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I don't really see what it has to do with fight club. suppose car A and car B have autonomous driving that perform identically across a wide range of conditions. the manufacturer A…

kids is a cool film, but not much of a cautionary tale. it's more like a 90s urban euphoria, in that the message is really more to adults: "this is what teenagers are actually doin…

I dunno what discussions you are referring to specifically, but the mainstream belief is that all-out nuclear war would end in nuclear winter. I have seen some posts/articles recen…

I think it's more dark humor / coping with death than a plan. if that were someone's serious plan, they would probably consider killing themselves if the bomb didn't do it for them…

there are a few layers to "AA". first there's the philosophy itself and all the associated dogma and religious aspects. I found this pretty weird and not my cup of tea, but I have …

this is the sort of conversation that must be conducted very delicately, but it is something I have also wondered, having had similar experiences myself. quite a few times I have e…

I've only tried kratom a couple times, many years ago. I can see how someone like me could have a severe problem with it, but I didn't find it to be nearly as addictive (to me) as …

that's exactly my point. maybe it wasn't worded well. "X is an opioid" does not imply "X is an extremely dangerous drug with high potential for addiction". not all opioids have psy…

opioids are a large class of drugs with widely varying effects and potential for abuse. for instance, the active ingredient in Imodium is an opioid, but you don't see a lot of recr…

it kinda depends. simply being high/tripping is not illegal in most places, but you can still be arrested for public intoxication if you make a scene or just appear very fucked up …

it's easy to talk about how much other people should pay. why shouldn't you pay a regular tax on your assets?

a 2020 outback is considerably larger in every dimension than a 2000 outback and rides quite a bit higher. it's no more a station wagon than any other crossover.

> Broadly speaking, I tend to think of "addiction" (rightly or wrongly) as the errosion of free will. I don't claim to speak for all addicts, but this is not how I would describe m…

> I’m pretty glad that the government is involved (in a regulatory/oversight fashion) in the chain of events that results in me having a bottle of $0.02 vitamin D3 pills in my cabi…

respect is orthogonal to agreement. why would it even be necessary to say you respect someone's decision if you agree without reservation?

I think alcohol fits into the puritanical framework pretty well actually. hangovers are built-in retribution for people who consume to excess. I suspect puritan types find it parti…

kinda splitting hairs, but these words do have specific meanings. psychedelics and dissociatives of hallucinogens, a broader category of drugs. you definitely see weird stuff if yo…

> You can decriminalize possession of small quantities but still make the drug's production and distribution illegal. sure, this at least makes it possible for drug users to seek h…

honestly I would believe this, but in my experience people are spending the extra money to get strains that are either more potent or have different subjective effects. I've never …

> Is it wrong to want the others around you to not have access to drugs that can destroy their lives? it's fine for you to want that; it's not okay for you to support the use of st…

alcohol is a bit different than other drugs in that people also appreciate it as a culinary experience. most users of other drugs are not willing to pay 2-10x as much for the same …

> That said, I'm fine with legalizing marijuana. Not so much so with the likes of cocaine, meth or heroine. Soft drugs, sure, hard drugs, keep a leash on it. I realize that this is…

> Society has already accepted: helmet laws, seatbelt laws, mandatory health insurance, age limits for alcohol and tobacco consumption, food and drug regulations, etc. not everythi…

> society ends up bearing the burden of helping people who aren't able to help themselves, be it on an individual level or a governmental level. it doesn't have to do this. if peop…

> I am a huge opposer of legalization, because I've seen what pot has done to people I care about. frankly, this argument has no place in a society that considers itself free. it i…