Crack cocaine use is pervasive among the lowest income folks in my area, as are meth and K2. And those people sure as hell aren’t doing mushrooms or acid. My point is that cocaine use definitely has a bimodal distribution

Def agree

Police departments in general have severe problems, but I encounter police often in my work and can honestly say I’ve never encountered an officer for my city’s dept who’d qualify as morbidly obese

This was a civil trial, “guilty” was never an option

Damn I can’t believe I missed that. Sorry lol

Oh, I know exactly where my food lives on the tree of life

These are numbers cited directly from the World Bank. While this source might not be credible, this data exists independently of this source

Also this is a word-for-word reprint of an article published on the Indo-Asian News Service:

Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER (3.0) Factual Reporting: MOSTLY FACTUAL (3.0) Country: India MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MODERATE FREEDOM Media Type: Newspaper Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

I’ll tell myself it’s juicy and delicious

The line of arthropods that broke off to become Insecta did so in the Devonian Period, roughly 400 million years ago. Centipedes evolved in the fucking Silurian. Comparing these two groups is kinda like comparing raccoons, possums, and platypuses to fish.

First it gives the percentages from 2011 and 2023 using prices adjusted for 2021, $3/day (27.1% and 5.3% - a decrease of 27%, aka the headline), and then it compares that to the percentages from 2011 and 2023 using prices adjusted for 2017, $2.15/day (16.2% and 2.3% - a decrease of 86%, aka old data cited for comparison and not the headline). Are you accusing them of adjusting for inflation to make the numbers look worse?! Lmao get off it, not everything’s a conspiracy

It sounds sensationalist to say “we hit the highest CO2 levels ever recorded” when we break the record every year and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future

Bari sax

I’m sick of being told that I’m non-confrontational and I avoid confrontation

Why are you sick of this? In the context of what you’re saying here, are those bad things?

Yes, but you’ll barely feel that. They sting with their stingers, which are so small you typically won’t even feel it at first. If you watch them sting up close, some of them will grab onto you with their mandibles and furiously sting you with their stinger repeatedly. Ants evolved directly from wasps and are basically wingless wasps, which is why they’re such dicks

Same for scorpions, wasps, and ants

He was on Trump’s good side then…

There, I deleted the sentence where I said you’re regurgitating worn out jokes. Care to respond to any of the actual thoughts I laid out? Or are you still too concerned I’ve been tainted by Big Buddhism

I work in homeless services now and help meet people’s very basic needs and try to get them housed. I don’t need you to lecture me about people’s actual experiences, I’ve seen the worst.

Recognizing that anyone can learn to exert more control over their own internal experience does nothing to delegitimize anyone’s life experience. Not only that, I believe it empowers people.

What’s funny is in my anecdotal experience, the group most resistant to the concept of mindfulness are people of privilege

I’m struggling to understand your point. You’re 1) accusing me of perpetuating “the medical model,” and 2) disagreeing with me that mindfulness meditation (literally a free thing you can do alone in your room) can help people take more control of their internal state? The implication here is you think more people should just be on antidepressant meds for the rest of their lives, I guess?

If your takeaway from everything I’ve said about mindfulness meditation helping people take some control of their thoughts and feelings is that I’m telling people to “just be less sad,” you just aren’t listening.

You’re really good at cop outs