moeris
Joined 6 years ago
Joined 6 years ago
For hard drugs it can probably help centers do things like safe injection sites. Legalization also means you can regulate. That can help in a lot of ways: making drugs safer, mandating that done portion of proceeds gives towards prevention, etc. Addicts will be less afraid of seeking medical treatment if they know they won't be in legal trouble. (They wouldn't anyway, but I've heard a lot of people are paranoid about this.)
Anyway, I don't have any facts or figures. But it seems reasonable to me that legalization could, in some cases, help.
I think maybe you just worked at a terrible business. You experience contacting sounds more like my experience at my current job.
It's possible you just have poor taste. Personally, I think the reasons for the repair cost aren't relevant, same is pretty obvious. It's an unconventional car that had limited production. I'm sure they're adding in the cost of parts (they'll likely have to buy another insurance of this car to rip the parts out of, or they'll have to fabricate it themselves. Which could require hiring an engineer to make sure they don't get sued if the car bursts into flames) and labor that comes with learning how to repair a complete unknown for them, plus a good helping of uncertainty.
The most relevant part of this story is that there's a guy who bought into a new tech, and who is being unreasonable when it didn't work for as long as he had hoped. And that comes through fine in the article.
There's no evidence that chronic Lyme exists:
> There is no evidence to suggest that “chronic Lyme” exists, or that long-term antibiotics are required to treat it.
(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/avoid-prolonged-antibiotics...)
It's pseudoscientific and pretty dangerous nonsense at that.
Another thing I think is the most likely is [pareidolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia). Our minds evolved to be sensitive to seeing faces/hearing voices, and so we tend to see these things where they don't actually exist. (Think faces in toast, or listening for satanic messages when playing music backwards.)
It's possible that it's always been hard. Being in a social group large enough that there are other mothers would solve the issue, largely.
Of course, the problem here is that Nix may be similar to this language, but they solve different problems. So I imagine the writer is just mistaken, and it comes off as one-upsmanship.