• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Rule 2 violation. Please edit the beginning of the post with “Why you should know.” And remove the unsourced medical advice.

    You can message me when done and I’ll unlock it.

    Your post will be deleted if not corrected in 24 hours.

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    I feel like this would be illegal in Washington state. We already ruled in our supreme courts that our waste, including what is in our trash cans, is considered private. I guess we get to sue Trump, again, if this happens

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      And the “good people in red states deserve it for being outnumbered” sentiment from the “fuck you we got ours” states continues.

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    They are going to ignore the fact drugs are in every neighborhood. No need to add to that sentence. They will though, pretend this is the the proof to move nIce into a poor democrat majority neighborhoods.

    Edit: “poor” may be an unnecessary adjective as well.

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    I’m gonna go ahead and be completely alarmist and say that it’s so RFK Jr. has an excuse to throw people into his “wellness” farms.

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      Just off the top of my head, blue cities will “skyrocket” in use, giving the feds another reason to harass people there.

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          NP! it’s a shit acronym to be honest lol. Someone must get off to it because it’s used everywhere instead of actual titles and/or departments in the states.

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            Nah, the reason is the Byzantine law enforcement structure in the US. You can’t just say “the police” because they have so many officers running around enforcing parts of the law that are not police. FBI, DEA, ATF CBP, ICE and god knows what else are state agents, are involved in law enforcement and are all arguably not police.

            So to get a proper generic term, of course they add another TLA to the alphabet soup.

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    …I’m fairly certain monitoring waste waters to determine the rate of drug use is a common and widely used procedure. Like, it is happening and it has been happening for a while now.

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      Yeah, they have been monitoring the amount of various drugs for as long as I’ve been paying attention.

      Now the religious leo bullshit, that is entirely expected and I don’t have the words to say how much I hate it. But like i guess it’s just one more front to fight

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        It sounds like he’s using bipartisan rhetoric to justify funding a reasonable strategy. Knowing how many people are taking which psychoactives is important for making policy decisions.

        … An accurate monitoring system is needed to prove the effectiveness of different harm-reduction strategies. People lie on self-surveys.

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      I wouldn’t be too sure of that, could actually be worse for septic system users. I could easily see a system implemented where a septic tank truck has to be “inspected” when it goes to process the waste. If sensors tripped or flagged then they would sequester the employee and his logs which would lead them straight to your house or a few handful. Kinda like how junkyards require identification and address the metals came from in case an investigation needs to be launched about stolen goods.

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    And, of course,

    The administration also aims to apply artificial intelligence technologies to screen cargo for illicit drugs at ports of entry, examine electronic health records to “identify patients at high risk of overdose” and create search algorithms to detect emerging threats, the plan says.

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      I don’t know about you, but I signed up for a govt FOR the people BY the people, not this AI bullshit enslaving us for billionaires.

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    why don’t they build their little drug free paradise far away and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.