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Like sex-mexting, where you send photos of your junk from the restroom of a Chili’s To-Go

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I would think that the primary issue is the potency of fentanyl vs heroin, as fentanyl is far more likely to cause an overdose and to be misdosed than heroin. Fent might have been in the supply on a technical basis in 2013, but it wasnt popularized whatsoever. The average American did not know what it was, and the average user was probably not taking it (at least knowingly).

The spike in 2017 and rise beforehand probably correlates with increased presence of fentanyl in the US market, courtesy of China. Most US heroin was coming via Mexico and not highly related to the Afghanistan poppy production. As the current article notes, most of that production was supplying heroin to Europe and the eastern hemisphere.

China, circa 2014-2015 and just before, was ramping up their supply of illicit analogue research chems to the US. It seems like that mostly dwindled down to just focusing on Fentanyl, and then fentanyl took over as the primary illicit opiate. This also correlates with the same time period that the US was significantly tightening restrictions on legitimate pharmaceutical opiates like Oxycontin. Around 2014-2016 large numbers of patients who, for better or worse, had been legally prescribed pain pills were being cut off of them. Which drastically increased the market of people seeking illicit opiates.

I would think the overall spike is due to the increase in market size due to restricting pain pills, the popularization of fentanyl as a specifically sought substance, the ease of importing fentanyl by bad actors (given that it is a far stronger substance by weight), and the significantly higher likelihood of the end user overdosing. Due to it being a stronger substance, when it is cut with other mediums it would make any given part of the final sold product a toss up in terms of strength. One part of the cut mix might have hardly any fent, while another corner of it might have a lethal dose, even if the user is taking the same amount of the final mixture. The process of producing heroin created a more homogeneous product even if it was cut before making it to the end user. It wasnt a matter of a few grains here of there that meant life or death for the user.

Plus you factor in that junkies have a penchant for seeking out batches that have caused overdoses rather than avoiding them, because they are looking for high strength even if it might kill them. Yet another reason why fent became so popular that it displaced heroin.

I think very little of it has anything to do with Afghan heroin production to be honest

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The difference can be pretty staggering between games even released a short time apart. I recently got back into AC games, and while downloading them I noticed Origins is less than 25 Gb, while Odyssey is over 75 Gb. They were only released one year apart.

I havent started Odyssey, so I cant make a comparison, but Origins is a beautiful and well running game at less than 25 Gb of data. I cant imagine Odyssey is significantly more impressive to a point where demanding 3x the data is justified, considering it runs on the same hardware. But I guess I will see soon enough

The “pee” tape everybody talks about was not actually “pee” in the report. It was “P tape”. Which at the time was speculated by many to be shorthand for pedo, and that has only become more and more likely to be true over the last decade

Everybody remain F***ING calm!

Kids these days will never know life with non-AI demonic Tickle Me Elmo

Toilet paper that doesnt suck

Time is algae, algae is oxygen, oxygen is dolphin

Ya know, had they taken longer to absolutely wreck the economy the whole “Biden did it” thing might have plausibly worked on Republicans. But given the speed and obviousness by which they fucked everything up, I dont think even their supporters are buying it anymore

“I sleep about two hours now, four hours at the longest,” she told MPs at a legislative committee meeting this week. “It’s probably bad for my skin,”

Its probably bad for a lot of things. Especially trying to live past 75 years old. Shes already 64, that has got to do a number on your longevity

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Mexico still has more senior rights to the water than the states do, and they still get their water regardless of states disagreeing about what to do with the US portion. Although it is fucked what happened to the delta, that would likely have occurred anyways due to such heavy use of the water. It’s the same story all over the world almost everywhere on tons of rivers and caused by mismanagement. Look at the Aral Sea basically not existing anymore. There are former fishing towns that were seaside 50 years ago that are now hundreds of miles from water

Decades ago the US actually was very concerned about not being able to meet its water obligations to Mexico, due to the Colorado water being so heavily salted from use in irrigation before it got to Mexico, so we spent billions of dollars on a massive desalination plant in Yuma, AZ. It has only been turned on literally two times since it was built. Once to test it when it was new, and again to test it more recently. They estimate for us to use it would cost millions to update it, and millions to run. Although it would be very useful as the river declines.

Problem is, it has always had water running through it, and the runoff dumps into Mexico (as thats where they were gonna dump the brine). Had we dumped brine there starting decades ago, there would still be nothing living in that spot, but instead weve been running freshwater into it for so long that it created its own wetland environment. That spot is now a protected ecological area in Mexico because it has become a haven for different bird species. And if we turn on the plant for long term use, it will send its brine that spot and immediately kill everything off

he truly was the hero of 9-11, because no one else was mayor that day

The lawyer who represents himself has a Rudy Giuliani for a client

• Abraham Lincoln

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