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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yeah see shit like this is why I raise a brow in suspicion at the claim that Florida doesn't have crazier people it's crazy people are just better publicized.

You cannot deny that there is genuinely a unique sort of crazy that gets afoot specifically in the conditions that florida as an eco system promotes.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

High heat, humidity, and bath salts. It’s a winning combination!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Bath salts are soooo 2010. We're on meth and fentanyl now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It's the Sunshine Laws!
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And the lunatics.
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Mostly the lunatics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I am pretty sure that poor public health education plays a part. I think many of us underestimate the raw value of “common sense” knowledge like “don’t eat random wild animals,” or “salmonella is a thing,” because we have never lived without it.

We don’t often consider it, but someone has to communicate these health facts to people, and in a low-income state like this where the government actively scoffs at the idea of caring for its constituents, that probably just doesn’t happen as much as it should.