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On Covid 4 years ago

People with attitudes similar to the author are the reason there is still a COVID-19 pandemic, in the developed world at least. I'm surprised you don't have experience with them by now.

This line of thinking is crazy: variants are getting every 3-6 months more contagious, sure less harmful, but at the same time more evaise of vaccine. I have some friends who had 3 doses and still had hard time with omiron. At some point all the population will have had some sort of covid in the future, probably multiple time if you think on a decade length of time.

Saying "the pandemic is still there because because of the crazy ones who don't want to confine for a year" is just nonsense. look at australia who had the strictest rules ? They are taking the current wave right in the face.

While it's important to protect old and fragile people, i'm really convinced most young people who were not in contact with old people should have not confined. The risk was super low, upside was to get natural immunity and not kill the economy. Half of the world (the < 40) bowed to fear for exactly 0 positive consequence imo.

Since the end of the Gold Standard, the value of ANY currency is only based how much other people accept to give you in exchange. That's why you see half of the thirld world countries currencies dropping, in particular, faster than bitcoin drops. And this is why it is so popular in these countries.

Well basically if you are going to make people pay for a photo storage website with a good visualization but somewhat shitty upload system they are just going to flee to a "general file storage" cloud for the same price with a 'slightly shittier' way of viewing them, such as drive or onedrive.

(Especially if you threaten to delete already existing photos)

Source: i moved to onerive in 2019

Is there not physical damage to doing it that often ?

Ive done it twice in a row 3 years ago and it was fine but i was wondering that b.c. in the community i did that they were literally giving it to children starting 3 y.o.

Mostly that all addicts w/ physical damages i know started using heavily to cope to some pain (heartbreak / mourning / loss of proffessional direction).

Substances can help to realize stuff, but long term (1+year) regular using is never in my layman opinion

Tripsafe, Erowid, psychonaut and r/drugs are among the best ressources the web has been able to produce: thousands of actual trip reports, and empirically tested Risk Reductions procedures withtout stigma or judgement.

Dont do drugs as a illegal thing that give you the thrill of being a bad boy. Take a scientifi approach of risk evaluation, read testimonies and reports and ensure your own safety, as you would do for something like diving and skydiving.

Also never do drugs "because it makes you feel better when you are sad".

Dont hesitate to ask more question

Deezer, concerts, Family pack of Office 365. Cheap home gym. Illegal techno parties in the forest. MDMA pills at 10 euros vs overpriced alchool in Paris. Traveling in central / south america for suoer cheap.

There are a lot of smart good plans in life if you care looking for it. Is there a subreddit ?

You want a medal for being a non-predatory normal decent person ? That's not the point

It's great for you you've lived your life without these kind of "misunderstanding" but fake or overblown (intentionally or not by the 'victim' btw) harassement accusations exist more than you seem to think and it's always coming from the same pattern of people. With time you learn to not ship on the 'victim' bandwagon too quickly and regognize the patterns.

I'd have never thought i'd come to say something like that when I was younger..