MisterEspinacas

I think it's because there's some unwritten rule about not inducing children to commit suicide. I don't think a little kid could handle such a curriculum without getting severely depressed and offing themselves. Adult survival of this is much higher, mostly thanks to access to sex, drugs, and rock and roll, something children are not allowed to have access to, given local laws and their status as legal minors. It is correct to lie to them and make them think that if they are good students now they will be successful as adults because they are too young to be exposed to night clubs where 9 to fivers tend to find refuge and a drug dealer at the end of a tough shift to survive and avoid suicide.

What a headline! Whatever she's smoking, I want to smoke this stuff. I mean, I get it. She's his attorney and she is not fired. But that's something even his attorney can't say in public without smoking something really good.

The beauty of the 21st century, as I shall tell you because I am one of those people that will eat all the Oreo cookies until I throw up, is that there are so many wonderful budget imitations of the imitation now. No matter where I go in the world, if I can't find an Oreo, I can find an imitation of the Oreo. The Hydrox cookies are also quite good. But they are more expensive than the Top Crest or whatever other generic thing you can find. Anyway, I see Hydrox as the victim here. It might look different from its imitator, but you know what? It tastes the same and is cheaper. It's the Pepsi of the cookie world.

To my one downvoter, I really did go to college with this guy and my testimony is true. It was the 1990s. It was Ithaca College. Later in life, the Ancient Aliens documentaries came out. My partner decided to watch them religiously. When I watched an episode with my partner and I saw my former college classmate, I said, "Holy shit! I went to college with this guy!" I have respect for him because, wow, he was a student at the School of Communications and he was doing any of his electives possible in our department in the School of Humanities, Anthropology. He didn't mind the impatience with him the Anthro profs expressed to him, which was blatant. I even ate lunch a lot with him in the Terraces Dining Hall and asked him lots of questions and got to know him. He was very certain about what he was going to do with his life. I often tried to talk him out of it because it sounded insane to me. And look at him now. Famous and in the media. So famous and in the media we've got old memes with his pic. He was from a family with money and I guess he came to the USA to study at Ithaca College's School of Communications because he thought it was a good fit for him. You know, he was on target and knew what he wanted to do with himself from a very young age. His idea, to me, are ridiculous. But he set out to do what he wanted to do in the media and he did it, with enormous success. Doesn't mean I think he's credible. He truly does believe in his theories and ideas, though. He always has, since he and I were 18 years old having lunch in the Terrace Dining Hall. That deserves major respect.

I wasn't referring to the posting of the sign as a practice, I was referring to the photo, meaning that I assume that the photo was taken in the USA. Yes, I am originally from the USA. Maine, to be exact. I haven't been back home in about ten years. Anyway, I was referring to the place where the photo was taken, not the local customs.

Yeah, I get that. But even antiretrovirals are not available to a lot of people. In Europe they must be approved and some of them are not. The same is true in the USA. Then, in the USA, you have to be able to afford them because your insurance will help you pay for them or you have lots of money. In Europe, where socialdemocracy is still in place, the public health system may or may not decide it's a thing you can have access to. If it decides you can't have access to it, you have to pay. So, um, you know, your point is a good one, but it's a moot point. I also did not directly refer to prophylactic drugs in my comment. You just assumed I was talking about them. Read my comment again and think about what I've said here about access to medicines that prevent the spread of the disease. You unwittingly made a ton of assumptions about my comment.

Ah! I get it, then. I guess I was reading this poster as a kind of warning to recreational drug users because I didn't put my pharmacology hat on. Thanks for the clarification. The more I interact with people on this thread, the more I see how it makes sense to post warnings like this.

It's good news for this place in the world and I hope other places in the world pay attention and make these medical marvels available to everyone. In the EU country I live in, you can have access to these kinds of drugs if you say you are a prostitute and you have to somehow prove you are a sex worker to get access to them. It looks like in Innery Sydney, Australia, they actually tried a different approach which made medicine available to people who wanted to protect themselves from accidental exposure. It's really a no-brainer, medical professionals and politicians: Stop making people feel guilty about having some fun a screwing around with people of the same sex and start helping them protect themselves when they're just a little too tipsy to think and have an "accident."