Non-IT News Thread
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jmoore Alcohol is a drug that causes more disease and death than all others put together?
How hard is it not to do drugs? Pretty damn hard considering the vast majority of humans use drugs.But it takes a hell of a lot of stupidity to "overdose" on alcohol... that was his point.
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@obsolesce No that wasnt his point. Yet it happens more than all others put together. Also this woman didnt od on alcohol. I was just bringing up the fact he doesnt 'do drugs' but drinks alcohol, so he does, in fact do drugs.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Dang thats sad. You know you don't overdose if you just don't take drugs. I mean how hard is it to not take drugs?
If you are rich and famous, you have much more time and money... it would be extremely difficult to not take drugs. Plus rich and famous people get really high quality drugs, which makes it much easier to overdose.
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@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Dang thats sad. You know you don't overdose if you just don't take drugs. I mean how hard is it to not take drugs?
If you are rich and famous, you have much more time and money... it would be extremely difficult to not take drugs. Plus rich and famous people get really high quality drugs, which makes it much easier to overdose.
Then that's the risk they are accepting by doing those kinds of drugs... it's still a choice. My opinion on that is if you stick your hand in the fire and get burnt, you deserve it.
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@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Dang thats sad. You know you don't overdose if you just don't take drugs. I mean how hard is it to not take drugs?
If you are rich and famous, you have much more time and money... it would be extremely difficult to not take drugs. Plus rich and famous people get really high quality drugs, which makes it much easier to overdose.
Then that's the risk they are accepting by doing those kinds of drugs... it's still a choice. My opinion on that is if you stick your hand in the fire and get burnt, you deserve it.
Especially if somebody else has spent any amount of time telling you, "The fire is hot!"
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It's still not even that easy to say "the fire is hot, don't touch", opioids are hugely over prescribed. 4 out of 5 new heroin users get hooked on legal, prescribed opioids first. A regular person with some injury/ailment, coupled with a shitty doctor, could easily end up hooked on the stuff...
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@momurda Well I should have been more precise. Drugs that cause you to overdose and die from it
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@rojoloco I guess I can understand that point of view
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@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
It's still not even that easy to say "the fire is hot, don't touch", opioids are hugely over prescribed. 4 out of 5 new heroin users get hooked on legal, prescribed opioids first. A regular person with some injury/ailment, coupled with a shitty doctor, could easily end up hooked on the stuff...
Yeah BUT... a drug dealer is a drug dealer. Making it legalized doesn't make it any less common sense not to do it. At this point, little is more common knowledge and common news than that the US medical establishment is pushing the worst possible drugs and is the most dangerous of all drug "cartels." Anyone who isn't aware not to take doctor prescribed opiodes at this point is intentionally avoiding both common sense and common knowledge. Four years ago, that would have been a different story, a little. Now, we have an entire generation of students who've gone through high school in a world where government sponsored opiode addition is a top news topic.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Dang thats sad. You know you don't overdose if you just don't take drugs. I mean how hard is it to not take drugs?
For someone who has never taken them... pretty easy. For someone who got involved at some point in their life for one reason or another... extremely difficult apparently.
I don't claim to understand addiction, but I've seen first hand how much of a struggle it is for numerous people. My former boss got let go because of his struggle with alcohol. Some of my closest friends growing up are still struggling with it constantly. They started drinking in HS which then became weed which turned into pills, and the next thing you know they're hooked on oxycontin or something similar. I don't even recognize these people anymore and try to stay far away from them.
I've always been scared to even drink alcohol. I've always said that 0 out of 10 alcoholics think they'll be an alcoholic when they take their first drink. My wife can have her beer or wine and control herself just fine. I think you just never know if it'll be something that cripples you or not until it's too late, therefore I just choose to stay away from all of it altogether.
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@zachary715 That makes sense and I understand that. I guess the people that overdose on hard drugs are people that have struggled with them in the past. I like alcohol. I occasionally let myself have a beer or small portion of whiskey or sake. Sure I would like to have more than I do but i don't let myself either. I never tried anything else because I thought it was stupid to do so
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@scottalanmiller This article is missing an important part of why Seattle has so many parking spaces compared to residents. It is because the vast majority of people who work in the city dont live in the city. There arent that many places to actually live in the city limits of Seattle. Downtown is mostly business not residential. From his parking heatmap, the 'hottest' part is downtown, where there are almost no residential apartment buildings. There have been some built that last 5 years or so, but still, the reason traffic sucks is because people live in suburbs and drive here to work. They dont live in the city.
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@momurda That's a huge part of the problem. Parking spaces, though, push people out of the city. Who wants to live by parking lots? It's both cause AND effect, I think. People moved out and used cars, more parking needed. More parking pushed more people out of the city.
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@scottalanmiller Is this a fail on City Managers & Planners because they did not look forward enough to consider this and maybe implement mass transit of some type to suburbs? Or just couldn't have been foreseen?
I honestly did not read the article. Sorry if it was already mentioned. Just going off of yalls comments.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Is this a fail on City Managers & Planners because they did not look forward enough to consider this and maybe implement mass transit of some type to suburbs? Or just couldn't have been foreseen?
I honestly did not read the article. Sorry if it was already mentioned. Just going off of yalls comments.
Different priorities. City planners still answer to voters. But Europe mostly avoided this problem. But they had trains later, which actually helped them as they learned from the US doing it first.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda That's a huge part of the problem. Parking spaces, though, push people out of the city. Who wants to live by parking lots? It's both cause AND effect, I think. People moved out and used cars, more parking needed. More parking pushed more people out of the city.
Everyone wants that 8,000 sqft cookie-cutter house in the suburb for their family of 3 or 4 so they can drive their Suburban to work in the city.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller This article is missing an important part of why Seattle has so many parking spaces compared to residents. It is because the vast majority of people who work in the city dont live in the city. There arent that many places to actually live in the city limits of Seattle. Downtown is mostly business not residential. From his parking heatmap, the 'hottest' part is downtown, where there are almost no residential apartment buildings. There have been some built that last 5 years or so, but still, the reason traffic sucks is because people live in suburbs and drive here to work. They dont live in the city.
It doesn't help that you really don't have that much usable land near downtown. You have the sound on one side, and a mountain range on the other. Moving onto the peninsula by the ocean means you get lots of.... interesting weather, that nobody in their right mind wants to deal with. So everything is crammed into one narrow stretch of land. Which holds true for much of the West coast of course.
