I’m definitely there! I just remember the bad times I had a few times when I did succumb to that pressure.

Yup, and those are the people pressuring the 90% who don’t to come out anyhow lol

I’m so glad that my partner and I just stay in and enjoy each other’s company with some drinks. Going out on NYE is absolutely god awful.

It’s not my fault, when you don’t read more than the first sentence

This isn’t about me. It’s about spreading ideas. If you haven’t noticed, not every child reads for hours before drawing a conclusion about the world.

“it’s true that a lot of people can handle heroin” is the only message you have successfully sent. All the rest of that won’t be read, and even if it is, it’s still not as insightful as you seem to think.

Some kid might destroy their life because of what you wrote. You’re not only unconcerned with that, you think you’ve somehow been helpful. 🤮

Well hopefully mods do their job and remove your comments. I’m done here with the pretending we’re having a nuanced conversation about societal problems which you didn’t bring up at all until you had your back against a wall.

that’s why I think education is so important,

So then you retract your statements that make it seem like opiates are something one can safely experiment with. Good.

Why isn’t everyone becoming a junkie?

Because firstly, not everyone has access to those drugs, and secondly, anti-drug messaging has been somewhat effective. Ask 50 random people if heroin should be legal, probably 48-49 say no.

everyone having trouble of getting rid of an opiate addiction, tried to mask some other problems with it.

This is victim blaming, even worse than before. Fucking yikes.

So, why do they do it?

There definitely are people really susceptible to addiction and decided to try it once and never stopped. Because there are a lot of mixed messages in the world about drugs. Many movies and musical acts romanticize drug abuse. Also, life is hard, people are looking for an escape. The last thing we need is people spreading the message that heroin “isn’t that bad”. Young kids are sometimes on this platform and are susceptible to a toxic message like that.

You make it seem like I’m a tee-totaller or something and I’m not. I’m just against the message that hard drugs “aren’t that bad”. It’s harmful. Less people should try highly addictive drugs, not more. Just because some people can “handle it” doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to promote.

I could also possibly live years of my life walking in the middle of streets with fast driving cars. But it still would be an absolute fact that it’s a senseless risk to take

There is nothing about acknowledging the dangers of highly addictive substances which says we should punish their users. You definitely shifted blame off the substance itself. Which is quite odd to me, unless your goal is to encourage people to use those drugs.

It’s a lie to suggest opiates aren’t dangerous and any issue with them should be blamed on anyone else involved. They are incredibly dangerous. It’s absurd I have to even say that.

You left an edit that basically blamed people for their mental problems, in service of defending the most dangerously addictive drug maybe to ever exist.

I know several people whose lives were entirely wrecked by opiates. This is a dangerous fucking pack of lies that should get you banned for spreading. This is several times worse than spreading anti vaxx rhetoric.

That’s an overly kind description of it. I’ve never known anyone to use more than a little opiates without completely obliterating their life, or coming extremely close to doing so.

Plenty of people use opiates and opioids medically and recreationally to no ill effects.

A dangerous lie that is insane to have not been downvoted dozens of times minimum.

From that headline, one might assume that nothing new coming out is any good these days. That’s not true at all, but I will admit that it’s harder than ever to find the diamonds in the rough. Out of the hundreds of new shows that came out this year, probably less than ten of them were good imo. That may be one factor leading people to just rewatch old stuff.

It’s hard to get motivated to invest time in a show that may not be good, may get cancelled, or might take a turn for the worse after a few episodes or seasons. I recently watched the two seasons of Poker Face. I loved the pilot episode, really enjoyed some episodes, and hated others. And it had been cancelled anyhow. So I wouldn’t really recommend it to anyone with those caveats.

When there are hundreds of shows to choose from, and you have experiences like that, it can be paralyzing. The days of breaking bad and game of thrones being a part of a monoculture are over. You can’t just wait for people to annoy you into giving a show a chance and then seeing they had a point. You gotta dig through tons of trash to find the good stuff. Most of the shows and movies I enjoy these days aren’t anything my friends and family have ever heard of. And yeah, AI is going to make this all worse. Not only by adding more crap to the pile but also likely causing content quality to vary wildly. The golden age of television and the garbage age of television are both true right now.

That’s just a bad analogy but alright 👍

I realize that. But applying the term there is basically just using it as a glorified version of “thing” and that’s not at all how most people use that term.

By the most useless definition of the word I guess, but I don’t see how it is supposed to be meaningful to anyone but a linguist with that specific opinion.

This is just a silly over-intellectualization of a weird word you want to mean “thing, but fancier”. I agree with the person you’re replying to. If everything is a meme then the term is meaningless.