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SocketWrench posted:Eh, I seriously doubt he's a billionaire. I'd wager he barely passes as a serious millionaire if you liquidate all his assets and ignore his debts He's a billionaire if you look at the absolute value of his wealth: When his casino went under he claimed such a huge loss that he literally hasn't paid taxes since due to the IRS's debt forgiveness rules. As in: his one claim was something like a full third of the business losses claimed that year and the value was big enough the program filling out the form didn't have enough significant digits so someone had to go and get a typewriter to plug in the last two zeroes on the form. So yes, he's very much a negative billionaire if you're allowed to include his debt.
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Has anyone mentioned in this thread that one of main witnesses in the Amber Guyger trial was shot dead yesterday? I remember seeing this guy's testimony in the trial. At one point he broke down crying. There's no way in hell the Dallas PD aren't behind this murder, probably taking revenge for this guy helping put away one of their own. gently caress Dallas PD. gently caress the blue lives matter crowd. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/us/botham-jean-neighbor-killed/index.html
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Alkydere posted:The two times I've been prescribed even relatively mild opiates (once for getting all my wisdom teeth out, once for shattering my ankle into powder) I basically went "Oh gently caress these are good...too good" and they scared the poo poo out me to the point I didn't refill my prescription. I had my cornea sliced off and the eye doctor prescribed me liquid oxycodone while it healed since the contact lens bandage was insanely painful. But he accidentally wrote down 500ml instead of 50ml so now I have a gigantic bottle of liquid oxycodone I wound up using almost none of because yeah it's terrifyingly addictive and also that's obviously way, way too much for a week's recovery also the pharmacy didn't actually stop and go "this is weird that we're giving you a huge bottle of oxycodone", which is also concerning, I thought it was a lot because it was super diluted but nooooope, he just hosed up the prescription and wrote one too many zeroes
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I got some to use predominantly as a sleep aid for a wickedly painful infection, one time I took it during the day because I just could not focus through the pain and half an hour I was like, hooooly poo poo what the hell. That dose was 5mg, which I understand is basically nothing when it comes to oxycodone.
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Charliegrs posted:Has anyone mentioned in this thread that one of main witnesses in the Amber Guyger trial was shot dead yesterday? I remember seeing this guy's testimony in the trial. At one point he broke down crying. There's no way in hell the Dallas PD aren't behind this murder, probably taking revenge for this guy helping put away one of their own. gently caress Dallas PD. gently caress the blue lives matter crowd. Whether this was retaliation or not (and Occam's razor is fuzzy here but probably on the side of non-coincidence), gently caress blue lives matter and gently caress Amber Guyger.
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Alkydere posted:Yeah when I first had them with my wisdom teeth out I was all "I only used half the bottle...I'm gonna enjoy the gently caress out of these after hard days because they make me happy/go right to sleep at night" and would have totally re-upped the hydrocodine if I'd been prescribed more. FWIW that's a pretty common response to anaesthesia
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Zenithe posted:I got some to use predominantly as a sleep aid for a wickedly painful infection, one time I took it during the day because I just could not focus through the pain and half an hour I was like, hooooly poo poo what the hell. Got prescribed Percocet (acetominophen and 5mg oxycodone) for wisdom teeth removal and yeah, a half hour after the first one I limited myself to half doses.
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Heh. I got given Fentanyl as part of surgery prep for my c4-c7 open door laminoplasty. (Basically, they were going in to saw open my vertebrae with a very expensive dremel. Good times.) I didn't even feel it. The anathesiologist told me, "Okay, tell me when you start feeling sleepy and relaxed," and minutes later I'm not feeling anything at all. (Turns out that whatever they were using for general anasthesia is *really* painful if you aren't drugged up first. I felt like I was literally on fire for the time before I lost consciousness.) My brain gives no fucks about opiates, and I feel weirdly proud of that.
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LeeMajors posted:
yeah i don't think the reasons the basics aren't cheap if not free are because of that
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Apparently the DPD is refusing to confirm the identity, but yeah looks like the key witness who testified that Guyger didn't shout any of the normal commands you'd expect to hear from a cop dealing with a suspect was indeed murdered. This makes me really mad. A dude that wears a DBZ shirt to court is probably a pretty righteous dude. I bet he would be a cool guy to shoot the poo poo with. This wouldn't be the first time that cops have killed someone to silence them. Just look up the gun trace task force in Baltimore.
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Barry Foster posted:FWIW that's a pretty common response to anaesthesia It freaked me out and I've had general anesthesia before and sense, never had that reaction. I'm normally a zen and level headed guy so suddenly waking up, mind confused and drugged while the adrenaline pumps and not knowing where I am (and admittedly for a while who I am) and thinking I've been kidnapped for some B-rated thriller plot is not a state of mind I enjoy being in.
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Rabble posted:Gabapentin is easy to get, relative to other drugs that can get you high, and has very few long term side effects. i used to take Gabapentin when I couldn't get heroin to make the withdrawal not so crippling.
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Waking up in recovery after jaw surgery where they also resected my inferior turbinates, they had to remove the two tubes in my nostrils - put there as my jaw was now held firmly closed by elastic bands - one tube going to my stomach to suction any blood and the other providing oxygen. The nasogastric tube was okay, but once they pulled the oxygen tube, the blood and what-have-you in my nasal cavity clogged fully and I was fully aware that I could not breathe. I clamped down on my instant terror and tried to enunciate through a wired-shur jaw "I can't breathe" which got an instant response "just one second and we'll suction your nose - here we go - okay you can breathe now". The icy cold knowledge you are unable to breathe and require someone else to fix it really stamps itself on your memories, I must say.
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FFT posted:Got prescribed Percocet (acetominophen and 5mg oxycodone) for wisdom teeth removal and yeah, a half hour after the first one I limited myself to half doses. I got prescribed Percocet for my kidney stones, took one, and ended up in in the fetal position on my couch for six hours with a stomach ache that was far worse than the pain from my stones. The annoying thing was it had no other effect on me other than that.
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Alkydere posted:It freaked me out and I've had general anesthesia before and sense, never had that reaction. I'm normally a zen and level headed guy so suddenly waking up, mind confused and drugged while the adrenaline pumps and not knowing where I am (and admittedly for a while who I am) and thinking I've been kidnapped for some B-rated thriller plot is not a state of mind I enjoy being in. Brain meats are weird! Waking up from anaesthesia is essentially 'you're going to act like a drunk - but which kind?!'
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GlyphGryph posted:It could be retaliation from a cop or coo sympathizer but I doubt it was to silence him, he'd already said all the bits that did damage I'd be more willing to bet "cop sympathizer" than straight up cop. Cops have other ways to make you miserable, a non-person and/or dead. Then again I might just be hopeful because cops are less likely to cover for a crazy-rear end civilian killing this guy even for pro-cop reasons than they are to cover for another racist rear end cop. Edit: Oh loving absolutely \/\/\/\/ Alkydere fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Oct 6, 2019 |
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The guy is chilling in the afterlife, training with King Kai right now and I will accept no other explanation.
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So, since we're apparently sharing stories about weird reactions to drugs and/or anesthesia... I had my last two wisdom-teeth out about... six years ago now, and it was a bitch. The dentist had to cut off a bit of the back molar adjacent to the tooth to even have a hope in hell of pulling it out all the way, and nicked a bit of my gums in the process ( can't blame him, my back molars are fairly low to the gums ), so I know what I'd taste like when cooked now... Fun times. Anyway, the anesthesia is amazing. I can't feel a thing, even with my skull creaking like a wooden shack in a storm as they're yanking the fuckers out. Everything's fine, they sew me up, they hand me painkillers, stuff my mouth with cotton and send me home. The trouble starts when the anesthesia begins to wear off. As sensation begins to creep back into my jaw, it hurts, but I also start feeling cold. Very cold. Shivering-to-the-point-where-I-can-barely-function cold. I put one eiderdown under me and two on top, a thick wool blanket on top of *that*, curl into a ball and I'm absolutely *freezing* and shuddering like I've just been dipped in ice. And I'm absolutely terrified that this is some insane allergic reaction... but I can breathe just fine and I'm not feeling anything wrong other than my brain apparently being convinced that I'm freezing to death. And then the anesthesia finally wears off and it's like flipping a switch. Shivers stop, the feeling of cold disappears *immediately*. And is instantly replaced by the sensation of being wrapped up in wool and enough eiderdown to comfortably see several flocks of ducks through an arctic winter. It's never happened before or since, either.
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If we were a righteous and decent country, we’d have a dedicated chunk of the FBI or some alphabet agency that would look at murders, assassinations and abuses done by police or police sympathizers. They would have the authority and moral clarity to immediately shut down the precinct, fire every cop from top to bottom (as well as permanently barring them from ever working as a public servant in any capacity for life) and drag the accused to a federal court in a big city instead of their local corrupt Ku-Klux-Kourt. But noooooo... we have to loving suck at everything here in the US. Whee. 
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LeeMajors posted:I mean, insulin is cheap and available elsewhere else but people are dying in the US from rationing. Meanwhile Big Pharma cranks out dick pills, autoimmune suppressants and antidepressants like there is no tomorrow. Penicillin is cheap Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus The exotics required to kill the stuff that's become resistant because we've been handing out the cheap stuff in cartons is very very expensive.
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Ripoff posted:If we were a righteous and decent country, we’d have a dedicated chunk of the FBI or some alphabet agency that would look at murders, assassinations and abuses done by police or police sympathizers. They would have the authority and moral clarity to immediately shut down the precinct, fire every cop from top to bottom (as well as permanently barring them from ever working as a public servant in any capacity for life) and drag the accused to a federal court in a big city instead of their local corrupt Ku-Klux-Kourt. I thought some states do have organizations dedicated to investigating police forces, and that they’re effective. At least someone brought that up in an earlier USPOL thread.
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US drug policy: can't have people feeling good, otherwise they wouldn't drink alcohol. US medical policy: can't have people get too healthy otherwise Thiel wouldn't be able got get his child blood of immortality cheaply.
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I think this is the most official 2nd whistleblower thing I've seen yet. https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1180821531871649792
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JehovahsWetness posted:I think this is the most official 2nd whistleblower thing I've seen yet. https://twitter.com/AndrewBakaj/status/1180826504952983553
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JehovahsWetness posted:I think this is the most official 2nd whistleblower thing I've seen yet.  A second whistleblower has hit the Trump Drug chat: I was given Vicodin once when I threw my back out. One dose made me cry for two days straight and slip into borderline-suicidal despair. I don’t do opioids after that, which has me worried for when my wisdom teeth have to come out.
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Jealous Cow posted:
Recommended treatment in the US is NSAID - they work too, opioids should only be given if the anti inflammatory doesn't work well enough.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Recommended treatment in the US is NSAID - they work too, opioids should only be given if the anti inflammatory doesn't work well enough. Few recent papers showed that alternating ibuprofen and acetaminophen was basically exactly equivalent to Vicodin for post-surgical pain management. Doesn't keep you coming back for another taste tho
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Thinking on it, though it gave me a sensible chuckle, I think that Pelosi statement was ill thought out. Donald did own a casino, but it went bankrupt, so clearly the House doesn't always win.
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Speaker of the house quoting memes, can we get to the season finale already
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Data Graham posted:Speaker of the house quoting memes, can we get to the season finale already Don't you know this is a soap opera? The season never ends and the stupid drama just keeps going.
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A second whistleblower has struck the Donald. Vicodin knocked me out for a week after surgery. I did wild sh*t like lie in bed barely conscious for 16 hours a day. There's my sexy story of depravity.
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