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The whole topic of drugs could easily be covered in 30 minutes. The only thing people under 18 need to know is this:

1. There are a large variety of different recreational drugs, each of which make you feel a different way, and which come with their own set of different risks and benefits

2. At some point when you’re older it may be reasonable for you to try some particular drugs, but there are some drugs which are never safe for anyone at any age

3. No drugs are safe for you to do yet. Your brain is still in a developing phase, and drugs that might be safe for you to do later will be very harmful to you at this age. Even though taking a drug might make you feel good in the very short term moment, it very likely could make your growing brain become depressed as soon as you come down from the drug, and this can become intense sadness that you feel for the rest of your life.

So for now just know that drugs is a complex topic that you can learn more about later when you’re older, but for now the details don’t matter because all drugs will be harmful to you right now while your brain is still growing

Haha oh brother

Sometimes you make a shitty title and you don’t want to admit it to yourself

So you quoted something that someone actually said. And we’re supposed to know that you aren’t actually saying it because…?

What a dumb title. I would’ve otherwise upvoted a cool pic, but the title makes it sound like you’re trying to make some unrelated dumb political point

Yup, knock on wood, I’ve had lots of Seagate drives over the decades and I’ve never had any of them go bad. I’ve had two WD drives and they both failed

Quote:

They were cut from girders and other bits that were swapped out of the Eiffel Tower during renovations

Where, quote it for me. I looked in 5 separate dictionaries, they all say it’s a negative thing.

Huh, definitionally it’s always a bad thing, i wonder why people around you use it that way

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whammy

Sounds like a double win, not a double whammy

That’s similar but different in a lot of meaningful ways. Hydro pumping like that requires a relatively large body of water next to a large geographical height right nearby. This new system doesn’t require any water, and it uses a man made hole in the ground that’s already been created and which otherwise would be simply unused

That’s so cool!

But the whole premise of this device is that the person didn’t want to drink from something straw-like. Which a sippy cup is to begin with.

Because there’s no upsidedown in space. A sippy cup works by using gravity, you have to turn the cup upsidedown to get the liquid to go to the sippy spout so you can suck it out. In outer space the liquid would just be floating free inside the sippy cup and not near the spout for you to suck it out.

Wow that sounds really difficult, I’m sorry to hear that. It sounds like you maybe you’re experiencing depersonalization

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depersonalization-derealization-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20352911

I didn’t always think this way when i looked in the mirror, i used to think of what i see in the mirror as me. It’s something that happened as I grew older and started seeing reality in broader and broader ways.

Interesting, but when i read about it at an actual medical site it doesn’t sound like me. I don’t feel like I’m viewing my life from the outside with no control or connection with events around me. There’s no distress to the way i see my body as being a thing I’m inside of rather than it being me. If anything it gives me a sense of calm.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depersonalization-derealization-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20352911

Thanks for the potential help, but I’m not trans. It’s not that my reflection looks incongruent with how i feel inside, it’s that i see my body as a physical object. Which it is. “I” am not what my body is.

Do some people not feel this way at all times? Personally i always feel like my body isn’t “me”, it’s just the functional shell that I’m living in. Like when i get in a car and go driving i don’t feel like the car is me, it’s just the functional shell I’m inside of. “Me” is my subjective sense of consciousness.

When i look in the mirror i mostly see it in the 3rd person. I see my face and i think “hey look at that guy”, and “that face could use a shave”, etc.

This is a misleading headline. It’s not talking about the existing Alexa products suddenly requiring a subscription for them to work, no the rumor is talking about a subscription for their upcoming higher tier Alexa Plus service with more advanced capabilities that’s based on generative AI.