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Drugs feel amazing. Getting high is like the fucking grand canyon, one of the things in life that lives up to the hype. Doing drugs makes you happier than you thought you could be, and there are a lot of people who don’t have a lot of reasons to be happy.

We shouldn’t pretend that drugs are bad, mm-kay. Drugs are awesome. That’s the problem. They’re too awesome. It’s an awesome overload, and you end up not wanting to do anything except for drugs.

People who do drugs are not evil. They’re having fun, experiencing new things, making friends and bonding over shared experiences. You tell a bunch of kids that drugs will ruin their lives, and then somebody at a party passes them a joint or offers them a bump of coke, they’re going to realize you were full of shit.

Like, let’s say that there was some weird flesh-eating bacteria that was specifically found only on water slides, but only on a few water slides. Now it’s your job to convince all the children of the world to avoid water slides, because of the small possibility of bacteria. It’s a serious problem, and it would be correct to tell everyone to avoid all waterslides everywhere, even if only a small percentage of waterslide riders died horrible deaths. So you tell people waterslides might kill you or maim you in excruciating ways. But if you act like waterslides aren’t fun, you lose all credibility. Most people who ride the waterslides don’t die, and they go on to tell everyone how much fun they had on waterslides, and that doesn’t make them bad people.

Look, I don’t like Biden, either, but unless you have a name of a candidate we’re all supposed to rally behind an elect via acclamation at the convention, what’s the point in attacking the presumptive nominee?

What a horrible day to be literate.

Can’t issue a gag order. It’s an official act.

Remember when they stripped Lance of his win, and they were going to award it to the next place finisher who didn’t also cheat, but they didn’t have one?

Dup duh duh, dup duh duh, Let the boys be boys!

The illegitimate Supreme Court brought it back. Don’t forget that Republicans stalled for a year to get one of their Justices, and we have two known perjurers, two that have openly accepted bribes, and an insurrectionist flying fascist flags outside his home.

TIL thanks! Which VPN would you suggest?

Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.

And he didn’t hurt anyone else. A lot of people who fuck around with fireworks hurt innocent bystanders.

I feel bad for his widow.

It’s a vpn. There are many, that’s just one example.

I don’t trust anyone, but I haven’t heard bat things about PIA. That was just the first one I looked up. Did something happen that we shouldn’t trust them? I know Nord is now suspect.

Private Internet Access, it’s a VPN that handles streaming and torrenting well.

Of course we should. Teaching should be a highly compensated profession, and taxes should pay for every penny. Education pays dividends for society as a whole.

But teachers are not entitled to the production of their students. They should not expect students to be indebted or repay the education.

Biden isn’t a good choice, but I would not say he is evil.

Trump is evil. He is a bigot, a rapist, a liar, a convicted felon, a thief, an insurrectionist, a fascist, a despot, a human trafficker, and a moron.

40 months of PIA is $80. So for $2 a month, you can have it all with no ads and no region locking.

A lot of abuses and anti-competitive practices make sense. It makes sense to buy your competitors, and pay off regulators. “Smart business” is almost always an attempt to leverage factors outside of normal competition. You don’t win at capitalism by playing fair.

The reality is that being “cancelled” isn’t a huge deal when you’re already one of the economic elite. He didn’t even do a mea culpa, he just came back to the party and shrugged.

In other words, she’s too inept to compete on delivering a quality product.

That’s why all non-compete contracts exist, and the same reason they should all be illegal.

If you spend time training someone, and they can turn around and go off on their own, what do you bring to the table? Why should they work for you, giving you the fruits of their labor in exchange for less pay? If you’re worried about competition, don’t train your competition. Do it better than they do. You aren’t entitled to the value of a person’s life just because you contributed to their expertise.