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Oh, no, I totally did do that. They all consented though.

Try not to take it all personally. It's a public forum, and no one here knows each other. They are just trying to be helpful. You will have more success if you assume people aren't being mean. There is no need to delete your account. Learning the social rules for an internet space is difficult, especially when it isn't your first language. Take your time and don't be so hard on yourself. Your contributions will be appreciated, even if they aren't perfect English. Have a good day.

There's a big difference between the weed shop I can walk to down the corner and the nearest safe use site/casino. I think people should be free to engage in whatever recreational activity they choose to, and the existence of addiction doesn't give the government the right to infringe on those freedoms. Safe use sites and social programs can exist without a semi-dystopian puritan system. I don't understand why addiction is so huge a problem that it requires such insane overreach. Without capitalist exploitation, addiction wouldn't be monetized. A different form of government and legalization do a far better job at managing addiction than creating a black market with draconian laws.

A drug casino doesn't solve those problems though. Better social services for addicts can. Addiction is impossible to eradicate, all you can do is provide good social services for addicts and recovery programs (which aren't judgemental and Christian). Requiring transportation to go get and use drugs is the same thing as criminalizing it for many people.

Neither does making a drug house that people need transportation to get to. That's the same as criminalizing it for many people.

I feel like you have issues with the way capitalism takes advantage of people's vices and you blamed half of it on the vices. If it wasn't exploited, and drugs weren't criminalized, with normal and healthy social standards taught instead of total abstinence creating an attractive taboo, none of that would be an issue.

Excellent question, but I have no idea. She tears the medicine labels off for some reason so I'll ask her when she gets home and edit with more info. It's a capsule and a tiny pill, taken morning and night respectively, if that means anything to you.

Edit: Phentermine and topiramate

I'm an artist with aphantasia. You just might need to learn from someone that thinks like you do, or try different styles of art. There are so many disabled artists making cool stuff, and a learning disability is a barrier, but it can be overcome. I cannot see images in my head whatsoever. No mental picture, no visual memory. I make art just fine, it just took me a little longer to learn what works for me. The important part is that I had a desire to learn and overcome my difficulties, and didn't let them stop me from trying. Tracing AI art will not teach you the theory or techniques you could learn from another artist, and those are what you need to improve.

There are a million free courses to guide your learning and teach you about things like forms and perspective to capture what you want. Unless you have 0 free time whatsoever, anyone, and I do mean anyone, can make art.

My parents and my fiancee have gotten on an equivalent of Ozempic specifically for weight loss and covered by insurance. It seems to be easier now than it was, because if my fiancee wasn't covered we absolutely couldn't afford it.

We are.

Is this true? I thought with things like danger to oneself or others they're mandated reporters.