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by pksebben 6y ago
"I'll take lack of replies as acceptance of my point". Sure, buddy, you do that. Whatever helps you feel clever.
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by pksebben 6y ago
this is a straw man. where in the article / materials related to the case is race brought in to question? are we treating Indian-Americans as a majority group now? that's nonsense. You paint a picture of the "progressive calc
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by pksebben 6y ago
vimtutor is designed for you to use it regularly to train muscle memory
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by pksebben 6y ago
this doesn't read like a battle, though. one could argue that opinions that run counter to the generally accepted norm are inherently good for curiosity.
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by pksebben 6y ago
how is that more dangerous than avoiding a lockdown claiming that public policy doesn't matter? In what ways is the economy killing people right now?
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by pksebben 6y ago
the teenage users of marijuana in Amsterdam might argue against that. This sort of simple logic doesn't actually hold up in practice, because the world is complex and not simple. If you go out of your way to tell people that "drug
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by pksebben 6y ago
changing accessibility doesn't mean less use.
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by pksebben 6y ago
I want rat park to be true. It's depressing that it's not been effectively replicated. That said, it's conclusions are sort of common sense; if you give people options and one of them feels better than the rest they will take
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by pksebben 6y ago
The thing that caused the opioid crisis was doctors and Purdue pharma. Some folks are bad at handling addictive substances, and they were prescribed these things.
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by pksebben 6y ago
err. have you heard about the opioid crisis? that stuff is to heroin like beer is to vodka. it's the same shit. waaaaaaay more people take opioids than just the heroin users, but there's all part of the same thing. it's the s
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by pksebben 6y ago
Ahem. A couple addendums, if I may: LSD has no measurable long term side effects - the myth that it makes people go crazy came out of the fact that our can make you feel crazy. Kratom is not an opioid. to qualify as an opioid, you must
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by pksebben 6y ago
if you make something illegal, you don't reduce it's use necessarily, but you do increase the harm done by pushing users into the dark. Compare the harms of alcohol abuse now to the harms of alcohol as an illicit substance during
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by pksebben 6y ago
do they?
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by pksebben 6y ago
so much this. I don't want to be forced into sacrificing what's possible to keep myself safe, thank you very much. I'm more than capable of performing my own risk assessments, and the further we go down the "secure the
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by pksebben 6y ago
I feel that formalizing such a system would make it more vulnerable to market capture - there are powerful entities that spend a lot of money to control influence, and it's always risky to paint yourself as a target. Any system you cre
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by pksebben 6y ago
That's what we have California for. They're like america's exhausted mother, constantly swooping in to prevent us putting bad things in our mouths or being jerks to other kids.
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by pksebben 6y ago
There's this strange cultural divide in the US, and it's not a republican-Democrat thing or a gender thing or a race thing. People from certain cliques are more comfortable with snark, self deprecation, and the sort of hyperbolic
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by pksebben 6y ago
where's the original source?
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by pksebben 6y ago
If you went by what the American media tends to call "terrorist", it's attacks by brown people from countries whose resources are of strategic value, or attacks by anyone with an anticapitalist agenda. (9/11, unabomber).
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by pksebben 6y ago
Where to start? Besides that it's oppresive, based on bad science, reductive, reactionary, and small-minded. Those feelings of insecurity are there because of a conservative cultural context, that shames difference and enforces conf
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by pksebben 6y ago
Awesome. We have something to talk about. What these studies show, is that given a set of pictures with faces removed, college age women will point to the pictures of guys who go to the gym when asked to say which one is more attractive to
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by pksebben 6y ago
Alright, I'll bite. How did you arrive at this fact ? Was it through science? Personal observation? Did you read it in a book? If so, which one? And how did they establish it as a fact?
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by pksebben 6y ago
But it's so HARD . Really, though, thanks for posting this. I'm in a slump recently and I've been nagging myself to get up and go (to no avail, nagging has never worked on me anyhow) and it's genuinely helpful to be
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by pksebben 6y ago
My pleasure. We do indeed have a pretty serious cultural problem, and it's not made any better by closing ourselves off to the wealth of possibility that lies in human interaction. I'm not unsympathetic to the plight of those wh
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by pksebben 6y ago
This smacks of so much hubris. What you are doing is attempting to simplify and reduce a set of interactions that are so incredibly complex that you have no hope of understanding them in their entirety. Can you point out specific differen
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by pksebben 6y ago
If one does not understand what they are being asked to consent to, they are incapable of giving informed consent.
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by pksebben 6y ago
It's for this very reason I'm so enamored with the concept of organizational fragmenting - gore-tex does it, and it's the sort of de facto method of restructuring that goes on in online communities: the idea is that when you
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by pksebben 6y ago
Thanks for the good refs!
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by pksebben 6y ago
That is precisely what I am saying.
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by pksebben 6y ago
A) We are engaging, currently, in a number of asymmetric (read: guerilla) wars right now, with an unfathomable level of success - see Afghanistan, Iraq et al. We have learned a lot and gotten a lot better at things since Vietnam (not to me

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