I sincerely wish you were wrong, but it’s easy for anyone living in any relatively developed and safe country and scoff at people risking their lives for amounts of money they’d never be able to earn otherwise.

Doubly so if their family gets a payout if they fall. People might wonder why all these russians seem to willfully subject themselves to this shit, and this is probably the answer more often than not. Likewise with the convicts in Wagner. From their point of view it was probably a decent deal, even if it is complete insanity in our reality.

Nobody’s fucking happy about any of this. They killed a person for speaking up about something that affects almost everyone.

Relatively early on (can’t remember the date) Himmler gave a somewhat notorious speech about eventually recruiting far flung “true Aryans” from the US into the SS, much like they eventually did from several other countries.

Luckily history played out a bit differently.

I don’t always agree with your statements but god damn if you didn’t nail this one.

You want me to be civil towards Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson et. al.?

I say fuck that, and fuck them.

The only media you seem to consume is Fox News and whatever that fat fucks podcast is called. They think they’re smart, too, just like you.

Underestimating your own children never ends well.

…and then they’ll never trust you fully again. Ever.

This is the most shortsighted shit I’ve seen in a long time.

You can’t be serious.

That number doesn’t really tell us anything about the amount of post/content generation that was lost. One or two persons could change the general tone of a smaller sub easily, and often did so.

If only those two hypothetical posters left it could very well lead to a downward spiral into whatever bullshit is going on over there now.

Some of the smaller more specialised subs I frequented simply don’t exist anymore due to what happened.

He’s the only reason I ever managed to get into any sort of coding at all.

Are you sure you know any math, in general? You sure seem to like that phrase, yet you don’t do any.

As for the rest, you might as well write in russian, because that’s exactly what it sounds like - brainwashed russian bullshit. It’s especially telling that you think that the European countries don’t care what happens to Ukraine. That’s such utter idiocy that it could only come from Russia.

I’d probably be okay with over-the-counter availability of opiates in regulated doses, but otherwise I agree with you. Meth in particular afaik doesn’t have any medical uses that other amphetamines wouldn’t do better, so I’m with you there.

It’s borderline impossible to cure someone from an addiction they’re not ready to fight themselves. You can lock them in, but then it’s simply prison with another name. Give someone a reason and the means to live a better life and they have a better chance of making it, in my opinion.

You can probably imagine how it was to live through that time with chronic pain. I live in northern Europe and even here doctors went from reasonable to outright hostile at the mere mention of opiates. I had one doctor write angry letters to another doctor because she had written me a 3 month prescription instead of the usual one month at a time.

It’s taken them almost 15 years to trust me with a 6 month prescription at a time.

If I lived somewhere suitable I’d probably (eventually) try as I have some previous knowledge of growing …stuff.

With that said though, due to the local climate and amount of poppies you’d need even for a limited personal supply it’d be very suboptimal at best.

It’s also a lot harder to properly dose and keep your tolerance low with poppies unless you really know what you’re doing.

I’ve been on opiates for the past decade and a half due to two failed surgeries. I’m not saying my life is perfect by any means, but I can guarantee that I’d be a worse parent and a lot less social without said opiates.

I do take tolerance breaks and I’m (usually) somewhat strict with my dosage, but still, it doesn’t necessarily “ruin your life” even if you don’t do all that.

Not arguing that it can’t be addictive, however. It absolutely can, but it is also possible to live with it.

It would also be a lot easier if it wasn’t completely bound to the current doctor you have to go through. Since my second surgery I’ve had ~12 different doctors, all with their own ideas about how things should be treated, and almost none of them have paid any attention to the fact that changing medication or dosages arbitrarily messes up my daily life every goddamn time. If I could just take care of it myself it’d be way less of a hassle.

Punishing people because they try to avoid pain is such a bad idea in the first place, as we’ll do almost anything if it’s bad enough.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

That’s essentially exactly what he is.

I don’t even know why I asked, of course it exists.

Please tell me “moms for fascism” isn’t a real thing.