That clip with Laura Loomer and then saying they don’t support trump reminded me of the South Park episode where KKK were supporting the opposite side, because they knew people wouldn’t associate with them.
“We’re looking at around 16,500 fatal doses of pure fentanyl in that small bag. Yes, 16,500 people could potentially die,” Barclay said.
Police are always liars. Especially about drugs. I am no expert, but I sincerely doubt a single street drug dealer had 16,500 fatal doses of fentanyl on him. What is he doing, mass murdering every drug addict in the Tenderloin?
You know what would go a long way to solving this problem? Legalizing and regulating drugs and getting free addiction help for those who want it.
Imagine the amount of money saved on “fighting this war” and also made on taxing people making adult decisions on their own consumption that could then be put back into helping people with the real problems and educating people to make the smart choices based on actual facts and not lies spun to support their hate filled narrative.
They just took 33 grams and divided by 2 mg which is the typical cited lethal dose of fentanyl to get 16,500. When dosed correctly it would kill zero people. But when you’re dealing with such tiny amounts in the microgram range that drug users/dealers can’t reliably weigh and make errors, unknown potency, differences in people’s tolerance, yes it’s quite dangerous and deadly. 100 times more potent than morphine. Would that batch have killed 16,500 people in reality? No likely not. But they did say “at worst” in fairness. So yeah assuming that’s the weight and one hundred percent potent divided into exactly lethal doses given to opiate niave people and perfectly doled out all at once that’s about how many it could kill. Cops also could be lying about weight, or it may be cut with something and not pure. I’m certainly not trying to argue for the war on drugs which I very much disagree with or against your other points, but that’s where that number came from. And it is a very dangerous drug because of its high potency with dosing in microgram ranges and often unknown purity.
I do agree that police tend to lie about quantities of drugs confiscated (weighing including the packaging etc.), but a quick google search for fentanyl doses does line up with the OD potential. It is extremely potent in small quantities which is why you see so much fent ODs when a small amount of it is cut in to bulk up other things like heroin.
800mg is the maximum recommended dose (note: not OD dose), and 16,500 times that is only 13.2g. Therefore 33g probably does technically have the potential to OD 16,500 people who have no tolerance, but it’s a really stupid way of putting it that has no nuance.
And yeah, the drug war is stupid, legalize everything.
The only way anyone could possibly take a gram of “fentanyl” in a day is if it’s extremely dilute, which it would be if it’s being sold on the street. The police’s estimate of 33g being equal to 16,000+ fatal doses is most likely assuming it’s pure fentanyl, and there’s no way the police honestly belive its pure.
I was worried about the additional per-day time, but the article says it’s only an additional 35 minutes. I think this would only work well if childcare was subsidized on the weekday off (under a certain income threshold if it must be that way). I worry about parents finding a way to make sure someone is keeping an eye on their kids otherwise.
I’m theory I like this idea, make the person that killed the parent and remove that support try to replace it. I just don’t know how well it’s going to work in practice. Like, I don’t know how many drunk drivers have a high enough income that any meaningful amount of child support would be derived from this. Not that a drunk driver being poor or not should get them out of consequences. But like my dad weaseled his child support payments down to $25 a month and it was just ridiculous. It didn’t help at all. But some nice karma on him was that all those years of working under the table to lower his child support meant that when the piece of shit got injured and needed to try to get disability he hadn’t gotten enough work credits in the previous ten years.
I feel like it would probably be better if the state established a fund that they could use to pay out to those kids that they could fund at least partially with fines brought against drivers convicted of DUI. That way we could guarantee some level of support for the kids that lost parents and still force the drunk drivers to at least partially fund it but a kid won’t get screwed just because the drunk driver that killed their parent particularly happened to be poor.
They dictate their salary by leaving and finding people who will pay them.
Pediatric cardiology is a difficult specialty and it turns out that people are willing to spend quite a lot of money when their children have heart problems.
people think students need to be in school so long every year for actual educational reasons
people get offended when you point out that it largely functions as a ‘daycare’ for younger kids
we’ve had both parent working be the norm for decades now… and somehow we still don’t have a school system that addresses that
I honestly think that the main reason for the male/female become gap is the above. Discrimination exists, but I think it is more an issue of women being more likely to compromise their work life to take care of kids… and therefore being less useful to work… so being paid less for it.
If we ACTUALLY fix that somehow, we’d be much more inclusive and free society.
Children probably need to be in school basically year round, but for less time. They need reinforcement, but can’t focus for long. The whole day could probably work if the 2nd half of the day was unstructured. This is basically how I’ve seen (successful) college students work. They tend to have a 3-4 hour block of classes and then between that they work on stuff at their own pace including studying, getting help, etc. This is how my kid’s grade school works and honestly, I was shocked all the kids score the same as the public school, so apparently no loss. It is a year round school and the kids are in school more days of the year, so I don’t know if it’s technically more or less effective.
Accurate. Anyone who says differently is lying to themselves. Schools are also a monitoring service for abuse and a safe place for kids to escape hope abuse and maybe even report it.
Before we had more grandparents involvement. I have a lot of memories of my grandparents doing things my parents now refuse to do and I have to do. Families with grandparent involvement are just less stressed.
As for the 4 day thing, I’m interested to see how it works out. In Texas it has resulted in poorer outcomes for children on the whole mostly due to the safe place service schools provide.
2nd largest nazi rally was in the US and the nazis got their ideas for eugenics from the US. Nazis and America have closer relations than you might think
Fascism, and the nazis in particular, have an unfortunately long history in the US. Besides, these morons are probably more concerned about Americans killing Americans in the civil war. Which they’d definitely say was about “state’s rights.”
There is that risk. However, they would have to stop, get out, get the victims wallet, find out where they live, drive there, and murder all the children.
I think the risk of that is pretty low, all considering
news
Hot
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.