Well, you run into a lot of trouble.

Part of the abortion debate is centred on when, exactly, a bunch of cells can be called a person.

There’s no significant group arguing that it happens after the baby is out of the womb and surviving.

There’s rules in place for what happens when that new person can’t survive on its own, particularly when that’s combined with an inability to ever function as more than a lump.

So, the problem becomes one of deciding when, after that period, that child needs to be given the right to choose for themselves if they want to live or not. There’s already the ability to just not sustain life, but if you’re gong to be making the choice to end that life, you gotta get consensus on whether or not someone gets to decide it for them.

Now, I’m a long term right to death advocate. I consider the ability to choose the manner and time of our own deaths a right, one that is typically repressed, unjustly so

But when you’re taking someone else’s, there’s a much higher standard involved. In order to take someone’s life legally, you have to jump through some serious hoops under normal circumstances. It’s usually only allowed after they do something very bad (by the standards of the legal system making the decision).

So, how and why are the parents making that decision? Why are they making it alone? Why not wait until the child is older and can decide for themselves? When is someone old enough?

There’s more things that need to be addressed before you could even remotely hope to build consensus and make it legal.

And, from my perspective the answer is a hell no. You, me, everyone, has the right to decide the manner and time of our death (within reason). But we do not have the right to decide it for someone else.

With that in mind, it is a decision that should only be made before adulthood in the most extreme cases, where suffering is assured, and early death inevitable.

Beyond that, there are just too many problems, the same as there are with capital punishment.

Euthanasia is a difficult topic, period. Even with the right to death, are we going to obligate someone else to assist? A lot of people seeking a medical end of life can’t take their own. So they need assistance. When you’re involving someone that can’t decide for themselves (and if someone isn’t deemed capable of voting then they’re not capable of choosing in this), you can’t obligate a doctor to do the job. Nobody should be obligated to take someone else’s life.

So, nah. If you’re an adult, you should have the right, but until then, nobody else should. It still has problems, and you listed the worst of them already. But those problems are not as bad as ending someone’s life without their informed consent. Kids can’t form that for much of anything.

I mean, it’s a thing. You can look it up and find documentation on it. It’s in the DSM-5, the main diagnostic tome for mental health. Here’s an overview in a reputable source. It’s listed as cannabis induced psychosis though.

It isn’t exactly a super common thing relative to total population, and there’s a good bit of debate about exactly how much of it is purely an affect in people already prone to psychosis or schizophrenia, and how much is causative. However, I’ve never seen any research into whether it’s 100% about the weed, or if it’s related to other things that are in the weed, and/or if it would be set off by anything that tweaked dopamine in a similar way.

There are other drugs known to trigger psychosis and schizophrenia, and they don’t necessarily work the exact same way. So there’s a good chance that if you don’t have an unusually high chance to end up there, that you won’t, no matter how much you smoke. But there’s just not enough data to be certain.

What is certain is that it isn’t just scaremongering. It may be used to try and scaremonger, but that’s a different thing.

The numbers I’ve seen are low enough that you might go decades in ER work and never see it because it isn’t instant. You won’t really know if it’s CIP until a patient history has been taken, other tests run, etc. So the comments talking about ER veterans not having seen it are irrelevant. They wouldn’t be in on the diagnosis. Now, someone in a psych unit might have a useful anecdote about never having seen it during their career. But it’s also not an all day every day thing.

It’s a relatively infrequent event. Even in a big city, you might see a hundred cases a year that can be definitely diagnosed, and it won’t all be at the same hospital.

However, if anyone working in an ER says they’ve never seen anyone in for any cannabis related issues, they’re either lying, or didn’t work there long. People get greened out, or get a bad trip, or get stuff that’s laced often enough that you’ll see it if you even do part time in an ER. It won’t be every day, or even every week (or it didn’t used to), but the rate of such occurrence is increasing as legalization spreads access and the willingness to both seek help and be honest. That’s a fact you can look up, you don’t have to trust anyone.

Cannabis is a plant with around a dozen potent psychoactive components. That’s why people use it. To assume that everyone is going to react the same to them, in varying proportions, at betting varying levels is just stupid. You can have something as mild as aspirin, perfectly controlled during manufacture for potency, and still have the occasional weird response.

Doesn’t matter how you take it in, you can’t accurately predict your response until you’ve taken it in the first time, and even then you’d need more use to really call it accurate. Then you can still run into weird shit, or laced shit, or shit that’s just way stronger than you’re used to.

Me? I have unpleasant reactions to the stuff, so I don’t use it. I wish I could because it can do great things for people. If I had a history psychosis or schizophrenia in my family, I wouldn’t even stay around where it’s being smoked or used in a way it could get into my system. Just not worth it, because it can happen, and it is most definitely a real thing, no matter how poorly researched it is currently.

Depends.

In metal general, if you’re making the coffee + milk, then adding ice, you have to make the coffee part “strong” in one way or another, because that ice is going to melt. It’ll melt fast, too, at the beginning, so not adjusting your process is going to lead to weak, watery iced lattes.

If you then reduce the ice, the problem goes in reverse where the concentration of coffee compounds is higher, so it doesn’t taste like it’s expected to taste.

Now, some places chill batches of the espresso, mix it with the milk chilled, and the ice is just there to extend the time it’s cold, with an expectation of less melt.

Afaik, dunkin doesn’t have a chilled container of the latte shipped in, or made in bulk. They could have changed from the last time I talked to anyone that worked there, but at the time it was in smaller batches and stored at the temp it came out in. So if they changed the amount of ice, it would change the finished drink.

If you make your own iced latte, you’ll likely just make it regular, then pour it over ice. It’ll be thinner, and it’s up to you how you like that or not. Stores tend to go for consistency between products as a priority, so they don’t have as much freedom.

Another thing to carry.

Mind you, I’m a fairly preparedness focused EDC guy. My backpack has a 24 hour supply of most of the things I’d need, plus stuff to help get by for a little longer.

If I threw a thermos in there on top of my water supply and bare minimum rations, that’s a full pack.

Most people don’t have a pack to shove the thermos into, and aren’t going to realistically carry one around on a strap or in their hand.

And, eventually, it runs empty. To counter that, you have to go bigger, which is heavier and bulkier.

Like it or not, places that serve food and drink are going to exist because nobody can carry everything everywhere all the time.

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It’s one of those things where it depends on the computer. My old box that’s running win 7 has nothing but music and backed up media files on it, isn’t connected to the internet at all, and there’s really no point to it being encrypted.

My laptop leaves the house, and is connected, so it gets the treatment. My general purpose PC is, though that was more just because of a random choice rather than a carefully chosen decision. I figured I’d try it for a few weeks, then nuke it if it was a problem. It hasn’t been, and I haven’t needed to do anything to it that would require a change.

The other people in the house have chosen not to.

I’m not certain I would encrypt my main desktop again, just because it’s one more thing to do, and I’m getting lazy lol. I don’t have any sensitive files at all, and if things in the world get so bad that some agency is after me, I’m going to be hiding out up in this holler I know, not worrying about leaving a computer behind. Won’t be power anyway, and the only shit they’d find is some pirated files.

I’d be more worried about my phone and my main tablet than any of the PCs, and those would either go with me, or get melted down before I left. Thermite is cheap and easy.

The problem is that the container is evidence.

Even if planted, what does a cop do with evidence? They take it from the person. They’ll usually do so with their hands.

If they’re not wearing gloves, they can still explain away those prints by dint of touching them while taking them as evidence. If they’re wearing gloves, the only way they’d leave prints is if they weren’t while they were getting the container ready, but then they can still claim to have handled it without gloves at some point

It’s an impossible to prove claim unless there’s other evidence supporting the claim.

Since most court systems default to a cop being a credible witness instead of them having to back up their claims with other evidence, you’re fucked.

So it’s a bad defense. To make it stick, you have such a barrier to break down just to try to gain supporting evidence that you ain’t gonna be doing it from jail unless you’re rich.

Not that nobody tries. They do. It’s essentially a waste of time, but people will claim that evidence is planted. It’s just extremely rare for it to work, even when there is supporting evidence. It’s also a trope, so getting a jury to believe the claim is hard. You see it in movies and shows so often where the hero cop arrests someone with drugs and they say that it isn’t theirs, it’s planted.

Copaganda is a thing, and it works. Because it’s such a common trope, people have the idea that it’s something only claimed by people that are obviously lying. It doesn’t help that if you’re the kind of person to take the claim seriously, and take the other evidence into account, there’s a lower chance of you being on the jury. Jury selection, any prosecutor is going to ask questions that will find folks predisposed to a bias against their case. Same with defense lawyers wanting to exclude those against their defense

That’s not exclusive to drug cases, but drug cases are such that it’s easier for fake evidence do be planted. It’s very hard to fake a weapon in a murder case because testing can be used to exclude things. But a bag of drugs? Much easier to fake things. Hell, a cop wanting to do it, all they have to do is wear gloves, then push the baggie against the hands of the person, and now the planting claim is harder to prove

I don’t know that this is the right community since it’s impossible to have a casual conversation on the subject, and you seem to be more venting than wanting to talk about the subject.

That being said, you’re right.

Mental healthcare access is horrible in so many places that it might as well not be there at all. Then you run into places where they try, but budgeting isn’t there for public, low income patients, so you end up with over worked, under paid providers struggling to keep up with patients that need way more help, more often, than they can provide.

Even when you have insurance that covers it, wait lists exist and are absurdly long, particularly among those that are at the highest risk. You don’t even want to see how long some pediatric mental health providers are backed up. It can take a year or more just to get the first appointment so they can get started, not even for actual therapy.

And that’s assuming your insurance is accepted at a given provider.

That doesn’t mean that it isn’t the best thing to do, it usually is. But if someone is saying “just get therapy”, they’re clueless. Even people in crisis, they may not get the help they actually need, so suggesting that someone only has to up and get therapy and problem solved is malarkey.

People can be suicidal, reach an ER, get held, go through all the bullshit that entails, and never have a proper therapist seen. There are times when someone in crisis can not only not get help, but end up worse off.

And, like you said, that’s just the US. There are countries where therapists simply don’t exist. There’s others where accessing therapy is even harder.

Unfortunately, it is usually still the only useful suggestion someone can make. I tend to be careful about how I recommend someone seek a provider because if you do that without couching it with acknowledging that it isn’t always a possibility, you might as well just tell someone to git gud.

Well dang! That’s an improvement visually for sure, and it responds faster as well.

I mean, if you want naked mole rat porn, I could shave everything, take off my glasses and glare at you

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What? I can’t hear you over the wondrous thunder of dual 1911s playing Master of Puppets!

Kinda, yeah, though tiktok working as a short visual exchange with comments isn’t exactly the same

Good point :)

You’d be surprised at what limits people have regarding privacy vs comfort.

I had at least one roommate, my best friend, from the day I moved out at 18 until we were both in our late thirties (and, holy fuck it just hit home how long we’ve both been married now lol).

During that time, my vehicle was always a 4banger of some kind. I just prefer small cars with hatchbacks for a dozenish reasons. So, not a van, ever; nor a sedan. And there were still ladies that would choose to fuck in my car rather than fuck where other people could hear them.

Mind you, there was no straight version of grindr back then. Most of that, there weren’t hookup services of any kind. Nor was I prone to hookups in the first place. But the point remains that even when dating someone, there were still plenty of folks that would prefer a less comfortable fuck in a tiny car than having roommates know when they came. Hell, my roommate had grindr hookups that he fucked in my car in the driveway rather than have me hear them.

Not like I cared. I heard that guy fucking guys all the time, never bothered me, never had any issues with his partners that weren’t hookups. Did have a few that were mystified at a straight boy having an adjoining room to a gay boy, hearing the sex, and not caring at all. Like, the only time I would even do something like put on headphones is if I was already watching/listening to something that I didn’t want to need to strain to hear.

Sometimes, my friend would end up taking them to his room through my room because the layout of the house and driveway makes it quicker, so they’d have this confused look on their face when me and my friend would just do a quick fist bump and hello on their way through.

Gods, I swear, some of those guys were beyond confused. One in particular had to knock on my door afterwards and ask if it was a fetish thing, among other questions (including if I wanted a turn lol). Repeat partners, they tended to shrug it off fast. But there were a few out the once and done variety that he ended up fucking in my car (his was loaded down with work supplies except the front seat, so he couldn’t even lean seats back).

This one dude, an atypical type for him, being a fairly dedicated lifter, knocked on my door and said my friend friend sent him to ask if he could get the key from me lol. We ended up with my buddy getting annoyed when we had a chat while I was getting the keys out of my bag, and ended up taking twenty minutes talking about routines. He came in and said “can you two slabs of beef maybe talk this out after?” Fucking hell lol. But, after having talked to me, the dude was fine with me hearing him taking cock.

Anyway, point being that you’d be surprised at who would rather fuck in a car than have someone a wall away.

No, no, thoughts like that are the entire point of the internet, and language itself

I dunno, but some other brother might deny

Look, don’t blame people for needing a rest after their chipotle evacuations

It’s not the government’s data, it’s ours, and these motherfuckers need to learn that fact, or be taught or at the end of a weapon

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