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El Mero Mero posted:When I visited Copenhagen there were bathroom attendants at a bunch of the public restrooms. I won't say the public bathrooms were particularly good, but, like an airport bathroom, they did the job and an enormous number of people used them. can't believe american entrepreneurship hasn't embraced the best invention of pre-2010s moscow: a line of 3-4 attached porta-potties, plopped down in some random public right of way they have no permission to occupy, one of the stalls converted to a tiny kiosk where a very displeased old woman sits and collects 10RUB before letting you piss on the other hand, i suppose this would never take off in SF, given the abundance of gaps between cars and assorted surfaces that you can use to relieve yourself for free
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Craptacular! posted:It's just a personal opinion of mine that the reason civic public spaces (transit interiors, public restrooms, etc) are so much worse in America than many other countries is the drugs at it's core, and also because we use jails as part-time detox and mental health clinics. At the end of the day, someone representing the public has to uphold public standards, and just due to social conditioning I tend to call such people 'cops' even though for others that word paints the image of a power-tripping school bully chokeholding minorities at traffic stops. But we know that not all codes and legislation is upheld with guns and nightsticks. you sure it doesn't have anything to do with like a quarter of the housing in California being empty because nobody can afford the rent. and to a lot of people i know, sadly, when the consequences for anything and everything that's illegal is basically the end of ever having a good job and/or death, well. nothing really has consequences anymore beyond social consequences with people you know. nothing matters. Larry Parrish fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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I spent a week in Copenhagen in 2014 so maybe my information is outdated but it was... normal, by American standards in Europe? I'd spent time in Naples, Rome, and Austria in the same year as it was my post-graduation Europe tour, and Copenhagen felt by far the most "normal" to an American tourist. And by "normal" I mean my first day there I ate kangaroo served by an Australian expat couple and experienced a general level of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism I'd not seen at all in mainland Europe. A friend of mine also had me over in Malmö for a few days and over there I had the best Persian food I've ever had my life. I don't mean to disparage Denmark or Sweden at all because they were both fantastic visits, but the places I visited in Italy and Austria were unique in a way I'd just never have experienced in the USA. The Roman Jewish quarter in particular had some of the best food I've ever had in my life.
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:p sure Breed has an agenda, it's political power for Breed via establishing a patronage network My understanding of drugs in America, and this is a real "some fishy voice on YouTube talks history" level understanding, but it really starts with Chinese immigrants coming here bringing their opium markets with them (and the social problems that come from it start with the wealthy white landowners who didn't seem to see any problem finding people stoned out of their skull.) It sort of made sense to me because Japan was a hostile war power doing atrocities on China in those days, and they still have really antiquated Reefer Madness views in the mainstream over there. quote:you can read about the recent safe supply initiative in Vancouver quote:our standout problems are that we treat poverty and drug use as a moral failing (okay, we're not really alone on the latter), and see drug use as an excellent reason to deny someone the limited social services that may be available to them. people who use drugs are probably going to end up using on the street when they have no other options. we're also a bit unusual in that public transit is largely considered something that only someone too poor to afford a car will use, so like anything that people with political power avoid like the plague, it's neglected by the state--nobody that matters is going to complain, they're going to get in a car instead I was more trying to make the point that we administrate our buses, parks, and especially schools with the same mentality we use to administrate jails and prisons, which is what leads to them being pissed on and defaced when they should be treated as a common good. quote:we have a far greater problem with poverty and wealth disparities that make it easy for the authorities to ignore it and retain power. there's a reason you're not in here posting about how some coke-snorting Wall Street banker type is the core of societal rot and destruction of the commons (sure, their antics in the 2008 crash and those before didn't really help, but again, that's not what your posts are about). those users on the street are a much more convenient other. I will confess, I'm personally something of an anti-stoner, I'm completely closed minded to getting high, have no interesting in challenging the perceptions and propaganda first-hand (and have difficulty finding relationships because so many gay men under 50 seem to be into weed). But I am capable of empathy for others and see addiction as an illness that deserves care, so it's generally the addicted that I'm talking about. I guess as a judgmental person it sucks that rich people do coke, but only some celebrities are the stories we hear of clear addiction issues and they can get treatment. It's getting similar healing and reform to the masses that's the problem. So I'm a complete and total square, but I get the hypocrisy of people like the Republicans (or the kind of comfortably privileged liberals who vote for people like Feinstein) praising Noted Addict Johnny Depp on one day and pulling money from treatment centers the next. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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id just like to toss out the quick aside that if you truly consider america to be a third world country then the gun violence isn't really that unique anymore lol. although it mostly being related to insane people going postal and not crime or militias fighting each other certainly is
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Craptacular! posted:My understanding of drugs in America, and this is a real "some fishy voice on YouTube talks history" level understanding, but it really starts with Chinese immigrants coming here bringing their opium markets with them (and the social problems that come from it start with the wealthy white landowners who didn't seem to see any problem finding people stoned out of their skull.) It sort of made sense to me because Japan was a hostile war power doing atrocities on China in those days, and they still have really antiquated Reefer Madness views in the mainstream over there. you do recognize that this sort of narrative is a major part of why our approach to drug use is problematic, right? portraying drug use as the domain of the alien yellow peril opium fiend coming to our shores to introduce the scourge of DURGS to good, pure, hardworking (white) americans and seducing (white) women with their 1800s chemsex, or the reefer-maddened negro who cannot control their base impulses and cannot help but lead our white women astray, or the lazy mexican farmhands who want nought but to smoke marijuana on the upstanding landowner's dime, etc. is a means to cast it as something only the "other" population, something dangerous that those groups will surreptitiously and slowly corrupt the noble and pure drug-free society we have. there is no mythical drug-free population: drug use has been a feature in almost all human populations since time immemorial. individual societal attitudes to it fluctuate over time, but there isn't really a drug-free state of nature that we forever depart from after taking a bite of the apple of pharmacological knowledge the initial white immigrants to america promptly discovered tobacco and proceeded to cultivate it en masse, and drank so drat much that it spurred a movement to ban alcohol in the constitution (an endeavor which notably failed spectacularly despite the government's best efforts to enforce it). we don't get to do that and call those not-drugs because they were grandfathered into widespread social use before we started getting afraid of the ostensibly different and uniquely dangerous foreigner drugs (especially given that the negative social and medical affects of alcohol are pretty high up there as far as drugs go).
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the entire history of the regulation of recreational drugs in the united states (and largely, the rest of the world) is a history of institutionalized racism. it's a means of creating and enforcing a visibly-distinct underclass with enough of a veneer that people who like to think they are Not Racist can maintain that delusion e: its one of the many, many ways that fascists are very good at manipulating liberals into siding with them against the marginalized
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it gets really old having to give libs a history lesson on how drug enforcement both existed before the war on drugs and in fact was always racist and an excuse to beat up poor people. it's not a new invention oe anything.
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Craptacular! posted:My understanding of drugs in America, and this is a real "some fishy voice on YouTube talks history" level understanding, but it really starts with Chinese immigrants coming here bringing their opium markets with them (and the social problems that come from it start with the wealthy white landowners who didn't seem to see any problem finding people stoned out of their skull.) It sort of made sense to me because Japan was a hostile war power doing atrocities on China in those days, and they still have really antiquated Reefer Madness views in the mainstream over there. what the gently caress? please explain to me how the "chinese opium market", whatever that means, is materially different from the long history of alcohol abuse going back to the early colonial period and pre-dating the founding of the nation, which was also subject to an unsuccessful and violent attempt at prohibition. (something to note is that part of the popular movement for prohibition had a major component blaming irish and german immigrants for bringing their whiskey and beer markets with them) also what do japanese atrocities in the early 20th century have to do with mid-19th century chinese immigrants? like, chinese immigrantion in california predate the meji revolution by decades. i know you put some crappy fig leaf on your post, but why even open your mouth in the first place GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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it's funny because the dreaded opium markets and immigration he's talking about was a direct result of a coalition of western nations purposefully destabilizing the Qing Dynasty for profit. you ever hear of the drat opium wars? lol
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:can't believe american entrepreneurship hasn't embraced the best invention of pre-2010s moscow: a line of 3-4 attached porta-potties, plopped down in some random public right of way they have no permission to occupy, one of the stalls converted to a tiny kiosk where a very displeased old woman sits and collects 10RUB before letting you piss I mean we have the Pit Stop where they either have an attendant for the public toilets like by 16th/mission or a toilet trailer with an attendant they tow out to various places. but as someone with IBS we definitely do not have the shitter economy of developed countries here
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Craptacular, you want more janitors, not more cops. That's what would improve public spaces, and heck they might even do their jobs too. Cops don't move ODed people. Paramedics do. Cops just show up at the hospital later to handcuff them to the bed and threaten them.
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it's always mildly amusing running into someone who trusts police because you have to ask yourself how big of a loving rock they live under
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And then you flip that rock and it turns out it goes back to Chinese opium-racism? WTF. Edit: To add some content to this post, back during Prohibition wine was illegal, but since it's part of the ceremony of Communion in Christianity, they got an exception made for "religious practice". Then some native tribe pointed to this and asked if they could get an exception to some drug that they also used in traditional religious ceremonies and the courts went "nope, that's different because, uh..." and basically all but said it was because they're not white. Clarste fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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even marijuana is the same. it was never considered all that much a societal ill until the western expansion and the Gold Rush, and suddenly society had to confront a bunch of
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Jacobin video critiquing California's politics in particular: https://youtu.be/N9zz3s15Z3Y Right away it gives some stats: - California has the highest poverty rate of any state in the US - California as a state has a higher Gini coefficient/inequality than Mexico (and higher than the country overall). America Inc. fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1528504391015223305?t=YrBDFUNx7vWF1CRwCTfLjg&s=09 Cuellar is also anti-abortion and pro-gun rights, complete blue dog
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Furthermore, if we just look at history, the enormous surge in laudanum, and later morphine, addiction in the US was the direct aftermath of the Civil War. Chinese immigration had nothing to do with it.
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What a loving day dude. Gallon and a half of water. So loving hot
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# ? Jun 11, 2022 02:50 |
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I hosed off of work early to cool off seeing a movie. The theater's A/C has broken. Now it's 87° in my apartment lol
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# ? Jun 11, 2022 04:08 |
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I'm ready and waiting for the rolling brownouts.
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# ? Jun 11, 2022 04:29 |
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This was posted ages ago but if you can actually check the current grid demand and capacity in more or less real time here: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
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Larry Parrish posted:I'm ready and waiting for the rolling brownouts. - Cali friends remember: n95s should be purchased now, prepare yourself with an air filtration system and create a single room that you can go into that is constantly filtered air if smoke inhalation is a problem for you or family. Esp children with breathing issues etc. Also, here's some decent generator that will give you a fridge at minimum or two 1000W gravitas if your into DROGAS https://www.amazon.com/Champion-Pow...=8-3&th=1&psc=1 There's a gas only version aswell for less. Replace your car air filter after big fires as they get pretty bad in terms of wear esp In purple areas. Fires suck. Make them suck less if you have the ability.
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Costco had a nice generator on sale a couple of months ago, I shouldn't have balked.
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FogHelmut posted:Costco had a nice generator on sale a couple of months ago, I shouldn't have balked. Keep looking they have them often. If you're savvy you can very easily add a transfer switch to your home and have lights and plugs working in your house. (I recommend getting an electrician for this though but some people don't have a problem twisting wire nuts together and landing breakers as a home owner) https://a.co/d/dvZYxCX (Amazon)
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:- the hillbilly has evolved to naturally be partially anerobic so I'll be fine
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:- we live in a post-covid world, who doesn't already have a hoard of n95s?
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My 'rona N95's are smoke masks, go I get to generate additional weird looks by having electrical tape covering the breathe-out valves. Probably should cycle through these things a lot faster than I have been.
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CPColin posted:My 'rona N95's are smoke masks, go I get to generate additional weird looks by having electrical tape covering the breathe-out valves. Probably should cycle through these things a lot faster than I have been. What's the point of taping the valves when you're the only one wearing a mask? The CDC does not even recommend doing that, because vented n95s are still better source control than common non-n95 masks. Just take advantage of the fact that you mask can be way more comfortable, and use the vent.
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I don't actually notice a difference, so either the tape does nothing or the seal is bad anyway. Edit: They aren't respirators, to clarify. CPColin fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jun 11, 2022 |
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Cali friends remember: n95s should be purchased now https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01663XTM0/ Been using it for the Rona, would work great for smoke. Early on during rona I had been using this wonderful full face respirator from my tractor driving days but as time went on I switched over to using the GVS Elipse. So far it's worked pretty well as far as being light weight and low profile for everyday interaction and it's a step up from disposables while not being that much larger.
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I was recommended Aura 3M masks in the Bay Area thread which can be found in packs of 12 and 24 in pretty much any hardware store right now. Good for smoke and the 'rona. If you wanna buy in mega bulk, you can get a case of 240 here: https://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/3m-9210-plus-aura-n95-particulate-respirator-mask.html
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Sydin posted:I was recommended Aura 3M masks in the Bay Area thread which can be found in packs of 12 and 24 in pretty much any hardware store right now. Good for smoke and the 'rona. If you wanna buy in mega bulk, you can get a case of 240 here: https://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/3m-9210-plus-aura-n95-particulate-respirator-mask.html I've tried these, but when I talk they ride up and the bottom edge winds up in my mouth. Which isn't great for sealing.
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Ardeem posted:I've tried these, but when I talk they ride up and the bottom edge winds up in my mouth. Which isn't great for sealing. The way and the light (or in small)
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Sydin posted:I was recommended Aura 3M masks in the Bay Area thread which can be found in packs of 12 and 24 in pretty much any hardware store right now. Good for smoke and the 'rona. If you wanna buy in mega bulk, you can get a case of 240 here: https://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/3m-9210-plus-aura-n95-particulate-respirator-mask.html Where's this bay area thread?
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whalestory posted:Where's this bay area thread? In the LAN subforum: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032519
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Ardeem posted:I've tried these, but when I talk they ride up and the bottom edge winds up in my mouth. Which isn't great for sealing. There's not really a good alternative to trying different ones until something happens to fits you well
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# ? Jun 11, 2022 22:59 |
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Auras are bad if you have a fat face.
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Knock LA's voter guide was posted earlier for the primary elections, and they posted a recap at the link.
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And so many of the Knock LA candidates are winning their elections. Almost all will go to a run-off but Eunisses Hernandez might win hers outright. Just amazing and so heartwarming. I met Eunisses at a Justice LA meeting a few years back. Amazing organizer. What’s exciting is I can say the same for many of the community organizers I know. These successes are going to open the floodgates for even more to run. Really exciting times for LA progressives. Also it’s a lesser known race but it Faisal Gil ends up winning that would be huge: The City Attorney has been one of the biggest obstacles in getting more progressive policies in the city.
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