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I've never tried to promote it and have never updated it much, but there have been some random people over the years who have given me money. I had a few people send me 50$ unprompted, plus some people I met IRL pay for dinners and things like that when the topic came up.

Navigating back to the list of submissions, which are already in the DOM and are literally visible through a transparency, takes like nearly a second.

Of course the back button doesn't work in most cases. It's pretty embarrassing if it's not intentional.

If the average dish at that restaurant costs $40 or something, then maybe.

I see this all the time. If you saw how pre-modern (extended) families actually function, you'd know that the survival of younger offspring is strongly influenced by what the 40+ year old members of the family are or aren't able to do.

Nobody wants to get fentanyl-spiked heroin, dangerous synthetic cannabinoids, or random phenylethylamines with no history of human use when instead they could be respectively smoking opium, growing their own marijuana, and taking mushrooms as has been done for thousands of years.

> While some highly conscientious slice of the population can handle some recreational use (i.e. a few burning man friends)

So your asshole Burning Man tech-bro friends can get a pass, but the lower classes must pay for the same transgressions.

> If we increased addiction 20x via legalization, and then had to roll back legalization in order to deal with the crises, the 'cartels' that would appear would have 20x the market.

It's absolutely absurd to think that addiction would rise 20x. For a lot of drugs and their current rates of usage that's probably not even possible! Actually think about it, if heroin suddenly became legal would you personally just go out and buy it? Because of where I have lived for the last decade it would be easy to get high-quality heroin within 30 minutes, with no risk other than a $5 bribe, but I have never had any urge to go out and buy heroin. Why would I? I have even tried heroin once in the distant past and used other drugs frequently like cocaine, mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, opium, etc... I could still get most of these but have no interest.

This comment and the other you've made on this article are so filled with contorted arguments that it's difficult to even start.

There are many obscure demos, rehearsals, etc. that disappeared from the internet and most haven't reappeared since. I knew some bloggers who had uploaded probably in the range of 5000-10000 old metal demos, and these guys were careful to not post copyrighted material, but it seemed like if they got even a single strike against their account, everything was deleted.

I hope someone imaged those servers, otherwise a lot of that content might be lost forever.

Come on down to the US and you will find 600 calorie donuts aplenty.

And it does fit the pattern of negating the root morpheme.

I do think it is difficult for anyone other than the author to answer that question though. For me, only the "red-head scarf" example would be a mistake, but others in this thread indicated that 3 or 4 of the examples were wrong for them.

Totally agree. I own over 1000 CDs, but rather than ripping each one to my hard drive, it's much easier to download them illegally via P2P networks and torrents.

I download music illegally for other purposes too, but I've also spent a much greater portion of my income on music than most. Downloading has likely stimulated my appreciation for music.

There is a withdrawal in a different sense I think. I had HPPD for around 3 months after heavy psychedelic use with LSD as the centerpiece of that. I was doing up to 10 tabs at once and using mushrooms and certain research chemicals every two or three days for a few months.

Not to excuse my risky behavior, but other people go much harder than I do. MDMA​ is a favorite choice, especially in Europe where it is cheaper. There are endless stories on Erowid and Bluelight of young people buying 10 grams of a research chemical and plowing through it in a summer. Often it's stuff like MDPV or 25i NBOME, with a short history of human use and carrying cardiac risks.

A wide range of psychedelic drugs have addictive potential IMO. I'm not sure how meaningful the distinction really is between psychological and physiological in the context of addiction.

This doesn't follow at all. The downside to legalization of all recreational drugs is minuscule compared to the societal benefit.

And I recognize your username, do / did you post on a forum dedicated to a certain music genre?

My feelings are not going to get hurt over an internet comment. And you were downvoted because your response to me was over-the-top condescending. I took the bait and made an inflammatory response in return, but I've since deleted it.

It's impossible to go to college or enter the workforce and just switch off all the bad things in your past and present. From my experience a lot of my college friends who left midway through had family problems, often financial or health problems. Again this is stuff that poor people go through much more, and it negatively impacts their ability to hold down a job, finish college, and succeed in general.

It's a complicated issue but you seem to have no desire to understand it further than "get off your ass, get a job, and stop being poor".

And I strongly disagree that the US needs more police.

Surveillance is inevitable and if data and access are open, then I'm relatively at ease with it.

Edit: Crime is minimally related to poverty? I don't know how you can justify that statement.

Most people here probably agree with you that poor people tend to have worse impulse control. But you seem totally unaware of how significantly stress, trauma, or desperation affect impulse control. It's more than just stress about paying the bills. I tutored reading at an intercity elementary school and there were kids there who had family members incarcerated or murdered, homes foreclosed, parents making the local headlines for child abuse, etc. One boy I taught had to move out of his house because someone shot it up in a driveby looking for his older brother. A girl from a refugee family had 19 siblings and a physically abusive, alcoholic father. My coworker taught a boy whose parents were both in prison for murder. It was not uncommon to see little kids wearing RIP shirts for friends and family members. These stories are so much more common than you'd think. I'm not being hyperbolic, look at gunshot and homocide maps for Chicago in a single year:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Yt65uE9YlMk/UR7-1mGIo8I/A...

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?oe=UTF8&source=embed&ie...

Sure, a phenomenally resilient person can make it out of horrible circumstances, but the average person isn't able to. I personally don't think I would have fared well if I grew up in a bad environment. As a younger person I was angry and depressed enough already without the reality of hearing gunshots nightly, losing family members, facing systemic discrimination, going to bed hungry, etc. I had a great family and I still fucked up along the way sometimes. I also had a support system that allowed me to take the risks that made me independent and not poor today.

I somewhat disagree with your last point too. I grew up in the US but now live in a very poor country. The struggle is bad in both countries, just different.

Now the kids are calling it "weed", "tree", "dro", "bomb", "doja" (Southern), "piff" (NY), "gas" (Cali), "Keyshia" (Atlanta / mid West) and a million others. Worse stuff is usually called "mid" or "brick".

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/18/the-story-of-the-chag...

About 1,000 pet dogs were taken – some straight from screaming children – and gassed with exhaust fumes from American military vehicles.