Things You Just Don't Care About

sounds about the right percentage

Deadpool. Actually I liked the Deadpool movie which I wound up watching on an airplane, but constantly seeing 'merc with a mouth' makes me want to jump off a fucking bridge.

trump tweets

Anything involving the Simpsons'"Steamed Hams" bit, Toto's "Africa", and Owen Wilson saying "wow". I have no idea why all of these things seemed to become incredibly prevalent in the last six months.

^^ I second all these memes that won't die because they're meant to be bad

wtf the Steamed Hams stuff is great

plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose

oh god yeah the Toto thing. what the fuck is that all about. i mean yeah, good song, but for some reason it's occupying a similar space as Never Gonna Give You Up now.

Never gonna let you down in Africa

brb, arranging this as a banjo-driven mashup

Is the Toto thing only because of the empty mall video?

The memeification of "Africa" has been extensively discussed here

TOTO "africa" classic or dud

not sure there is a consensus.

Ugh, I had no clue that it's huge on youtube. Also, boooo to reminding me that the Holderness family exists.

I overheard my son talking about it yesterday so that must be what's behind that. To his credit he said to his friend "it's not a bad song".

One of the ten best songs ever.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 December 2007 10:38 (ten years ago) Permalink

I am on the cusp of not caring about The Crown. I feel too much pressure to like it.

Memes are bad

Sorry, "memes"

trump?

it feels kind of nice

the opiate epidemic

Damn

Yeah, I know (if that was for me). I almost posted it on the controversial opinion thread.

Also, in general, everyone hates or doesn't care about April Fools Day?

trump?

it feels kind of nice

― marcos, Monday, April 2, 2018 4:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the opiate epidemic

― Yerac, Monday, April 2, 2018 4:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Damn

― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, April 2, 2018 4:32 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thread delivers

the Bill Murraying of Jeff Goldblum

agreed

Cold, yerac. Weird thing to not care about

I realized after that I put opiate and not opioid epidemic. And then I cared enough on that to look up the exact difference.

morphine is a highly addictive drug and it has very little to do with your psychology, it is literally a physical reaction that your body starts relying on

this is why if you're ever in an accident or undergo some type of procedure where you require it, it's usually administered in very small doses, but it can have negative affects if you take it long term

take it = require it, i should say

the opioid epidemic is mostly about pharmaceutical companies selling pain solutions that are supposed to be long-lasting but aren't, doctors that are encouraged to immediately come to an outcome with a patient visit as opposed to providing continuity of care, and the inability of our justice system to provide care over incarceration

I care about all of those things, so I have to care about the opioid epidemic.

I care about the underlying factors because those don't always lead to individuals being addicted to opioids. I probably should've posted this on the controv opinion thread.

There's a difference between knowing why one ought to care, and caring.

Opioid epidemic spreads to fentanyl overdoses as well. My buddies friend died of an overdose recently. It’s a huge problem in Vancouver and the efforts to fix it have been piss poor. Intake sites help the homeless to test and shoot up safely. Understandably these individuals have a more urgent need for these resources but the options for non homeless are appalling: a needle Naxolone kit which no individual could administer if overdosing unless a friend was there to babysit you basically

xpost A- which is a summary of what this thread should be.

I think most people are aware of these things. Sorry about your friend friend.

one of my best friends, who I had known for about 15 years, died of a fentanyl overdose. its something that still pains me to think about today. what gets me is just how stupid it is - if you research the drug for two minutes, you can find out that it's super easy to overdose on and it apparently doesn't even get you that high. I'm still pissed that he even took it in the first place. I'm pissed that the guy who originally got it was even prescribed something like that, given that he sold 95% of the meds he got as the result of a car accident from 8 years back. It's such a stupid thing to give out like that.

I don't have any close friends who have died, but a friend-of-friends and an old friend of my neighbor died of fentanyl overdose

to my knowledge, neither person knew they were taking fentanyl, though

I guess for me it goes under "things I really don't want to care about"

^ yeah

I literally don't care about how people use the word 'literally'.

But do you care about how people use the word 'figuratively'?

I do, yes. Funny old world.

this thread isn't for convincing people to care about something they don't care about

I mean, one is a perfectly normal filler word, the other is an attempt to show off very limited linguistic knowledge by substituting a completely unsuitable word with the wrong function. The first is normal usage, the second is some magical mix of pompous pedantry and pig-headed stupidity.

Ready Player One and how bad it is

I care about the opioid crisis but a lot less than I care about a lot of other things, including principally planetary warming caused in part by the fossil fuel industry, a major historic center of which in the United States is also ground zero for the opioid crisis.

I am interested in the relationship between the crisis and marijuana legalization, which reportedly led Mexican cartels to replace weed fields with poppy fields and may have driven it, but is also claimed by a new study to be a potential solution.

Yerac I didnt mean to give you a hard time fwiw

It's ok. I know it's controversial. I come from a military family//hometown. The military hospital gives out hundred(s) count bottles of vicodin/hydrocodone etc. with 2-3 refills. I stopped caring awhile ago.

good for your sanity tbh

1. People who are suffering get my sympathy more or less automatically, and I usually don't care whether they "deserve" it. Desert is a tricky concept and it shifts quite a lot if you care enough to look at root causes.

2. That said. I have moderate-to-severe chronic pain (a fun combo of Lyme disease, gouty arthritis, and garden-variety arthritis). I've seen a half-dozen doctors. I can get an anti-inflammatory, but a painkiller of any sort is never even mentioned as an option, and I can't ask without being labeled as a drug-seeking fiend. I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to go about obtaining an opioid.

3. From what I've heard, every reputable practitioner is trained to assume that anyone complaining of pain is drug-seeking and should be denied painkillers out of hand. So lots of ordinary people who would benefit from a painkiller can't get much more than Advil, while people whose lives are being destroyed are apparently able to get fistfuls of them on demand. Not sure what is going on there. Who is doing the prescribing?