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Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

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Post by excelAnt »

cluckindan wrote: post #357
Spooky23 wrote: post #354

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I think it’s not technology as a thing people are hooked to - it’s taken over social life. My 13 year old and his buddies socialize online, period. In person stuff is mostly organized. That is helped by school policy that got rid of the idea of a neighborhood school. Additionally, the social activities that coalesced around things like alcohol are out of reach of many teens. I live in a city that had a very active co…

”My 13 year old and his buddies socialize online, period.” Nothing new under the sun. Me and my friends were like that 30 something years ago.

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

coldtea wrote: post #523

Recreational drug use implies some vitality. Teenagers increasingly being depressed social media/game addicts sitting alone in some room don't do recreational drugs.

There are definitely at least some youth (16 to 25 year olds) around these parts smoking marijuana, and of those the ones who look more like gaming addicts tend to be chronic[1] pot smokers.

Probably depends at least to some extent on their socio-economic status, but then again I’ve known plenty of professionals who are gamers and pot smokers, meth users, heroin addicts.

Having said that, if a persons drug use is chronic then it’s arguably no longer recreational.

1. chronic in the medical sense, as in chronic disease - usually a condition that lasts for at least three months.

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Post by MarcelOlsz »

mmooss wrote: post #557
MarcelOlsz wrote: post #552

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Yes they do [0]. [0] Poland's entire history.

Look up what people in Poland did to help Jewish Poles when the Nazis came in. Someone whose family was from a small town in Poland made a documentary about it maybe 10 years ago. Generations later people in the town were still covering up that their ancestors put the Jewish neighbors in a barn and set it on fire, and still strongly discouraging asking any questions. What happened to the property of the large Jewish…

Yes I am aware of the "szmalcowniki", those that extorted Jews for profit and it is unfortunate.

Are you aware of underground organizations like Żegota? Or Jan Karski who risked his life to document the Warsaw ghetto and providing munitions to the Jewish fighters in the uprising?

Or the thousands of families that helped aid Jews like the Ulma family killed with the family they were hiding, or nun Matylda Getter who rescued hundreds of Jewish children, or Żabiński who hid hundreds in a zoo. Or the 7000+ poles recognized by Yad Vashem, the highest of any nation. Poland was the only occupied country where aiding Jews was punishable by death.

I urge you to look into the following families and their roles in aiding jews in WWII: Ulma, Kowalski, Baranek, Zabinski, Kossak, Podgorski sisters, Wojciechowski, Baranek, Skoczylas, Jarosz, Przybylski, Wolski, Banasiewicz, Bartosiewicz and many others.

Also, I meant more in the general sense of the populace resisting occupation time and time again seeing as we still have a country, which doesn't happen without sacrificing for one another.

What town are you talking about btw?

>Look what Denmark and Bulgaria did in the same situation.

Yes they had much more time to evacuate their Jewish populations. We had the largest population and we were first to be invaded.

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chmod775 wrote: post #503
herval wrote: post #472

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I think poor people in the US are against legalization mostly due to the decades of “war on drugs” propaganda or other forms of conservatism (eg religion), not because they’ve seen people close to them being destroyed by drug use

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Post by herval »

internet101010 wrote: post #510
herval wrote: post #358

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I think this was true a decade ago, where people used social media to talk to each other and actively kept chats with friends, etc. What I’m seeing now is social media got so hyper optimized for engagement that it became a passive consumption mechanism, and the only “socialization” left is sharing memes. It’s a widespread digital heroin epidemic

The communication aspect has just moved to other places.

such as?

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Post by herval »

chmod775 wrote: post #503
herval wrote: post #472

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I think poor people in the US are against legalization mostly due to the decades of “war on drugs” propaganda or other forms of conservatism (eg religion), not because they’ve seen people close to them being destroyed by drug use

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you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Good bye now.

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mmooss wrote: post #557
MarcelOlsz wrote: post #552

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Yes they do [0]. [0] Poland's entire history.

Look up what people in Poland did to help Jewish Poles when the Nazis came in. Someone whose family was from a small town in Poland made a documentary about it maybe 10 years ago. Generations later people in the town were still covering up that their ancestors put the Jewish neighbors in a barn and set it on fire, and still strongly discouraging asking any questions. What happened to the property of the large Jewish…

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Post by voytec »

mmooss wrote: post #557
MarcelOlsz wrote: post #552

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Yes they do [0]. [0] Poland's entire history.

Look up what people in Poland did to help Jewish Poles when the Nazis came in. Someone whose family was from a small town in Poland made a documentary about it maybe 10 years ago. Generations later people in the town were still covering up that their ancestors put the Jewish neighbors in a barn and set it on fire, and still strongly discouraging asking any questions. What happened to the property of the large Jewish…

Current Israel's gov is the reincarnation of Jewish people's former oppressors.

It's sickening how they're looking into singular events from the past to explain their current attempts at committing ongoing genocide attempts.

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Post by AnarchismIsCool »

MikeRichardson wrote: post #499
AnarchismIsCool wrote: post #451

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Their arguments for "won't go up much" are reasonable but their arguments for "will actually fall enough to allow two generations to finally own homes" are pretty fucking nonsensical. They're comparing to hosting dips in the world wars and while I assure you ww3 will have enough loss of life to make houses quite cheap a third time, you still won't want them because they'll be covered in radioactive contamination. The…

> code I quite like the parts of the code that prevent random electric shocks, and the parts that keep the roof from caving in, etc. (I assume you meant building codes) The forthcoming mass deportation will definitely fuck shit up though. UK is having a similar issue due to Brexit. I guess Eastern Europeans are to the UK, as Mexicans/etc. are to the US?

I didn't want to get into a huge aside so I just left it there but imo the NEC et al are absolutely great. In a lot of ways current building standards actually make things easier and cheaper, they remove ambiguity and offer a set of best practices that are time tested to reduce labor and errors.

The issue is how local municipalities enforce it along with zoning to make building massively more bureaucratic. Reaching the right people is impossible, everyone has their own agenda and interpretation, and city councils across the country add arbitrary stipulations entirely to reduce construction so line goes up.

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Post by codr7 »

kamikazeturtles wrote: post #12
codr7 wrote: post #7

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Some do, and that's fine too.

“If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.” ― Alan Watts

Even Alan Watts wasn't right about everything.

This is fine as far as his personal preferences go; as for everyone else, none of his business.

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