants, did the interview, got hired.

It’s certainly degrading and dehumanizing to go through this process, but for companies who have tons of applicants, they can get away with it.