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  • I’ve always wondered this, but how do you prevent a bidet from festering? When dedicating, micro poop particles get everywhere in the bowl, and therefore my conclusion would be that it would get on the bidet spout. Over time, since it’s moist, wouldn’t a very thin microbial biofilm form on the spout? Then you’d be blasting in potentially dangerous bacteria back into yourself. Do you have to clean it after every use? Every day?

    The only way I could see it maybe keeping clean would be if it was behind a small door that opened when it’ll be in use and then retracted once more.

    So far the most hygienic option would be wet wipes.



  • So a lot of people here don’t realize that any kind of transplant outside of a waiting list is considered a trafficked organ (excluding Iran). Or how cheap it is.

    I had kidney failure for many years (btw, being young doesn’t help with wait times except unless maybe if you’re a kid in some cases).

    At some point after some years, my dad (who still has a Facebook) started asking for help for a kidney donor (for the swap program thing, basically you donate to someone else on a chain), and immediately started getting messages from people in places like the Philippines “willing” to sell their kidneys. In quotations because you never know how willing they actually are, and even if not under direct pressure, I’d say extreme poverty is still a forceful pressure.

    Regardless, the prices they were asking for? Between 5-15k$.

    You’d think it would cost more than a used car, but apparently not. I scolded him for even thinking about it - explained that just because you can live with 1 kidney, you’re still more prone to kidney failure yourself now.

    I ended up on dialysis for a little over 8 years and essentially lost my 20s to that, but at least when I finally got a transplant I didn’t have to deal with any guilt (came from someone who was braindead - wear your dang bicycle helmets people).

    And I’m glad I never even considered that offer - apparently I was destined to get an aggressive cancer after a kidney transplant because I’m part of a very rare estimated 5% of the world population never exposed to an extremely common virus (Epstein-Barr). That cancer would likely not have been caught by an overseas doctor who is doing shady surgeries, and I’d be dead anyways.

    So maybe karma does exist (in the psychological/outcome sense at least). I got the good karma and Steve Jobs got the dumbass karma (look up the details of his liver transplant and death. I want to point out, he must’ve been a true asshole to not have a willing live donor for a liver transplant, as it’s actually the easiest of them all to get).






  • Lumiluz@slrpnk.nettoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comI'm going to murder you now
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    17 days ago

    There’s nothing morally wrong, but there’s definitely something physically wrong with taking fentanyl when you don’t need fentanyl, especially long term. Like just because someone is addicted doesn’t mean they should stay addicted. I doubt you’re advocating for alcoholics to remain alcoholic for example.

    Also, I think you mean anyone against the usage of all drugs don’t have a valid opinion, not the creation of all drugs (there’s no good reason Krokodil should exist for example).


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    17 days ago

    Dex_amphetamine_

    Meth_amphetamine_

    No, the thing linking the 2 is the amphetamine part. Which is the actual stimulant.

    The drug meth is actually just methamphetamine - there’s no “nasty crap” in it unless the person synthesizing it doesn’t refine and purify it well, which is true of basically all chemistry.

    A more apt comparison is a strong beer and wine - both technically different things, but both get you drink because of the alcohol ingredient in them. They’re both alcoholic drinks.

    Same with amphetamines - both are stimulants that have essentially the same effect. That’s specifically why they both work in treating ADHD. The only significant difference is one is legal (with a prescription) and the other isn’t, which of course means good luck getting it really pure and at the correct dosage. The only other difference is how fast acting / long lasting they are because of that tail molecule, but the part that has an actual effect on people is the amphetamine part.


  • Yeah but it has the “amphetamine” part that gives meth it’s kick. And that’s what most people think of when it comes to the drug - the effect it has on a standard person, not the chemical name (otherwise they’d be calling methylprednisolone “meth” too. And let’s face it, the majority of the population doesn’t know why it’s nicknamed meth either).

    On a legal scale, “amphetamines” are what’s regulated, not methyl groups.






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