>Besides, as an Israeli, imagine a world in which the manufacturers of Zyklon B refused to sell Hitler their product for the purposes of gassing human beings. It might not have prevented the Holocaust, but at least maybe impeded it a little.
Honestly, if the Holocaust was today, we would probably get 10% of comments here trying to defend "both sides". Some people have a need to try to defend every side, even if one of the sides it's asking for them to be murdered.
I see a lot of people using weed for better sleep, but isn't weed supposed to interfere with REM states? I thought that weed would have the opposite effect that you say. Do you dream if you use weed before bed?
I rarely dream either way (unless I start focusing on that specifically, then my recall will improve quickly). When I was younger and would go to bed severely stoned I would wake up groggy and lethargic - clearly not optimal sleep. On 3-4% THC I usually wake up spontaneously and feel well rested. It mostly just helps me fall asleep and stay asleep. YMMV obviously.
It’s a pretty low dose, doesn’t exactly send me into space—heavy users might need 10x or more that dose to even feel it—just enough to make my brain shut up so I can fall asleep. I think a lot of folks who have a bad time when they try it start at far too high a dose (I wouldn’t even start at 5mg, maybe shoot for like 2), I also don’t much enjoy being properly high, anything past what you’d call a heavyish buzz I find unpleasant (and my standard nighttime dose doesn’t even quite get me to the heavier end of a buzz, that’s more the 7-10mg range for me, though I’d caution that some gummies seem more potent and some nominal-5s do get me closer to that than others)
I dunno about sleep quality effects, but it’s definitely better than even a couple beers (for me, these days) and it’s way better than lying awake until 3am… for the third night in a row. For most of the night it should be mostly worn-off, again, I’m not taking a ton and it takes longer to work through you in edible form than smoking, but we’re still talking less than half the night, especially as I usually time it so it hits just a little while before bed (I don’t want to get in bed without it having hit yet).
I don’t remember having had dreams most nights anyway, so I don’t know about that. Even with some help I’m typically a bit under the low side of the amount of sleep I ought to be getting, over a week. Lucky if I break the eight-hour mark two days of the seven, usually in the 6.5-7.5 range the rest (I don’t take a gummy every single night, either, gotta keep that tolerance at bay). I think I dream (or, at least, remember it) more when I get the rare series of several days of 8+ hours, but I don’t track it so can’t say for sure, and yeah, no idea the effect of weed on that.
I can vouch that at my dose level I get way better sleep than I did the one time I tried a prescription sleep aid, which was Lunesta. If I didn’t get a solid 9 hours on that I’d wake up feeling hung-over, weed doesn’t give me extra trouble like that if I fail to get a full 8+ hours. Hell, even a “good” night on lunesta didn’t leave me feeling awesome in the morning. Other downsides: it mixes worse with other things, had a glass of wine with dinner? Better think twice about the lunesta, at least according to the label. On some decongestant medicine (in addition to antibiotics) for a sinus infection, and the sinus infection is wrecking your ability to sleep so you could really use it? Might not be able to take it with the other stuff. Weed’s so much better for those cases especially, bump the dose slightly and nothing short of something that’s gonna hospitalize me will be able to keep me from sleeping, and it famously doesn’t interact badly with very many other drugs, so it removes the very worst thing about most common illnesses like that (for me, anyway) which is the extreme sleep disruption.
I don't know either of them and have never noticed comments by either until now, but it seems to me that one is speaking autobiographically, describing how their view changed after personal experience they detailed, while explicitly admitting the ultimate rational insufficiency of such a position, even stating there may be sufficient counterexamples to contradict their experience. If that's an appeal to emotion it's either a highly insidious or a pretty impotent one. It doesn't read either way to me, but in either case I'm content to give them the benefit of the doubt, based on the general tone of their comment.
The other is simultaneously purely argumentative and fallacious in every regard, and lacks any evidence of even a shred of self-awareness, unlike its parent comment. It's shabby argumentative rhetoric lacking any insight or particular substance. There's a much better argument to be made from their viewpoint, but they didn't make anything resembling it.
Their other comment in the thread is similar in tone and form. People expressing concerns about marijuana potency increasing over time were summarily 'refuted' as actually arguing for smoking more material to achieve the same high. It's very r/iamverysmart, and it also checks off another fallacy box.
Like their other comment, there's a worthwhile point to be made there, but that wasn't it. Every useful argument has to acknowledge its own weakness (because every argument has one). One of them did, one of them didn't even attempt to.
I care less about what particular positions people hold and a lot more about how they hold them. I'd rather read high-minded debate between people who've arrived at their opinions after grappling with contradiction, than pithy dismissals of worthwhile comments.
And if one notes that I am guilty of the same, while fair, please consider that the comment to which I originally replied was far from worthwhile.
They will say yes, but you will never see most of them defending that in any news about alcohol or tobacco. For some, it's just a way to ignore the hypocrisy corner.
Honestly, I consider myself a "centrist", but I'm always frustrated how that means "do not take sides" for some people (not saying that is your case). In this case, not taking sides means that weed is illegal and people go to jail if they dare to use it. In the country that I was born, it's still illegal. I know stoners there and it's crazy how they could spent years in prison if someone told the police that they cultivate cannabis in their house. They do not sell and do not share with anyone, but they are one call away to be jailed.
I get it when people talk about society effects, but how are my friends dangerous while buying and drinking a lot of alcohol is totally okay? Taking no sides in this case is just maintaining status quo, which is not a "centrist position" when one side can be jailed for using weed.
To be fair, American propaganda had the same effect. For example, in South America, if you ask the average person about WW2, people will talk about USA mostly. Most people would be surprised if you told them that URSS had 24 million deaths, almost 50x what USA had. I'm not saying that USA didn't play a major role, but it's weird how it is the only country besides Germany that is ingrained in America (continent) mind when you talk about WW2
Thank you for your comment. I didn't know about protein and carbs and fat calories not being metabolically equal. I'm hoping that calories counting apps would account that in, but I know that it's probably not the case
Fair point. It's a huge field and I have no defensible option there. I was thinking of the wireless Anker IEM and the various older ones that accompanied my phones, even though as mentioned in the other comment I'm aware of higher class (and sometimes even cheap) IEMs that do exist. But still, I wouldn't generalize it like that, I really do like the KSC 75 a lot and think those kind of headphones are too often overlooked despite their quality, which collides with classifying them so low.
I understand why they do it, but I cannot ignore that you lose the incentive of visiting your friends and their kids when they always take that visit as a way to treat you like a babysitter. Yes, I accept sometimes looking at your kid while you take a nap, just don't make that the usual experience for years on end, though. I'm lucky, as my friends always understood when I pointed that out to them, but I'm aware that this may not be the common reaction.
About your first point, I understand why it happens, but I get frustrated at these debates nowadays. Both sides cannot talk about their experiences without having to add something that invalidates the other side choice. They cannot fathom that the other side may prefer the disadvantages of their choice instead of the disadvantages of yours. Maybe it's the human condition to try to point out how the other side will regret their choices to validate our life decisions
Well said. I appreciate people on both sides that can simply acknowledge having kids is great for some people, and not having them is great for others, and the world is big enough for all of us.
Honestly, if the Holocaust was today, we would probably get 10% of comments here trying to defend "both sides". Some people have a need to try to defend every side, even if one of the sides it's asking for them to be murdered.
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