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A 46-year-old woman accidentally snorted 55 mg of pure LSD because she thought it was cocaine, roughly 550 times the normal recreational dose. She vomited for 12 hours and remained under the effects of the substance for about 34 hours. But when she woke up, the chronic foot pain she had suffered for over 20 years, attributed to Lyme disease, was reportedly gone. She stopped taking morphine for five days and then began microdosing LSD every three days. Three years later, she had completely quit morphine, with no withdrawal symptoms or relapse reported. Researchers described it as an extraordinary case of non-fatal high-dose LSD ingestion with long-term pain relief.

Amazing. Lost two C-130s to save one guy who was only there because his F-15 got knocked out of the skies (which resulted in downed/damaged Blackhawk helicopters and a downed A-10. Incredulous amount of hardware lost in this fiasco and the U.S. is calling it a win somehow.

Can’t believe they lost all of this rescuing person:

The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue. Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot. You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic. Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier. The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen. That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons. A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.

Star Wars, 1977 changed movies forever. Everything after it was different. Does it still deserve that kind of respect today?

There is no “blockade” of Cuba. A blockade involves the use of military forces to interdict commerce. Cuba has run out of money to pay people to send them petroleum, so the ships with petroleum stopped showing up and went instead to places that paid.