Did he have a history of taking drugs or have an addictive personality? Because people with addictive personalities should not touch kratom. There are too many interactions that would make kratom dangerous for such people.

It’s a drug that is legal in some places and a grey zone in others. It is the leaves of a plant that grows in southeast Asia, which are ground into a powder and sometimes fermented. I take it like four or five times a week and it helped me in the past with smoking cessation since it limited the urges and lessened the withdrawal symptoms. While it feels good, people who only take drugs to get high, but don’t care about the safety shouldn’t take it, because mixing it with some things can be dangerous. For example mixing it with alcohol is like mixing alcohol with pain killers: It can lead to dangerously shallow breathing. Worst case scenario it can be deadly. Like with many things, you should not overdo using it.

Getting off kratom is a lot easier than getting off cigarettes or cocaine, but it still sucks because you will feel like you have the flu for a few days.

The effect at low dose feels stimulating and relieves anxiety. Low doses help me with productivity. A high dose is rather euphoric and sedating and it feels like you are covered in a heavy blanket. You get very talkative and somewhat hyper from it. Sometimes you feel like you could hug someone.

It is not safe, but I would say alcohol is more dangerous. You should definitely not take it if you have liver or kidney problems though. You shouldn’t take it if you are on painkillers or certain antidepressants. You shouldn’t take it if you can’t consume these things responsibly and with safety in mind. You shouldn’t take kratom if you don’t understand how to take it correctly, at the correct doses, for safe consumption.

So in like 3 out of 5 cases, I wouldn’t recommend against it’s use because of the person. In one out of five cases, I wouldn’t recommend it because there is no standardize formula of it and a lot of vendors mix it with dangerous shit, especially in the US and eastern Europe.

In the one out of five cases where you can take it, you should be a mature and responsible adult who isn’t on medication that interacts with it and you know what the hell you are doing and you have a reliable vendor who supplies you with unadulterated kratom.

Yeah, I didn’t take that into consideration.

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Honestly, dude should have been aware what he was in for.

So your proof is a nearly 20 year old article on a pro-Iraq war correspondence and interviewing a right wing pundit during Trump’s first candidacy? It hardly says that NPR is a propaganda mouthpiece, but rather says they have made mistakes as all outlets have done. Additionally, you dont have to accept 100% of what an outlet reports.

And US was wrong to attack Iran, but that doesn’t rule out both sides from doing bullshit reporting. It isn’t that black and white when it comes to sources.

And I am almost certain that stuff in WorldNews@lemmy.ml is pretty biased because it is lemmy.ml. As long as Dessalines, Nutomic and davel are around, I am pretty sure it will stay pretty biased.

The comment you links absolutely is shit with that last part. However the other comment wasn’t something worth removing unless it was a site ban + content removal.

And with the outlets and propaganda. NPR and DW aren’t good examples of western propaganda, as they tend to be less biased. NYT more. BBC is mixed.

And you seem to misunderstand something here. I am not a campist. Propaganda exists on both sides and it is important to keep that in mind. Though propaganda from dictatorships tend to be a bit more wild and obvious.

Honestly, this shit had been debunked like an hour after the original tweet. While there may have been a dip in some activity, the original tweet didn’t prove anything since http requests don’t prove user activity.

And of course you will try to convince yourself you arent spreading propaganda in other instance and cherry pick stuff that obviously isnt propaganda.

Additionally, removing this comment comparing Hamas with Republicans was you:

Also you seem to like using PressTV, an Iran state-controlled outlet, in your posts on World News on lemmy.ml. You think there is no propaganda there?

Arthur Besse isn’t called a tankie because of this thread, but because it has been already substantiated for more than a year that he’s a tankie. For people who can see who deleted what in the modlog, Arthur deletes comments for rather mild critiques of the CCP and Marxist-Leninist figures all the time. Dessalines is a lot more present on that though.

I am saying you spread propaganda because it has been proven time and time again that you do. Same goes for tardigrade. In this instance, tardigrade is more wrong, because the claims have been partially debunked.

PS: Also nowhere did I say it was propaganda in this instance, but that you are known to spread propaganda in general.

You are just as convinced that you don’t blatantly spread propaganda as tardigrade. You two calling the other propagandists when you both are reminds me of the spidermans pointing at each other meme.

Gonna stop you right there. Arthur Besse is proven tankie and tardigrade is proven to not be one. Both of em tend to be campists though. Arthur being the anti-west kind. Tardigrade being the pro-west kind.

Are you gonna cry because you were called out for being a campist? Because it sounds a lot like it.

Being a campist is playing out pretty badly for you in this thread, eh?