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if you're smoking it, you are going to be coughing a lot. you are going to be breathless a lot. your breath and smell are gonna be real bad.

if you're going to be snorting it. do you want to have a permanent sniffy nose? this is how you get a permanent sniffy nose.

if you're injecting it. you will develop weird painful spots and also itchiness.

in general: you are gonna be so tired and you will feel so evil and your sleep will not be normal and you will be pooping way too much or way too little and it will also stink and you will have really bad headaches. and your memory will get worse.

with alcohol - you will unlock evil nausea and grogginess and also you will have crazy dreams and general brain fog

with opiates - do you want to be itchy forever. this is how you be itchy forever.

with psychedelics - basically you will never feel hungry or tired again and no matter how much fun you think it is it is actually hell on earth to not be able to reset your body and you desperately need a reset and you have misplaced the button for reset.

with meth and the associated family -- You will feel your heart in places your heart should not be and also this never goes away

also not fun: spending money on things you cannot afford. and the slow realisation that you promised to never lose control. and then you did.

"i already experience these" Great. It gets worse. It gets so much worse.

"well I can't be addicted to stimulants because I have ADHD / opiates because I have chronic pain" I need you to know. This is a lie. The primary difference on why people experience withdrawals is the strength of the dosage. Also ignores the amount of disabled people who ended up addicted because they could not find their medication otherwise.

I'm so sorry to tell you this, but addiction will unlock entirely new and fucked up ways for your body to hurt.

parts of your GI tract that you didn't even KNOW could be angry at you are gonna start rioting and it's going to involve both ends. You're gonna shit yourself. You're gonna throw up. You're going to drive yourself crazy trying to figure out both how to get food into you and how to get it to stay there for the correct amount of time. Yes it's going to be worse than it is now. MUCH worse.

you want new headaches? Holy shit you got em.

you know what helps body pain? NOT getting obliterated enough that your limbs do whatever the hell they want and you don't feel it at the time. you'll absolutely feel it the next morning.

You want nerve pain? Buddy, they are NOT gonna be happy when the weighted blanket of your Substance wears off and they've gotten accustomed to having it.

and oh my GOD you are going to invent absolutely bonkers levels of fatigue. How tired are you now? Double it. Triple it.

Trying to patch over chronic pain with an addiction is like trying to bail out a sinking boat by dousing it in gasoline, hoping that means there's no room for the water to come in, and praying nothing sets off a spark. It's a dogshit plan. 0/10, don't recommend.

Bonus advice: ignore what Google says about how much is a problem or how often you're "allowed" to use or what an addiction clinically is. You'll try to bargain with those until the cows come home, and tell yourself that you're not doing X or haven't had Y consequence yet so you're fine and it doesn't apply to you, YOU'RE different.

(those consequences are coming for you, faster than you want to think.)

Instead, go by this:

The first time you tell yourself you're not going to use your Substance of choice tonight, and then you do it anyways, THAT'S your red flag. That's the last part of the line before the spiral really gets going.

All of the names are names of TMNT characters. They’re all dressed like their TMNT counterparts too, to the point where it feels like actually I’m looking at human designs for all the turtles. (The exception to this is Raph, or ‘Ralph’, but that makes sense considering that little reveal about him at the end). “Wait... this guy knows school” is a reference to the fact they’re all mutant turtles that never went to public school. But that’s not the only thing, because it so painfully obvious that the creator of this TikTok watched the 2012 cartoon specifically.

It’s completely insane. They all act like and interact with each other exactly like how they do in the ‘12 cartoon. It’s every little detail. Casey being a teenage delinquent. Donnie’s skepticism of Casey. The way everyone ELSE operates around Casey. It’s everything. I keep noticing new things every time I watch this video. Mikey’s the most obvious example of this, but I think the creator might be changing the way he talks to reflect Leo’s voice actor(s) too.

This entire video is a Spy AU fanfiction of TMNT 2012 with ridiculously high production quality. It fits so perfectly that it literally shouldn’t be able to be anything else. And YET - it’s so expertly crafted so as to make it indiscernible from any other stock Disney spy movie. This is so impressive it borders on manic.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"