It had nice cinematic moments - but it felt like GTA with a Hollywood cyberpunk movie attached. Going from bunnyhopping around rooftops and killing 1000s of gangsters and cops in broad daylight with heavy weapons and ridiculous cyberware, to a fairly railroaded narrative about apparently obscure mercenary V barely surviving was some tonal whiplash.
Yup - in the UK, paracetamol is usually recommended for general pain relief before Ibuprofen. Additionally, Ibuprofen and NSAIDs have a lot of interactions which can make them unsafe - SSRIs or blood thinners for example.
The Norwegian pages I linked to states you should be careful with Ibuprofen and anti-depressants. I did a quick search and these[1][2] articles came up, suggesting increased risk of brain hemorrhaging and 10x increased gastrointestinal adverse effects due to the combination.
aspirin is an NSAID, taking it modifies the prostaglandine levels (through its COX inhibition) and this influences the mucosa of your stomach. ibuprofen can still have the same side effects, because its belonging to the same class of drugs.
It's endlessly interesting to me that despite the fact that the modern educated middle class are overwhelmingly left wing and dominate the "cultural sphere" (because they can afford to), there's still a reluctance to really talk about class and their own position in the class system in favour of lip service supporting minorities and marketable individual identities. Originally the struggles of the labour class and gaining support and solidarity from those that had more wealth and opportunities was the most central core concern of the left wing. It's probably also the primary reason for the rise of reactionary right wing parties.
That might be true in your experience, but in the UK, issues of class were a huge part of cultural life throughout the 80s and 90s, with people like Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach etc.
If you've never seen any of this, I would recommend "Kes" as a great place to start, also "Abigail's Party" as a satire of noveau-riche middle class aspiration, and "High Hopes" as a very moving examination of class aspiration and clashes of beliefs about social mobility in Thatcher's Britain.
> issues of class were a huge part of cultural life throughout the 80s and 90s
Yes, and this is much less the case now. Changes to the economics of culture have closed a lot of doors. As well as the massive expansion of university, which magically conveys "middle class" status on people even if they are still heavily indebted wage slaves.
Lurking under a lot of this stuff are two nasty questions:
- whether the word "white" is attached to "working class", even invisibly
- whether people who are retired count as "working class", even if they are property owners with private pensions
Classism may have diminished, but the subjugation of the working classes via abhorrences like "the gig economy" are almost Victorian in their draconian bureaucracy and dehumanisation. These are most ably depicted in Ken Loach's scathing critique Sorry We Missed You (2019), or Roddy Doyle's Rosie (2018).
It's hard to say someone is "left wing" unless their main political lens is class. That's really the absolute minimum requirement to be considered "left wing" IMO.
That relative who dutifully donates to the SPLC, asks you your pronouns at Thanksgiving, and has an AOC 2028 bumper sticker? They're a Liberal. They have bourgeois, Liberal values. They can be valuable allies in a left coalition, but they are fundamentally not interested in class struggle, or possibly even find it abhorrent, and can be equally at home in a right coalition with race chauvinists and concentration camp boosters.
Left is talking about those and pushing for those. It just does not matter what left does, only thing that does matter in many peoples minds (like yours) is what right wing says bout left.
> It's probably also the primary reason for the rise of reactionary right wing parties.
Can we stop whitewashing their motivations constantly and blaming them constantly on the left? No it is not reason for that. Plus, your definition of labor must be quite ... selective aesthetic based to arrive to "it is about labor" conclusion.
Actually - it's not Israeli influence. It's pro-Israel influence. Important difference. This includes lobby organisations funded or founded by wealthy Jews, conservative Christian lobbyists, pro-arms trade interests, and geopolitical interests (essentially Israel acts as a US military proxy they can use to keep the middle east in check). Not quite Israel secretly pulling strings (which is quite rightly dismissed as traditional boring anti-semetic conspiracy theory wearing a different hat), more of an alignment of interests, which dictator Netenyahu is currently taking advantage of to pursue his own career agenda (complete destruction of Iran and security of Israel from the mindset of a paranoid Israeli nationalist). Naturally, this involves attempting to buy out journalists and promote propaganda - and the Israeli attempts to do this are usually rather inept. What's far more effective is the already existing domestic pro-Israel lobby groups that have a completely above board, and vastly more effective way of funding Israel (and the vastly more powerful US military-financial-geopolitical interests).
Agree with your post. As a Jewish American, I have been advocating that it would be better for Americans and even Jews if we stop sending money to Israel and put political pressure on Israel to abandon illegal settlements, end the war on Gaza and work towards a resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
Unfortunately, this POV doesn't seem to be widely held by many woth influence.
A 2 state solution is still wildly unpopular amongst Palestinians (both in the West Bank and Gaza), and since 10/7, is now a minority opinion (although still the plurality) amongst Israelis[1].
They also did try as recently as 2009, not that you'd have heard about it[2].
Also, the aid money the USA sends to Israel doesn't disappear into nothing any more than NASA's funding does. American aid to Israel (and to most places in the world) hinges on the condition that they only use that money to buy from American companies.
NASA is exploring space, our money to Israel encourages US participation in genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and global war. I'm in the US and support a single state solution: Palestine. I think most people under the age of 45 are in agreement.
Do you have any sources for this? I know a lot of Jews in the U.S. support Israel, but not sure why they would care about settlements if they don't live there.
And if what you say is true, why is Netanyahu still in power?
That said I don't think your point undermines my suggestion that the U.S. should get out of the business of funding Israel and joining it in any wars over there.
I see the drugs are bad crowd are out in force. I'm sure they'll treat any negative stories about drug users or the effects of drugs with just as much scepticism, prejudice, and criticism as they demonstrate here. How wonderful it must be to be powered by objective reason and free from confirmation bias.
If you read the article, I believe it is more of a "we are studying it and there is a lot to do" than "drugs are good".
I think a very important part is:
> For example, I’m interested in the effects of THC versus CBD. We don't have any of that information in the UK Biobank. Most people in this study were using cannabis quite a while ago, and cannabis at that time looked very different from what’s available today. That context really matters. It’s a complex picture.
i see your point but think about it this way. A bowl or a joint holds a certain amount. People fill mostly the same amount and dont regulate it by thc content
Of course junkies would jump on this paper, while conveniently ignoring meta-analyses.
"Longitudinal and twin studies report larger declines in IQ among cannabis users than their non-using peers but it is unclear whether these findings can be attributed to cannabis use or to genetic, mental health and environmental factors."
Yes, and I'm sure virtuous non-"junkies" such as yourself hold all articles that report or demonstrate negative findings about recreational drug use to the same exacting standards. It must be freeing to have a completely objective perspective and be free from the clouds of any ideology or bias.
