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by swearwolf 4y ago
I read some updates about the housing first program you’re talking about a while back. If I recall correctly it fell apart after a year or two and was quietly abandoned. The reasons why aren’t very clearly explained, but the coverage I reca
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Counterpoint: Oregon has done exactly that via Measure 101. It's been a complete mess. Every societal ill that comes along with drug use has gotten substantially worse. In theory, ending prohibition and diverting resources is a good id
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Evidence from Portland, which decriminalized all drugs via Measure 101, the answer is, "Whatever crimes are necessary to enable people to afford their drug of choice." Not all drugs are equal. You can't drink your way into ef
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by swearwolf 4y ago
As a resident, what do you think was the catalyst for these changes?
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by swearwolf 4y ago
No, that can’t be. I’ve been repeatedly assured the no states want to go after women for having an abortion.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
No
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by swearwolf 4y ago
The goalposts will move. These two were the test cases, to find out how much appetite there was for prosecuting a mother for losing her pregnancy, using two less sympathetic defendants. States like Indiana will continue to follow that line
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by swearwolf 4y ago
There is not a consensus that the baby was alive when she delivered it. The prosecution claimed that it was, based on a very old testing methodology called the “lung float” test, which posits that if the lung floats in water, the baby must
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Indiana for inducing a miscarriage through abortion drugs. Indiana also charged Bei Bei Shuei with murder and attempted feticide after her baby died following her suicide attempt. Not every
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Yes, the ultimate power imbalance is still a big one. Having grown up in a Christian house that subscribed to this model, and having seen how that tends to play out, I’m no fan of it either. I’ve also seen churches divided over the issue of
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by swearwolf 4y ago
While Ephesians 5:21 does say that, verse 25 says: “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” And verse 28 says: “In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who
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by swearwolf 4y ago
You’ve never heard of “snitches get stitches?”
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Are you honestly of the opinion that all intercourse involves the affirmative choice of both parties? Because if you are, you are gravely mistaken.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I may be wrong about this, but my understanding of the term is that “late-stage” refers to the system turning towards ever more predatory and self destructive methods of profit extraction to continue “growing” once the easy money to be mad
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Light therapy and vitamin D supplements are essential in the PNW. They aren’t a replacement for the sun, but they can make it bearable to be without it.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
In my experience, you’ll typically find the most inefficiency when private companies have been contracted to do this kind of work. Theoretically, they should be incentivized to be more efficient, otherwise they might lose their contract. Ho
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I would push back on the idea that there’s no right crafting policy to kneecap the city’s ability to function as a city. I don’t think they have to, because a lot of the techniques they might use to do so have already been fully absorbed b
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I have a theory about this: the idea that, as Reagan put it, "The nine most terrifying words in the English Language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help" have become so deeply embedded in our national cons
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I suspect we spend so much per pupil because overall we spend so little on the rest of society. A school in a neighborhood with a lot of generational poverty is going to have a lot of social problems. Those social problems are going to nega
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by swearwolf 4y ago
It doesn’t help that just about all of the solutions that work for other countries have been taken completely off the table by our political system and the interests that fund it.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
You see the same things in both places because people are poor in both places. Often due to structural issues that the government could absolutely influence. For example, they could not sign a deal like NAFTA and keep manufacturing jobs wit
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by swearwolf 4y ago
The onion trick really is amazing! I do that whenever my pans aren’t quite as slick as I’d like. They always end up performing better afterwards. I think maybe the sugar in the onion is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I think that a little bi
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by swearwolf 4y ago
That was exactly my experience. I tried this method many times, thinking I must have made a mistake each time, but it was always the same result. The seasoning would work beautifully for a short while, and then it would flake. Luckily, late
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by swearwolf 4y ago
“Addicts stealing is less of an issue and getting them help is easier in a system where users aren't criminals.” I don’t think this is necessarily true, and especially not if one area decriminalizes drug possession while another nearby
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I have no love for the old system either, but I think that a lot of misinformation is getting shared around to encourage decriminalization in other places, and I think people should understand what kind of consequences they can expect if th
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I get the moral for total decriminalization. I’m just here to tell you that implementing them in policy here in Oregon has significantly worsened the material conditions for the people who live here, which is not something a lot of us imagi
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Oregon is working on stepping up the public health offering, albeit at a glacial pace. The ballot measure which decriminalized drugs specifically earmarked the money formerly used for enforcement to be used to expand drug treatment offering
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by swearwolf 4y ago
As a resident of Oregon, I can tell you that it’s done anything except work here. If anything, it’s made things much worse.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Oregon did the same, back in 2020. It hasn’t gone very well. Some key problems: 1.) Dealers have learned to take advantage of the personal use amount protection by keeping small amounts on their person and a stash nearby. 2.) Several gangs
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by swearwolf 4y ago
My experience has been that as you dig deeper into the success of housing first programs, you start to find a lot of caveats. For example, for a while Utah was being praised for “solving” homelessness by applying the housing first method, b

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