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I disagree. I can't think of a single sport where the athletes aren't throw-away. That's what sports do. They suck the livelyhood out of their competitors for the pleasure of spectators.

American Football leaves people broken physically and mentally. Boxing causes a slow-building brain damage that leaves legends like Ali a shaking, stuttering mess until their dying day. You're only wanted in Basketball until your knee gives out.

Injuries are career-ending for any athlete, in any sport. I personally find Hockey more "disgustingly violent" than the UFC.

I don't find the UFC brutal at all. Even when the fights get bloody.

I don't wince when someone is getting punched the UFC. But watching an innocent man be killed in cold blood? That's brutality.

The fights usually end with a hug or a handshake, there is a mutual respect for the sport, and for each other, that lessens the impact of the "violence" IMO.

Integrated offerings from Intel have always been substandard.

Claiming someone can make due with 30fps in a competitve fps shows a glaring level of ignorance from the author.

Can you play with 30fps? Yes. You can also play with a blindfold on and a hand tied behind your back. Given the choice, why play at a distinct, undeniable disadvantage?

14% is a staggering, massive number. full stop.

Not much of an argument IMO

I respectfully disagree. People who sell drugs are by and large non-violent offenders.

American prisons would have plenty more room to keep pedophiles in prison and off probation if the cells weren't packed wall to wall with non-violent drug offenders.

that's only because of misguided regulation and formula changes, you can't get a crushable 80mg oxycodone anymore through legit channels.

shockingly, changing the formula did nothing to quell the demand for abusable oxycontin formulations, leaving the market wide open to anyone willing to press their own chinese powder. chinese powder doesn't strictly mean oxycodone powder, either.

the counterfeits are often filled with cheaper, more easily acquired, more potent fentanyl analogues. fentanyl and it's analogues are active in microgram dosages. that's why heroin addicts are dropping like flies coast to coast, even heroin is being cut with the cheaper, exponentially more potent fentanyl.

That's because once you've gotten deep enough into the hole of opiate dependence, your perspective on heroin shifts drastically.

Suddenly that little green pill that barely gets you off anymore looks a lot less appealing for $1/mg. Especially once you discover how cheap and widely available heroin truly is. A $10 purchase of heroin gets you exponentially more bang for your buck.

It's not a long journey, especially once you've walked half way. You can't regulate or price someone out of an addiction.

Oxycontin was simply a massive dose of oxycodone, enough to kill an opiate-naive individual, wrapped in what might has well have been a candy shell.

Technically a time-release mechanism, it was easily defeated by anyone with a razor blade or a wet paper towel.

They aren't different drugs, and I'm sure Purdue has a finger in the oxycodone pie other than simply brand-name Oxycontin.

A little bit of old-fashioned police work would easily reveal what prescriptions a person was prescribed, a search of their personal property would reveal paraphenilia related to their drug use. Empty oxycontin bottles would indicated an oxycontin overdose. An empty syringe would indicate heroin abuse. Spent patches would indicate fentanyl abuse. etc

It was a fentanyl analogue, and it killed several people, including hostages IIRC.

He explained that stats are susceptible to bias.

You can see whatever pattern or proof you want if you look at the numbers long enough, to serve any narrative, to rationalize any opinon.

what would a debt jubilee consist of? apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.

taxes don't discourage smokers, though.

smokers are addicts, you can't price an addict out of an addiction.

it's effectively taxing the impoverished, anyway.

the people who are scrounging to buy smokes will just take that money from elsewhere in the budget. it's food out of children's mouths, in the most literal way possible. the people who aren't scrounging will just pay the increased price without batting an eye.

the price of cigarettes had no impact on my decision to quit. I would have continued to pay whatever the cost might have been, 5 dollars a pack or 50 dollars a pack.

switching to a personal vaporizer got me to quit smoking. I spend about 25% of what I spent on cigarettes for a month's supply of juice and replacement coils for the tank I use. I'm still addicted to nicotine, though.

Last time I saw a dentist I needed 10k worth of work. My current plan involves a trip to Mexico or maybe just dying from blood poisoning.

Racism is passed from parent to child. Taught. It isn't a phenomena, nor can a school cirriculum undo what is taught at home.

>Then disconnect it from the internet

this is not a solution to a problem. it's incredibly reductive and close-minded.

The only reason for me to upgrade is DirectX 12 exclusivity, a practice I personally abhor, and always have. Luckily, there are no games on the PC that use DirectX12 beyond some hackjob implementations for DX11 games. I think I'll be just fine on Windows 7.

I may upgrade when the OS is "finished." For now, though, I think I'll let others trudge through the mud of a forced public beta.

Maybe, just maybe, I might take the plunge when the video games I built my PC for actually require me to.

Until then? No thank you.

I can get a cheap, shitty pizza for 8.50 out the door, with a max wait of 10 minutes at the local Lil Caesers.

Thats a human made, human served pizza. How is this pie equivalent in price to the more premium pizza I can have across the street at Round Table, also served and made by humans?

It doesn't add up.

Yes. The point, I think, is that state independence movements don't seem to know the difference.

Makes my clearnet drug purchases that much easier, thank you brexiters.

I honestly wonder how you can look at that edit and think he was bring serious.

Did you just skim the post for buzzwords and then comment on his edit?

That's absolutely nightmarish. Horrible tragedy.

in my neck of the woods in CA, dispensaries aren't going to buy cartel brick weed. you can't just walk in off the street and sell to a dispensary anyway, I don't think that will change with a move to recreational legalization.

cartels can't compete with local street prices anyway, never mind recreational dispensaries. when you can get an 1/8th ounce of high quality stuff for 25 dollars off-season, and an a full ounce for 100 or less during harvest season, you can barely give the low quality stuff away. it usually gets used for hash or edible baking.

cartels know where they can and can't compete, that low quality brick weed is much better off being shipped to another state where they can sell it for 100 dollars an ounce.

This kind of pointless drivel is why those threads need to be nuked.

Oh, absolutely. I'm not disputing that even in the slightest.

USFL was fine as a spring league and would have probably continued to this day if it was left as a spring league.

There is a pretty good documentary[1] on Netflix about the USFL and how attempting to make it a fall league competing directly with the NFL essentially handed it a death sentence.

I don't want to spoil anything, of course, so you'll have to watch it yourself to see who's bright idea that was.

It's really a shame, IMO. An alternate spring league would have been great.

[1]: http://espn.go.com/30for30/film?page=small-potatoes-who-kill...

if you smoked a joint (or 6 joints, whatever) with no tolerance you'd probably just want to eat a twinky and have a nap instead of driving.

even if you didn't, your motor control wouldn't be nearly as impaired, nor would your mental faculty.

your judgement also wouldn't be as impaired as having a 6 pack of beer with no tolerance, making it even less likely you get behind the wheel while too intoxicated.

I'd call that a "false" equivalence, not a rough one.

it's hyperbole, not science. fair enough, though.

ah, the benefit of the doubt.

I used to give that out like candy, too.

tolerance comes into account, which is why comparing driving on marijuana and driving on alcohol is akin to comparing apples and oranges.

they're entirely, exponentially, infinitely different.

well, that's only mild indoctrination.

intense indoctrination requires that it be done through the internet, via an optional social media service.