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I’ve seen hard drug addiction turn people into psychopaths. When they’re jonesing for that hit, they’re capable of damn near anything.

Otherwise psychopaths are out there and I’ve run into them more than a few times. I had a boss who would have tested high on that scale, and he almost made me quit before I decided to fight back and got him demoted. Once he no longer had any power he was neutered and mostly kept to himself until he retired. Good enough for me.

Shaman says

I’ve seen hard drug addiction turn people into psychopaths

Or it could be that the psychopathy is what turned them to drug addiction in the first place.

NDrLoR says

Shaman says

I’ve seen hard drug addiction turn people into psychopaths

Or it could be that the psychopathy is what turned them to drug addiction in the first place.

Nope. It’s usually childhood trauma that sends people into addiction behaviors. Although enough trauma as an adult will help that along as well.

Addiction has a strong genetic link, but it is diffuse. You can't diagnose underlying psychosis or personality conditions until the person is clean and sober for at least 6 months to a year. Sometimes they clear up partially, sometimes completely, and sometimes there always was an underlying personality disorder.

Probably best just to treat them as if they have the personality disorder/psychosis because most don't sober up, anyway, if they are true addicts. Addiction is mostly irreversible and eventually fatal. Sporadic sobriety tends to be the trend, with 96 to 98 percent dying addicted. It is a terminal illness.

Recovery 'experts' like to hold out hope greater than that, but then, there are huge resources in the recovery industry that cause diagnosis tainted by secondary gain. The handful that do recover have to really want it, and have to be highlly motivated, which does not describe the vast group of committed addicts.

There is usually a spectrum between users, who can be occasional chippers all the way to the physically and emotionally dependent, and true addicts.

That TV Dr. Drew who likes to be the smug guru type had the show 'Celebrity Rehab', and when it was clear his 'celebrities' were dying relentlessly, and you saw what sociopathy they were engaged in around their drug use, he had to cancel the show. For some reason, they just weren't listening to all of his TV wit and wisdom

TrumpingTits says

Now it is ppl 29 and under. The idiot protesters, looters, rioters and spring breakers.

And they'll live. We've clearly started figuring out who it kills and how to protect them. So cases are going to skyrocket as we open up. Deaths I think will start trending sideways and hospitalizations slightly up, but I don't think it gets worse than the original peak.

Which means we shouldn't have to shut down again in my opinion because nothing was ever overwhelmed. And assuming antibody resistance, cases at some point will plummet with a small bump in the fall/winter with people aging into death in 80% of the cases anyway. With no vaccine it's twice as deadly as multiple strains that have vaccines for flu. It sucks, but the over reaction is staggeringly stupid.

DILLIGAF says

followed by a ‘Nike swoosh’ recovery that won’t return the level of output to the prior fourth quarter of 2019 peak until early 2023,” writes UCLA Anderson Forecast senior economist David Shulman

Wow...he can see into the future...He even made graphs.

Shit, graphs and numbers. Here, have some others:



V Shaped Recession.

Tim Aurora says

The US, by contrast, began opening up within three weeks after its peak, and our decline has been much less rapid.

Its called flattening the curve, or do you not remember april?

Sadly, the data given in this post appears to support my own conclusion from a week ago.

https://patrick.net/post/1333113/2020-06-18-stocks-i-m-out

"Water powerty crisis"? Who the fuck comes up with this shit?

Charles Hugh Smith? Seriously?

Is this poster just al alt account of HEYYOU?

DILLIGAF says

Attack the OP author and OP poster - ignore reality, try and distract from the contents of the OP

CHS is a known entity: he's never been right about anything. If you are just discovering his "wisdom" - have fun. Just not put your money where his mouth is.

In Tucson, Arizona, another drought affected city, the number of low income residents facing unaffordable bills doubled to 46% between 2010 and 2018 – as the average bill increased by 119% to $869.

$75/mo is not "unaffordable." And that $75/mo is the "average" for all users, not just the poor. The poor would have significantly lower bills than the more affluent who water the lawn.

PeopleUnited says

Is this poster just al alt account of HEYYOU?

Could be.

DILLIGAF says

Sums up the reality of TDS sufferers.

How could a poor person have a water bill more than 20 a month? My house with two small lawns, greenhouse, and dozens of fruit trees and all sorts of shit never goes above 35 in the summer in LA. A person in an apartment or really small house with no lawn should be next to nothing.

RC2006 says

A person in an apartment or really small house with no lawn should be next to nothing.

Most apartments include water into rent because they don't even have separate meters for every unit.

I've never had a separate water bill when I was renting apts.

My water bill in Suisun runs $18 for two months and usage matters little.

FuckCCP89 says

RC2006 says

A person in an apartment or really small house with no lawn should be next to nothing.

Most apartments include water into rent because they don't even have separate meters for every unit.

I've never had a separate water bill when I was renting apts.

That's why this seems like bs water is cheap. People still spending $1.00+ for bottled water one of the biggest scams.

FuckCCP89 says

PeopleUnited says

Is this poster just al alt account of HEYYOU?

Could be.

It's not. I don't recall HEYYOU ever posting a gif.

Can't remember previous user names, but you can tell when he/she is back when the "What are you listening to tonight" thread starts getting a bunch of comments from them again. Which is fine. I don't agree with some stuff posted, but it's mostly fine.

I'm more of an original content guy and then use links or images to prove or show the point you're making. I like to see what non paid for thoughts are. Hence why I stick around here.

My water bill for the year costs less than the new iPhone. I guess no one can get that either this year?

In blue states the water bills have gone up the most dramatically and that’s due to pensions of workers and hiring of too many people and also punitive pricing to try to save the fucking smelt or whales or whatever.

Just Democrats being themselves and hating on the working poor. Vampire mother fuckers!

I find this OP useful for explaining our current economy. Sorry folks, this shit is going to get real.

Radiation means ionization that starts at way higher frequency that is at ultraviolet NOT at 5G.

RC2006 says

That's why this seems like bs water is cheap. People still spending $1.00+ for bottled water one of the biggest scams.

Bottled water is a joke. You can get your basic beer (not talking craft beers) here in IL for ~.50 per can which is mostly water with other ingredients that costs more to produce. No reason a 12oz bottle of water should be that much when you also factor in additional licensing requirements and fees for producing alcoholic beverages. And I'm not some green movement guy, but the plastic bottles are awful.

Shaman says

I find this OP useful for explaining our current economy. Sorry folks, this shit is going to get real.

The content is usually good. I'm usually a gut instinct guy and look at what is going on around me type person. I live by a train and a decent sized, but non-commercial airport. I haven't heard the frequency of trains drop. Can't see how many cars are attached, but frequency is the same. Airport has the usual number of corp. jets sitting out. Lots more flight training going on for sure.

We'll see how this all balances out. One of my gut instinct indicators is a local lumber yard. That's one area of concern as you can physically see how much they have on hand when driving by. It's probably 50% less, but that could be for other reason. Most businesses in my area are operating as normal for the most part and are busy.

Besides my SIL who worked at a restaurant, I don't believe I know anyone that has been laid off. This won't be smooth and I don't think we're going to recover to the previous economy quickly. I just think it's not going to be as bad as some are predicting. July is going to be the month to watch as if I recall correctly, isn't that when the $600/wk for UE goes away?

TL;DR: Buy Luxembourg Opera Gold Rounds!

WookieMan says

Most businesses in my area are operating as normal for the most part and are busy.

The Costco businesses center (caters to small businesses especially restaurants) has never had more inventory. It is spilling out into the aisles. It appears supply is up and demand down for restaurant goods. There will be repercussions of this that have ripples throughout the economy. Many restaurants will close, and if they reopen with new owners remains to be seen.

The OP though is obviously a TDS patient.

WookieMan says

RC2006 says

That's why this seems like bs water is cheap. People still spending $1.00+ for bottled water one of the biggest scams.

Bottled water is a joke. You can get your basic beer (not talking craft beers) here in IL for ~.50 per can which is mostly water with other ingredients that costs more to produce. No reason a 12oz bottle of water should be that much when you also factor in additional licensing requirements and fees for producing alcoholic beverages. And I'm not some green movement guy, but the plastic bottles are awful.

Just a simple look around to world is all that is needed to see that water bottles are causing more pollution than just about anything else. If any disposable item as to be banned it should be them.

RC2006 says

How could a poor person have a water bill more than 20 a month? My house with two small lawns, greenhouse, and dozens of fruit trees and all sorts of shit never goes above 35 in the summer in LA. A person in an apartment or really small house with no lawn should be next to nothing.

My usage-based costs range from $5 to $25/month, depending on irrigation. I water the front yard in the dry season (9 months a year).

The killer is the "fixed" cost aspects. You aren't allowed to have any water at all unless you also pay for sewage. My fixed cost sewage is something like $40/month. The fixed cost water is something like $20/month. So before the first drop of water I'm already out $60/month.

Add in the (required) garbage at $40/month for the minimum level of service and you're over $1k/year.

I meant $180 for two months.

Never Bet against the Fed.

Troll. /ignored.

Yeah I don't know why he doesn't just shut his mouth and let the commies do their Victory lap at shutting down the ecconomy for the second time in 3 months, because they feared green shoots were appearing on the ecconomic horizon. We all know they couldn't have that, because Trump would have gotten reelected.

Fuck! He's so fucking hella Smarter than your average scumbag nematode Piss Whistle Commie fuckface.

They want him to just give up and go away. Now this dumb move, is going to create so much GDP he'll be a Saint by November again.

Booo Hoooo Fucking HOOOOO Waaaaaah Waaaaaah I want my Lesbian Mommy and her hairy nipped partner!

thomasdong1776 says

Bank stocks jumped

Are we looking at the same stock market? The bank/financial sector tanked the hardest today.

AF is right. This must be the wormhole for moving the Social Security Trust to Kazakhstan.

America is fucked. Mobs and media won.

Tell that to the BLM mob.

While you are at it, also let them know, the overwhelmingly White idiots among the so-called "protesters" are only projecting their own racism because the overwhelming majority of Blacks actually want "All Lives Matter!" despite the criminal elements taking advantage of the BLM riot opportunity to loot. Black Americans are actually walking off the Slave Plantation that some Democrats want to keep them on.

Also, the overwhelming majority of black Americans are descendants of slave-owners, not just descendants of slaves. That's why black Americans have much lighter complexion than average Africans in Africa, and have 20 points higher IQ than African average despite a large number of the lightest skinned black Americans having "passed" to self-identify as whites in the past 100+ years. In a slave-owning society (whether 140+ years ago south of the Mason-Dixon Line or today in Communist countries), it is simply more advantageous for a slave girl to mate with the slave-owners (both white and black owners in antebellum South, and other races as in today's Communist countries) than to mate with average slaves (even among slaves, it was more advantageous to mate with those who were about to redeem themselves and possibly subsequently becoming owners).

If one is not properly clothed and fully representative of what God would want them to appear like...

God made us in his image. Adam and eve were originally naked.. in fact the reason why God knew they are of the forbidden fruit (other than the fact he is all knowing) was the fact that man hid from God because he was ashamed of his nakedness. Being a just God he at least clothed man in animal skins before he threw him out of the Garden of Eden....


So based on a strict reading of Genesis (Gn 2:25, Gn 3:11, Gn 3:21) you have two options... go naked or wear animal skins... a suit and tie is certainly not allowed!