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How is it that we are continuously sending billions of taxpayer dollars to a wealthy nation that provides its citizens with universal healthcare....something we don't even have at home!?

We are funding what operates as an ethnostate, currently facing global accusations of genocide. This model goes against every modern value we claim to hold, and it's something we've historically fought world wars to stop!?! Wtf

This same country has recently been cited by the Pentagon as a top espionage threat to the United States. Unbelievable, but true!

This is not the will of the American people. It's the obvious result of a lobbying loophole. A foreign nation is corrupting our politicians, putting its thumb on the scale of our democracy.

This "conspiracy" is completely fact-checkable...

I’m a pharmacist with a decade of retail experience, and I think we need to have a serious discussion about how buprenorphine is being prescribed and explained to patients.

Let's look at the pharmacology: Buprenorphine is roughly 30x as potent as morphine per milligram. For reference, oxycodone is only 1.5x as potent as morphine. Despite this, buprenorphine is a Schedule III controlled substance, not a C2 🤔

Remember "blues" (oxycodone 30mg)? One of those is equivalent to 45mg of morphine. Meanwhile, a standard Suboxone 8/2mg strip is mathematically equivalent to about 240mg of morphine.

I completely understand that buprenorphine is a partial agonist with a ceiling effect for respiratory depression. I get the harm reduction philosophy, and I agree that it is vastly safer than street fentanyl or heroin.

However, my concern is with how casually it is prescribed and the total lack of patient education. I am even seeing it being prescribed for Kratom addiction now?! Many doctors are writing these scripts without having a frank conversation with their patients about just how incredibly strong this medication is. Patients are taking a drug to "treat" their addiction without being warned about the massive receptor affinity and the severe, prolonged dependence they are swapping their current habit for.

The reality at the pharmacy counter makes this even more glaring. Day in and day out, this tends to be one of the most problematic medications we dispense. It’s a constant stream of patients trying to fill early, combining it with other controlled substances, and suddenly developing convenient "allergies" to naloxone—which is almost universally a transparent excuse to get switched to the buprenorphine mono-product so they can misuse or divert it.

Harm reduction is important, but so is informed consent and accountability. Patients deserve to know exactly what they are putting into their bodies and how hard it will be to eventually taper off.

There are multiple clinics near me that display the word "Buprenorphine" larger than the doctor's name on the sign out front. Honestly, it reminds me of the OxyContin problem of the early 2000s: bad communication and aggressive marketing of a product that guarantees a physically dependent, repeat customer.

I’m a pharmacist with a decade of retail experience, and I think we need to have a serious discussion about how buprenorphine is being prescribed and explained to patients.

Let's look at the pharmacology: Buprenorphine is roughly 30x as potent as morphine per milligram. For reference, oxycodone is only 1.5x as potent as morphine. Despite this, buprenorphine is a Schedule III controlled substance, not a C2 🤔

Remember "blues" (oxycodone 30mg)? One of those is equivalent to 45mg of morphine. Meanwhile, a standard Suboxone 8/2mg strip is mathematically equivalent to about 240mg of morphine.

I completely understand that buprenorphine is a partial agonist with a ceiling effect for respiratory depression. I get the harm reduction philosophy, and I agree that it is vastly safer than street fentanyl or heroin.

However, my concern is with how casually it is prescribed and the total lack of patient education. I am even seeing it being prescribed for Kratom addiction now?! Many doctors are writing these scripts without having a frank conversation with their patients about just how incredibly strong this medication is. Patients are taking a drug to "treat" their addiction without being warned about the massive receptor affinity and the severe, prolonged dependence they are swapping their current habit for.

The reality at the pharmacy counter makes this even more glaring. Day in and day out, this tends to be one of the most problematic medications we dispense. It’s a constant stream of patients trying to fill early, combining it with other controlled substances, and suddenly developing convenient "allergies" to naloxone—which is almost universally a transparent excuse to get switched to the buprenorphine mono-product so they can misuse or divert it.

Harm reduction is important, but so is informed consent and accountability. Patients deserve to know exactly what they are putting into their bodies and how hard it will be to eventually taper off.

There are multiple clinics near me that display the word "Buprenorphine" larger than the doctor's name on the sign out front. Honestly, it reminds me of the OxyContin problem of the early 2000s: bad communication and aggressive marketing of a product that guarantees a physically dependent, repeat customer....

Strange to me how many pharmacists I talk to who even are unaware just how strong it is...and surprised when they look it up on a table

What if information builds life 🧬 the same way gravity builds stars✨?

Both processes are patterns of organization driven by self perpetuating feedback loops..

What if "information" is a sort of emergent, probabilistic force?

A LOT of the timings... of the emergence of complex structures such as cells, bodies, brains, languages and even technology....start to make sense with this view.

We treat biology, human history, and modern technology as completely separate subjects. What if they aren't? They are all things that have emerged on our planet since life began at faster and faster rates......And each new one is both vastly more complex, thus requires vastly more information to function

Look at the timelines. It took billions of years to go from single-celled organisms to complex multicellular life, but only a fraction of that time to develop brains. Human history mirrors this perfectly: an agonizingly long, slow Stone Age, but once writing was invented, the pace of progress exploded. The curve keeps steepening.

I call this the RICE framework (Recursive Information-driven Complexity Emergence). Instead of viewing history as a series of random evolutionary leaps, everything fits into a single, accelerating 5-layer progression:

• Copy (DNA/RNA): The universe learns to replicate information. Creates a complex cell.
• Coordinate (Multicellular Life): Information learns to network and build cooperative physical structures.. A body
• Compute (Brains/Nervous Systems): Information learns to process its environment in real-time. A brain
• Culture (Language/Writing): Information learns to survive across generations without relying purely on physical genes. A society
• Code (AI/Digital Computing): Information covers the entire earth connecting us all to some Meta culture that is curated for us by AI. ?

We aren't just floating in a chaotic universe; we are droplets in a ancient wave of accelerating change driven by information processing

I am shamelessly proud to be an Anglo-American.

To my UK, European, and Anglosphere brothers: I know you, too, have been told you should be ashamed of your heritage. I reject this.

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We are the heirs to a culture that built the foundation of the modern free world—championing liberty, driving innovation, and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our greatest allies across the Anglosphere. We have so much to be proud of, and we should never apologize for a legacy of greatness.

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Where are you tuning in from, and what part of your heritage makes you the most proud today? 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿

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We don't speak hebrew or have founding fathers that wore yamikas. We have the Christian Bible, Christmas, and speak English and have a declaration of rights based on the Magna Carta.

There are other nations that share much of our cultural DNA around the world....and thus when you go there it doesn't feel that "foreign". Nations like Canada and Australia and the UK....they feel similar to the USA in some foundational ways. They also come from Anglo-Christain values.

I'm speaking as an American...who isn't afraid to say the truth..

Especially a truth I think would be good for this country if it was wider recognizing.

Need to get a small tiny country with big lobbies out of our politics and join our brotherhood of nations that spans all over the world