atdrummond

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by atdrummond 3y ago
We had ball lightning blow a painting off of our wall in front of 30-odd people at Thanksgiving. It’s possible it was a mass delusion or a ghost but both of those strike me as less likely.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
It is difficult but possible. I have used opioids since the mid-2000s. I am on a low enough dose today that it treats my cancer/Crohns pain but I feel no noticeable psychological effects. I can and do easily taper off multiple times a
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Yes - and I think worse than that, they don’t pay people to get better. So they create a very real financial cliff for anyone who is determined to make a lifestyle change.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
We seem to be in agreement here. I apologise that these discussions have to become so heated; I understand this only comes from a place of compassion and frustration on your part. I appreciate your enthusiasm for change and obvious love for
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by atdrummond 3y ago
What is intellectually dishonest is mischaracterizing my beliefs, which you have done to an impressive degree. I’m an opioid addict and formerly homeless person who has spent thousands of hours advocating for, and working with, the unhoused
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Most unhoused opioid users in SF are happy to remain homeless. Their base income is north of $12k tax free a year (SNAP and their SF homeless grant); one woman I’ve been trying to help for over two years makes north of $30k annually, tax fr
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by atdrummond 3y ago
For the first and third, yes. I can walk into a pharmacy as a non-resident and within 24 hours be approved for emergency safe supply hydromorphone (dilaudid). You also have the DULF distributing medicinal grade heroin with the tacit support
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by atdrummond 3y ago
There is always a gap between rich and poor on violent crime like homicides but the cross racial gap persists (in the US) at any point along the continuum of SES.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Harm reduction in the Vancouver/SF model is a failure. Estonia (with fentanyl) and Switzerland (with heroin) only worked because over time the state became the only source of these drugs. They rooted out most dealers and sources of the
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Primarily due to demographics and not gun laws. Look at the rates of homicides by firearm for White Americans and they’re within the same order of magnitude as European nations. This is a conversation that is verboten in the US because peop
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Online retail includes airlines websites, for example (Delta recently shared they were a Top 5 US online retailer in their investor presentations). I am sure that for CPG, Amazon’s share is significantly higher.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
My experience has been that the ceiling is highest in the US but that the floor is significantly higher in a number of other countries. And I say this as someone who chose to leave a Top 10 US uni to do undergrad in the UK and grad in UK&#x
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by atdrummond 3y ago
If anyone is interested in this space, I’ve been working on this particular approach for the past few years. Would love to chat. We have a few interested jurisdictions and now are working on solving logistics to ensure deployment isn’t half
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I assure you there is far more than softcore and often on accounts where it isn’t obvious until you’ve viewed the offending tweet that there may be X-Rated audiovisual content. I’m sure much of it violates the rules but my initial inclinati
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by atdrummond 3y ago
The reason I’m inclined to accept this narrative is that not only have I not seen any plausible alternative etymology, there is no alternative etymology available period.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I historically have not been a major fan of ARPGs and share with you the list of games that haven’t moved the needle for me. Path of Exile fundamentally changed my view on the genre and enabled me to retrospectively re-evaluate many of the
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by atdrummond 3y ago
What would have compelled them to cooperate with a Marshall Plan? I don’t think many Americans realize how tenuous the hold on power Russian politicians was in the 1990s.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I would argue Nurgle is chaotic neutral.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I use old.reddit on my mobile browser. The app sucks.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
It isn’t - but if you’re a tough stick, it’s preferable to getting a central line or an IO shot.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
She wouldn’t eat out with me and preferred to meal prep all her meals for the week on Sunday, which definitely probably helped avoid food poisoning. I can only recall her being sick once, with the flu.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I was with her for the vast majority of that time. You may be right - I’m not going to be that anal about my partner’s bathroom habits - but I never saw anything to suggest otherwise.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Funny you mention that - I dated a woman for three years who never once went to the bathroom (#2) at her house or mine. This wasn’t an objective of her’s; rather, she had such a precise internal clock that she went regularly a few minutes p
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by atdrummond 3y ago
And what are you to do, as an exchange trying to maintain compliance, when the CFTC says assets determined to be securities by the SEC are, in fact, commodities.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
You’re not going to have a reasonable discussion on this topic here. The last time I brought up my personal history living and working in Donetsk and the views of my neighbors and friends, I was emailed and texted multiple times by users he
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by atdrummond 3y ago
It could be a positive for GPU capability - such as models that would be constrained on GPUs of say 24 GB. This will be a positive development for LLMs like Llama.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Just remove that word - I failed to properly edit the sentence.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Tax burden on Danish salaries is borne by employees post-tax rather than businesses. This tends to inflate net take home pay.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Scored 1600 SAT at 13, 36 ACT/1590 SAT in HS. Was an absolutely terrible student and dropped out of grad school (Oxford). Never had a perfect GPA despite most classes coming easily to me, which of course made my life a hell when I enco
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Why did you cut off the sentence? What I said had nothing to do with employment requirements but about the need for supportive services to enable unhoused persons to achieve the next steps in their path to stability.

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