[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Give it time, eventually we will do an imperialism to your country too.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

No, not at all. This was looking at the effects of reducing inflammation on depression. Typical depression meds are meant to increase the availability of certain neurotransmitters such as serotonin.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Looks like it's a monoclonal antibody design to decrease inflammation. The target is people with persistent, low levels of inflammation and major depression.

My institution doesn't give access, but my first question would be whether they accounted for treatment for the underlying cause of the inflammation. Persistent inflammation can cause all sorts of issues and I suppose a treatment for relief is good, but why does it exist? Treating the underlying condition seems more prudent unless they don't know the cause.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 days ago

I figured that's how they would get around it, but also that there are surely people who purposely miss pronounce it. Seems much easier to make the acronym different by doing something like omitting the B.

Feels like it's purpose-made to invite bad behavior.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 3 days ago

DOJ continues to support law enforcement agencies’ transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Beginning in January 2021, NIBRS became the national standard for law enforcement crime data reporting in the United States and the transition to NIBRS represented a significant improvement in how reported crime is measured and estimated by the federal government

Really?

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Even if someone disagrees with your argument, there are alternative versions such as lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) and methylphenidate formulations (Jornay PM, etc.) that cannot be separated from their extended release mechanisms. They literally cannot be abused.

Lisdexamfetamine exists as a generic now too and shouldn't cost more than $15 for 30 pills (though I know there are pharmacies that will price gouge it). I don't know why any med provider would put you on Adderall at this point besides insurance issues and lisdexamfetamine is a pro-drug that delays access to the active drug in a way that is dependent on enzyme activity in your red blood cells. There is a hard rate of release limit to how much can be made available and this cannot be overcome. Methylphenidate isn't quite there in terms of access due to IP, but it's on its way.

Keeping the more advanced versions of these stimulants as schedule II is nothing but cruel. Either the limiting mechanisms are proven and they should not be restricted, or you don't trust them and never should have approved the drugs for use.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Yes, recognizing there is a wider environmental impact than the fuel your vehicle uses means you must give up all technology. What a reasonable conclusion to take from that comment.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

More improvement in the area of vaccine technology, acceptance, and adoption of these techniques: alternative forms of administration, less reliance on boosters, improved thermal stability. A better understanding of the immune system, neuroscience, and human biology in general. I expected more infectious diseases to be eradicated such as HIV, TB, and malaria.

These things are progressing and I see hope in how technologies are progressing, but I believe vaccine and infectious disease research and development have been severely limited by the industry's obsession with intellectual property and pursuit of profit. Our understanding of human biology has improved, but thinking back to my teenage years, I was naive as to how complicated biology is and how little we actually understand.

I'm still a bit salty no one ever brought dinosaurs back from the grave. Our progression in flight technology has been disappointing without flying saucers too.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago

The phrasing was weird, but this guy was born in Egypt and the statue was taken from Egypt. This isn't a matter of private property, he's commenting on how the UK exploited Egypt.

Sure, race and nationality are social constructs and genetics don't support the divisions we make along phenotypic lines, however, you can't just hope to solve racism and colonialism by saying they are gone and meaningless. If you say they no longer exist, that doesn't erase the impacts racism and colonialism have had on a people.

In essence, it's like punching someone repeatedly until they are bloody, stealing the money from their wallet to buy yourself a house, and then saying, "why can't we forget our differences and just be friends?" Is everything alright? Is it ok that you now have a home and the other person is destitute because you stole their money? Does it make it any better if it was your parents or grandparents who did this and now you've inherited the house?

Just claiming it's a social construct and wiping your hands of the issue does not fix the problem. And that metaphor I made does not even encompass the entire issue! Reality is more along the lines of: now that you own this house, you enforce policies that continually raise the price of housing and put a tax on people who don't own a house. The exploitation many people have suffered at the hands of racism and colonialism never stopped, it just changed it's form.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 days ago

Damn, beat me to it. Colonialism is a hell of a drug.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 4 months ago

Time to get a mob together and go expropriate those books. Only digital copies? Can't give us a copy? That's fine. I'll settle for taking the rest of the company's property and then burning down the fucking building instead.

Fuck your IP. These litigious fucks deserve to be bullied.

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