Been craving snus less lately and my gums don't like it. I tried one anyway just now and it made me very lightheaded and my stomach started hurting. I think I've been using it less because I'm not reacting well to it anymore. I guess it's a good opportunity to quit using it altogether, as a friend of mine pointed out. There are certain kinds of abuse that your body tolerates less with time, as I've discovered.
@thor I liked General the most. I would put 3 portions in and go about my day. In my experience it helps with ADHD symptoms in a way that medication doesn't.
Does it cause negative health effects? I'm fairly certain that it does. The most concerning is vasoconstriction which can lead to injuries of joints. This is why power tools warn to not use them while or shortly after smoking.
@AmpBenzScientist Yeah, but I've noticed that it can *increase* my stress level if I'm under pressure or I'm sick. If I have a stomach cramp, it makes it worse, for example. If you have that stress lump in your stomach, it intensifies it. That's my experience anyway. Also applies to other stimulants I've tried for ADHD. Tenses you up in some cases. Works better for me if I'm low and an upper is needed.
@thor As I've experienced in my life, pain and suffering are all that is promised. What others promise nearly always fails and people love to stab others in the back. I used smokeless tobacco to help deal with emotionally damaging situations.
In the US our snus is seen as something only used by rednecks and other trash. I've often been threatened with physical violence which I didn't respond to. People who I considered friends have betrayed me. Something that has never been written down as PTSD would come into play. Every attack they tried failed. Eventually they teamed up and I had to report to answer to something which led to manipulation by higher ups. It went on for around a week. I ended up having a seizure which isn't something that should have happened. That's what I had to answer for along with many other lies.
I realized that after that, public mockery and loss of respect that I had to do something. It was an attempt to show benevolence and what I had researched on my own for something that was planned to be presented at the IEEE alongside the doctor I worked with. I found the group of people in a room I had card access to and we talked a little bit.
I asked one of them if they wanted to see part of my research as the topic came up. I showed the group one of the dangers of using wireless devices by revealing somewhere around 300 devices in the multi level building. I showed them what some of the raw data meant and how I could tell if something was moving closer or farther away. I went on to explain that the technology exists and what I was doing wasn't transmitting data or traceable.
I came in the next day to be escorted into an area where I was accused of various things including stalking. I was threatened with legal action and many other things. It didn't stop and the people who were trying to destroy my reputation had succeeded.
@thor This is why we don't have fire axes.
@thor Apparently it left such an impact with people I was trying to warn that they threw every allegation they possibly could at me.
This was only partial information compared to what I had presented to an audience that included an FBI agent. I was trying to give them a warning about the dangers they didn't know about.
Fast forward to around a week or so into my persecution and the threats including revocations to my research lab. A friend found me in my research lab trying to hide my tears. I was given a very small amount of hope and critiqued over letting the ignorant know about what they didn't need to know.
Fast forward another week or so and I was called into a private meeting. One of the higher ups had seen how unstable and paranoid I had become. They critiqued my decision to reveal what other people could see as threatening.
It was a rather personal talk. I was effectively told that the whole thing was nothing to worry about. There might have been people who tried to report what they had seen done to me and it mostly fell on deaf ears. The allegations were falling apart and it was becoming increasingly evident what actually happened. My name wasn't fully cleared until much later and those who made the false allegations faced no consequences that I am aware of.
During one of the last trips I made to my research lab, the encryption keys to my research were lost while being supervised. No one was going to steal my work again. They realized what I was doing far too late and I was already reimagining the drive with the OS that was supposed to be on the computer and that was supposed to be my last task before I lost my privileges and faced the music.
I destroyed several months of my own research so it wouldn't fall into the hands of the University. Loss of encryption keys on a computer that was not connected to their network, zero write and imaging the drive. Allegations were made that I was trying to take hardware that didn't belong to me. I informed the University that they couldn't buy at least part of my hardware and I had used my own equipment out of necessity.
@freemo Any comments? I told the doctor that I was working with that the hardware wasn't sophisticated enough for what we planned before encryption keys were lost. Every previous research project we worked on together was kneecapped by the University.
No comment is perfectly acceptable.
@AmpBenzScientist Office politics.