My opinion is throwing people in prison and confiscating their stuff is wrong unless they’ve violated someone’s person or property. Drugs can be legal as long as crimes committed under the influence of drugs are properly punished.
It’s surprising anyone would publish or conduct this research, as it presents a problem for “blank slate theory”. If human mating is assortive, then corellations between parent and child socioeconomic status are likely to be substantively due to genetic factors rather than solely oppression. The alternative would be a theory of “genetic oppression” requiring some sort of genetic equity, but that route is a trap for progressive thought due to that movement’s historical love of eugenics.
Please note, at the end of this piece, it says: "The researchers caution that the correlations they found were fairly modest and should not be overstated or misused to promote an agenda (Horwitz points out that assortative mating research was, tragically, co-opted by the eugenics movement).
They do hope the study will spark more research across disciplines, from economics to sociology to anthropology and psychology."
I loved the new plastic bags in California ever since they came out. Those old weak bags always ripped and tore. Had no idea the new ones were reusable! They make much better trash liners than the old ones.
People should be allowed to take whatever substances they want, as long as they stay away from my neighborhood. I’ve moved as far away from drug users as I could and it was the best decision to increase my productivity, lower my stress, and increase my physical safety I’ve ever made.
> I’ve moved as far away from drug users as I could and it was the best decision to increase my productivity, lower my stress, and increase my physical safety I’ve ever made.
i'm honestly unaware of places without drug users, so honest question : did you move away from drug users, or did you move away from users of a specific drug?
The only way I can fathom that someone may be truly away from drug users is that they're also totally away from populations of any kind.
Antarctica comes to mind, but i'd probably be surprised.
I think you’re being unnecessarily pedantic. Sure, there are caffeine and marijuana and alcohol users everywhere, but there’s a huge difference between your neighbors quietly having a drink in their home after work compared to loud alcoholics getting in fights and stumbling around on the streets.
When someone says there is a lot of drug activity in a neighborhood, they’re not saying that people are quietly consuming an edible in their basement every once in a while. Problematic drug use seeps into many aspects of social life.
And before anyone assumes that I’m referring to poor neighborhoods, I’m not. One of the most problematic and dangerous drug environments I ever witnessed (in my relatively sheltered life) involved some very well-off young people who got caught up in drugs, then dealing drugs, and then severe addiction that interferes with their judgment to the point that they were getting violent and threatening murder. This was in a well-off community where a number of families ultimately chose to move away to escape the parts of the community with a drug problem and had no regrets for doing so.
I’ve also crossed less dramatic situations where social groups went downhill due to less overt drug use: People who start using unnecessarily high non-therapeutic doses of Adderall to become energized (doesn’t last, causes weird problems over time), people who start using benzos with casual disregard (turns into a dependency very quickly), and even people who casually use opioids for recreation as if it’s a sustainable activity. In each case, the effects of excessive drug use start taking a toll on the person that extends to the social group. Getting away can be like a breath of fresh air.
I say that unironically. I don't care what my neighbours do in the privacy of their own home, as long as it doesn't affect me. (Eg as long as tobacco or pot smoke doesn't waft over to me.)
> I don't care what my neighbours do in the privacy of their own home, as long as it doesn't affect me.
So I might care about them doing a backyard campfire. If it's both legal and long-standing custom in that neighbourhood, I might just not move there in the first place. If it's illegal and I already live there when they start, I might object.
I mean the drug users that punched my car, break windows, yell at all hours, stole my best friends bike tire, and shit around every corner even though there are plenty of public toilets. Don’t care whether it’s “legal”.
I'd like pot smokers to stay away from my neighbourhood, just like smokers of any other kind. But that's just because of the smell. If they want to eat their cannabis or vape their tobacco etc, I don't mind.
I mind Vaping as well. In addition to all sorts of smoke.
I even mind dryer scents; literally ANY unusual smell in the air. Unusually pungent foods, camp fire and BBQ smoke, any cleaning agents. IMO every house should have scrubbed exhausts and possibly also intakes.
I don't particularly like the smell of vaping, but I find it doesn't carry nearly as far as smoking nor does it stick around as much. So I object much less.
> IMO every house should have scrubbed exhausts and possibly also intakes.
It’s definitely localized. most societies don’t look favorable on drug use including most of east Asia, south and south east Asia, Middle East, and more.
Because of the censorship and self censorship of science, it’s impossible for outsiders to know what happened one way or another. Linking to a journal article doesn’t solve that problem.
I don’t think currying is esoteric at all, and if someone told me in a code review that it’s “too complex” I’d start looking for a new job immediately, since it’s a career dead end if the reviewer doesn’t even understand simple functional programming.
That said sadly these days I’m working on smart contracts in Solidity which is object oriented, and the primary functional alternative Vyper has had major problems while Rust has proven to be slower to develop in, at least for cosmwasm chains (I still hold out hope for Rust). So you could have a point lol.
The only reason this works is they haven't taken you seriously yet. Sooner or later they will just ban all of them at once. Correlating them really isn't hard.
With enough moderators or administrators over a long enough timeframe, banning is semi-random and ultimately inevitable unless the user is Big-Name or the platform dies first. Misunderstandings, technical errors, and administrative misbehavior conspire to make it so.
Platforms never tell me why I’ve been banned, so I don’t know. But I’ve been banned at some point by every social media platform I’ve used except hacker news and Google.
