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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Nah, sorry, different person than you were initially responding to. I was out to breakfast and just wrote that quickly on my phone.

    It was pinched for about 3-4 weeks before my physical therapist finally realized what I’d told him at the start - that my calf was literally paralyzed. He was like, “Oh… that’s, that’s not good. You need to go to the spine doctor like, immediately.” (Dude sucked, but it was the very beginning of COVID so my options were limited.)

    Got me in to see the spine doc the next day and I got emergency cortisone injections by the end of the week.

    I got usage of my calf back, and significant reduction in pain. But I never got back the full amount of feeling in the right two toes of my right foot, that side of that foot, and stretching up to about mid shin height on the same side. I have pressure sensitivity still. And even touch, kinda. It’s like when a limb is asleep. But fuck it I’ll take that over the feeling of daggers and lava I had before.






  • As long as the demand exists in the market, the niche will be filled. There’s simply too much money to be made.

    As a related example:

    Mexico has a cartel problem not because their government is weak, but because the scale of the American drug market means every cartel has an annual income that dwarfs any conceivable taxation revenue. Which means they’re better armed, better staffed, better equipped, and overall a more formidable threat than can be dealt with.

    Even fully legalizing drugs in the US might not undercut the cartels at this point because their operations have extended so far into legitimate forms of income at this point. Cartels are an agricultural powerhouse, and are responsibility for the vast majority of avocado production for example.