I would recommend against using street drugs in place of prescriptions because of the aforementioned reasons. I've seen what street drugs do to people while working in ERs and in a clinical setting, and it's just not worth it.
medgremlin
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The problem is that the purity of the drug you're getting is not guaranteed or regulated at all. For a lot of recreational/street drugs, the bigger problem is often the filler and crap they get cut with. If you're paying enough for actually reliably pure drugs, you might as well just pay out of pocket for the psychiatrist and avoid the risk of drug charges.
Context for people unfamiliar: this is a video-assisted intubation. The white bit on the screen is the larynx (vocal cords), and the fold below it is the opening of the esophagus.
(Edit: I was just looking at this and that is the fanciest portable defib/resus pack I have ever seen. The ones I've used were jank as heck and only had a screen for the EKG readout and vitals.)
The little white ring is a larynx. This is a video-assisted intubation.
Normally, I would agree with you, but this summary that does not include the explicit description of the torture is a lot easier to read.
These are incredibly important reports to publish and spread awareness of....but I kind of wish I hadn't read them today.
Some of the image generators have attempted to put up guard rails to prevent generating pictures of nude children, but the creators/managers haven't been able to eradicate it. There was also an investigation by Stanford University that showed that most of the really popular image generators had a not insignificant amount of CSAM in their training data and could be fairly easily manipulated into making more.
The creators and managers of these generative "AIs" have done slim to none in the way of curation and have routinely been trying to fob off responsibility to their users the same way Tesla has been doing for their "full self driving".
Generative AI is basically just really overpowered text/image prediction. It fills in the words or pixels that make the most sense based on the data it has been fed, so to get AI generated CSAM....it had to have been fed some amount of CSAM at some point or it had to be heavily manipulated to generate the images in question.
That would be more similar to the Caduceus anyways given the number of snakes.
That's why it's a disagreement. I'm not necessarily saying their opinions are factually incorrect, just that they are devoid of empathy, morally reprehensible, and antithetical to the teachings of the religious figure that they are statistically likely to claim to be faithful to. A lack of empathy should not be rewarded.
Depending on which state you live in, a 3rd party vote is equivalent to a vote for Trump when everything is said and done.
I'm saying that getting methamphetamine as a replacement for Adderall is a terrible idea because of the problems with contamination and legal repercussions. If you don't have access to the psychiatric care, getting started with drugs that are cut with god knows what at highly unreliable doses is not likely to make things much better, definitely not in the long run.