[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

It really isn't ambiguous at all, imo. He's clearly saying flipping burgers isn't skilled labour. Like that's literally what the sentence means, as he's comparing flipping burgers to "skilled labour", which he wouldn't do if he thought "flipping burgers" is "skilled labour".

He says he'll be "damned" if what he says are unskilled worked at McDonald's would be paid as much as him — who identifies as someone doing "skilled labour"

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

If working at McD's can be stereotyped with the phrase "flipping burgers", I propose that packaging things at an Amazon warehouse be called something like... "boxing dildos".

One actually handles food.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Luckily with the magic of the internet, your imagination need not be an issue.

You can just see them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4mZ6CAz0aI

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

It lives in water with salt. The average ocean pH value is 8.1. It's a brain coated with a thin bit of goo.

My stomach is about 1.5 pH.

You could easily go through a waterslide, but if I change the water to be hydrochloric acid, you're not gonna come out as fresh as you went in. And most skin on the face and body has a pH of between 4.7 and 5.75.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This is a meme from 2008;

Oh fuck I'm old. I was there when it was written.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Flexible enough? Sure.

But will it withstand my stomach acids?

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well not exactly.

With a prescription system, the default is that you don't have a prescription, and get one if there's a reason.

With this system, the default is (people of age and other possible requirements) have a licence, and it gets taken a way if there's a reason.

Like the difference between OR and XOR. Similar, yes, but still different and for different purposes.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If prohibition had worked, I would be all for it.

Exactly. So youre definitely against the prohibition of drugs, aka the drug war?

Your argument against any prescription drugs

I have never argued against prescription drugs.

I've pointed out this case is about recreational use. To improve the safety of medicine, we should separate medical and recreational use, which means we need to reform drug laws, because now recreational use is abusing the prescription drug system, thus undermining it's actual purpose; safe medication.

I don't know of anyone who would in any way connect chemotherapy and recreation. Well, I tell a lie. I do know of one person having done that.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

You know what's the most common daterape drug?

Alcohol.

You know how many stabbings there are every year? And everyone is still allowed kitchen knives.

Ketamine is no different. Most recreational users are responsible. You just don't see or hear from them, because of the social implications of admitting to using illegal drugs.

The reason Perry died is that he did a strong dissociative, while immersed in water. He must've been drunk as a skunk, because any experiences drug user (which I'm sure he was**) should know not to shoot up in a tub of any sort.

A lethal dose of ketamine would be roughly 25-times what a normal recreational dose is, so its doubtful he actually died from the ketamine.

Which leads me back to my point that he was drunk and did something slightly stupid with horrendous consequence.

When people die in housefires after they've passed out on their bed with a lit ciggie, you don't blame the kiosk that sold them the pack of smokes, do you?

Regulation is good. We should have much more of it. Unfortunately, the only way to have that regulation is to admit that people can and do use these substances recreationally. Alcohol is a every dangerously substance, but banning it lead to an absolute clusterfuck and because people will keep drinking, it's better to have legal markets and legal use so it can be controlled to at least some extent, curtailing the worst abuse and encouraging moderate use.

Like during the prohibition of alcohol, it would've been way more likely you literally drink yourself to death. Either because you get methanol or some other adulterant, or because you get every strong ethanol (booze) without knowing how strong it is, and because there's little to no social control because abusers are just as criminal as the moderate users so moderate users can't "tell" on abusers.

Even if alcohol doesn't need a prescription, it's still regulated; you have to be an adult and you can't be too drunk to buy it. And all products you can buy from stores are labeled with the strength they are, and there are actually mild option, like beer.

You know how the temperance movement has the word "temperance" in it? It's because it was supposed to be about tempering the abuse to moderation. But then they starred advocating for full prohibition.

It is a war on drugs issue in this death. Very much so.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

“War on drugs” proponents are the worst among us.

I genuinely couldn't agree more. Rare to see this.

And the insipid part is that they don't realise just how much its fucking cover society. Pretty much all organises crime is funded through drugs. Cartels just wouldn't have income without them. If there we're legal networks, everything would be safer and there would be a metric fuckton less crime. Just think of all the gang crime in the US. What is it based around? Drugs, ofc.

Not to even mention the benefits to society when it become socially acceptable to do serotonergic substances instead of drowning in solvents every weekend.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago
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Just something MAGA-people seem to have a hard time with sometimes. Probably not as much when Americans are speaking to themselves, but as a non-American, sometimes it's challenging to get "those people" to admit that there is indeed anything wrong with the US. As in they won't accept a single criticism, and will loudly proclaim "America is the greatest country in the world", while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, which for me pretty explicitly means America isn't great, if it has to be made to be such again.

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