WeirdGoesPro @ WeirdGoesPro @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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“Most credible polling organization in the US” means just about nothing these days, in my opinion.

It started on 4Chan and then moved to 8Chan. It is pretty much impossible to know if it was the same person on each site.

There is a difference between attesting that people wouldn’t have voted for Trump and attesting that this survey does not prove anything. The latter seems to be the only thing we can deduce here.

Thank you, I was questioning the results too, and your info perfectly illustrates why. I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that the most difficult eligible voters to predict are the kind of people who don’t check their mail, don’t sign up for research surveys, and don’t want to tell you who they’d vote for. Eligible non-voters didn’t care enough to vote, so why would they cast a ballot with Pew research?

In West Texas, we don’t know about this cold or wet you speak of. Plenty of hot and wind though.

Right, but that is a survey of the type of people who answer surveys. I have to wonder how many people who don’t bother to vote also do bother to answer surveys about voting.

I’m just saying that a good chunk of nonvoters have never voted, so there is no preexisting pattern to predict what they would do. For the last 4 elections, the polls have been largely incorrect. It just seems like a massive assumption to say if every single person voted, he still would have won, particularly when you consider the statistical anomalies in the swing states this last election.

How could they have gotten this information without literally asking everyone in the country?

Dear god. We’re exposed.

The bottom of the card is real, but it isn’t from a Chinese buffet. This card is from a bar.

Nah, that’s Alaska.

Texas: the biggest usable state.

It hits different when you’re the torturer.

One could argue that the purpose of life is self knowledge. As a part of the universe, we are driven to understand it. More recently, we know that self exploration through therapy resolves emotional traumas. Travel and exposure to other cultures tends to create compassion for them.

Γνῶθι σεαυτόν
Know Thyself

That dolphin looks very pleased with this encounter. Very very pleased.

Correction, we don’t want to take anything from California. /s

Why, you got any? /s

Ooh, ooh, I can answer that!

Have you ever heard something really really funny and laughed so hard that it ends with a euphoric rush and a slight adrenaline burst that makes you feel more awake? That is similar to the first few moments of using cocaine. Compared to weed, I would say it is slightly more euphoric and it makes you awake in about a proportional amount to how weed makes you sleepy.

Cocaine has a clear chemical taste, but it is not entirely unpleasant, especially after you’ve done it enough to have the Pavlovian association with its effects. It is a topical anesthetic, so your nose goes numb, and then post nasal drip will eventually numb your sinuses and throat.

The rush lasts for about 10 minutes, and then there is a pleasant state of high dopamine awakeness for one to two hours. Even though you are still in a high dopamine state, the comedown from the rush about 10 minutes in will give you a moderately strong urge to use more cocaine. This cycle repeats, and if you don’t stop, the euphoria gets shorter because you are running out of happy chemicals in your brain to keep the effect going. If you don’t pay attention, it is easy to get stuck in the cycle and run through all the cocaine you have in one sitting.

The buildup of cocaine in your sinuses combined with post nasal drip will cause you to start getting little bursts of euphoria without using more coke because it is dissolving in your sinus cavity and being absorbed by the body as it shifts around in there. Sometimes, far into a night of use, it will start to make you a little tired because you are running out of calories to sustain the energetic feeling.

The comedown is rougher than weed, but not horrendous. The worst part is that the desire to use more grows bigger and bigger with every line, so once you run out, you are awake, depleted of dopamine, and have to wait out the urge to find more. People who are unable to do that are most likely to become addicts.

Crack cocaine condenses and exaggerates the aforementioned process for a huge burst of euphoria over 10 seconds combined with 30 minutes to an hour of high dopamine awakeness. The comedown effects are highly exaggerated too, and the desire to use more is intense and almost impossible to ignore. Where you are likely to use as much powder cocaine in a sitting as you had purchased, you are equally likely to use as much crack as money you have in your bank account at the moment—it is very hard to stop once you start.

Unpopular opinion, I think powder cocaine should be legal, and there should be a greater cultural awareness that consuming it in little bumps makes it exponentially more manageable than taking fat lines.

Maybe I’m weird, but I prefer the animations. It feels more natural than things just popping into my view in my opinion.