drooogs

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by drooogs 4y ago
I don't really see what it has to do with fight club. suppose car A and car B have autonomous driving that perform identically across a wide range of conditions. the manufacturer A enables FSD whenever the customer feels like it, but a
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by drooogs 4y ago
kids is a cool film, but not much of a cautionary tale. it's more like a 90s urban euphoria, in that the message is really more to adults: "this is what teenagers are actually doing right now". what (imo) would make requiem f
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by drooogs 4y ago
I dunno what discussions you are referring to specifically, but the mainstream belief is that all-out nuclear war would end in nuclear winter. I have seen some posts/articles recently contesting that, which are (quietly) supported by t
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by drooogs 4y ago
I think it's more dark humor / coping with death than a plan. if that were someone's serious plan, they would probably consider killing themselves if the bomb didn't do it for them.
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by drooogs 4y ago
there are a few layers to "AA". first there's the philosophy itself and all the associated dogma and religious aspects. I found this pretty weird and not my cup of tea, but I have no problem with it existing and people adheri
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by drooogs 5y ago
this is the sort of conversation that must be conducted very delicately, but it is something I have also wondered, having had similar experiences myself. quite a few times I have experienced unwanted sexual advances/touching/gropi
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by drooogs 5y ago
I've only tried kratom a couple times, many years ago. I can see how someone like me could have a severe problem with it, but I didn't find it to be nearly as addictive (to me) as heroin. I knew someone, like you, who had withdraw
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by drooogs 5y ago
that's exactly my point. maybe it wasn't worded well. "X is an opioid" does not imply "X is an extremely dangerous drug with high potential for addiction". not all opioids have psychoactive effects. some (eg, b
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by drooogs 5y ago
opioids are a large class of drugs with widely varying effects and potential for abuse. for instance, the active ingredient in Imodium is an opioid, but you don't see a lot of recreational Imodium users. kratom is certainly not a mirac
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by drooogs 5y ago
it kinda depends. simply being high/tripping is not illegal in most places, but you can still be arrested for public intoxication if you make a scene or just appear very fucked up in the presence of a police officer. they are obligated
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by drooogs 5y ago
it's easy to talk about how much other people should pay. why shouldn't you pay a regular tax on your assets?
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by drooogs 5y ago
a 2020 outback is considerably larger in every dimension than a 2000 outback and rides quite a bit higher. it's no more a station wagon than any other crossover.
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by drooogs 5y ago
> Broadly speaking, I tend to think of "addiction" (rightly or wrongly) as the errosion of free will. I don't claim to speak for all addicts, but this is not how I would describe my experiences, at least not under my conce
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by drooogs 6y ago
> I’m pretty glad that the government is involved (in a regulatory/oversight fashion) in the chain of events that results in me having a bottle of $0.02 vitamin D3 pills in my cabinet. it works pretty well in the case of supplements
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by drooogs 6y ago
respect is orthogonal to agreement. why would it even be necessary to say you respect someone's decision if you agree without reservation?
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by drooogs 6y ago
I think alcohol fits into the puritanical framework pretty well actually. hangovers are built-in retribution for people who consume to excess. I suspect puritan types find it particularly upsetting when drugs do not punish their users the n
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by drooogs 6y ago
kinda splitting hairs, but these words do have specific meanings. psychedelics and dissociatives of hallucinogens, a broader category of drugs. you definitely see weird stuff if you take enough ketamine, but the hallucinations have a very d
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by drooogs 8y ago
> You can decriminalize possession of small quantities but still make the drug's production and distribution illegal. sure, this at least makes it possible for drug users to seek help without fearing legal repercussions, but it does
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by drooogs 8y ago
honestly I would believe this, but in my experience people are spending the extra money to get strains that are either more potent or have different subjective effects. I've never known anyone who would pay $100 for a gram just for it
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by drooogs 8y ago
> Is it wrong to want the others around you to not have access to drugs that can destroy their lives? it's fine for you to want that; it's not okay for you to support the use of state violence to make it so. I also have lost ma
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by drooogs 8y ago
alcohol is a bit different than other drugs in that people also appreciate it as a culinary experience. most users of other drugs are not willing to pay 2-10x as much for the same drug in a better tasting form.
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by drooogs 8y ago
> That said, I'm fine with legalizing marijuana. Not so much so with the likes of cocaine, meth or heroine. Soft drugs, sure, hard drugs, keep a leash on it. I realize that this is becoming a popular opinion, but why? I almost under
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by drooogs 8y ago
> Society has already accepted: helmet laws, seatbelt laws, mandatory health insurance, age limits for alcohol and tobacco consumption, food and drug regulations, etc. not everything on that list is terrible; in fact, it provides a good
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by drooogs 8y ago
> society ends up bearing the burden of helping people who aren't able to help themselves, be it on an individual level or a governmental level. it doesn't have to do this. if people want to kill themselves slowly, they should
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by drooogs 8y ago
> I am a huge opposer of legalization, because I've seen what pot has done to people I care about. frankly, this argument has no place in a society that considers itself free. it is not for you to tell me what harm i may inflict on
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by drooogs 8y ago
works great unless the person is alone. then they die.
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by drooogs 8y ago
> Buprenorphine has more dangerous potential side effects than either of them genuinely curious, what are these? > the reduced risk of overdose isn't because of the drug it is significantly harder to overdose on buprenorphine, es
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by drooogs 8y ago
i'm curious whether you experience chronic pain yourself. opioids are a dangerous class of drugs, and the decision to use them is based on weighing the severity of a person's pain against the inherent risks of using the drugs. in
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by drooogs 8y ago
ideally, no.
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by drooogs 8y ago
plenty of people successfully use buprenorphine to taper off heroin. some people do end up going on long term buprenorphine maintenance, but the harm there is radically less than an active oxy/heroin addiction. even in the worst case s

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