The Biden Admin just announced an executive order removing de minimis tax protections from large companies trying to exploit it to import large quantities of product, which is going to take a bite out of Shein and Temu’s business models.

And as long as people have confidence in our currency, the debt we owe to ourselves really doesn’t matter

Trans immigrants are stealing our cheeseburgers!

The Stranger by Albert Camus, Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and the entire short story collection of Edgar Allan Poe

You are correct, my bad. Seems like you can have some confidence that your email is secure, at least

I use 2FA, authenticators, etc.

If this is the case, how did you not know these login attempts were happening? Shouldn’t you get a ping when a login is attempted and can decline it if it’s unauthorized?

Really went off the rails in that second sentence

This is pretty easy to search, but also intuitive when you consider crack is most often smoked vs cocaine being absorbed through your nasal mucosa. Here are a few highlights from this comprehensive review, which also covers the very real socioeconomic differences in use patterns:

By virtue of its hydrophilicity, cocaine hydrochloride is generally consumed by ‘snorting.’ ‘Crack’ cocaine is generally the only form of cocaine that is smoked—this is due to the fact that cocaine hydrochloride has an elevated boiling point and does not vaporise at the temperatures of combustion.

®outes that involve the respiratory system…allow for the stimulant to reach the brain circulation in around 6 to 8 s; the inhalation route presents higher peak plasma concentrations that are reached faster when compared to intranasal administration. It should be noted that, for the intranasal route, the vasoconstrictive properties of cocaine slow down the drug’s own absorption, causing a 60-min delay of peak plasmatic concentrations. In terms of bioavailability, the inhalation route has the greatest bioavailability, which surpasses 90%, while the intranasal route has roughly 80%.

The abuse and dependence of cocaine is strongly related to the drug’s capacity to induce the release of dopamine within the mesocorticolimbic circuit (also known as the reward system). As the user continues to consume cocaine, desensitization occurs and so larger doses are necessary to induce stimuli of the same magnitude as before, as well as to minimize withdrawal symptoms.

Another difference of inhalation vs intranasal:

Smoking ‘crack’ leads to the formation of another biomarker of exposure, AEME, which is the main product of cocaine’s thermal degradation. In vitro and in vivo studies show that AEME appears to have effects on the cardiovascular system, by acting as a muscarinic agonist. Furthermore, neurotoxic effects were also reported for this metabolite.

Let’s be real though, crack is significantly more addictive than regular cocaine. The high is higher, it lights up all the dopamine receptors in your brain. The high is much shorter, and the crash is much harder, which pushes users to use more to avoid intolerable withdrawal symptoms. Cocaine is “mellower” in pretty much every way. All the bad parts of cocaine use are only magnified in crack use. All this is completely independent of fucked up drug policy

*long in the tooth

Could also just not use it in your browser either

These are the straightest answers I have ever seen. I expected better from Lemmy.

Here are two options for you:

https://bodyaware.com/

https://2xist.com/

Highly dependent on the job. I’m a SW who hires SWs. New grad LMSWs can start at $60K in hospitals or some government jobs, or $40K in schools or some nonprofits. 5-10 years of experience and a clinical license and you’ll easily pull $75-80K, or $90K+ in management.

Then there’s private psychotherapy practice, which I know some people who charge $200/hour out of pocket and are scheduled out for months.

All this to say getting a master’s in social work was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, and I have no regrets financially, but there are some people who do end up in very low paid jobs

TIL all the food in the “baby food” section at the grocery store isn’t actually baby food lmao.

In the first six months, babies should only have breast milk or formula, so I guess I have no idea what baby food you’re referring to.

The conclusion you drew here is not based in real information. Infants can start having cow’s milk at about 1 year, but they can have properly prepared meat as soon as they start eating solid food, which is typically around 6 months.

When you call an event where kids get together to celebrate the end of high school “frivolous” and “dumb,” it really comes across as putting other people down.

You might consider what’s driving you to put people down who are having fun

I don’t remember it very well, but I know I cried for like 2 hours when I finished “A Dog Called Kitty.”

Protein powder is a calorically dense food supplement, not a vitamin or mineral supplement

I’d like to note in my top level comment I was referring to medically unnecessary vitamin and mineral supplementation. Protein powder is food and is not part of that. It’s 100% necessary for serious lifters, but it’s definitely also overused by people who are not serious lifters.