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by YellOh 3y ago
From the original article linked: "[The counterfeit drug issue is] happening in tourist hot spots across the country... In most of those locations, the pills that tested positive came from independent pharmacies, where workers sold the
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by YellOh 3y ago
Fentanyl production is probably way cheaper than getting on-brand Percocet. On-brand pain reliever revenues (sold to tourists with money) + fentanyl production prices = increased profit.
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by YellOh 3y ago
I have to admit, even though the article read like background set-up in the start of a SF dystopia, reading it did make me morbidly curious as to where this could go.
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by YellOh 3y ago
Also... if you're in a car that's more dangerous than usual, you have a higher risk of injuring yourself and a higher risk of injuring/killing others. If you take a bike, you're probably not going to slaughter a pedest
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by YellOh 3y ago
Did a bit of digging. Studies[0] I could find about the prevalence of tainted medications in Mexico didn't look at the concentration of contaminants, but articles like the original one linked above heavily imply that it's a full (
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by YellOh 3y ago
"...when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho’ ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the Englis
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by YellOh 3y ago
Yes, nobody (including utilitarians!) thinks you're actually able to calculate the exact number of utilons without omniscience. There aren't probes in your brain to determine what fraction of a utilon you get from looking at a c
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by YellOh 3y ago
The reason it's a puzzle is because most people, usually including the lawyer themself, assumes soup kitchen volunteers are volunteering for the purpose of helping others. If the primary purpose of the hour volunteering is not to bri
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by YellOh 3y ago
I don't think that's a flaw; that's addressed in the very next essay in the sequence, titled "Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately."[0] The idea is that if you're a lawyer that's trying to do maximum g
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by YellOh 3y ago
Idk about AirPods in particular, but you could try layering good PNC earmuffs over your ANC earbuds? I doubt you'll get it <10%, but should still help cut a lot of the high-frequency crying.
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by YellOh 3y ago
Maybe buy earplugs or noise-cancelling headphones? The parent probably doesn't want their child to be crying either, but sometimes there's not much to be done.
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by YellOh 3y ago
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
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by YellOh 3y ago
I disagree on the effects (at least for the average child of a doctor or engineer), but I'm in for letting more students stop going to school. Glad it has some bipartisan appeal.
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by YellOh 3y ago
My concerns would be: a) I think current schooling causes a good portion of the lack of motivation b) Most kids not caring about memorizing information about Sumer or Freud seems like a feature and not a bug [Caveat that a couple things l
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by YellOh 3y ago
Pretty sure the generic answer is "unschooling + free range parenting" which already exists. To be more specific... read books. Get a job (maybe a standard job if 16, maybe mowing lawns if 13, whatever). Spend a day at the local m
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by YellOh 3y ago
Why? I feel like the burden should be on the institution trying to waste >1000 hrs per year of someone's time, rather than the person that just wants to not participate in the system.
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by YellOh 3y ago
I did the lawful version (read the student handbook and missed the absolute max # of days I could without them being able to take disciplinary action), but basically same here. Also left high school at 16 because I absolutely did not want t
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by YellOh 3y ago
Yup. From the article: > Finally, a psychiatrist told Demsky about a condition that affects a growing number of students with severe anxiety: school avoidance. That's not a "condition" and shouldn't be de facto medica
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by YellOh 3y ago
Just hung out at my local library this past weekend. Notable experiences were there being 3 police officers standing guard in full gear in this small local library, and me ending up sitting across from a guy who was quietly talking to himse
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by YellOh 3y ago
This was fascinating to scroll around. I knew NYC was noisy, but it was interesting to see the massive patches of color. Even the few other cities I looked at were less colorful & had the highest-decibel color only around airports; NYC
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by YellOh 3y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/spotlight/HeartDiseaseSpotlight... Pretty sure it means that while all groups decreased in deaths from heart attacks, the highest risk groups (white and black Americans) saw a lar
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by YellOh 3y ago
I'm guilty of using "plant-based" here as a generic antonym for "animal-derived". This was a very fun TIL though! Thank you for the correction :-)
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by YellOh 3y ago
The rule of thumb I've heard is that you make vitamin D iff your shadow's height <= your height.
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by YellOh 3y ago
D3 is more effective in raising serum levels of vitamin D (87% more efficient according to [0]). However, D2 still helps and can be fine for people who aren't very deficient. Also, there is D3 from non-animal sources. Although most D
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by YellOh 3y ago
This is what usually prevents me from understanding longtermist arguments. I'm not convinced think the average person from even ~100 years ago would be able to do anything about (what I would consider) most of the biggest problems of t
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by YellOh 3y ago
Yes, current anti-abuse law seems more likely to be able to physically intervene even when the abuser is popular and/or powerful. I do not think we should return to the past. However , after a negative event in a relationship (abuse,
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by YellOh 3y ago
I have no issue with labelling requirements for large commercial operations. To be honest I thought we already had that for adult content, given the specific TV/radio limits and the "confirm you're 18" popups so popular
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by YellOh 3y ago
No need to strawman. I think jiggywiggy is just pointing at the mental health issues demonstrably linked to atomization and loss of community in the modern world. As a starting point, consider the growing share of people who describe themse
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by YellOh 3y ago
What does society do to solve the peanut problem? Outside of schools, it seems totally on the parent to stop the kid from eating peanuts. The parent does the grocery shopping, asks the right questions when taking the kid to a restaurant,
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by YellOh 3y ago
I agree, you shouldn't be able to single-handedly veto buildings that have nothing to do with you. And I'd vastly prefer ugly dense buildings over the current failure to build anything. However, we can build dense housing that is

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