HorseWithNoName

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They already don't have rights, but the laws are different from city to city. In some places they can't be fed in public and people get arrested for giving them food. They can't be on the sidewalk. They're obviously not allowed to fall asleep as long as they're unhoused. Plus parking restrictions created specifically to prevent car camping. Taking trash from dumpsters is considered theft. You can't use a restroom without buying something and cities have taken out all or most public bathrooms, so it becomes a crime just to relieve themselves. Idk, the list is pretty endless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The irony in this comment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

That's literally what addiction does to people. It makes them unrecognizable. That doesn't excuse it, but it's just the way addiction works. So many comments deriding this person's intelligence when it has zero to do with that.

This is why addiction treatment and social services are so shitty in the US. People are so ready to insult others before trying to understand them, yet the solution to things like this require exactly that understanding. It's like homelessness and NIMBYs. If they're so concerned about the homeless encroaching on their property values, then they should take action to reduce its causes. But instead they'd rather blame, shame, and...expect them to disappear into thin air apparently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Users inject with tap water all the time, it is super rare for the tap water to be the reason for infection and other medical complications

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

wonder how the hell this nurse got her license. You can't be THAT stupid

Addiction changes people until they don't even recognize themselves. It has nothing to do with smart vs stupid. They were obviously smart and competent enough to be given a license. It's just that the person who did this doesn't even resemble the person who got their nursing license anymore. If they're able to get sober someday, they'll be horrified at having to live with this the rest of their life.

There's a reason addiction is considered a disease. The problem is when people mistake this explanation as an excuse for the things people do while in their addictions. It doesn't excuse it. I just wish more people would make an effort to understand how addiction actually works because if we made any effort as a society instead of constantly playing the bootstrap/blame game, we could deal with it more effectively and prevent shit like this.

Also I don't know anything about what's in tap water, but when addicts use IV drugs that's pretty much what they're mixed with. Obviously there's a lot of infections in that population, but also people who do it every day without tap water killing them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If it's at all profitable it will end up being companies making up a bunch of new personas eventually. That might be good in that it's more jobs per "influencer," but also maybe lower paying.

Although I'm pretty sure this already happened with fake Instagram models and I don't think it ever really went anywhere. It was just a novel thing for awhile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The new generation of "clean your plate, there's starving children in Africa."

Saying "don't complain because someone else has it worse" is the worst form of bad faith, uneducated argument. You're the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You should consider going back to college. Or just going to college. Or just reading a single book.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (4 children)

the far left liberals who froth at the mouth at the mere mention of his name

You mean the people who fear living in a theocratic dictatorship roughly twelve months from now? Yes, god forbid we're a little upset at the idea.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

It's a reference to the fact that energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed into a different form.

"The way I interpret this comment is" if this is all there is to it, then we should all be the same weight all the time, apparently.

It's amazing what people think they can "interpret" about another whole entire anonymous human being they know literally nothing about, other than "thin."

These comments are totally proving the OC's point though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Thank you. There's apparently been a fine line between promoting body acceptance and shitting on thin body types. Some people seem to think it's not even a natural body type at all and anyone who's thin is just anorexic. It's like we've been completely left out of the equation unless we're being looked down on. Yeah, I'm right there with you on this.

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