People lose weight from stress? How lucky of them, I gain weight from stress. Double bad.

For completeness’ sake, it also shows the recently annexed oblasts (Kherson, Zaporozhija, Donetsk, Luhansk) as Ukrainian.

I’m in Europe. In my country, Kratom is still legal, but it’s still difficult to judget future development.

From what I’ve read, well stored Kratom doesn’t go bad for years.

I’m sorry for late answer. I kinda disappeared after a hurray moment. I’m more active on my alt account, but I will take this a bit more seriously now.

To answer the question:

• sourcing discussion is location specific - vendors in EU are of no interest for people outside of EU and it’s just useless posts
• sourcing is necessarily full of shilling, repetitive posts, hate posts. Just general low quality.

I just created https://lemmy.world/c/kratomeu for sourcing discussions in the EU. The idea is that the “kratom” community will be rather general topics and therefore higher quality, while kratomeu will be for inherently lower quality (but perhaps still useful) discussion on the sourcing within EU. I encourage somebody to create communities for sourcing within USA and elsewhere …

China certainly isn’t some innocent victim here. Their crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, more aggressive pursuit of their frankly absurd claims in SCS, their ambassador in France calling post-Soviet countries as not being sovereign - Chinese posture certainly escalated and most of these independently of their rivalry with US.

I think Europeans don’t understand why the recent escalation is necessary - it seems to have come from both directions (not just China) for no good reasons.

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.