chillwaves

Don't understand why your tone is so aggressive.

Do you think that kind of aggressive tone would be suitable in a work place?

I find it out that you choose to highlight their late model cars as symbols of their failures in life.

Is there really a point in arguing over the Bible?

It helps to understand that the way people act is mostly a projection of their inner self instead a reflection of who you are.

It doesn't make sense to victimize sex workers.

It makes even less sense to keep them in the shadows, afraid to work with cops, given they are such a vulnerable population.

Why are you conflating personal wealth with political campaigns?

No one else wanted to try, but I had a feeling my data is breached (seems to happen every few months?)

Anyhow, my phone number had a hit and they showed my first and last initial and corresponding asterisks; seems legit.

For people saying "why enter your phone number into random site" -- not sure how much value a phone number provides without the accompanying information.

Those people would not have died if Trump did not incite the riots.

Do you dispute the above?

Here is an alternative idea: don't watch any of these "horribly biased" news sources.

How is literally counting the deaths "making the death count worse"?

Let the children start later. Let the parents start later and have a shorter work day. Problem solved.

How is painting a different caricature label for your political opponents really helpful to the overall discourse? Shameful article.

That's an exhibit in narcissism? I was genuinely curious what you would produce. Let me tell you, that ain't it.

Your comment has nothing to do with the comment you are replying to. It's about quality of life and individual health.

You could breed humans like we do with industrial agriculture and factory farms, but you would have a difficult time arguing this is good for the health of the animals (or people) involved.

That misses the point. It's a trade off. The mindset of saying something is good or bad is ridiculously limiting.

Yes, more people would die. Does that mean the ones who didn't would be worse off? Less healthy?

There is a natural balance to the world order. Pushing the system, even building it up, creates strains that might not be obvious until it is catastrophically so.

Can you even make a case that monarchs earned their wealth?

What about the argument that lets people in the higher income bracket have greater control on whether the lower wage workers will be able to afford rent that month based on their own whims?

Medications have an effect because they are drugs and drugs work. I wouldn't read much into it beyond that. Every person will have to decide if the overall results are worth whatever cost/benefit.

The idea that the drugs "cure" or "treat" is just a social construct to justify their usage.

From first hand experience, it doesn't take much to get an ADHD diagnosis, as long as you seem credible and not drug seeking. I could ask my psychiatrist for practically any drug I wanted. It does not seem like a viable long term solution for me.

It would be a lot more productive of a conversation if you could speak in specifics.

I can't respond to something as vague as what you are saying.

And I never made that claim.

And how do you measure the value of gold?

> left wing media that has been calling every non-establishment storyline a conspiracy theory

Example? Also if they are such compelling stories, why do only "non-establishment" media companies run them?

Except humans have been apex predators for a long long time.

Glib reply really does not do justice to the harm of the war on drugs.

I mentioned it elsewhere, but where is the panic over prescription drugs and their harmful side effects?

This is a non story. Marijuana is popular because it's potent. Compare it to other legal drugs, the obvious being alcohol, and again tell me about the relative harm.

What about the rest of the drugs??

Your answer just further illustrates my point.

Have you ever been cycled through different antidepressants? Anti anxiety meds? ADHD meds? Meds for sleep, meds for wakefulness?

These drugs are all very potent and your body cannot distinguish between intended and so-called "side" effects.

> burning neighborhoods to the ground

This kind of hyperbole discredits anything else you would have to say.

I mean, the rest is basically just unmasked racism, so it also discredits itself. So there's that.

Maybe the problem is trying to frame something as complex as drugs as good or bad.

We know there is an effect. That's why people use them. Seems to miss the point to just say "this is harm" and ignore whatever factors would influence the decision to use.

Why is that prescription drugs come with a long list of "side effects" but most of society doesn't see the "harm" in those?

Are you? Just take the comment at face value.

It's not unheard of for someone to have the opinion that the consequences of drug's legal status is more harmful than the drug itself.

I doubt being sentenced to 10 years in prison over selling weed is going to be less harmful than any negative effects observed in this study.

> killing dozens of people

Do you have a citation for that because I have only ever seen research pointing to the opposite.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/16/this-summ...

As far as I know, the body count of police killing unarmed black people far outstrips any body count of BLM protests.

> The Post’s data shows police fatally shot 13 unarmed Black men in 2019.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/23/fac...

> Over the past five years there has been no reduction in the racial disparity in fatal police shooting victims despite increased use of body cameras and closer media scrutiny, according to a new report by researchers at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.

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> Among unarmed victims, Black people were killed at three times the rate (218 total killed), and Hispanics at 1.45 times the rate of white people (146 total killed).

https://news.yale.edu/2020/10/27/racial-disparity-police-sho...

I feel like Christmas the holiday has very little to do with Christianity the religion.

Maybe that's why they are so upset?

But for sure, I happily celebrate the cultural holiday known as Christmas.

If you do not know what you are doing and exercising with bad form, especially weight training, you will either a) get no where or b) injure yourself.

a) if you are not making progress. b) if you are.

This isn't a controversial statement. I'd love to know how many snark responses are coming from people who actually have experience training.

Seems to be this modern disease of the internet era where everyone assumes they know everything just by reading about it on their computers, with no respect given to actual experience doing the work.