That’s true, it took them 10-15 years but they built a huge service business. I was specifically referring to the loss of the desktop market to the “clones” which has a rough equivalence.

It was more of a cheap shot than a serious prediction ☺️ As long as MS controls the licensing and software this is a completely logical move.

Man, that kind of figures… I bet it was a PR campaign that they paid for. So in a way we all got value out of that lie… nope. No satisfying conclusion to be found here 😒

Anyone member when IBM decided it was an “ideas company” or some bullshit like that?

I mean, they still make more than I do, but when was the last time anybody thought of IBM?

Because you don’t want her giving you a face massage so you can take a brain poop? Gonna need some further explanation, chief.

This is a common misconception in the U.S., it’s not even the car’s job… that crappy sticker has the shittiest union.

LOL, he’s got people for stuff like that 🤣 (Finding and buying the drugs)

Everyone contemplating taking anything that didn’t come sealed from a reputable pharmaceutical company should do a metric-fuckton of research… do their best to understand what is happening, what the risks are, take the smallest dose they can and make sure it doesn’t burn a hole in their tongues ;-)

IMHO, the whole thing is more dangerous then it used to be because fentanyl. It’s hard to understand what a milligram is until you have tried to weigh one.

If you’re lucky enough to live in Europe, for the love of god take full advantage of dancesafe.whatever, a $25 GCMS test is a bargain! If you can’t afford to sacrifice one dose your playing Russian roulette!

A full reagent test kit and fentanyl test strips are the minimum, again IMHO.

Sorry if that all got a bit preachy… I have not even checked the sidebar here to see if best practices/harm reduction principles have made it over from Reddit.

I’m not going to crack on Musk when John Stewart just did such a great job… but I’ll take one more crack at scaring the new kids:

The risk from excessive ketamine use is the opposite of what they depicted in the show (Daily Show, June 2nd, 2025). It’s excessive urinary retention. Fellas, they will have to put a catheter up your pee-pee-hole and let the juice out. Ladies, I assume it’s the same.

At the time I read that U.K. study they were removing people’s bladders because of the cancer risk. I refuse to contemplate the implications 😱

Everyone go find something to hug, even if it’s just a tree. I’m going to take a nap with 3 cats.

That would be my recommendation too… just to lazy to find the original source DOI.

Yeah. It’s not hard to develop a tolerance to the stuff. If he was trying to using it daily for 4+ months I can’t imagine how much he was taking by the end to get the same effect.

I’m not sure what bladder problems he was having, but at 50… it might not be the K ;-)

There’s a designer version called deschloroketimine that’s better for that, but I haven’t had any luck sourcing it lately. Maybe the Elon can go to South America and build us a clandestine laboratory 🤣

I’m only familiar with reports of bladder damage in very heavy users, presumably months of continuous use. I want to say damage to the cells lining the bladder, with their bladders having to be removed.

Again this is from memory; one of the 6 individuals had a structural anomaly that prevented urine from contacting a portion of the bladder, and these cells were undamaged.

As your kidneys are responsible for removing the K from your bloodstream it’s reasonable to assume some potential for similar harm.

A few grams a year is unlikely to cause a problem. Always test everything you get. 50 fentanyl test strips cost $14 bucks… about the same for a single reagent test kit.