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0 pointswpietri11y ago0 comments

Worst case, he's implying that illegal drug use is a factor in the death of somebody known to people here. Best case, he's bringing up something irrelevant on a thread where people are paying their respects and/or dealing with a deep and sudden loss and is doing it in a way where he's oblivious to the possible implication. Either way, I think shitty is a reasonable word.

If he wants to talk about an issue in Silicon Valley, he can do it pretty much anywhere but this one page.

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pen2l11y ago· 2 in thread

No, what's shitty here is you twisting my words. I never said anything about illegal drug use. I have friends who were getting ADHD medicine (subscribed by a licensed psychiatrist), but had to stop because of heart problems. THIS IS COMMON. As I said, cardiovascular diseases are an amazingly big killer of life. That is what I'm talking about. I think it's an apt time to mention this -- people are emotionally engaged, it's this time to be informed of actions we can do to care for ourselves: be cautious of stimulants (not just illegal ones), eat well and healthy, and make time to exercise.

wpietriOP11y ago

I did not twist your words. You also never said anything about legal drug use, so when I said "worst case" I was pointing out one end of a scale of possible interpretations. That you were talking about technically legal abuse of drugs is on the scale I describe.

I stand by my point: either you were suggesting that drug abuse might be a factor here or you were bringing up something approximately irrelevant. Either way, that's shitty. Let people have their time to pay their respects and mourn without you jumping in with your kids-eat-your-veggies hobbyhorse.

mreiland11y ago

Of course you stand by your point, how often do you see people online not stand by their point. That would be the unusual thing.

It's been observed many times before that when someone online starts describing another persons stance as "either you X or you Y" they're generally involved in a false dichotomy.

So congratulations wpeitri, you're just like almost everyone else on the internet. You have an opinion and nothing will convince you otherwise.

Are you happy about that?

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