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What do you do outside of Forumwarz?

Neurotic Ninja Posted:

I see, so you are implying that you are in some way abnormal?

Well, I’m not as interested in such things, I guess. Mostly, I was just trying to say that I am indeed very busy.

ALL THE RULES that'll keep you from being BANNED

Thanks. It’s always weird to be productively discussing something(ha-ha) and have a camwhore suddenly start talking about blowjobs, or somesuch.

What do you do outside of Forumwarz?

I’m a student, majoring in the great dead end of areas, Philosophy. I’m actually heading for a minor appointment in politics, so I guess things are looking up. My spare time outside of forumwarz is spent playing videogames and reading every damn thing I can get my hands on.

Does anyone here watch any anime?

In order to limit my intake and avoid nerdery, I only watch anime that involves complex social themes and doesn’t have any sexual content. So, basically, Big O and gundam wing are all I’ve ever watched and enjoyed.

Ironic

LolWhut Posted:

While many may claim that postmodernism is merely pedantic verbal masturbation, others thoroughly reject this posit, pointing out that it clearly may be used to utterly befuddle and troll others – such destructive use of a formerly critical thinking process is, shall we say, poetic.

The sad thing is, only a couple of the main postmodern philosophers do that- they give the rest a bad reputation.

New Character Clbum Suggestion

How about the Young Republican clbum?

science is curin the hivs, you know what that means!!!

Congrats, you just responded to an argument that used specific reference to drug interaction. In this argument, one counterargument was described as an overly broad bumumption about the value of standard policy. You responded with that exact broad bumumption about policy.

I gave an example of how companies can get around FDA regulations in my initial post- a medication marketed and tested as an oral contraceptive is being marketed primarily as a means of reducing menstruation, while paying attention to only the letter of FCC regulations about advertising language. The reason this is significant is because the targeted audiences for these two groups are different. The age group that is attracted to such marketing is both higher and lower in scope than the age group which was tested on in regard to Yaz ’s use as a contraceptive. As a result, a different concentration of users can be expected for Yaz, one which is not the same as that which was initially tested.

In general terms, one of the biggest problems bumociated with pharmaceutical marketing is that, once a medication is approved for one use, doctors frequently prescribe it as a treatment for other symptoms that they have either heard or witnessed the medication having a positive effect on. This cross-slated medication can occur with any drug, and can help discover new, valid uses for a medication-but because they aren’t controlled, they also carry far more risk.

Separately, I mentioned the idea of effects in other areas, outside of the immediate biological. An example of this that comes to mind is the abuse of Adderol(yeah, the ADHD med) on college campuses. I don’t think this is something that particularly has to be worried about for contraceptives(although the idea of an addiction-forming contraceptive is pretty frightening), it is another reason not to bumume that the release of a new medication in any realm is necessarily good- this is the Log in to see images! (view post)

science is curin the hivs, you know what that means!!!

NNNRGH-ok.

Look up the active ingredient of most of the female contraceptive pills- they’re very messy broadly active hormone inhibitors. It’s a mistake to think that they’re safe for folks to take- the FDA has sucgreat timesbed to pressure over the past 15 years and has made a lot of things available that really shouldn’t be.

Some of the female oral contraceptives are fairly safe, but folks need to realize that the pharmacology involved is incredibly complicated, and still largely unexplored. The ones like Yaz, which are advertised on the basis of reducing the effects of menstruation, are the worst, because the suppression mechanism is broadbased- it’s not preventing the reproductive tract from accepting hormones, it’s preventing their production. This is crazy-level untested. Male oral contraceptives would be even worse in many respects, as hormone suppression in men can cause problems in a broader set of areas, particularly at a younger age- the male brain is often still releasing abnormally high testosterone levels well into an individual’s mid-twenties.

My point isn’t to say that oral or other contraceptives are bad as a concept- I may be abstinent(insert many obvious jokes here), but I understand their necessity and support their promotion. The issue is that folks bumume that because “they’ve come out with something”, it’s safe, or doesn’t have serious consequences in one realm or another.

Riddle Me This

No, that’s right! You can give the next one, I think that’s how it works. bumholes with liberal arts backgrounds like to say ‘the universe’ or ‘creation’ or some such ****, but that’s an infinite recursion, and totally invalid.

why is the internet so cold?

Hobart Bliggity Posted:

http://www.ame.arizona.edu/courses/ame530/ame530%20graduate%20thermo/3_2_06.pdf

OK, Hobart, maybe I wasn’t clear with my intentions. I put in that little ironic post SPECIFICALLY so that nobody would post to that overused cliche bumignment again. Congratulations. Now, I need to Log in to see images! (view post)