My friend’s brother just died of heroin overdose a few weeks ago and I just couldn’t help but feel for him. How many dark alleys did he have to go to to get his high? How many sketchy people were involved? Did he have access to clean needles? He overdosed alone, and likely felt subhuman due to being relegated to the fringes of society just to get his high.

Legalization would not have kept him from getting high, but it certainly would have enabled him access to clean drugs from a safe place, clean needles, and possibly made him viewed as someone who enjoyed getting high and not a piece of shit addict. He had a problem and it being illegal only made it worse for him.

Legalize it all. He was an adult, it’s his body. He can do what he wants with it, it’s nobody’s place to tell anyone what you can or cannot consume. He loved getting high on heroin and I don’t see a problem with that.

It’s still an accident. Just look up the definition. I’d wager to say most accidents are entirely preventable as well, but that’s not what determines whether something was an accident

What? This is completely wrong. HOAs do not maintain your home for you, that’s wild that you think that’s the reason for HOAs. I live in an HOA and they don’t do anything besides make sure everyone’s house is presentable (like no missing fence pickets) and upkeep the HOA center + pool.

This was the experience Android users had initially, then Android started parsing them and adding the reaction to the message. This is also when iMessage started getting that type of message instead of the reaction, as a sort of dig at iMessage

Seriously. I mean, this isn’t brain serjury

Nobody likes being wrong is more apt

The bones of my house are also fundamentally different material to human bones. Not really sure what point I’m trying to make here but there you go

What store has an isle? Like one of those chain surf shops, Alvin’s Island? Or did like Wal Mart the company buy a private Virgin Island?

It’s literally just describing scrum and agile processes as if they were reporting on a cult/religion and its rituals. The bit at the end about it still being waterfall development with rituals actually got me pretty good lol

If you don’t have consent from an animal’s owner, do not interact with the animal. That’s not something good that you should do. Instead, get consent first.

No I don’t think it would throw away the teacher, unless you’re an anime character with a power where eye contact teleports people into the closest trash can

FreeTaste 2.0

Imagine someone infecting a user’s implant with a script that makes everything you eat/drink taste like leftover Jägermeister in a cup from a week ago

LOL you’re wrong. That’s it. And then you continue to refuse to accept that fact. You haven’t provided any actual argument here except for that straw man about whether or not it’s okay for people call things whatever they want. Your anecdote about “I’ve heard people call it that” carries no weight. I mean, just look at their website: https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed.htm

Or wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve

I mean seriously, you’ve gotta be trolling at this point.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what+is+the+fed

Go to a local business, steal the bowl of business cards for a free dinner raffle, and start an immortalized game of connect 4 in your door.

Easy, just use AI to word it for you

I think it’s also true in reverse. Like if the book cover looks really cool but the story is hot garbage.

The “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol

I’m ok with people beginning to call

They aren’t beginning to, and being okay with people calling things whatever they want isn’t the point. You can call a shoe a turd holster if you want, but that doesn’t mean people will know what you mean nor would that make them any less intelligent for not understanding what you mean.

Let’s be real, it is a valid correction that was prefaced as “Pedantic nitpick”, so it’s odd to see you continue calling it one as it had been established at the onset. Seeing how you take this correction and double down on it shows that it was a good one to make, as it seems that you remain confused as to what “the Fed” refers to for one reason or another.

You are mistaken, and that’s not such a bad thing. I enjoy being (correctly) corrected because I would rather know the moment I utter something incorrect, than go around being incorrect to everyone I know.

If I started an AI chat bot that was capable of sounding human, why wouldn’t I make a crappy AI writing detection tool and then shut it down shortly afterward saying “my AI chat bot is too good! You can’t detect it!”