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[–] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Yeah pretty much anything can fuck up your body if you do too much of it for too long in the wrong ways.

Weed can be behaviorally addictive even though it doesn't cause the same kind of neurochemical dependence. Caffeine is just literally an addictive stimulant and nobody talks about how insane it is that it and nicotine are just legal for some reason when a bunch of other stimulants that also cause heart problems aren't. Let your kid play the wrong video games and suddenly you have a 10y/o with a gambling addiction. Even running is great cardio but it can literally fuck up your skeleton if you run on the wrong surfaces and wear the wrong kind of footwear.

You gotta pay attention to all the shit you're doing pretty much all of the time to catch whatever your 'thing' is gonna be before it damages your body permanently. It's exhausting. That's the main thing rich people have over poor people health wise. They get enough time off from both work and domestic responsibility to watch that kinda stuff and intervene with a different coping strategy when it's getting out of hand. Sure not all of them take advantage of that but that's a personal problem at least they have the time to do it if they want to.

Edit: it's wild to think someone thinks something I'm not even gonna bother arguing about is worth that much trouble.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Caffeine is just literally an addictive stimulant and nobody talks about how insane it is that it and nicotine are just legal for some reason

    Because they're largely harmless. Being a stimulant isn't bad, there's nothing insane about that.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Also, caffeine addiction is relatively easy to overcome. Nicotine addiction isn't and tobacco, its main source, contains tons of other crap, which is why governments have been running anti-smoking campaigns for decades but keep their actions against caffeine to "don't give energy drinks to minors" and "please don't sell premixed alcoholic caffeinated beverages".

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  • [+] -17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Thank you for this comment, helps put some things in perspective for me. Nice to see some more nuance on the internet too.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    holy shit this is the most obvious sockpuppet I've ever seen

    what the fuck yo??

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    yeah, uh, kinda like the sockpuppet said... y'know it's kinda funny this is like little leagues lol. you can see some really obvious sockpuppets with months of regular commenting completely unrelated to the main account before they activate it... can link an example if anyone is interested...

    my headcannon is apytele is shocked that their ingenious plan to play up their comments is not only obvious but so commonly employed that there's a term for it lol

    my version of events here is that apytele made an account a couple days ago (on the same instance with an extremely similar extremely unique naming convention.......) made 6 comments unrelated to where their main account normally hangs out in a laughable attempt to make it a believable unique account from their main, then uses that account to glaze this (potentially slightly unpopular) comment of theirs. they wanted other people to see the response and go "oh wow yeah! that is nuanced!!"

    I think despite the attempt to make the sockpuppet seem emotional and reactive in a way the main usually isn't, it's pretty obvious they're written by the same person lol

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago

    I think they are pretty much saying im a fake account made by apytele to agree to their post...I created this account days before apytele wrote that comment, so shrugs. Kind of wild the accusations people will throw around with evidence as thin as a thread of silk.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    well fuck me i guess....im already constantly self conscious about the way i speak, so thanks for making me feel worse when i already read through all my post 50 million fucking times to make sure i dont come across as weird or oddly worded before i comment asshole. I fuckig hate the internet, i should just fucking delete all my accounts at this point. god forbid i try to leave a nice comment without getting dogpiled just for the way i word things...

    Edit: apparently sockpuppets and bots are different things. Whatever, not gonna accept the premise of assholes who just like to throw accusations around and attack people.

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