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> 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 othe

• guerrilla 10mo ago
  > rationalist Not without a new cult spin-off you don't!
• sallveburrpi 10mo ago
  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
  • Liquix 10mo ago
    perhaps "making less harmful to the body"? this could potentially be accomplished separately from making them less effective
  • walthamstow 10mo ago
    I would have thought the main armament that nicotine has is its addictiveness
  • temp0826 10mo ago
    "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)
• bjrobz 10mo ago
  ok now is my chance. what is this (opens new tab) phenomenon?!
  • stavros 10mo ago
    Probably a screen reader callout.
  • jvm___ 10mo ago
    "microdose cocaine"
  • saghm 10mo ago
    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 10mo ago
      It seems to be hidden text in the page? Either way, it just shows up alongside links when you copy text from the article.
      • saghm 10mo ago
        Oh interesting! That didn't even occur to me.
• tstrimple 10mo ago
  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!
  • amitav1 10mo ago
    Well, there's always next time.