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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

They found the cure for Sigma

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

Boom got'em

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Sigma balls

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

how did he not know who Steve Jobs was?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar. He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted shortly afterwards. He attended Reed College in 1972 before withdrawing that same year. In 1974, he traveled through India, seeking enlightenment before later studying Zen Buddhism. He and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to further develop and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together, the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with production and sale of the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers.

Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to the development of the largely unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984, the first mass-produced computer with a GUI. The Macintosh launched the desktop publishing industry in 1985 (for example, the Aldus Pagemaker) with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics and PostScript.

Edit: i assume the downvotes is because it sounds ai generated or something? It's copy-paste from wikipedia you numbnuts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think he was asking about the homeless dude from Austin with the ironic last name from the 1940s.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I worry with all the antivaxxers that Demeaning Plebney will make a return.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There has always been a cure but people aren't all sure about ligma.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't believe they called the design program Figma.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why don't they just prescribe this instead of stuff that doesn't help and also breaks your penis? 😬

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Dopamine does a lot of things. It does not cross the blood-brain barrier.

So taking this would be all side effects and no benefits

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just inject it straight into your brain

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm going to try it.

Edit: smmmfrrrr grreendch ferrrmenspolendllllllllll

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So taking this would be all side effects and no benefits

So it's basically the same as Prozac? 😩

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If you have depression anxiety and find that Prozac (an ssri) doesnt work well, you might consider something that directly works on dopamine - like Buproprion (brand name = wellbutrin, a NDRI, norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitor).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was a bit of not interested and not educated enough to know what a NDRI was while I was on it but it does make sense for ADHD and Depression symptoms.

The withdrawal from Wellbutrin was bad. I got brain zaps if I was 1hr late taking it; tapering and cessation was miserable.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

SNRIs are also an option, but they can be worse to get off of than heroin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I was on Effexor XR Max Dose, and one day when I realized that it had effectively killed all feelings I stopped cold turkey, zero side effects. My doctor thinks I have a very high drug tolerance, to the point that anything I'm put on nowadays is just started at close to the max dose. I'm on a drug right now that is prescribed at a level that would normally result in death for most people, and he thinks I can go higher if I need to.

Downside is pain drugs don't work, at all. He told me they'd need to give me IV pain meds if I really needed any pain suppression.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wellbutrin and lexapro did it for me. Thank god

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is obviously anecdotal, but fuck Wellbutrin. It didn't help, and it triggered tinnitus, which didn't go away after I stopped taking it. Still happening 2 years later. I'm one of the lucky 3-6% Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I realize this isn't serious but holy shit Prozac might have saved my life. Well, technically Prizma which is the same stuff. I went through so many unsuccessful depression treatments, Prizma is the only one that seems to be sticking. Sometimes the old stuff is just the best.

Worth noting that all treatments were in conjunction with psychotherapy, I don't think pills alone would have helped. And I also tried going without medication at all for a while, it wasn't good either. Prizma really is the only thing that works for me.

Edit: apparently the Prizma brand might only be sold in my country, but as I said it's just a different brand of Prozac.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You say the old stuff but fluoxetine was released in 1986 and citalopram in 1989 - before that you were boned. A few antidepressants existed and they were even worse than what we have today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they can offer a two for one deal with lobotomy?

They remove the "problematic" part and install a new, dopamine rich part.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I might be misremembering, but AFAIK, dopamine can't cross the blood-brain-barrier, so even where you want to regulate dopamine (and not, e.g. serotonin like more commonly for depression) in the brain, you have to do so via different medication (e.g. amphetamine derivatives for ADHD or dopamine agonists for Parkinson's).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Just inject it directly into the brain smh

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a non-chemistry person, I assume the red diamonds are to ensure I don't put this in my mouth?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The first is a standard warning symbol, telling you to read the warnings.

The middle looks to imply that it's harmful to aquatic life; so no flushing, (upside-down fish and a piece of coral)

Third one seems to be dosage frequency, but saying a symbol isn't available. (QHS = taken every night)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

At least make sure the thing you post is correct for something like this, as it can be important.

The first one (exclamation mark) means it is a irritant and the second one means it is hazardous to the environment (not just aquatic)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think, that's not a coral, but rather a dead tree next to a stream...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The third one is "no GHS symbol", GHS being the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Coral? I always assumed that was a tree and it means "hazardous to the environment"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

To translate the sibling, the third one is where it would tell you how dangerous the substance is for you. But it's keeping its secrets.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shove it right up my eyeballs!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I want it in my dick hole

....for SCIENCE!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have no idea what that middle warning symbol is trying to convey. Raises undead fish from their graves? Makes you throw fish at your neighbor's driveway? Will cause flooding across the entire state of Virginia?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Deadly/dangerous to the environment. It's supposed to be a dead tree and fish next to a river/water body.

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AGHS-pictogram-pollu.svg

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