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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • a source that records this type of information requires a people to provide legal proof that they’re breaking the law as well as providing evidence that opens them up legal & financial liability; but i’m sure you knew that

    I am not aware of that. Nor of any such organization existing. Could you name what these resources are? I would be interested in learning more.

    the closest thing you can get to it are surveys done by pollsters and that’s private information and is only shared to subscribers who are sometimes also journalists who write articles that sometimes shared it on reddit

    Are you aware of any articles written by these journalists? Can you share a link to the reddit post where you learned this from?

    in order to shut down a counter argument and help support your point.

    I’m not trying to shut anything down. This is not a “I’m right your wrong” discussion. You have your experiences which you have used to form your valid opinion. I have my experiences that I have used to form mine.

    As for my “point”, it was a request that people “please try to keep perspective of what is true risk / reward for pursuing vs walking away”. Is that what you are arguing against?


  • Purdue doesn’t make fentanyl, they make oxycontin.

    Doh! You are absolutely right. That was a mixup on my end. Thanks for catching that.

    You seem to have a similar myopic view of the crisis but instead of evil Mexican immigrants and drug cartels being the sole problem it’s the evil sackler family.

    It was not my intent to suggest that the problem lies solely on the supply side. I was responding to the subject of the article and not attempting to share my views on the broader and more complex topic of drug use, regulation, abuse, addiction, and the ancillary topics associated with them.

    In order to solve this problem we need to look at the demand side

    I agree and by (wrongly) referencing the Sacklers, my intent was to highlight how America is not addressing other factors contributing to the problem of drug addiction. Problems like how the pharmaceutical industry has a financial incentive to create addicts.


  • I would argue that by locking the door, trapping the aggressor in the same room with the cashier and other customers, the intent of the cashier was to avoid theft and not to avoid getting hurt.

    To go back to my original point, I personally do not think that he exercised good judgement in evaluating the risk vs reward of his actions.

    He placed the value of his employers property above the value of his safety, the safety of the other customers and the safety of the rest of his employers property should the aggressor resort to acts of violence or vandalism in an attempt to secure his freedom.




  • If the risk of physical harm or potential death was worth the reward of keeping that job, then that was the right decision for you. To me, no job has ever been worth the risk of violence or harm to myself or any other person.

    I’m not not passing any judgement, just asking people to stop and think about potential consequences before acting.

    Edit: Having worked at gas stations / convinience stores, fast food, and retail, I can assure you that not all gas stations or similar employers will fire their employees for not confronting robbers.





  • focus on fentanyl trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border as the sole root of the overdose crisis is dangerously myopic

    I’m gonna need a citation for this “sole root” claim. I have not heard either candidates claim that Mexico was the sole source of a drug that was originally manufactured and distributed by the American Sackler family through their American Purdue Pharma company.

    Harris calls for increased border agents, but I don’t recall her or any member of her team ever saying anything that would link trafficking of any narcotics to immigrants.

    Maybe they meant “sole focus on addressing”? Cause I’ve also not heard either candidate address the myriad of problems with the US pharmaceutical companies and the individuals who run them, other than the occasional reference to predatory pricing which has been, at best, an attempt to drain the ocean with a teacup.

    Either way, in our current climate of politicized sensationsm reporting, this deminishes the legitimacy of the article for me.

    An increase of CBP officers and funding is not inherently anti-immigration. It’s the usage of those agents and funds that makes that determination.