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Huh, I'd imagine cocaine, Adderall and molly would all be very popular among that crowd.
So, various forms of amphetamines. How.. mundane.
Indeed. Maybe also Ritalin.
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For an intelligence officer, I would say, yeah, you should probably never be high or drunk. Maybe "never been high/drunk" is too strict. If you're mopping the mess hall, you can probably go home and have a six pack if you want. Just not on the job...
What!? That’s absurd. Have you considered the practical implications of that for even a moment? Who takes that job?
A lot of people would probably be willing to give up a minor drug or alcohol habit to have/keep a high-paying intelligence job.
I would certainly accept being "always sober" as a condition of employment if the job was one I really wanted.
I can't find the study, but I seem to remember that alcohol consumption follows the 80/20 rule. A small amount of alcohol consumers consume basically all the alcohol, with non-alcholics consuming very little. If you consume very little, it's probably not a big deal just to go without completely.
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#264The primary purpose of the CIA is to maintain a continuous pipeline of endless wars to fuel the military industrial complex. All other goals are secondary. This has been true since the CIA and LBJ assassinated John F Kennedy in a coup to overthrow the US government.
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Please keep partisan politics off of HN.
pffff when has that ever happened? 50% of the threads are proxies for those discussions anyways
You're confusing "is" and "should". Politics violates the HN guidelines - the fact that lots of people are violating them doesn't mean that it's now acceptable.
Also, if you go back say, 10 years, you'll see that most HN threads have very little politics in them, so yes, that has been the norm before.
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Mormonism is perfect for raising little worker bees. Mormonism deeply values work ethic and breeds a strong trust of authority. You're taught at an early age questioning authority is a sin and doing what your leaders tell you is the right thing to do. The end result is a group of people who are hard working, don't question leadership, and do what they are told.
Did you use the bee reference because of the Beehive as a Mormon symbol or is that a coincidence?
It wasn't intentional on my part but it was hardly a coincidence.