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- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 4 weeks ago:
Ok, this is anecdotal for certain, but an honest and lived experience.
I’ve developed osteoarthritis in various parts of my body as I aged, my wife has rheumatoid arthritis. She takes some non-opioid prescription meds (with unfortunate long-term effects) for it, but they’re anti-inflammatories and don’t do much for the base pain. I introduced her to CBD oils, ointments, salves, and tinctures. She now takes an eye dropper of tincture every night before bed which allows her to sleep better, and has a variety of tropicals (lotion, gel, roll-on, stick (like deodorant)) for localized treatment and flare ups in both trees and muscle tension. She also does not like being high at all, so she gets hemp-based products online (Lazerus Naturals, for the curious).
On my end, I enjoy the high as (with a sativa) it helps me to focus and get things done (undiagnosed ADD checking in) as well as killing the pain in my body. I’ve also found that the THC component gives a boost to the pain-‘killing’ effect, but that could just be the drugs talking.
Marijuana aside, I’ve also learned the benefits of Turmeric for arthritis pain. There are days I forget to take Turmeric and am soon reminded when the invisible gremlins start stabbing my hands in the evening. See if you can get her to add that to her supplements and she might get a bit more relief.
I’m a skeptic and scientist by nature, and endured various days of pain just to make sure the stuff I am taking is actually doing something, so maybe I can save someone else the hassle. Keep in mind that some things are a cumulative effect, meaning you’ll need to take them for a few days to really propagate through the system for best effect.
Best of luck!
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 4 weeks ago:
(If your experience is chronic pain, well…)
And there’s the rub. I don’t want to be a wake-n-bake kind of person, but I also don’t walk fully upright until I’ve had a hit or two, and using my hands for anything requiring dexterity and/or strength means I’ll have invisible gremlins stabbing my knuckles with their tiny, invisible knives the rest of the day and night. “Microdosing” through the day allows me to get shit done when my body doesn’t want to cooperate.
- Comment on for those who know 4 weeks ago:
Given the rise of MAGA, do you blame them?
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 2 months ago:
If you haven’t tried No Man’s Sky in VR, you’re really missing out. I have about 800 hours in it (90% in VR) and still go back to it day 1 if a new Expedition.
Walkabout Mini golf is a must-have.
Myst and Riven are fantastic in VR.
Star Wars Squadrons, Project Wingman, MS Flight Simulator… Pretty much any flying game with a HOTAS setup is great in VR.
Same can be said for racing games with a wheel setup.
Alyx is truly fabulous, but there are plenty of other great VR experiences to be had.
And that’s not even including what’s available with the VR injection mods. Cyberpunk in VR is pretty awesome, even with the jank that comes with playing a pancake game in VR.
- Comment on I just WON'T 2 months ago:
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 2 months ago:
Saw a thing once, maybe Mythbusters, that showed how beavers are attracted to the sound of running water and want to stop it. In the show, they got the beaver to dam a speaker by playing river/stream noises through it.
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- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 2 months ago:
“I wanna drink some milk, but it’s so flimmin-flammin hard to open.”
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 3 months ago:
I hear you and am guilty of it myself. I feel like it’s due to the anonymous nature of the internet. I think everyone immediately falls into the category of “peer” before putting a touch more thought into who the actual person (bot/ai) is that wrote the reply. Add that to the fact that most Americans see themselves (as a country) as the king of the world.
Maybe you can try typing with an accent, but I think that’d probably just be seen as a racist American.
- Comment on How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up. 5 months ago:
That’s not just your country. That’s organized religion in every country.
- Comment on Not Spam, ON TOPIC: Fidget Toys for Adults, 1911 3D Printed Small Pistol Toys, Stress Relief Pistol Toys Suitable for Relieving ADHD, Anxiety, Suitable Toys for Friends Adults and Kids Best Gift 6 months ago:
It’s not legal to kill kids, but you can buy 'em a toy gun and then call the cops about suspicious activity in the area…
Can’t wait to see the first incident of a school cop killing a 2nd-grader who was bringing his toy to show-and-tell.
- Comment on Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names 6 months ago:
That answers my question, thank you.
- Comment on Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names 6 months ago:
Is the k-word (or close variant) integrated into the cultural language there in the same way the n-word is here?
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 6 months ago:
That dude is WAY in to Simulation Theory.
- Comment on Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – and the picture is unsettling 6 months ago:
- Comment on Stay Mad 6 months ago:
I assume you are referring to supplying weapons to Israel, in which case, do you think Trump (who called Biden a ‘Palestinian’ as an insult during the debate) will be the better choice and stop supplying weapons to Israel?
- Comment on He remains at large 7 months ago:
Jesus Christ! And I thought the Uvalde police were bad!
- Comment on Planetary travel guide 7 months ago:
And that moment lasted as long as the theoretical “now”.
(“Now” never happens because the moment your brain registers that “now” has happened, it’s already “then”)
- Comment on Planetary travel guide 7 months ago:
Since when has not experiencing something, or even having any knowledge of something, prevented the internet from expressing their opinions about it?
- Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water. 7 months ago:
So, when you take a shower, all you think is “scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse”?
When I shower, it’s all pretty automatic and muscle memory kinds of actions. My mind wanders all over the place, usually while listening to music /podcasts /audio books, but rarely do I think about the actual act of bathing.
- Comment on Absolutely diabolical 7 months ago:
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 7 months ago:
Right!? Make this the election that was decided by porn!
May every porn site block every republican-lead district this election season with a full-page message stating that this is a direct result of republican policy. Then link to voting resources.
- Comment on Get scattered 7 months ago:
It’s not that we can’t explain it, it’s that you can’t understand it.
- Comment on It's been tough, y'all 8 months ago:
Enumclaw checking in.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 8 months ago:
And that’s worse than being raped and beaten to death?
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 8 months ago:
It may ignore your reality, but the thing about experience is that it defines our realities, and the experiences of the women who responded make up reality as they see it. If they’ve had more negative experiences than positive ones, their reality is that the bear is a better option.
Based on so, so much of what I’ve heard/learned from my wife, female friends, co-workers, daughters, stories from numerous personalities from tv, film, and radio, MAGA, Andrew Fucking Tate, etc., I can’t say that I disagree with the choice.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 8 months ago:
The known potential bad is better than the unknown potential bad. At least a bear won’t rape you before/while killing you.
IMO, the answer given exposes more about the life experiences of the women answerers, and the result seems to be that their experiences have been bad.
- Comment on Antybooties 8 months ago:
I wonder what percentage of these weird studies that make us ask “why are they spending money on that?” are being done by students working on theses and doctorates and whatnot, and what percentage are non-scholastic institutions asking for government funds to see if you can teach penguins to French kiss.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 8 months ago:
Almost perfect.
- Comment on K-pop: How jealous 'super fans' try to dictate their idols' private lives 10 months ago:
I love Personal Jesus!
