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Arguably won't be that helpful anyway

Maybe gaming is a way of self medication.

So I kind of wonder what would happen if a country just decided to ignore all patents and copyrights one day. Like just gathered all the intel they could on making all the medications out there, spin up a factory making their generic version then just only used those moving forward for their country. Maybe even selling it to other countries as well if there is demand. Clearly companies would be pissed because it would undercut their profits but what can they really do. Sueing them only works if the country cares to pay, and I don't see many people wanting to go to war with another country because they brought the costs of medication down.

They'd have to get other governments to try to sanction them, but if my options were to sanction a country, or buy medications at a much lower price thereby bringing down healthcare costs and increasing access to healthcare for our population.. Maybe enough countries would just let it go and other countries would join in on making their own ignoring the patents as well.

Anxiety in my head: “Something extreme and urgent and unjustifiable is going to happen and nobody will respond proportionally to keep you safe”

The fucking news: “Something extreme and urgent and unjustifiable has happened for the 11th time this week, and 49% of the country is cheering for it”

I mean, lot of the anxiety is in my head.

But not all of it, and that part just keeps growing! It's going to outpace the internal anxiety soon!

Hell yeah.

I'm on several prescriptions and two of them are from my psychiatrist. So for me it's not just the weed. And my response to it can be pretty strain-specific.

But god damn does it help a lot.

Yes beer, and whisky

A non-dehabilitating amount, sure.

You don't want no part of this shit!

Weed is cheaper.

The decline of America is certainly very visible, but if you look at a lot of trends, we're heading to a bad place. Climate catastrophe is coming for us, and with that, we have the rise of unrest in areas that are becoming more food insecure and/or are being disastered out, creating climate refugees. We've got an increase in bellicosity from rich powers trying to stake out claims while they still have time, and the billionaires are all building expensive bunkers...

It is tbh at least the decline of the west. We (germans) are not far behind the U.S. even if there is a different rethoric around in our home. Social spendings are cut, investment into renewables is cut while weapons spending increases. The strongly xenophobic narrative of our far right is willingly taken over by our "moderates" all while ignoring our complicity in the horrors perpetrated against Palestine. If we had any shreds of decency (and thus imo hope for reform) left in our society our governments should be able to put at least the tiniest amount of pressure on the israeli government. Yet we do not. Instead i have to read on our "most neutral" (tagesschau) news source that while the atrocieties are not justifiable, it is ok to continue the support of israel with weapons like atomic submarines because those might not be used against Palestinians. I am not kidding you.