Don’t use that spyware-riddled crap. Use Tenacity instead.

Don’t care. Please read my reply the the other person. I rather risk brain, liver, and skin damage than go homeless.

Damn, you replied before I could finish my edit… :/

Thanks, but I’ll be alright. Already got all the luck I need from kratom. Like I said, it kicked my ass into gear and made me a functioning adult. Even if it’s as dangerous as some people claim, I’ll take that chance, because the alternative is homelessness. My parents are dead now, so if I quit, I will stop going into work and my girlfriend will break up with me. I have nobody else. Kratom is the one thing preventing that from happening.

Well I can’t tell you this much: Kratom saved my life, so I get a little bit offended when people try to talk shit about it when there are actual deadly drugs out there killing people, and many of them are legal.

Just like with every substance, it’s about moderation. Kratom can become addictive just like gambling can if you have the personality for it. If you treat it like a pharmaceutical and stay consistent with your dosage, you have nothing to worry about.

Now the reason why I say kratom saved my life is because it is the one substance I found that can actually make me a functioning adult who can contribute to society. I have AuHD and was a NEET until my 30s, being an absolute drain on my parents’ resources. I just could not hold down a job. I’d get sick of working after a month, and decide to stop coming in. My bosses would stress me out, I’d have a panic attack, and then just walk out the door, never to return. The doctors tried. I’ve been given all sorts of antidepressants, bipolar meds, stimulants, benzos…Nothing worked. Or in the case of stims like Adderall, they’d work the first few times and then I feel completely and utterly miserable for the rest of the month.

But then at the age of 31, someone introduced me to the Green Maeng Da strain at a family gathering and it changed my life forever. For the very first time in my life, I felt like a normie. I was able to smile and joke around with people, talk to strangers, and my anxiety was gone. Like completely. I never felt this way in my life!

Fast forward a decade: I am now able to not only hold down a job, I now have a paid off car, a house, beautiful girlfriend who I am going to marry one day. And it’s all thanks to kratom. It woke something up in me and I am eternally grateful to that family member who showed me that I don’t have to keep trying various medications that don’t work.

So needless to say, this is why the “fuck kratom” people offend me. I would have been an unemployed loser for the rest of my life if it weren’t for it. The crazy part is that it keeps consistently working, day after day. I don’t understand why I’m not building a tolerance to this stuff but I’m grateful it worked out that way. But again, maybe it’s because I treat it as a serious medication, and not just something to get high off of. You have to be consistent with your dosage.

Prescription painkillers are worse by several orders of magnitude. There’s a reason why the DEA gave up on trying to ban kratom.

Edit: Hate all you want, kratom saved my life and I am eternally grateful for it. Read my reply to the other person for the full story. Original post below:

So what if they’re addicted? It’s a (relatively) safe addiction.

If you have ADHD, depression, or chronic pain, kratom can be a lifesaver. It takes years to build a tolerance and unlike prescription opiates, there’s no respiratory depression, therefore no risk of overdose.

If you want to get mad about something, get mad at the pharmaceutical industry for pushing opiates upon people when there’s a much safer alternative.

The biggest risk of kratom is getting a dosage of heavy metals along with the powder, but if you buy from reputable vendors who lab test their product, it’s a non-issue.

Makes you really wonder exactly how many Alphabet, Inc. executives are in the files.

Not only that, the draft coming in makes you freezing cold the entire time, forcing you to huddle under the water for most of your shower, thus wasting it and washing away the soap you’re trying to lather in.

A hotel I stayed at once had this exact same shower and I can confirm that water did in fact get everywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if the building collapsed after a few years due to water damage rotting/eroding away the support beams under the floor.

When The Pirate Bay launched in 2003, I went full piracy then and never looked back.

From an outsider’s perspective, it’s like watching a wild roller-coaster ride from the sidelines. Never understood all the Netflix hype when they first launched their streaming service. Tried it once in the early 2010s and was beyond disappointed; the vast majority of of content I wanted to watch was not on there (and still isn’t).

These days I use Stremio paired with Torrentio and a Debrid service. Instant streams to anything I could ever want to watch, and it’s all there in one place. IDK why people would pay for multiple streaming services when you can just have one.

All major LLMs have had citation ability for while now. Any time I ask one a question I can’t find the answer to, if it’s not providing a source, I automatically assume the output is slop. And even then, you still have to be wary, because it will often make something up then cite a semi-related source that doesn’t actually contain its claims.

Why is the FDA getting involved with the business of a European grocery chain? We don’t have Publix in the US as far as I’m aware.

Yeah seriously, if soda is so expensive as the post topic implies, how about you stop drinking it, then? Just drink water instead.

Ah yes, a good old fashioned upper-decker.
Take a shit up there sometime if you really hate someone.

I have a similar problem when I try to search for “Codi Vore” on porn sites. I’m often greeted with an error message, “why are you searching for vore, you sick fuck?”

She doesn’t even do vore, that’s just her porn name.

Yeah seriously what’s this post on about? There are no communists on Lemmy; but there’s plenty of bootlickers on here cosplaying as such.

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Ublock Lite still works in Chrome (and it still blocks YouTube ads, not sure about cookie popups), but you get no control over the filters. Just a slider with some presets to choose from. So while better than nothing, just stick with Firefox.

Wait, Fauci’s on trial? What the actual fuck is wrong with this country, when we’re prosecuting doctors for simply wanting people to be healthy and safe? Even if the masks didn’t work, exactly what harm is there in wearing one anyway?

Wait, what? How did his approval rating shoot up to 34%? It was at 29% last time I checked… We need to get that percentage back down below 30!

That’s a lock pick, not a key.

Also, Walmart doesn’t use physical keys anymore. It’s some sort of wireless thing like NFC.