The Truth About Linus Tech Tips’ Controversy, Harassment, & Allegations, & Today’s News
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✩ TODAY’S STORIES ✩-
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00:00 - LTT Says Investigation Into Misconduct Allegations Found No Issues
03:30 - Eras Tour Scams Abound in UK as DOJ Officially Sues Live Nation
05:43 - Study Finds Daily Marijuana Use Outpaces Daily Drinking in the US
06:56 - Japan Cracks Down on Tourists; PewDiePie Says RUclipsrs Are Ruining the Country
10:00 - Sponsored by Liquid IV
10:58 - Photos Show Justice Alito’s Beach House Displaying Flag Tied to Jan. 6 Riots
15:01 - Companies Are Charging Vets Thousands to Apply for VA Benefits
20:12 - Sponsored by Grifin
21:15 - Ohio Republicans Threaten to Take Biden Off the Ballot
23:18 - China Military Surrounds Taiwan, Kenya Becomes US Ally, & Stupid Guy Body Slams Orca
25:33 - Cities Around the World Brace for Potentially Scorching Summer
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Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks, Matthew Henry
Art Department: William Crespo
Writing/Research: Philip DeFranco, Brian Espinoza, Lili Stenn, Maddie Crichton, Chris Tolve, Jared Paolino
Associate Producer on Heatwave: Maddie Crichton
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My stepdad was a veteran. He spent years complaining to the VA about headaches and sudden loss of hearing in one ear. They literally wrote “drug seeking” in his chart for years. It wasn’t until he suddenly started to loose vision and went to an eye doctor where they saw a shadow when they dilated his eyes. Turned out he had a massive brain tumor. To add insult to injury they botched his surgery leaving him completely disabled at only 32 years old. For the 3 years he lived, the VA refused to approve more than 20% disability despite he needed around the clock care. The VA is constantly too little too late at best and grossly neglectful at worst which leaves Vets even more vulnerable to getting taken advantage of.
I'm so sorry. I know saying this won't fix anything, but he deserved better.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I know it’s also too little, too late, but my heart goes out to you.
So many people fall through the cracks man. I'm sorry you lost your father that way.
Oh no! I'm sorry to hear about your stepdad. VA hospital care is why he refuses to go to anywhere but civilian doctors and hospitals; and makes sure he and mom have health insurance. Luckily, he planned for this early on, as he has low tolerance for BS and poor diagnosis mainly due to genetic cancer running in his family. He's proud to be a veteran, but wishes the care was better than the care he receives at civilian hospitals and healthcare personnel.
My dad was a Vietnam veteran, and when he lost 50 pounds in 2 weeks, they said it was because they got his blood sugar under control. 4 months later, he was incredibly sick and hospitalized. 2 months after that, he was dead. He had cancer. For 3 years, he complained about hip pain, and they think NOW that this was the start of bone cancer. But they ignored his pain until they sent him home to die.
Live Nation accusing the DoJ of “depriving people of entertainment” is a joke. There have been multiple venues corroborate the retaliation claims and artist slamming them for screwing over their fans. While I’ll admit the jury trial is abit of a weird choice, I hope that the company is forced to break up for all the shit they’ve put regular people and fans through.
Have you ever been to a concert? Have you ever had to deal with the ridiculous fees? Pretty much anyone that likes to attend concerts has... I think it's a brilliant idea.
If it were up to me, live nation would end up as a regulated monopoly just like bell telephone was for years.
We should do what we did in the past (latest was 90s?): break up monopolies
They shouldn't stop with Ticketmaster either. The US government has been highly tolerant of virtual and actual monopolies for the last 40+ years compared to how it was before that. Said monopolies have been pushing their bullcrap more and more and lobby to keep their market control. Ticketmaster is just the obvious tip of the spear, but these modern mega corps that largely all own each other's stocks more than the public does, have to be broken up and sold off as well to bring competition back to the market and do something to improve the 'greed / inflation / debt financing' feedback loop we have going on right now. The thing that is mainly causing an affordable housing / cost of living crisis, that is only going to get worse as extreme weather events (fires & flooding) cause ripples through the insurance, banking/investment, and real-estate industries.
@@urproblem I don’t think that the market is ready for a complete break up yet. Which is why I’m all for the regulated monopoly model to be implemented as it will dramatically drive down costs for the consumer. In the long run, yes, break up makes sense, but I am concerned that implementing a break up at this point will result in a short period of pro consumer gains followed by constant mergers that kill competition. At least with the regulated monopoly model, oversight and pro consumer decision making is guaranteed.
I lived in Japan for 2 years in the early 2000s. I tried my hardest to integrate myself into the society, and not come off as an annoying tourist. Being black, and taller than most people I saw out and about, I was already super conscious about sticking out, so I did everything I could to be respectful of their culture. I could never imagine just slogging around the country and being an asshole to people just trying to live their lives.
Good for you but far to many are not like that and they of course ruin everything for everyone else... you will be a guest in another country and culture for generations usualy that how long it takes and NONE of them ow you anything but a severe kicking the heck out of there so be very thankfull for just a chance and never ever blame those doing you a huge favor....
As an outsider, looking at the state of the US Supreme Court and clear indication of conflicts interest is ludicrous. I have no idea how the argument could be made that they can be considered independent when you have people bragging about installing them
They didn't even oppose giving up the appointment to trump when it should have been a dem pick. Third party is our only good option now
@@dustinb1070 with how the electoral college is set up - 3rd party is not feasible. Best case no one would win but it’s more likely that the opponent you most don’t want to win- will because of splitting the vote. That is what happened with Hillary (well ONE of the factors with Hillary anyway)
@@dustinb1070 Wrong. The republicans controlled the senate and Mitch McConnell would not allow Obama's nomination (Merrick Garland) to have a hearing. A third party is not the answer. Clearly, if people had voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, then Trump would not have appointed 3 SCOTUS judges as well as hundreds of Federal judges. We see how that turned out in the Dobbs decision. Has everyone learned their lesson yet? Or do we have to go through this stupidity again?
@@greglamm5986 i think we have to go through a second wave of stupidity again, since the centrists never learn.
@@greglamm5986 I only see weakness and ineptitude with the democratic party. I see just as negative and destructive traits from both parties. I'm glad Hilary didn't get elected. There's probably 100s of thousands of middle easterns and Muslims alive today that wouldn't be otherwise.
Tokyoite here. I think the main issue with tourism in Japan is the infrastructure is not set up for an additional several-million people in the cities. Kyoto, for example, is a bus city, not a train city. So one person with a suitcase can ruin everything for everyone-tourists and locals alike-because the city just isn’t set up to handle everyone. Also the speed at which tourism has bounced back after COVID restrictions lifted last year has us all on-edge with how crowded everything has become so quickly. While 2019 was our most-visited year ever, 2024 is expected to surpass that by millions more people. 99.5% of tourists are very nice and mostly just a bit lost-again, infrastructure issues, including language barriers-but they drive me nuts because of the sheer number of them roaming around when I’m just trying to go to work.
Tourism tax? Our state charges more to out of state ppl, for lodging and sometimes catering or car services to make up for lost resources in the infrastructure they consume while traveling. I think yamhill County in Oregon just had one of those taxes on their ballots. If that rural American town can do it, Japan can too.
It isn’t several million people at a time - except in tokyo. Kyoto, maybe a million. Japan is a 1st world country with some of the biggest international cities. The country is not a World Heritage Site. This is all overdue.
I hope it doesn't get bad enough where I wont be able to visit in my life time.... But I would be going to Tokyo mostly.
It's called city life love. Welcome.
I think ya'll need a tourism tax. Lessen the load, and those who don't REALLY want to go to Japan won't go. You know, the disrespectful tourist can go be an ass just about anywhere else.
My dad joined the day before Vietnam ended. He left the service in 84. He wasn't able to provide documentation needed to get treatment until the documentations around his teams deaths were declassified in 2014. 30 years of living with PTSD where everyone just thought he had anger problems instead of getting the help he needed.
My father who saw combat in Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Afghanistan (where he did his final two combat tours) sounds extremely similar. My mother told me as I hit my late 20s that every time he came home, it felt like a piece of him was missing.
my great uncle saw some sort of action during vietnam. he refused to speak about it at all once i can along but watching a man who saw things i can't begin to comprehend loose himself to alzheimer's made me so frustrated. the only sort of support he got was from the american legion after decades of hoarding,depression, and isolation.
@@Oblivisci........going to Iraq some years back, and seeing the evil US soldiers had done and were doing in that country was chilling.
My girlfriend at the time worked for the UN there and some of the ex-soldiers turned contractors lived in her building and tried to ‘flirt’ with her once by showing off his tattoos where he was keeping ‘score’ of all the men he’d been killing.
Damn right it likely took part of his soul, hopefully cause he realized how evil so many in the US army were rather than him also being one of the evil ones.
@@jonsmith5058Different people deal with things in different ways, there's nothing inherently evil about "keeping score" that's simply how that soldier worked to rationalise the bloodshed and violence he saw.
Starting your post with "the evil the US soldiers were doing and did" is disingenuous, disrespectful and frankly not at all supported by your anecdote.
"Omgggg can you believe he kept count??? How evilll!!!"
@@Icarus07cexcuse me??? There’s nothing wrong with keeping score of your kills? No. There’s a lot wrong with that. If you’re a good person stuck in a bad situation you’re not getting tattoos of it. Normal humans don’t want to even talk about it. Or if they do, they feel bad. They don’t brag. This isn’t a coping mechanism. This is being proud of killing others. Do NOT excuse this behaviour. You are enabling psychopaths. And that does nothing to help the normal ones who are actually traumatized.
LTT basically told her in legal talk not to make more drama about this. Thats one person telling another person "I'm done with this if you are" very firmly. Ball is in her court now.
Imagine paying someone to say you're all good and clean then they turn around and say what you paid them to say, weird AF that its getting traction too. LMG paid the 3rd party to investigate, that's bias right out the gates, feel like I'm fucking insane that no one else is picking up on this. There is also a reason the new CEO declined to work for LMG for so many years of them literally begging him and giving him large cash offers.
@@I0ITuGI0I Well how else were they supposed to investigate the issue as a company? Hiring a THIRD PARTY law firm to do so seems much less biased than doing an internal investigation.
@@I0ITuGI0I Nah thats not how it works. They went to a THIRD PARTY firm, and yes they did pay for it, but the THIRD PARTY is staking their reputation on each investigation. Thats what gives it legitimacy. The fact that they are well known, a THIRD PARTY and independent, is what makes this legitimate.
This is not "paying someone to say that you are good and clean". Thats total BS, and it seems like you have already made up your mind regardless of the actual facts.
What did you expect? Madison to fund the investigation? She's an individual without the means. Plus its not like Madison can't take them to court if her claims are really true LMAO. There's a reason why she hasn't, and that LMGs response includes lines about being able to sue her for defamation.
@@I0ITuGI0I So who's supposed to hire the investigative team? Taxpayers via court order, the employee making the apparent false claims?
As others have said. A 3rd party investigation is the only as hands off way to do this. I'm not sure what you option you have in mind. Care to share?
I served for almost 10 years, please discourage your kids from serving until the government learns to give a damn. They will send you to do things that change you forever, and will not help you pick up the pieces when you're back home.
More people need to understand this. My grandpa, back in the 1930s I think, was training soldiers for a while. He had to stop because he said he was sending these kids out to be cannon fodder and just couldn’t do it anymore.
But if you say this, even here in Canada to an extent, you’re attacked. But it’s the reality.
I can never feel good if my kids join. My daughter’s friend just joined. She’s a foster kid who aged out of the system and was kicked out of her home so she didn’t have much choice. Which is so damn sad. I’m worried for her.
It's the number one reason I didn't join. As part of the graduation from a National Guard ran program here we had to take the ASVAB. I aced it. Every branch was chasing me like the paparazzi. I told them all the same thing. Until the government actually takes care of its veterans I have zero interest in serving. Why am I going to risk my health and my life for a government who routinely fucks its populace over and treats its veterans like dog shit.
Teacher in Texas here. In our high school, the AC has already broke once this week in addition to multiple times back in August. Schools are not ready to handle the heat; more schools around here are trying to start the students back in early August with teachers and staff on campus the week before. They keep slapping bandaids on broken systems and calling it a day.
My guess is your ACS are not actually broken but freezing over. A lot of people don't know this but when an AC unit is being overworked it can actually freeze itself in the middle of the summer. Due to all the moisture it builds up as well as being put at such low temperatures in order to keep such a big building cool.
Exactly happened to me and my family one summer in an apartment I think back in 2020 or 2021. We have been using the AC for a few days straight and it just wasn't working right. After we had the landlord check it out with his personal maintenance man it turned out that the AC was completely Frozen over. Covered in ice.
Thankfully the AC still worked, but they had to break up all the ice and let the rest of it melt before they could turn it back on again. The bigger and more AC units a big building that has a required in order to keep it cool, the more likely that they could freeze over if constantly overworked and not properly maintenance or shut off once in awhile. At least they let whatever ice it is developing melt. Chances are the maintenance man doesn't feel like explaining this so they just say it's broken.
😂 If you guys actually had a broken AC like we did back in 2019 or 2018 and one of our old homes, that bitch want to turn on no matter what. Mighty some fresh freon, a new fan, I need the circuit battery or something. That bitch would be off for at least two to three weeks.
Well at least the kids are going to get used to officials just putting bandaid solutions onto systematic problems. Maybe they'll learn the adults have to be forced to do the right\humane thing.
Canadian here who went to school and have kids in school. We don’t have AC except in the office, library and I think staff room. I remember how I suffered as a kid all through June. In high school we had exams and had an industrial fan in the front of the room. Helped a tiny bit but barely. I hated it.
I get it’s expensive to install etc. but climate change is real and now kids are hot in may-June then end of August-October many days. It sucks.
As long as voters are so gullible and vote for republican grifters again & again, nothing will change! It is really sad that people had to eat sh*t to learn their lessons....as history has shown us many times before!
I was in Kyoto at the beginning of April and the way people treat the Geisha is horrible. There are multiple signs on every block in Gion (and many more around the whole city) warning that photography of them is not allowed, yet we saw multiple people whip out their phones when a Geisha was practically running away from them.
I just couldn’t believe that so many other tourists were so self-centered and unaware that they thought a photo of a woman in distress *because of them* qualified as a great souvenir. It kind of made me question my faith in the goodness of people that was otherwise strengthened by our visit to Japan.
Is filming others in public without consent not a crime in Japan? It sounds like a failure of the tourist authority (which sounds overburdened).
@@stevenboelke6661 Most of Gion is actually private property (the no photography signs point this out too), so regardless of public photography/filming laws, the owners can enforce their own rules. However, you are right that it is a bit of a failure of the tourist authority, which I also imagine is very overburdened. The fine is only 10,000¥, which at the time was worth only $68. IMO the problem is so bad that fine could be 10x, maybe even 100x, higher to offset the lack of enforcement.
@@stevenboelke6661it is a crime iirc
I've been following J-vloggers since around 2008, and it's amusing how influencers (like PewDiePie) move to Japan, make money by telling everyone how cool it is, and then suddenly get annoyed when people start showing up. These influencers are definitely part of the problem. As an American living and working in Japan, I notice a lot of the tourism hate is directed at Americans, even though we make up only 8% or less of the tourists each year. I think a tourist tax is needed for all tourists. I know Japan will figure out a way to ensure the tourist money keeps coming in while balance and respect are restored.
@@forestkane_it’s just a stereo type but when people actually talk about it they are more annoyed at Europeans or chineee
LiveNation's "breaking us up won't drive the price nor innovation" echoed the same thing AT&T said back then. After AT&T got broken up, call across continents' prices went down and technology vastly improved.
A reminder of the former efforts of Texas to remove outdoor worker water breaks just last year. Shows how much they care
I’m honestly glad I live in Austin where the electric company is a little more nice about usage cause I can’t imagine the energy bills this summer. Last year I was already mad about them
Apparently they actually passed the bill to do so, and then a judge struck it down afterwards.
I was stationed in Japan for 2 years. You want to know where else has a great view of the mountain? THAT ENTIRE CORNER OF TOKYO! It's a giant volcano! It's pretty easy to see for miles in all directions surrounding it!
Edit: it's really just outside of Tokyo but my point still stands. You can see it from a large portion of Tokyo and the other surrounding areas.
But only on a clear day. 😢
I don’t think I will ever understand the thought of “because they are nice. I can do this horrible thing” it just seems essentially evil
I'm so happy that one of my teachers got Alito so mad with some fairly basic questions about his rulings that he just left in a huff and looked like a total child. Knowing these idiots are above the law and rules, that is one of the only times I'll ever see him get any kind of justice.
May I ask what the question was?
I'll take shit that never happened for 500 Alex
As someone who lives in the UK the hotter summers are a nightmare as we don't have Aircon and our houses were built to keep heat in. The fact it's getting worse year after year is concerning
Even it might already be too late, perhaps it's finally time to reflect on how we live our lives, reconstruct our behaviours and learn to value different things then we do now. Things like accepting we are a part of nature and not apart from it, a bit less individualism, restructuring the ridiculous idea of everyone owning cars and using them as a way of luxury and learn to create and appreciate our stuff, instead of buy and throw away our clothes and electronic devices continously.
Is there a reason why houses in the UK don't have AC built in? Even if they don't usually get very hot, I still don't see why they wouldn't build the houses with them.
@@issaciams We literally have maybe 1 month a year of temperatures that would even vaguely warrant air conditioning. Considering the electricity cost, maintenance costs and the surge demands on the grid I can guarantee most people would opt out. Plus you know, weather, it is our main topic of conversation.....
@JamesNoms what is the usual temperature for summers there?
Platforms NEED to step up and deal with these streamers. With all the crimes and general nuisances they stream it's begging for the next adpocalypse.
Most of those streamers are on Kick and they won't do anything to their streamers unless they break some major laws.
What kind of asshole do you need to be to like watching nuisance streamers? That stuff is beyond cringe.
@@Nabroloeven when theyve been arrested and on a legal internet ban they still do nothing.
They won’t. It gets them clicks
The adpocalypse is already happening though. This is why RUclips is cracking down hard against bypassing ads
On the topic of heat, my uncle’s dog got out of his yard last summer and because he was worried about them, he ran out without shoes. Running barefoot on the blacktop in Arizona caused him to get second degree burns on both feet. It was BAD. Luckily he recovered, but it was still scary. Please, please be careful this summer.
Also be careful with shoes in high temps! Dogs regulate heat through their paws, and shoes in heat can increase risk of heat stroke. Especially in breeds not equipped for the heat as well as others
From what I hear, Arizona is an infernal hellscape even on mild summers. I really do hope everyone in extremely warm states and climates keep safe this year.
Meanwhile, I'll remain mildly damp in Denmark
The craziest part is how many people are moving here from richer states, too. A crazy amount of houses are being built here, which is only going to further push the resources that we barely have in the first place.
Couple summers ago I had the weirdest accident ever. I was standing in my high platform heels, talking to a friend and we got completely carried away. Until I suddenly noticed I cant move, my pumps were buried (about halfway of the platform part) in the newish patch of asphalt! At first it was funny AF, but soon it was certain these shoes werent going anywhere. I had no choice but to leave them, barefoot it back home and leading to about week long zany art exhibit on the pavement, red velvet heels standing alone (looking like they were going to hair salon near by), until someone got them out. So, take it from me, look where you step when the mercury goes up. If this can happen in Finland, it can happen anywhere.
you could cook an egg in LA in the 90's on asphalt
Someone had to pay for the investigation and it was not going to be Madison, no legal firm would put their company on the line for the peanuts that LMG would pay. They're a reputable and large law firm that's used by local governments and large corporations alike to conduct internal investigations and to review policies. Their reports have led to CEO's getting booted when found to be culpable.
This is the gold-standard when it comes to this kind of things, worst thing they could've done is do an internal investigation or just ignore it.
And neither the law firm nor LMG would state so in certain terms if it wasn't true, because it would've opened them to a lot of liability not just from Madison but also from Canadian authorities.
Also, you can't prove a negative. How do you even prove something didn't happen. Madison in her claims described evidence and other people witnessing the acts, which as it turns out isn't true.
Huge win with the liquid iv sponsor, literally saved my life doing construction. The doctor told me i should have gone to the er, he said i was lucky to be alive my blood work looked awful
Same here! Not construction, but fire fighting P.T as a training student. Liquid IV is recommended by everyone I know because it works so well
one of the large contributors to city heat is lack of trees, shade is so important.
omg yes, I've been going on about this for years. There is so much that could be done with just a little bit of rearranging and city planning, tree lined streets would make a world of difference to the temperature of cities in general and especially the nearby buildings
I live and work in South Texas, and last summer was utterly miserable. At one point in July, the temp was 113°F with a real-feel of 130°F. I was talking about it with a friend who had recently served overseas, and she was like, "Those are Quatar numbers!"
Yeah, well, this is Qua-Texas.
Not looking forward to this summer...
Hey Australian here!
The heat waves here get so bad that water starts evaporating fast enough to cause a flood somewhere else in the country so as it gets hotter in Texas be prepared for flooding as well
central AR here, and knowing how hot it got here last summer, and no benefit of coastal breezes, I feel so bad for the residents of southern TX. Try to stay cool!
I live in Canada in the Pacific Northwest, and we've been getting hotter and drier summers, and dealing with worse and worse wildfires. The heat dome we were hit by a couple years ago reached 122 degrees in some places and killed, like, 600 people. It's already bad, and it's going to get worse.
just in time for the yeehaw-jihad
You must be in Houston.y single above garage apartment had central AC/heat, PLUS a beast mode window unit AC in bedroom. It was loud but so glad landlord put it there. You know your AC is keeping pace, because you have to change the smoke detector batteries every month or so.
I moved from there, to Minneapolis. I had to buy 3 big window units in 1 bedroom place.
You need to learn how to Texan better. My parents house DFW is always so cold. I have to borrow sweat suit layers when I visit. My dad just designed the AC very well.
In Arizona, businesses aren't allowed to charge for water, but some places found a loophole by charging for "the container." Im so glad they finally instigated cooling centers. It was long overdue. You can not live in this state without a swamp cooler or AC. It's just not safe.
As a veteran I fully intend to pay a company to help me file my claim because all of my friends who did that got way higher ratings than those that used VSOs. The cost of using those companies is massively offset by the veteran receiving a higher rating(ie. More money). Having worked with several VSOs I can tell you they are usually very unhelpful and rarely get claims approved that wouldn’t be if the veteran simply submitted alone without anyones help.
I am a chronic pain patient from a motorcycle accident 15 years ago. Over the years, I became dependent on narcotic medication a couple occasions. However, after many life factor changes, I don’t use them anymore. Drinking was never my thing either. I may take a drink once in a great while, but I largely abstain.
However, I recently began microdosing cannabis to help with sleeping. I still suffer from severe chronic pain all day every day, but I had an implantable stimulator put in years ago which has mitigated much of it. Since I’ve started microdosing with cannabis, my sleep is better and my residual pain is a little more manageable. In the course of a week, I’ll use it 2-3 times. Such a relief and I hope we can lose the racial stigma associated with cannabis.
I've been doing it for when my arthritis or ezcema flares up, and I finally can sleep through the night. I used to take 4-6 benadryl, and it ate away at my stomach lining.
I know when Phil says "Hit you with a monkey," he means the classic intro that I remember back in my high school days, but I can't help but think that Phil is armed with a monkey and **vengeful**
As a USMC Veteran, Thank you Phil for saying the quiet part out loud. Goverment acts like they cherish all military members and Veterans. Couldn't be further from the truth.
The worst part about the high heat is that some countries, like where I am in the UK, simply doesn't have the infrastructure. Air conditioning is not common in the UK, even in a lot commercial buildings. Our homes are designed to keep heat IN, making it impossible to cool down areas. It was unbearable last year as the buildings act like ovens. People also forget, it's really humid here, so it becomes Florida but without the supporting infrastructure.
Such a great thing to see that the DOJ wants to breakup a company! We definitely need less corporate greed and more consumer protection
Bidens doj has been fighting these anti competitive companies hard but they are limited by the right wing courts and weak anti trust laws from Congress
Let's be real, the only reason they gave a crap was because a few of their granddaughters didn't get to see the Taylor Swift concerts, and then they cried to grandma or grandpa about it for 45 minutes, and it hit them right in the feels because their little sugar pumpkin couldn't get everything they wanted the second they asked for it.
The USA where healthcare requires half a dozen middle men before your first appointment.
Australia where you turn up, get an appointment and come back half an hour before it starts, just in case everyone before you just needed their script renewed.
Let's not forget the best part; pay 2 small annual fees for Medicare and ambulance coverage, and healthcare is basically free. I've been hit by a car, tripped and fell on a sidewalk dislocating my knee, was bitten by a spider and had an adverse reaction, and not once did I have to pay a cent. One time there was going to be a $40 fee for one of those special boots, but they waived it because I didn't have any money on me at the time. Australian healthcare ain't perfect, but it's pretty bloody good.
@@travisking9895 we need dental. That shit is so pricey because everyone acts like it's just brushing your teeth, meanwhile, I've broken 6 teeth on the bathroom sink, toilet, steps to the shower and dunny.
Had a concussion from the first fall and being concussed kept getting back up, had no balance and fell over.
Last fall knocked me out for over na hour I had to piece together what happened the next day, after finally reasoning that crawling out of the bathroom was an option.
@@julesmasseffectmusic You're absolutely right. It's literally cheaper to take an international flight to Spain and stay there for a month to get dental work done than it is to have it done here.
Our mental health system isn't great either, but even with those two parts of the healthcare system sucking, I'll still take Australia's medical system over America any day.
@@travisking9895 yeah I'm paying 400 a. Month for my therapist but then it's my fault for not doing anything about my issues aside from crawling into a bottle for 20 years. So paying for it feels kinda deserved.
At least I can confirm our cops not only do wellness checks but take them bloody seriously. Had 9ne call an ambulance and make me do the 24 hour thing ecuase I looked like death, had gastro for 2 days, called in sick to work, left a message, the person I called was sick and no one, bar me knew how to check anyone else's messages because I was in charge of the phones.
Was nice having meals prepared, and not have to clean up after myself, living alone and puking your guts up sucks.
@@travisking9895As an American, who’s never been to Australia, I’ll take it too!
On the defamation case, I am pro defamation. I feel like it does not take away from how terrible sexual harassment is to also address false accusations of sexual harassment and that that is also a horrible thing to do to someone. I don't think it's nearly as prevalent or systemically supported as harassment, but falsely accusing someone to get payback or some advantage is wrong.
Japan: No one will break our hospitality
The rest of the world: ONE OF US...... ONE OF US....... ONE OF US!!!
As somebody who lives in the UK where basically nobody has air conditioning, yes we basically do just die every summer. There were multiple days last year when the temperature inside my flat was 28C/82F and I'm really not looking forward to it happening again this year.
The problem we also face here in the UK is that our buildings are purposely designed to KEEP heat in. We’ve insulated them to hell and back whilst having south facing windows to get "the most sun".
Are window units not common there?
28C? Haha...that's what my wife wishes I would set the A/C unit to here in the Philippines. I have it set to 26 as a compromise...and she's always "freezing."
@@Cashhhhew I’ve never seen a single one. My boss, who was a millionaire, had his house renovated to have ac installed - his place was the only residential building that the maintenance crew ever visited for the decade plus I worked for him.
@@DoMagicTogether Ah! But our Summer days getting to late 20s/early 30s C is as high as we get in a HOT summer - when you’re used to the temperature being a high of 22c that’s a huge difference. Especially, as I said with our entire infrastructure built for a milder, cooler climate.
Spouse of a medically retired vet. When he was med-boarded (medical retirement due to service injuries), an army lawyer looked at his paperwork and said that his initial rating is going to be 90%. It should be 100%, but they always start with 90% "to see who will actually fight for that last 10%".
that is absolutely disgusting and i'm extremly sorry. it's disheartening to see the fight that my grandfather (moms dad) had to make directly and the fight my grandma (dads mom) had to make as a medical power of attorney for her little brother. i hope you and your husband are doing well dispite everything.
Back when I was in and out of the hospital due to my health and unable to work, I was advised to file for short-term disability. The social worker helping me told me, "You're going to be denied. They deny everyone the first time, even people obviously need it, just to see who will jump through the hoops for it." Over a decade later in a similar circumstance, a different healthcare worker told me the same damn thing.
It's sickening to know our "healthcare" system is so dedicated to profits over people, they'll deny benefits for those who need them the most, then play mind games with any of them left. It's an absolute joke, and a hundred times worse when the victims of that negligence risked their lives in the name of the nation.
My roommate just got med-boarded and got 100% his first try and everyone has been shocked. We were worried he'd have to fight like so many others have.
It doesn’t surprise me one bit. Absolutely scummy.
It's much like how disability works. Unless you are practically State or Federally backed on being disabled they outright deny claims for a year or two just to see who fights for it and things move from there. My uncle has a degenerative nerve condition in his legs that only gets worse with time. Despite his doctors telling them it's a fact they still said no to him for two years and then forced him to jump through a bunch of hoops, seeing their doctors, before they finally gave it to him. I blame all of the fuckwads who abuse the system because they don't want to work. Like those imbeciles who park in handicap spots, they have the sticker for it, but when they get out you can plainly see there isn't a damn thing wrong with them.
Hottest summer ever:
Florida: No water breaks for you
I don't usually comment on your posts but the Live Nation thing hit close to home. Being a musician and living in LA, this has affected everything. My buddy is one of the biggest promoters in SoCal, from metal gigs to industrial, rap and even folk music. I have seen the offers that Live Nation has offered him to buy him out of his name and connections. When he didn't agree to their proposal, they decided to go around his back and approach venues about shows and concerts. It feels that in less than a year, Live Nation was booking the same acts my buddy had been doing for years, but charging an arm and a leg for the same shows. Live Nation isn't about the music or fans, but for the money. Seeing tickets of concerts go from $20-$40 to $60-$100 was insane. And that's not including the fact that they don't pay those acts. and bands having to raise prices on merchandise as well.
From Bend, OR. We had snowboarding/skiing, camping, kayaking, etc. we didn’t have crazy amounts of tourists. But enough. Now. Bend is overrun. People are selfish douche bags. Leave garbage. Park in people’s driveways. And the rich found it and buy their summer homes. Making it impossible to live there if you aren’t rich. And douche bag companies bought up housing for air b&b. So almost impossible to get housing there. It destroyed this beautiful little area because of the tourists that came there. Tourism is awesome for some places. But people are dicks.
Welcome to California! That's been going on here for years and now the illegals and the rich have housing, and if you have a home you are trapped and can't afford to move, meanwhile us natives sleep in the streets one way or another! I now live on a school bus at 56 years old! I worked my entire life, lived in my apt for 25 years paying rent on time every month only to be harassed beyond belief in a rent controlled building to the point that I didn't feel safe and fell into a severe depression. When I was 18 years old earning $8.35 hour I was able to afford a single apt!
Same with Colorado over the last decade I've watched a beautiful landscape become marred play inconsiderate and I'm carrying people in the rich keep moving here for summer homes as well... I'm not even going to mention all of the places buying up homes that are corporate and then turning around and either selling it for an inflated price we're turning it into a rental property and then charging the tenants exorbitant fees to live there
@@animallovefest143California has been squandered for decades, unfortunately that's one of the few places that you really can't complain about the rich living because they've been there forever they're just branching out farther... It seems like our politicians want to turn the whole nation into California....
Jeez… I used to live in Redmond & Terrebone and haven’t been back for about 20 years. Didn’t realize how it was nowadays… thought PDX was the only super messed up city in Oregon.
@@animallovefest143wtf do you mean- “the illegals .. have housing”?!?!?
Are you kidding me dude
It's not just the VA benefits, there are thousands of For-profit companies doing the same thing for student loan forgiveness plans. I worked for one of these for 6 mo that was charging people $3000 over 4mo to just to apply for govt loan forgiveness programs that are free. I quit because they prioritized profit over actually helping people, demanding we sign people up for plans they didn't qualify for, lying and claiming WE would file their annual renewal forms on their behalf, etc. Companies like this should be illegal
Debt consolidation companies have a similar motive and effect
It's meme'd on all the time, but as a Vet, one of the worst things we leave the military with is crippling anxiety about needing to be somewhere on-time / aversion to sleeping. The fact that a lot of civilians don't understand it is maddening.
I currently have an appointment in 6 hours. I have not slept in the past 20. Nor will I sleep within the next 6. The appointment is literally not important at all, nothing to be worried about AT ALL, but nothing aside from going to the meeting or calling and cancelling I will be completely unable to enter a relaxed state. It is like this for literally any non-daily situation since I left the military.
I was NOT like this before I joined, but I guess being threatened with extreme retaliation, every day, for 4-8 years in a row for even minor infractions will do that to a person.
That, and we're regularly introduced to sleep deprivation to make sure we're constantly ready to do a full day's work when we haven't slept in 2. I understand needing to train for pushing beyond our limits sometimes, in a combat scenario or something. But the concept is lost when I'm in a non-combat environment and get called on to work a 7a-7p shift, then stand 1-2 different security jobs on the side every day, along with the possibility of overnight duty of mindlessly forwarding emails because nobody can figure out how Outlook rules work so they insist on having someone file them by hand 24-7. Then the next workday starts, I have not been home, I have not showered, God help me if I went to sleep and someone caught me.
I'd also be on-call all weekend every other weekend, so when I'm 'off work' I can't do ANYTHING but sit in the barracks and wait to be called for the inevitable breakdown of all systems during said weekend, because my luck is that terrible (and so are the machines that we use).
How do I explain to a normal person that going to something like a PTA meeting triggers my PTSD without sounding like a crazy attention seeker? How do I explain that I have an aversion to making plans because what if I'm needed at home / work during that time-frame and can't get there? I've been out for over 10 years and I've managed to shake a good bit of the toxic conditioning, but not these parts.
I hate it so much.
I paid one of these companies. It only ended up being a little over $1000 because they got me a 10% gain. The knowledge I gained allowed me to go from 40% to over 100% for my combat related injuries that have disabled me for years. Yes they are absolutely scuzzy. They should be capped way lower than 12k but these people help navigate a system that's designed to keep honest people out. It would also help if some veterans would stop faking disabilities.
I just received a letter from the VA yesterday denying my claim because my reviewer got their dates wrong. I now have to submit a dispute that can take up to another year to be fully reviewed. It is frustrating.
Summers are just going to get hotter and hotter every year, there will be a breaking point in which growing food and doing outdoor work is going to become impossible. This will mainly affect low income workers, which will later affect the prices of everything from food to labor contracts, and will culminate with eventually killing a lot of people with health issues. It does not help that we are one of the most obese countries in the world.
P.S: Threatening me with a monkey sounds weird, but on brand, so I will accept it.
The corn fields could be vertical indoor farms. Much of the corn grown isn't even something ppl eat. John Oliver covered this topic this week.
It is May and already almost triple digits here in Houston and 5 days of no power was brutal. Not looking forward to a hurricane
@@Domino_0604sending good, cool vibes!!
I think you're completely right, although I don't think it will be a breaking POINT per se because bureaucracy happens slowly. I think you'll just start to see more and more heat-stress related deaths until (hopefully) some type of labor reform or union intervention occurs. Eventually those workers might have to work in morning and evening hours only. I can promise you this though: even at the point where outdoor work is staggered based off temperature levels, we will still have a majority of people that, influenced by corporate "skepticism'" , are in denial of anthropogenic climate change and nothing will fix that until it is so glaringly evident that the only solution will be leaving the planet.
Lmao you probably wear a face mask alone in your car
FYI for all active duty/reserve members: DOCUMENT YOUR PROBLEMS. Go to medical, get the paperwork done. It'll save you having to wait 10+ years for the VA to maybe accept your claim after you get out if you have proof of it being documented while in-service.
Texas ice cream man here! I can confirm that when we hit triple digit temperatures, it is rough on business. It takes about 5-7 days of that heat before people start to go stir-crazy enough to actually get back out to the shop. A drop of 10-25% is pretty normal and up to 50% on the worst days.
The fact so many people can't tell the LMG statement was clearly written by a lawyer is fucking staggering
It sounds so much like, "we paid someone to investigate us and they found nothing"... I have a hard time taking it seriously...
@miss1of2 Then due your due diligence, reach out to the law firm and confirm with them. Regardless I highly doubt one of the largest law firms in Vancouver would allow LMG to use their name in a false investigation. That's grounds for a lot more trouble
@@miss1of2 If a third party investigates them and comes back with their own findings independent of LMG, what more would you want? There’s always gotta be a line somewhere where you can say “this is enough for me”, otherwise you’re just looking for reasons to be upset.
@@miss1of2 They have to release all findings for public access in these investigations. Otherwise the firm would lose all credibility and business from honest companies seeking similar investigations. They get paid regardless of findings too.
@miss1of2 - uhg your type annoys me so much. Firms have legal obligations to impartiality and fact finding. It's called ethics and the law firm if it was doing a quid pro quo to make a certain finding it would likely be a criminal offence or at the least a breach of fudiciary duty which could be brought to the bar association and the lawyers involved and/or the law firm itself could face serious discipline for violating legal codes of conduct and ethical practices. No lawyer is risking their licence to practice law for a single pay day
As someone who was a daily/multi-daily user for the past 4 years, getting clean for a job the past 2 months has been eye opening to say the least. Addiction is real and just because it isn’t tobacco doesn’t change the fact that it’s still very dangerous in large quantities. Even if I go back to it soon, I’m never EVER going to exceed a few times a month max for the rest of my life
Awesome for you buddy, someone must have had to pick up chicken nugget size parts of humans that were still burning. So I'll smoke every day and keeps me from remembering stuff like that have a nice day though have a nice day though
Because it’s a psychological addiction right? So it’s still addictive even if your body isn’t which means you’re still consuming too much and if you’re told to stop you’ll still be defensive. You’re used to it. Maybe it does even become physically addictive.
I’ve tried to explain this to my kids. One is 19, other 15. They think it’s fully safe. I’m glad it’s legalized. But not enough education has been given to the general public and I don’t think enough research has really been done especially on the effects on young people.
@@Mama_Bear524’effects on young people’ - cannabis has existed for thousands of years and there’s various evidences to suggest how influential cannabis was during history. people need to do more research yes but not how you’re making it out to be. cannabis can be dangerous if abused, just like any drug, but that does not make it inherently dangerous does it? cannabis is statistically more safer than alchohol, benzodiazepines, opiods. it’s time the world stopped glorifying and defending alchohol and ripping on cannabis when it’s well established to be safer than other drugs.
@@Mama_Bear524there's been pretty significant research that even if a drug is considered safe, like cannabis, that safety is towards adults whose brains have finished developing, by around age 25. Any drug used for recreational high, even some forms of psychiatric medication, can slow & negatively affect the development of the brain before this. So yes, it's legal, just like alcohol is legal, & just like alcohol it can keep a kid from being as smart, mentally healthy, creative, happy, etc as they could be by the time they're an adult. Because all of those qualities are largely based on the balanced neurochemistry of the brain. Even though the 21 year-old legal limit is somewhat better/safer than 15 or 18. Also, I've worked with teens and young adults for a long time, and I've come to realize that what they consider safe is basically "this thing won't kill me within days of using it & I won't get in trouble/go to jail for using it." They don't usually consider or care about other dangers of using something.
As some who worked from 12 am to 8 am last summer because of the heat. can I start to cry.
I'm a veteran that got out in 2013. I wasn't having any luck with the VA, so I went and got outside representation for my claim. In 18 months, they did what the VA "couldn't" In 11 years. Having the option to get help outside the VA was a blessing. If you take your time, research who you're hiring, it should be fine. I got lucky enough to get referred by another VET. We tend to be honest with one another.
Pretty sure this is the exact set up these types of companies use... like just go use DAV or VFW. The 'veteran' led businesses are literal leeches.
Every county has a Veterans Service Office that handles everything from VA claims to living wills to VA appt transportation to emergency funds. 🙂
Point is you shouldn’t have to do that. Veterans literally sacrifice your lives. You should be taken care of for life
@thefruch7588 Shouldn't.... true, but the VA fails many of us. They'd rather take away a path for VETS to succeed, than fix themselves.
@@thefruch7588 I was just letting him know. I wasn't trying to be a dick. My VSO got my reevaluation claim through in 6 months.
that monkey intro is an oldie but a goodie
Looks amazing for old school intro ever!!!
I love how aggressively he says "THIS IS A NEWS SHOW" in it.
I was never here for sxephil, this must've been too old for my original time on the channel, but I'm glad it came back.
Anyone remember the theme song Charlie Puth wrote for sxephil way back in the day?
@@IjeomaThePlantMama Is that the "Sexy Phil, he's not sexy, sxephil he's S.X.E!" one?
Monkey intro was THEE intro when I found Phil. So nostalgic for me
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Appreciate people like you and Jon Stewart bringing attention to these issues!
I was Marine for 5 years, deployed twice, suffered several debilitating injuries, kept a record of everything from ear ringing to aching joints, and it still took me 9 months to get my claims approved. Mind you, I was *self-employed* so I could walk into the clinic on my own time. I know people who needed years to juggle this BS process with full-time work and a family.
We need to prove that years of exposure to artillery and gunfire hurts our ears, while politicians bend over backwards to hand out money to contractors.
Thank you so much for talking about the issues with supporting vets as much as you do. I am a vet, but more importantly, my dad is a vet and he was affected by the burn pits. He has had 3 different cancers, kidney disease, and had one kidney removed. You would think that he would get 100% disability rating for these (and other issues he has), or at least a high rating. But nope, he was given 30%. He has been trying to fight it for a couple of years now, he's gone to the VSO, and tried to get doctors to give evidence and notes to the VA showing that all of this was related to the burn pits. But the VA doesn't seem to care. It makes me worried for my own rating when I receive it, along with all other vets trying to get compensation for issues developed during or after their time of service.
I work landscaping construction in Australia. In the summer we started at 4am to try and avoid the worst of the heat as much as possible. Beautiful stars and sunrises in the morning, but it's been hell on the sleep schedule.
As someone who has gone to Japan on multiple occasions its unfortunate to see people acting this way. Every time I've gone its been busy and crowded but last time there were so many tourists everywhere you went it felt overwhelming at times. The "instagramification" of trying to get content over everything else can literally ruin it for the rest of us who want to visit, flooding people to small towns and other locations not made to support so many people.
I can't blame the country for wanting to prevent this by banning people from specific places, however for the foreigners who actually live in the country this can make their lives so much harder in a country that isn't very receptive of foreign citizens.
RUclips: We’re going to reward this horrible behavior
Agree 100%. Been a few times over the past 10 years, but last year there was a noticable increase in huge tourist groups. I was expecting it right after travel restrictions lifted but the few big touristy spots I went to were outrageous.
Well tourists don't go to small towns, if anything those small towns in Japan are dying and would desperately need the business and attention. Tourists all go the the same 3 cities, only 1.5% of tourists go north of Tokyo.
@@DanielBlakThe Instagram tourists go to the small towns. The small towns are more photogenic, and they are there to take pictures.
@@bazzfromthebackground3696 I've been to Japan like 5 times and studied abroad there, I've been to many many small towns and I can tell you definitively that we were the only foreigners there every time. Watch Chris Broad's videos - once you're out of the main cities the small towns are ghost towns.
I am a daily cannabis consumer and I have been for well over 10 years. I also used to be a budtender in the medical cannabis industry, and here's my take - the more people who choose cannabis over alcohol, meth, and other drugs, the better. It *does* still affect your health, but I would way rather have the people I love around me face the affects of cannabis than the affects of alcohol. I have seen my parents friends go through alcohol induced dementia at the age of 50-60 and other insane health affects. I have had people I love affected by drunk driving.
Would I love a perfect world where no one needs any substances to be able to get by? Yes. But in a world where there are so many stressors, pain management issues, lack of access to better resources - I would whole heartedly recommend cannabis to cut the edge off over alcohol or any other substance, even tobacco.
I smoke cannabis daily. I have BPD so I smoke to help medicate myself. I'm sure I fall under the percentage of people who are considered addicted. But as someone who also used to drink I'm honestly glad that the culture seems to be shifting. The possible consequences of daily smoking, in my opinion, is far less dangerous and destructive than drinking daily.
I am a veteran who has used a paid service for VA claims. I initially did it by myself and was rated low, I then reached out to the DAV local to my area and felt like they didn't care. That is when I reached out to two different companies. The first I did pay that crazy 5x of whatever my raise was but they got my rating up to 80% which I was willing to pay since I had medical conditions and documented injuries and kept getting denied. The second company I paid an upfront fee which was less than 1k, this company I heard from word of mouth and they were able to get that final push to 100%. All of this in the end was worth it to me just due to the fact that my family is taking care of and I felt like these companies listened to me and took care of everything vs the DAV or local VSO just listing out tasks and I'm struggling to keep up. Half the time they have too many cases and you are just another number.
Same here. Took 1 year by myself but it only went through because I signed up for a VSO (that information shows up on the VA paperwork). VSO took another 9 months before I got my increase. I then hired a company who got everything done in 3-4 months with less headache.
I live in west Texas and I have medical issues, I’m a 2X brain cancer survivor. Some of my medications make me more likely to get heat stroke. My air conditioner broke in June. I lasted three days and had to call EMS. When they took my temp it was 104. I ended up in critical care for a few weeks because it messed up my kidneys for a while.
You know you can cool down a room effectively with hanging wet sheets in front of a fan, don't you? And as long as a part of the sheet is hanging in a bucket with water, it lasts all day.
@@desperadox7565 that really doesn’t do much when it’s 118 outside and you have a tin roof. I’ve had my ac repaired though so I’m doing good this year.
@@annajosullivan Evaporation cooling is a physical process that cools exactly as much as you evaporate water. If it's not doing enough you need a stronger fan or a bigger sheet but you can cool down a room as much as you want.
Hey Phil, I'm really glad you give information and guidance on how to deal with the heat and weather issues. I wish you would report on other places in the world and how we're also dealing with record breaking heat and is very controversial since the buildings here in Denmark don't use AC or have it installed in 99% of their buildings. My building and those of the like are not acre for this obviously. It's been already difficult to cope with the heat in working conditions here.
Sadly, whenever money comes into play, scammers arise. That's how companies advertising "help" with otherwise free postal services (change of address, passport information, etc.) will charge a premium for those "services" they provide.
I'll keep it short. I'm disabled, I've had over 15 surgeries, had to learn to walk again. I was on over 13 medications, including lots of pain killers... i got off everything and just eat edibles daily. It has literally saved my life and let me appreciate and actually live my life again. It's also illegal in WI where I'm from. we need to get with the times.
Sounds a lot like my situation, but with shrooms for me. Shrooms literally changed my life and I believe could do a lot of people a lot of good, and yet they're legally tricky to get and possess. Agreed we need to get with the times.
@@gregvs.theworld451 I don't know if this might sound rude but I am curious. What about the addiction and how remains stay in the body for over a year? Also isn't it bad for oneself?
@@Gzgz7zgg6zig Are you talking about shrooms? I'd be curious where you heard your info, because I've heard nothing about shrooms being in your system for a year, and I know shrooms aren't chemically addictive. You might be able to get addicted to them in the sense you can get too comfortable towards anything, such as being addicted to junk food, video games, pron, etc., but in fact a lot of psychedelics become less effective the more you use them in succession, encouraging breaks from them in between. Full disclosure, so far all my shroom trips have felt good, but I've never spent time after thinking I needed another shroom hit or something or frantically scrounging up money to uy more shrooms or else I might not make it through the day. As for shrooms being bad for you, that's a bit of a loaded question since bad can mean a lot of things and require context to ask bad in what way, not helping the fact that after the US gov cracked down on SLD, shrooms, and other psychedelics, we lost 50+ years of potential medical research we might've been able to use to better know medical side effects by now. Generally speaking, however, I don't know of any particular do not put this in your body effects, and you can't OD on shrooms either. At worst I believe medical experts suggest not messing with psychedelics if you have or your family has a history of mental conditions like delirium, Schizophrenia, hallucinations (not drug induced), etc., and I know psychedelics tend to make your brain vulnerable and highly suggestible to idea, so it might be a good idea to avoid watching videos, listening to music, or otherwise surrounding yourself in deeply held moral and ethical concepts like politics and religion while on shrooms (For example, that Qanon Shaman buffalo guy admitted he used shrooms and was convinced shrooms told him Trump was the right guy to follow. Shrooms and other psychedelics can make our preconceived biases feel more profound or correct and reinforce the idea that they're objectively or divinely correct, and it's good to remember that and consider the fact our thinking is altered when on psychedelics if we feel like we came away with a particularly profound revelation and step back and consider what idea we came away with instead of blindly accepting them as correct.) Over all, I would say I'm not a doctor and thus not confident in giving a simple, uncomplicated OK or not to suggest people take shrooms, it is a drug and there are potential side effects and things to consider, and I would advice anyone to do a lot of research on effects and side effects and health risks before taking any drug to decide if you eve want to try it in the first place or if you think it's too dangerous. That said, all the research I've seen and personal use of them have suggested to me they're on the very low end of risk of potential harm from a substance.
On the topic of benefits, there's already research to suggest shrooms and drugs like LSD and Ketamine can be extremely helpful in treating conditions like addiction to other drugs, depression, and PTSD. If you want a book recommendation on psychedelic research from an outsider food blogger looking in, I would suggest Michael Pollan's book How To Change Your Mind. One of the things I found astounding about psychedelic research is that when neuroscientists study the brain waves of people tripping on shrooms, they find that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in shrooms, actually connect neural pathways and synapses in your brain that connect more freely in children, but tend to become more rigid and less adventurous in adulthood as we form routine habits that can be hard to break and untrain. When tripping on psilocybin, you literally think and perceive the world with an expanded mind connective neural paths in ways your brain hasn't connected them in a long time (since childhood when your brain was developing itself and taking in new stimuli), which is wild to think about in my personal opinion. It's thought these mental shake ups can actually do lasting good long term to help shake people out of deep rooted habits such as procrastinating on important projects, lack of motivation due to depression, or putting off learning a skill.
I'm cautious to call shrooms a wonder substance, and if anyone who might read my comment might wonder if shrooms are for them, I strongly encourage only trying them in a place you feel safe to be vulnerable in, preferably with sober company you can trust to watch over you while you trip (A trip sitter should never take shrooms with you, especially if it's your first time. For as long as you feel safer with a sitter, the sitter should be sober. If you already know the dosage of shrooms you feel safe taking and are choosing to trip with another experienced friend or person, that's a different story.) at least to start with, and do a lot of research on set and setting and having an intention in mind when taking mushrooms, and also start slow. Shrooms can be powerful psychedelics and for a first time you want to take them seriously and treat them with respect and caution before considering upping the dose.
Sorry if that was a big comment, but this topic is very interesting to me. My state actually recently legalized psilocybin therapy as a medical practice, and I'm actually going to school to become a therapist, and I have a big interest in the field of psychedelic therapy, since I think it will only get bigger and be used on more people, and I believe it has potential to do a lot of good. Feel free to ask any more questions you might have, I love talking about shrooms.
@Gzgz7zgg6zig hello! So I tried life with out using cannabis. I took medications for IBS, I took SSRI's for high functioning anxiety and hardly drank. I couldn't control my weight gain. Had zero libido, which upset my partner, if I missed a dose or took to long, I felt brain zaps, nausea, and unaliving thoughts.
Now I don't take anything but cannabis and supplements. I'm at a healthier weight, normal libido, stops an ibs flare or major anxiety almost immediately. I didn't smoke during my pregnancy and breast feeding, so I know I can stop. I stop smoking when I need to look for a better employment opportunity. Even if I'm considered addicted to cannabis. I'd rather that then how awful I felt on prescribed rx or even trying no rx and no cannabis.
@@Gzgz7zgg6zigthe remains of the shrooms will stay in your body for a year? Yeah. And the earth is flat. And chewing gum takes 7 years to digest. 🫵🏼🤡
Former cannabis/tobacco user here, my anecdote here is that I smoked the sticky icky Devils lettuce for over 20 years, 18 of those years being daily use, and that daily use increasing in the early 2010s when i stared working in the cannabis industry. I smoked cigarettes for about 10 years peaking at 1 and a half packs daily, and the difference between quitting cigarettes and quitting weed are night and day. I had to use every ounce of resolve that I could muster and every trick in the book along with nicotine patches, to quit cigarettes, and for years I would have mild cravings that I would have to fight, as well as dreams that I would relapse and start smoking again. When I decided to quit smoking weed... I just made a decision to stop and now 1 year later I am that annoying straight edge friend who wont shut up about how "clear headed" I am now.
We can't deny that those with addictive personalities are most likely the victims of a cannabis use disorder, but that doesn't represent the whole population of cannabis users. For most people to stop using cannabis, all they have to do... is just stop. Of course, there are symptoms after heavy use, but where I may need a week to cope with stopping, my tobacco/cigarette smoking friends are still on the patch/gum/smoking secession program. I think that's also the appeal of cannabis personally: I can go back if I feel like it, and I can stop if I need to - and go on with my life as if nothing intense happened. And to think it's still illegal for a lot of places still
We wouldn’t even really know the number as most people are in denial the fact someone does it everyday is a reason to believe there is already an issue.
And it’s not just if you have an addictive nature… once you do it everyday for like years… you will be dependent, neural pathways are strengthened and you have cannabinoid receptors relying on it. Also your sleep where memory and things are processed is not effectively happening any more. REM is really important. Also really bad for lungs: joints and bongs. CBD great, THC complicated.
That's really interesting. I think we don't have a clear picture of the drawback of cannabis because like you said it doesn't have the same negative drawbacks as alcohol or cigarettes. What I have found with my friends anecdotally is using it to cope with life but that's not always a good thing. I recently was in a toxic job I quit and it wasn't an easy decision and life has been hard after but i had to do it for my mental health. I can't imagine I would be able to push myself to do it and push myself to work if I had started using pot to cope and using it daily to numb myself from life. I think anything we use daily to cope without medical oversight (and not just a medical marijuana card without checkins) is wild. The stat that daily drinking went up AND daily smoking is wild to me.
@@bobby.worcestersome people are just more susceptible to withdrawals. Any time I smoke weed for more than a few weeks before quitting, I feel withdrawal symptoms for 3-4 weeks afterwards.
When I went off Strattera (a medication that only like 10% of people report feeling any withdrawal symptoms after stopping taking it) I had withdrawal symptoms for 3 weeks. Like full on anger and facial tension and extreme restlessness.
Regarding the heat I moved to the PNW in 2015 and was told it doesn't really get above 80 in the summer. for the last 3 or 4 years its consistantly been over and we even had a 114 degree (F) day. This killed BILLIONS of our coastal life as most of them arent built for that heat and HALF the dungeoness crab population "disappeared". Its bad bad how much this heat is affecting the ecosystem here and the people as no one here has AC.
Hit me with the Monkey, Love seeing the intro.
I've been hearing about bands and venues having trouble with these ticket companies for years. I hop they can finally do something.
Yeah...'Hit you with the monkey' doesn't sound dirty at ALL! When is that going on some merch? I'll go in on that drop
Same here!
Say you never watched “Johnny bravo” without actually saying so.
Still got me a old old, black and white monkey T
That Live Nation statement is so detached from reality that I'm genuinely stumped as to who they are making the statement for.
They seem to have fooled a lot of people who think lawyers are saints for some unknown reason.
Their investors.
in Alvin Texas one of our highways literally split from the heat last year they’ve been doing a lot of work on it. We think that they might be reinforcing it for this year.
Fun fact: I live in N Florida and several buildings (like my job and the local schools) dont have direct access to our AC control; its in N Carolina. Its been 80 to 90 degrees recently and my company refuses to cut the air on to save money.
I work in hot attics as my job, sometimes in 140 degree attics for 30 minutes at a time. Crawling over if not it attic insulation. Summer absolutely kills my productivity when im inspecting and working on stuff up there. And no matter how much water i drink, i wake up the next day feeling hung over and have to do it all over again. I think its a matter of time till someone, trade or otherwise dies up there.
Thats because you are sweating out minerals/electrolytes. You need to replace them by drinking gatorade or liquid iv or so before you start work. Else regardless of how much water you drink you will get cramps or feel hungover.
A fellow blenderer in the wild!!!🎉
Echoing the other commenters. I'm a pretty big hiker, and have some 20 mile hikes in the Mojave Desert. Salt tablets or a sports drink will help this. I prefer salt tablets as they're very cheap.
The husband and I have an HVAC business. Always load up with electrolytes. Never know when you'll find a "I thought it was dead' and need to skedaddle
100% they should have added the lawsuit part. It literally says 'hey, investigation says you were mostly entirely incorrect. We're willing to let bygones be bygones so long as you do not continue to espouse lies.' What is even the problem with a legal warning against defamation? They're a company, their image is everything.
Lol, literally was thinking the same thing.
There is also a very real cost both financially and reputationally in having to hire a 3rd party to investigate these claims. If the person making the allegations did so knowing they were untrue, would/should they not be held liable in some way?
Definitely agree. It's like doing something stupid on the road and a cop giving you a warning. Consequences exist and sometimes you need to be reminded of what they are
Weaponizing victimhood is such a sick thing.
Remind them of FAFO
LTT fan here. Pleased with the results and not surprised. Very happy this was an unbiased and reputable 3rd party that ran the investigation, else it would have been a useless report. I can understand the criticality towards the defamation statement, but it's polite and firm.
I am a daily smoker, on and off for over a decade. I have PTSD Autism and Agoraphobia (and more) due to the trauma I suffered raised in a cult and subsequently made homeless when I left. I am in biweekly therapy with two therapists and i see my Psychiatrist twice a month. They all know how much i smoke and have dissuaded me from quitting as they all feel it does more good than harm for me.
I smoke weed because it reduces the frequency and severity of my flashbacks, It helps with my hypervigilance, And it helps me with my emotional reactivity. Discovering weed changed my life. My antidepressants could literally stop my heart randomly one day but my doctor prescribes them. To me weed is the same, a calculated risk.
Im a self employed woodworker working in a small warehouse and im already switching to a nightshift schedule to avoid the heat
As a veteran who is currently dealing with the headache of disability claims, it's a bureaucratic shit show. Fortunately, I have a VSO rep who cares a lot and has been very helpful through this process. BUT, I've still had my hiccups, delays in reviews, and being constantly shifted around fully blind to what is going on behind the curtain. One of my claims has had zero movement over 6 months and no C&P exams scheduled. With other claims, the VA will just schedule random days/times and I'm 100% expected to just accept these appointments 3 months out, work with my job to accommodate all of these random exams, and they'll often cancel last minute. God forbid I last minute cancel or miss an appointment because they'll threaten to close out the claim and have you start from the beginning.
My initial claim took over a year and a half to process. My increase request took 6 months (approvwd last month).
Sounds about right. From mental health to my eye appointments, they will schedule them six months out and expect you to remember them.
Even the "sending a reminder." is broken as it'll likely get it 48 hours before, and no one will remember an appointment that far out.
@@IngeniousGhosts That's the VA. They diagnosed me with PTSD, have had me go through CBT, and push me to go through whatever program when I go in for primary care, but my claim is still in limbo.
@@IngeniousGhosts Always check your myhealthevet for your appointments. You can even submit prescription refills and message any of your care teams/specialists. I have a lot of problems keeping all my appts straight if I don't check the site every week. I hope that helps.
VSO reps are the unsung heroes of the Veteran community.
I live in a town that embraces live music. There’s one venue that uses ticketmaster. And the other locals use Etix. The Ticketmaster venue is routinely 2x more expensive for the same level of acts.
Ya this is what bothers me about these greedy pigs. Here we have one, Galen Weston, who owns many grocery chains and pharmacies. He almost has a monopoly. He was saying TO OUR PARLIAMENT that it’s not his fault that prices of food are high, it’s the inflation, gas prices etc so he HAS to make things expensive.
Well funny! Cuz Walmart, Giant Tiger and a few others are making profits without the huge prices. And funny that the farmers aren’t making more! So we’re boycotting now.
I’m disgusted that Taylor swift wont stand up against them (her excuse is that she’s in a contract apparently). It’s BS. Imagine the power she could have? But no. She’s also too greedy. No good billionaires.
I’m so sick of being fleeced. Can’t enjoy a concert, can’t just buy fucking FOOD without being worried about finances. And our governments don’t seem to care because they’re all rich so they aren’t affected.
Thank you for adding subtitles!
I just purchased some concert tickets for my boyfriend and myself in July. I checked ticket Masters prices and I am SO glad I remembered to check another site before buying. The Ticket Master price for one ticket was the same as what I paid for BOTH tickets, with fees, on a different website.
I once brought a bullying investigation against a workplace i once worked at. An investigation took place, you should know these are very one sided. They normally go straight to HR, and as anyone who has worked with large companies knows, are not there to accomodate or protect employees, but to protect the company from its own employees. Anything not written down, or "lost" is considered hearsay unless it comes from HR which can say whatever they want (again on the companies side). In fact, it is very hard for an employee to prove their story unless they made a concerted effort to capture evidence at the time it happened. This rarely happens because usually the staff member is hoping that the company will do the right thing.
Tip, for anyone going through this. Remember HR is not your friend but you must establish youve contacted them. Always get any promises in writing and capture as much evidence as possible to keep for yourself.
1) The case with LTT, the investigation was done by a 3rd party, not internal HR.
2) Depending on how serious the issue is, lawyers can totally subpoena for all communications related to the case. Just because the company tries to “delete” or “hide” emails, text, etc., doesn’t mean they’re not recoverable or obtainable.
3) So you don’t have any records of your supervisors or HR speaking to you on your end?
4) Most people fail to stare themselves in the mirror. Was it really “bullying” as you put it, or did you just have a conflict with another person? This era is the most snowflake era I’ve ever seen. Accidentally misgendering someone is considered bullying. 🙄
@OhGeeGanksta you haven't got a clue what you're talking about .
1) like I said 3rd party doesn't mean anything.their MO is to go straight to HR and believe what they say. Read the rest of what I wrote before
2) they didn't subpoena anything, nor would they waste that effort. You watch too many movies
3) a lot of negations are done in person and without recording devices where a lot of promises are made or statements given but nothing is recorded. That's why you need to take notes and then email to the involved parties straight after to get acknowledgement. Again 3rd parties tend to just believe HR without written evidence.
4. Bullying in my case was a manager spreading rumours behind my back about work I had done as a contractor. They had also been spreading rumours about other people in the office with such things as drug taking and stealing money. This is what happens when you make it to upper management, theres a lot of politics and infighting there is also a lot of crossing lines to get ahead.
I was lucky because I already had a solid reputation and recorded everything, and I had my contracting agencies lawyers ready to sue the company.
Please actually have some experience before you comment on these types of things. And not everything fits into your woke/anti-woke world view.
doesn't matter 3rd parry investigation are just as useless as internal ones
A 3rd party investigation means literally everything in this case. The 3rd party had no obligation to "protect" the company because their entire job was to determine if the reported harassment could be substantiated. LMG anonymously requested employee accounts of harassment and corroborations of the proposed harassment prior to the investigation to provide the most unbiased date for the investors.
LMG is a media company that takes PR unbelievably seriously and many of their employees are engaging with the community all the time. To dismiss the investigation outright simply because you don't trust any company is moronic.
@alimfuzzy This was my main concern on this story as well. Given the time that's passed, basically all that there is to go on here is LTT's records, which, by their very nature, are going to be heavily biased in the companies favor, with no guarantee of actual follow through on what they said their response was or that they even accurately recorded the initial complaints in the first place. Not to mention it's incredibly easy for companies in general to cook records after the fact to make them look better during an investigation, and would be all the easier for that to be done in a much harder to detect way in a company built and staffed by people who's entire job is being good with computers.
I got out of the military in 2013 on a medical discharge with 20% disability. Over the years it was bumped to 60, then 90% after a seizure I had in 2017. The last 10% of my disability took until 2023 to be bumped to 100%. And that took me filing 5 separate times, and half of my body going numb, and a Neurologist outside the VA taking my symptoms seriously. I was told by the Neurologist at the VA that it was "carpal tunnel", even though and outside neuro told me I had Multiple Sclerosis. I can't feel either of my hands and working is difficult between chronic fatigue and overworking my body because I can't feel my hands to do work properly. Even after my 100% rating, they only back dated my disability rating to 2021 despite the symptoms and MS being there in scans since 2017 because the VA neuro didn't recognize it as MS and I thought it was TBI related to an IED I was in. While I'm thankful to have full "insurance coverage" now, the 100% disability is barely what I'd make working full time, so I need to work while on disability. If I lived anywhere else I'd be fucked, thankfully i live somewhere semi-affordable. The entire process needs to be reworked, I know so many veterans who are missing limbs and only have 20% disability for it. The VA doesn't tell you about the service organizations when you become part of it, so you have to seek them out and in some places like my small town we don't even have any service offices, I have to drive an hour away just to talk to the American Legion.
I work at a chain restaurant and every summer for the last 4 years the ac in the kitchen goes out. Front of house has a newer unit so they are fine but they won't spend the money to replace the one for back of house. It gets so bad that some of the equipment over heats and stops working, the stainless steel shelves and counters get hot to the touch, and you can the the steam come off you in the freezer. It's too hot for our ac to do its job, how the fuck are we supposed to do our jobs
I used to be a daily smoker for about 6 years and had to stop because I developed CHS (cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome) and had to quit cold turkey. I was nauseous everyday and eventually was spending hours vomiting daily. I know people are skeptical of “scromiting” but i went through it. I think that as daily use and cannabis abuse disorder increases with legalization, along with the wider availability of stronger strains and thc concentrate products we are going to see more cases of people like me who get unlucky and get really sick from it.
This is the best written comment on the topic in this section and thanks for bringing light to the bad things that can come from abuse and high thc exposure too
Hey wtf is scromiting and why do I hate it? Also I think it's important to remind people that you can actually be addicted to cannabis. I feel like it was a thing before where everyone would say that it isn't addictive or harmful
Yup, im a Canadian budtender, people don't seem to understand that genetics play a huge part in who's ok with cannabis and who's not, and bad symptoms can show up even when you used to be an everyday smoker. This is a friendly reminder that if you are at risk for schizophrenia DO NOT smoke weed!
Was this just plain flower, or were you smoking concentrates like dabs/carts? I am a daily medical smoker and I just use grass, I'm just curious if I should be concerned or if it's just the concentrates (and hardcore smokers going through several ounces weekly).
Also most consumers just want a high %! They don't care about anything that makes my job fun (strain, what feeling you get out of it, smell, taste)
Alito is not impartial. He sided with traitors. He needs to go. The way judges have virtually 0 real checks and balances needs to change. Term limits and better oversight is desperately needed in the judicial branch of government.
Good luck with that my dude.
1000%
@@ninthundertow your apathy is so cool
Yeah, man. This shit has to change.
I'm confused is he not married to this woman? Does she wear the pants? How could this man, let alone his wife, knowing his position, do this? They knew what they were doing; he wanted to show support but he let his wife do it cuz she doesn't have a position. Screw that BS about having a micro conflict with a family down the road. Your husband holds a position like that and you think that, as his wife, this is a good look to be in a petty squabble with someone down the street. SMH childish and stupid is what this is
April is Michigan was actually very cool. May likewise has been rather pleasant so far. I was hoping that it was a sign of a mild summer.
My husband is a disabled vet with permanent lung scarring due to his time in the Navy. He was given only 60% disability despite losing 50% of lung function. We started the appeal process on our own, but were denied. It’s a long and arduous process, so we hired a consultant company. They’ve been more helpful than anyone in the VA and the one we chose doesn’t have us pay unless his disability rating increases.
We run a small nonprofit and we can no longer use eBay because three out of four times we purchased something someone tried to scam us. Same thing with Facebook marketplace people constantly trying to scam you. These platforms take no responsibility and it is like pulling teeth to try to get a refund.
I'm living in Japan for half decade now and the real problem is the exchange rate now.
We had less tourist when 1usd=100 yen. Now we are in 160yen.
This is really the biggest issue: people bad behaving when they believe they are in a powerful position, and economically is what happens.
Other problem is: besides the big cities famous, Japan is very rural.
So tourist funnel to the same places. It's a huge mismanagement of Japanese tourism to poorly promote other parts of Japan beside tokyo-osaka-kyoto-hiroshima.
Besides of the lack of planning: as example the government could easy move the Lawson and build a sightseeing place their instead of add a cheap ugly cover. It can be pay and generate revenue for the city.
It's this Japanese government mentality of fix thing only small enough to not change anything, instead to attack the problem in the core
You've been there so long you even talk like them
very true, but im fine with all gaijin just flock to Tokyo and Osaka cuz i like being the only gaijin in rural parts like Iga and Mie and i dunn want that to change LOL
I lived in rural Hokkaido for 4 years (funny to say that because pretty much everywhere is rural in Hokkaido). There were some really neat festivals and tourist attractions that I tried to share with friends and family who visited. The main obstacle for a lot of foreign tourists is the lack of English almost everywhere except at or near major attractions. Plus, transportation to smaller towns and villages is extremely limited, with the village I lived in only having a bus stop that went to the nearest city. (It only picked up in the morning and dropped off at night because we were the first and last stops of the route.)
@@semievilsquirrel that's true. I lived in rural areas and it was quite hard to move around. Even though I absolutely love I can go osaka-nagoya just by local trains, the reality is if you go out of the centers you are pretty much f
Other point is many kombini took down the free WiFi. If you are foreigner and need google translate or even Google maps you are fk too. IIJMIO is not that friendly to configure if you don't know Japanese
Besides people believe Japan is super technological and we still need to deal with floppy disk 💾 and Fax 📠.... 😂
I love that even you couldn't stay composed for that ending.
I live in Virginia MN, so fairly north. We had maybe a month total of snow with temperatures rising to the low 70s in December. It’s well known in my state that winter was missing.
For fucking real… I’m still waiting for snow. We had a dump that last a few days, but it largely melted less than two weeks later. It’s so unbelievably terrible. My ACs are already installed.
As an everyday cannabis user, I used to be high 15 hours a day for over 3 years. I was severely depressed and had bad anxiety. Weed was kind of the one thing that made my negative feelings kinda fad away. One of the biggest worries was if I'd be able to quit. But I actually worked on myself. I dealt with the thoughts and feelings that led to me feeling like I needed weed. 4 months ago, I quit cold turkey for a new job. I had cravings for weed, difficulties sleeping, and slight headaches for 3 or 4 days, then was fine. I spent 2 months without weed, and I was able to really look at my life and see I don't need it to be happy now. It was an amazing feeling. Now I can go weeks without weed and feel happy and stress free.
But I did go back to smoking weed everyday, I just only do it for 2 or 3 hours now. 😂
A lot of people don't understand that weed actually helps people with thinking clearly and calming down so that they can analzye things around them.
Weed works like that for me too! I have always been able to see things about myself and life that I just don't see when I am sober and it isn't even close to comparing being drunk.
Currently using to deal with the intense stress of being disabled and jobless. Hilariously enough, I don't even have money right now to buy more edibles! Truly, this is the circle of life. Been sober a week and i'm mostly just extremely bored because I'm sitting at home with nothing to do and nowhere to be.
@@handthefs8197I think everyone just wants an overly simplistic way to understand weed and assume it works the way for all.
The last time I tried weed (not the first, but never really enjoyed it) was an edible about 9 years ago and it was awful.
It heighten a ton of anxiety I was suffering as I’d just moved abroad and was rebuilding my life, and it made me not able to think clearly at all, infact it made me feel like a moron and unable to think or do more than one thing at once, which was debilitating.
It can be a scary drug, it can be a calmly helpful one.
It needs to be legalised in more places and understood correctly and used responsibly.
@@handthefs8197 i agree but its a slippery slope
I think the people who are worst at doing drugs are the people who never had a reason to do them in the first place. Because what's the endgame for them? How do THEY know when they longer need it - if they never needed it to begin with? I know a lot of people who just kept going and turned into assholes for no good reason. They never had abusers in their life - so they can't recognise when they turn into one.
I know conventional wisdom is that turning to substance abuse is the wrong way to deal with your problems, and I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone. But who's to say how things would turn out without at least the option to escape? And god knows access to mental healthcare is difficult - and the support just isn't there for some people. Everyone wants to tell others to just 'go to therapy' - nobody actually wants to be the one to help out.
I have chronic pain. Weed misuse disorder or whatever they term it seems to be an umbrella term for someone who suffers adverse effects from going cold turkey off of weed. I would count as in that group and most would assume that's because I've barely taken more than a week or two break here and there in maybe 8 years now of daily pot use. Except I showed adverse symptoms coming down from weed from the first time i used it. It was the first time something other than alcohol had fully muted my pain so the sensation of it coming back drove me to self medication. I definitely got into the habit of smoking way too much at one point but like with anything else was able to recognize that and work my way back bit by bit. Now that I make the effort to educate myself on the topic I know balancing it out with cbd is super important for regular users since we are being advertised and sold higher and higher levels of thc with absolutely no accompanying cbd (especially if you buy concentrates like dab). Hopefully now with cannabis being reclassified the ability to study actual people on the drug will allow us more information on the issue
Yeah I agree. Just gonna reply to add my own experiences as someone who uses weed to treat chronic mental health disorders and migraines (but also recreationally).
There absolutely needs to be a distinction between recreational 'addiction' (don't even think that's the correct word to describe daily use) and medical use of weed/THC and CBD products, and their 'dependence'. addiction is classified as a pattern of behaviour surrounding something, that impacts daily life, social activity, and engagement in community. I think a lot of people ignore that in terms of weed and classify people experiencing side-effects when they come off it as 'addiction'. But most medications targeting chronic issues, or medication in general, have side-effects from coming off them; soom SSRIs to HRT. And doctors would never count a 'dependence' on those an addiction. To me it rings as a continued moral panic around weed.
@@aragoonn people also can't be "willy nilly" with prescription meds that are regulated by a doctor. People with "self medication" for mental health or pain use of weed are regulated simply by the money in their pockets and access to weed. It's in the same vein as people using alcohol freely or cigarettes free or any other drug to self medicate. It's unregulated and the person is their own "prescriber". That's what I think leads to addiction, even if it's not a physical addiction, it's a mental one. Hell, if you have a headache and you take an Advil, the goal is to have a manageable level of pain, not be pain free. Too many people that self medicate with marijuana or alcohol or whatever use it until they're "pain free" and develop a tolerance for being "pain free" usually increasing frequency and amount to continue to be "numb". Unregulated use is why you've got a lot of people addicted and making excuses that they're "good" or have it "managed", when they actually have some sort of dependency on it.
Bro you're addicted. Step 1 is denial and you're there.
As an Aussie, climate change changed how our winters and summers were. We had frequent heatwaves in Perth last summer gone. Melbourne had a chaotic summer and autumn being super cold and wintery.
I live in the south and help run a dart blaster club in Raleigh, NC. The increasing temps are highly concerning to the point we are looking into renting or building an indoor play field for when the temps become dangerous. Until we find a solution, I've been packing coolers of cold water and gatorade for all members.
My mom's friend from back when the step idiot was in the service lost her husband to cancer caused by those burn pits. But because he happened to also be a smoker, after he passed they offered no support and even said "he obviously wanted to die cause he was already smoking" to her. This woman has been through a lot and still is as she's fought cancer and has been taking care of her to disabled adult sons all by her self since his passing. but the fact that they said that to her is just sickening and the VA needs to take more accountability for the vets.
I fell into the trap of a company that I was willing to pay to help me with my VA claim. I asked for compensation for issues which I think I am legitimately diagnosed with or had happen to me. They came back with stuff that I don't have. By example, PTSD. I never deployed. I never saw anything particularly violent in the military. I think that those who have PTSD legitimately deserve those benefits. I don't. They just want the biggest paycheck and they don't care about what happened to you. I told them I have nerve damage and vision loss associated with the military and they did not even TRY for either of those. I dropped them and, to this day, I have not pursued benefits because I think there are people out there who deserve those benefits way more than I do.
When you qualify for benefits, you don't take anything away from any other veteran. Please, go see a VSO from Legion, DAV, or VFW. They're all non-profit and funded through donations and member dues. They will work with you, not try to exploit you.
It saddens me to see people like you taken advantage of. We must vote in politicians (ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE) that are ready to remove lobbying from politics. Remove money all together. Remove the ability to give themselves raises while stealing money and benefits from veterans and OUR FUCKING CHILDREN (education system). This divide Democrats vs Republicans means nothing. It's US against the CORPORATIONS. They have more protections and more rights than a walking, breathing citizen who fought for our country. Even though now a days people only go to war to defend those same fat cats. Seriously. Wars are now fought for the pockets of the wealthy, not to defend our rights. It pains me when I hear young men and women joining the military these days. I just know at some point, they're going to possibly die so some rich man can get richer.
I moved to Japan last year and over the course of the year you could legit see the change in how ppl view tourists. Like someone posts a video of a cool place and in a few weeks its a mess because everyone rushes it. It sucks.
I am a New Zealander and hasn't seen the orca story, when NZ was mentioned I was like "shit what have I missed that would be big enough to be mentioned on the PDS?!"
Glad to see we're keeping our reputation up
The Live Nation Ticketmaster suit is so funny. They already had the monopoly all they had to do was not be so obvious.
But see, the problem is they can't have growth without becoming obvious. And the whole point is growth (of profits).
I work for the National Archives and Records Admin and we store and take care of ALL vertan records that are needed for their VA claims and im so thankful to see you talk about and shine a light on this industry because everyday I see requests come from these companies that make veterans pay for the records of their service in order to file a claim. We DO NOT AND CANT charge for these services and its more likely that a veteran themselves will get a response from us faster than the 3rd parties. The rant about how vets are treated in our country is what i feel everyday at my job because we want to help them and give them what they need but a lot of times these third parties actually make it worse because of technicalities that force us to turn down requests and drags time on for the vets. due to the pandemic we had a backlog of requests at our Administration of over 400,000 requests and it took this year to finally finish it. we try our best to give what we can but a lot of times these 3rd parties dont give a damn about the veterans and just try to get money out of them.
I was surprised, I filed for an increase from 90% back in Oct, had my appt in Nov, and received 100% total and permanent last month. It was a lot faster than I was expecting, but I made sure all of my supporting documentation was going to be ready. 🤷♀️
Living in Arizona (Maricopa county) is truly the most miserable experience when it comes to temperature, it starts getting hot in February and doesn't cool down until October/November.
The defamation mention was there for one reason: It’s a warning that LMG is going to let it go, but if she tries to double down and make claims that the law firm falsified the result or Linus & co somehow fooled the lawyers etc, (happens more often than you think,) it will get real ugly, real fast.
I started smoking weed in 2020 during the pandemic. It was me senior year in highschool and I was smoking every day all day. I did it consistently up until the end of last year when I had a serious mental health crisis. I decided to cut down on my weed usage because I was heavily using it to self medicate. Before it had kind of worked, but I still wasn’t using it healthily, but by the end of 2023 it was detrimental to my mental health. I now I’m 21 and use it maybe 2-3 times a month and my relationship has become so much better with it. I still enjoy using it but I am not so dependent on it for escapism and ignoring my mental health. It’s now the recreational activity it is meant to be for me, which has seriously helped me with my mental health.
Fuck yeah dude! Way to real it in. Be well
Getting a thorough diagnosis for mental issues is still such an expensive hurdle no wonder usage spiked. Way too many of us self medicate but this was 'safer' than alcohol or smoking. Glad you've had a positive turn around.
Glad you caught on to it. Hopefully you are able to manage your mental health through therapy in addition to the occasional use. Be well!