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Post by kstrauser »

pc86 wrote: post #32
earthwalker99 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The grade goes on your record, though. The time investment to complete the course with a satisfactory grade would negate the time I have to read the material.

Auditing classes, when allowed, gives you access to everything being enrolled typically does, for the same cost, without any grade associated with it. And your academic "record" only matters if you plan on getting additional advanced degrees in the future. If you have a degree or two already you lose nothing by having a half-dozen Fs from community college classes a decade later.

And that's only if someone found out you were enrolled in that community college in the first place. Unless you're applying at, maybe, the NSA, no HR department is going to call around to all the local schools to see if perchance you took a class there.

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Post by skulk »

slt2021 wrote: post #86
mindslight wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, doubling down on the already arbitrary and capricious criminalization of consciousness-affecting chemicals, especially with the death penalty , is not something the US should learn from. I've never been big into hard drugs and I don't even really drink these days, but I still recognize that such laws are an affront to my own personal freedom and a blight on the goal of law and order.

so 112,000 people died from fentanyl overdose, and it is affecting both poor, mid and high income people. What will be court sentence for someone who stabbed 112,000 people? this is plain genocide, that US progressive liberals somehow allow to happen as "harm reduction" - while in fact it is harm increasing by spreading out everywhere

Your maligned "US progressive liberals" were handed an impossible problem: millions of people addicted to 100% LEGAL prescription opioids (doctors ignored warnings and received kickbacks from the Sacklers[1]) and a lack of funds to cover those expenses due to decreased economic opportunities[2], thereby creating a huge market for fentanyl and other cheap opioids.

Maybe don't be so quick to assume you know where the harm is coming from and how it is spreading.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/opioid-manufacturer-purdue-ph...

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/men-wom...

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Post by slt2021 »

skulk wrote: post #102
slt2021 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so 112,000 people died from fentanyl overdose, and it is affecting both poor, mid and high income people. What will be court sentence for someone who stabbed 112,000 people? this is plain genocide, that US progressive liberals somehow allow to happen as "harm reduction" - while in fact it is harm increasing by spreading out everywhere

Your maligned "US progressive liberals" were handed an impossible problem: millions of people addicted to 100% LEGAL prescription opioids (doctors ignored warnings and received kickbacks from the Sacklers[1]) and a lack of funds to cover those expenses due to decreased economic opportunities[2], thereby creating a huge market for fentanyl and other cheap opioids. Maybe don't be so quick to assume you know where the h…

so progressive just continue to kick the can down the road by providing "safe opiods" only to watch them overdose time and time again.

and get hundreds of millions from state budget for their "nonprofits".

meanwhile Singapore, China, Philippines, Indonesia actually try to solve the problem, that include tackling the traffic and dealers + harsh sentences + they abolish the culture of drug usage

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Post by bikenaga »

You can register for a free personal JSTOR account: https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004760028-How...

I think they started doing this during the pandemic.

The personal account allows you to read up to 100 articles online every 30 days. "Online" means you can't download the article as a PDF, for instance. It's cumbersome to have to read stuff online only, but better than nothing.

University accounts are nicer, since you can download articles and read offline. On the other hand, most schools won't carry all the journals that JSTOR holds.

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Post by selassieI »

Deliberate underfunding of public schools by this whole (school funding determined by zip code and taxes of the area) so that prisons (and Amazon warehouses etc) can be filled up with poor people so that large corporations can profit off of free labor and providing “services” (10$ snack cakes and ramen noodles). There are huge profits and incentives for large corporations and the politicians who own the stock , private prisons etc to keep a constant supply of bodies going through the system thus we will continue to see decline in public education and services. The entire system is for profit.
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