Cool. It’s been helpful, but hot damn… if you don’t pay for it occasionally if you eat the wrong thing…

You do realize that’s exactly what Wegovy is, right? Ozempic was being prescribed off-label for weight loss so much, it was severely impacting supply for diabetics who needed it to manage their diabetes. They put the drug through a second round of FDA testing to get approval as a weight loss drug.

And, as someone taking Wegovy for weight loss… it’s no shortcut. It absolutely makes it easier to control your appetite but the side effects are non-trivial. I’ve struggled with my weight my entire life and I feel lucky I wasn’t heavier when I started, but before this I’ve been anywhere between 235 and 320 up and down for the last 15 years. This medication makes me feel, finally, like I’ve got a shot at losing the weight and getting it to a safe level.

Now… if you’re talking about the people who want to take it for 2 months to lose some vanity weight before beach season… I absolutely agree.

I’d be totally down. I had gotten used to the Duke controller in its massiveness, so I hated the S controller when it came out.

I generally dislike change.

Well, it was an admittedly flippant comment done in passing in an effort to highlight the fact that regardless of any perceived proximal effect, protesters are still part of the electorate. What’s more though, is the effect the protest has on opinions of the wider electorate, which is where I would wager we move from a protest vote and into the area where major change can occur.

Protesters vote…

I wanted to say yeah… but I couldn’t be sure. Looking on her wiki page:

In 2004 Daniels won the Best New Starlet Award from Adult Video News…

Daniels was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame on January 18, 2014,[16] and was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame on April 16, 2014.

Don’t think she’d have those awards if she wasn’t pretty popular among her peers, and all of that was before the big scandal we’re seeing unfold now.

Hey… if you’re old enough to recall the movie well enough to quote it, you’re allowed to flub an obscure quote. I was asking more to check my memory more than anything else, lol.

God damnit, John Candy was such a fucking gem. Departed too soon.

Are you quoting the TV edit? I remember the quote being “… circumcise a gnat, Bug.”

Either way… hilarious movie.

Walmart is hilariously cheaper.

Can I ask what the problem is? I was of the understanding that the problem with TikTok was that they basically lied under oath to congress and were actively sending personal user data to China. Not sure anything but an outright ban will achieve any sort of remedy.

Couldn’t be prouder of my fellow Alabamians. Granted, you wouldn’t be out to lunch if you said that Monica Lands would have had any chance whatsoever in the areas surrounding Huntsville and Madison, but it’s pretty awesome that she won.

Eh… Texas still elected Greg Abbot though…. I’m not convinced even that would do it…

That’s called projection…

https://youtu.be/jrL_LzX5wv4?si=kgLkQhyHa35JNpfj

Weren’t these the same incompetent cunts who tried drifting down the Suez Canal sideways?

Yes.

Yeah, it was fucking stupid expensive at about that same rate. I think in the end, it was more like $1200 or $1300 because there were more teeth that needed to be pulled than she could get eyes on during the exam. I decided to do it b/c there were so many teeth that needed pulling and that it would likely only get worse if I let it go longer.

Might get worse anyway…

One of my little guys had to go through that back in August. What’s amazing is that he had to eat wet food for several days, and he and my other cat absolutely don’t like wet food. Even when they were kittens, I tried getting them some nice refrigerated wet food as a treat a few times… barely touched.

I was astonished when my vet told me that once he healed he could go back to dry food. Cats apparently hardly chew their food at all. Vinnie didn’t need all his teeth out, but he had like 8 or 9 removed, and the vet said even if all his teeth had been removed he’d be able to eat dry food.

After the surgery we started calling him gummy nubbins.

Ah… so you’re not interested in discourse. I see.

Citizens united was bullshit and never should have gone the way it did, but more could be done.

And as another user mentioned… undoing settled case law is a terrible way of doing things… look at RvW…

Ok… so how do we run people genuinely interested in fixing it? How do we make this not how shit goes? I can’t argue that it’s really disheartening, but the idea that any party is going to run anyone primarily interested in anything other than getting reelected is absurd. The National Committees for each party would never give them a platform. Running third party is suicide here.

The real change that needs to happen is election reform to provide more transparent campaign financing and moving away from a First Past the Post voting system. That’s how you get people in who can actually fix the issues we have in a constructive and positive manner. It won’t be perfect but it would be helpful. Then we’d have a flourishing of different political parties emerge and voters would have actual choice.

“That’s the way she goes” shouldn’t hurt turnout. The reality is we’re facing the single greatest threat to the basic ideals of the American Republican Democracy. Bigger things are afoot than cannabis policy. I’ll take this political grandstanding from the Biden administration 10 times out of 10 than one more day of a Trump administration.