| ▲ | jjmarr 10 hours ago |
| > For instance, mouse fathers exposed to nicotine(opens a new tab) sire male pups with livers that are good at disarming not just nicotine but cocaine and other toxins as well. queue rationalist fathers microdosing nicotine patches before conception to give their kids the best chance at abusing drugs. |
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| ▲ | sallveburrpi 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| What does disarming mean here? I wound read it as “the drug has less effect” - so in that case you can better abuse these drugs if you are worse at “disarming” them I guess |
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| ▲ | temp0826 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "Hard headed", "not a cheap date", "not a lightweight"? Hard to say if increased tolerance is good or bad (especially if we're uncertain about how addictiveness/susceptibility to addictive behavior it passed) | |
| ▲ | walthamstow 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I would have thought the main armament that nicotine has is its addictiveness | |
| ▲ | Liquix 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | perhaps "making less harmful to the body"? this could potentially be accomplished separately from making them less effective |
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| ▲ | tstrimple 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Damn. I didn't start substance abuse until after all my children were sired. Apparently I have done them an injustice by compromising their resistance to cocaine and other toxins. I have failed as a father! |
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| ▲ | bjrobz 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| ok now is my chance. what is this (opens new tab) phenomenon?! |
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| ▲ | saghm 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In the article, there's a link in the text right before they put that parenthetical. I'm guessing they're saying that the link interested them so they clicked it to read but opened it in a new tab so they could finish the current article first. | | |
| ▲ | roywiggins 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | It seems to be hidden text in the page? Either way, it just shows up alongside links when you copy text from the article. |
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| ▲ | stavros 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Probably a screen reader callout. | |
| ▲ | jvm___ 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "microdose cocaine" |
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| ▲ | guerrilla 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > rationalist Not without a new cult spin-off you don't! |
