Google got into trouble for copyright reasons for quoting too much of news stories in search results, so I assume this will cause HN (and the sites doing the paywall removal) some expensive trouble as soon as anyone with relevant power notices.
All I had to do was update the rules for Adblock Plus free version. I'd been getting the warnings for several days, then yesterday it would only let me watch 3 videos. I then updated AB+ rules and nothing pops up and things just play like "normal."
All I had to do was nothing. Yesterday I said to myself, this is the end, I'll never go back, never again attempt to view a video on it, because 99% of the time they'll ask me to purchase premium, please dear self, find new hobby. Today my muscle memory took me once more to YT and there are no ads and no popups begging me for money. They pulled me back in.
I'm using not recently updated uBlock Origin + FF.
> I said to myself, this is the end, I'll never go back, never again attempt to view a video on it, because 99% of the time they'll ask me to purchase premium
I see this kind of language all the time on HN. Reminds me of "This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body". The context was Microsoft closing the support forum for some keyboard software they hadn't updated in years.
The top comment from that thread seems relevant: People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.
Hollywood is notorious for creating gasoline explosions because they make gigantic fireballs. High explosives used in a war zone look totally different.
It also doesn't cover the cost in terms of tying up a major resource: Paramedics, Police and Fire.
Overdoses are at an all time high in Portland. The entity that responds usually gives the person overdosing Narcan, addiction help is then offered for those who recover and 99% of those offered recovery options refuse.
Firefighters (and others) are quitting due to the trauma of responding to these calls over and over and over, with no concrete progress. It takes it's toll mentally to respond these calls which are taking up and increasing percentage of the calls they have to respond to.
The main failure of this experiment, imho, is the missing component of forcing detox/rehab/etc when x amount of drug related crimes are committed. The measure explicitly said the addict has to seek the help on their own volition. That might work for alcohol and cannabis, but the vast majority of opioid based drugs are so addictive they can't even fathom not getting their next high or life without it.
Fentanyl is popular because it so cheap (a large Asian country produces it cheaply). If it was taxed anywhere near the damage it causes, it would be too expensive to buy, and smuggling it in via Mexico would still occur.
Make other aspects expensive. Drug crimes and related crimes get huge penalties. No medical treatment if you have certain drugs in your system. Make it so the cost of using fentanyl is so high that there is some deterrence.
But if overdoses are peaking in a lot of places outside of Oregon than pointing out that overdoses are going up quickly in Portland is being deceptive. (Note that I do not myself have any clue as to what the truth here is, but if magicalist is correct it certainly undermines this part of cronix's argument, which--whether it was intended to or not <- that is kind of irrelevant, as the interpretation is in the readers--seems to be using that as part of the rhetoric.)
What typically happens when something goes recreational in one area is the following:
1) Drug runners drive to Oregon (or wherever - but it's always going to be Oregon first) and pick things up and take them back to their home state.
2) When the first state goes recreational - people expect that things are generally becoming more LAX and eventually it will be allowed there too. And often that LAX expectation is what literally pushes that state to go there too, voters gonna vote.
But I'm definitely guessing the pandemic in general was just a huge event that has pushed probably millions (potentially billions worldwide) of people into general depression.
