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  • Overdose prevention sites are still just treating the symptoms, but at least in a way that doesn’t attack the victims. Offer free meaningful rehab treatment to addicts like China did. They went from 30% of their population addicted to opium to nearly 0 within a few short years this way. We shouldn’t be encouraging destructive drug use, nor should we be criminalizing victims of drug companies and criminal organizations.

  • "Soundblaster" was such an 80s/90s name for a computer part.
  • Splinter Cell 1 was the first game I got when I built one of my computers, and I went out and bought a surround sound set up just for it. Totally worth it. It blew my mind after dealing with chintzy desktop 2.0 setups and onboard speakers before that my whole life.

  • The math on unplayed Steam “shame” is way off—and no cause for guilt
  • A lot, probably most, of my hours on steam are from before they tracked it. I had 3,000 hours in CS:S and it shows 0 because I stopped playing long ago. Steams been around for a long time, much longer than its ability to track games, so I imagine there’s a lot of people with “unplayed” games that they’ve played, plus people like you that don’t show their hours for whatever reason.

  • There are better ways to protest climate change than spray painting Stonehenge [with easily removed corn starch] | Just Stop Oil activists could take a page from the civil rights movement, experts say
  • There’s news articles claiming MLK was secretly funded by the USSR to bring disorder to the US, and it was considered credible at that time by the majority of the white population. The point isn’t people’s reactions, when the civil rights act passed the majority of America thought MLK was a terrible person harming America. The point is to create enough disruption that the people with the power to do so are forced to take action or risk outright collapse of the social order.

  • If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?
  • Thanks, I’m interviewing at a couple places soon, fingers crossed. Considering posting up my soldering skills on Facebook buy/sell/trade groups if I don’t find anything soon to hold me over. There’s always people who need their HDMI ports or such repaired and no one around here offers it, I just haven’t had the time since I’ve been working so much. That would require making a new Facebook though, since I deleted mine years ago.

  • China will include Australia in the list of unilateral visa-free countries
  • I used to be extremely critical of China And the CCP. Used to post publicly on my Facebook and other social media about them. I just got back in April from China after deprogramming myself from decades of Sinophobia, and I had absolutely no issues.

  • www.vice.com eBay Deleted Support for Unions From Its Website After Its Workers Unionized

    New York City and State comptrollers have called on the company to explain why it no longer explicitly supports workers’ rights to unionize.

    eBay Deleted Support for Unions From Its Website After Its Workers Unionized

    They’ve also been sandbagging negotiations for the last 9 months, the union today is on a march, no strike action yet.

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    福禄寿Floruitshow - 如何(How To) - Live @ 2020 Strawberry Music Festival

    I just found this band and I am in love with every song they do. It’s so elegant, and the composition is really on point.

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