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[–] 89 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Fuck yeah 🤘 we should all be so lucky to have someone help us end on a high note.

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  • [–] 163 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Consensual? She was in her right mind? I don't see a problem here. Ride that demon to Hell, you beautiful b.

    To die the way we want is a right.

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  • [–] 79 points 5 months ago

    The crime was that the nursing home couldn't bill for that time

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  • [–] 62 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    If he's not treated like a king in prison idk what's wrong with people

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  • [–] 48 points 5 months ago

    What a legend. The both of them.

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Bit off-topic, but I find it fascinating that in most societies there is a right to live, but no right to die. Like I can't just walk into a pharmacy and buy something that kills me. I mean, sure, you could OD on stuff, but u can't buy something that is specifically made to kill u (as painless as possible).

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    in most societies there is a right to live

    Is there? Seems like a pay-to-win system.

    Like I can’t just walk into a pharmacy and buy something that kills me.

    You absolutely can, it just won't be a fun way to go.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Given that those who want to end their lives are usually in a mentally unsound frame of mind, that may be for the best. I agree that there should be exceptions for those that suffer from chronic and lifelong conditions with no hope of improvement, however.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    People like/dislike different things. A life that may seem decent to you could be hell for someone else.

    If you can justify euthanasia for those with pain you understand like chronic illness, then you should justify euthanasia even for those with pain you don't understand like being in perfect health but not wanting to be alive anymore.

    I think there should be buffers in place like a waiting period and psychological evaluations to prevent rash actions by people who are simply bipolar or having an incredibly bad day etc.; however, the ultimate decision of whether one’s life is not worth living is a decision that can only rightfully be decided by that individual.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Once my memory starts to go, I want to be sat down in front of a (cooked) frozen pizza, outside if summer, and once I'm 3/4 done with the pizza, I want someone shoot me in the head from behind. (.22 is enough if not shot "straight", nothing fancy needed.)

    No funeral, just burn me and dumb the remains into the river I grew up next to. Or heck, unmarked grave in the forest is okay too, don't know how shitty this world turns.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    When I die put my bones in an empty street
    To remind me of how it used to be
    Don't write my name on a stone
    Bring a Coleman lantern and the radio
    Cleveland game and two fishing poles
    And watch with me from the shore
    Ghostly steel and iron ore ships coming home

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG6gpwYH1DM

    Made me think of this. Apologies in advance. Now to find a distraction from the melancholy it always elicits.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I've said to my partner several times that as soon as I lose cognitive ability just to kill me.

    No one needs that burden and I'd rather her get all my savings, rather than an old people's home

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Meth is never blue, if that's the actual baggie then people are adding food coloring to meth to make it look like Breaking Bad lol

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    I think there was an episode of attack of the show that brought up dealers were selling meth dyed blue because of the show and how you dont think of meth users as people who would care about the colour. If it was a different show I apologize.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    What a bastard! /s

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Jack Packard? O.o

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Interesting

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Florida Man out here doing this every day of his life

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    [–] 33 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Are drug dealers actually colouring meth blue to cash in on the popularity of Breaking Bad? As far as I know the show just made it up and real meth is never blue.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    The show has an explanation for the color tbh, it's because they can't get their hands on the perfect ingredients and what they manage to get has dye on it. Becomes branding later on

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    I know, what I'm saying is that explanation is fictional. It wouldn't be blue anyway in real life. The ingredient they used wasn't claimed to be dyed, the show just invented fictional chemistry that makes it blue.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    You are claiming breaking bad made up that old school biker meth bit?

    Because their other stuff is all real. The mylar baloons, the battery with an aluminum wiper across the terminals.

    Maybe you just are not familiar with the chemistry in that old school formulation where the ingredient became controlled so it was no longer used?

    I would remind you as to the enshitiffication of the internet, and bad results being put forward on search engines. Google is not the arbiter of knowledge.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    You are claiming breaking bad made up that old school biker meth bit?

    The blue color part of it, yes.

    Because their other stuff is all real.

    Yeah, not sure how that connects to the blue color, what do you mean?

    Maybe you just are not familiar with the chemistry in that old school formulation where the ingredient became controlled so it was no longer used?

    I sure aren't, I'm just repeating what the showrunners said, the show creators said they made it up as a plot device.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Because their other stuff is all real

    I'm pretty sure that they purposely explained their synthesis wrong so as to not give everyone watching a step by step process for creating meth.

    Edit: yeah... https://www.tvline.com/2113742/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-meth-inaccuracy/

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They never gave the full process, and other dangerous things were real, as is typical, even in like Burn Notice, they just didn't give a full picture, but they didn't lie.

    Like the Mylar Balloons Mike releases that drift into the power lines and short out the wires, that's real. That is when the cartel sends dudes to kill gus and mike kills them in one of the later seasons.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    https://www.tvline.com/2113742/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-meth-inaccuracy/l

    Is from the creator's mouth a good enough source

    In a 2011 interview with NPR, the AMC show's scientific advisor, organic chemist Donna Nelson, confirmed that creator Vince Gilligan took great pains to remix the process in order to avoid accidentally describing to millions of people how the drug is really made.

    "That was actually one of the concerns of a lot of people, but Vince Gilligan has been very clever," Nelson said. "You know, there are multiple ways to make meth. And so although his scenes are very accurate, he will sort of [combine] together parts of different syntheses, so that if you just simply followed the one synthesis as it's presented, you wouldn't come out with methamphetamine."

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago

    rich white kids expect street drugs to look how they saw it on TV. it's easier to add food coloring and close a sale than to explain you're not shorting them, they just don't know shit about fuck.

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    my goal is to do this but with LSD instead :)

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It was the same idea of Aldous Huxley, writer of 'brave new world' and 'doors of perception'.

    Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 μg, intramuscular." According to her account of his death[107] in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 am and a second dose an hour later; Huxley died aged 69, at 5:20 pm PST on 22 November 1963.[108]

    Basically no one remembers his passing, though, look at the date. JFK was assassinated on the same day Huxley left the mortal plane on a trip, so the news was completely snowed under.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Never knew they died on the same day. That's interesting enough as a standalone fact, but also given the JFK and Timothy Leary connection.

    We always hear about Marilyn and JFK, but it seems like Mary Pinchot tends to get swept under the rug.

    She was an artist and the ex-wife of a CIA big wig who had an affair with JFK. She almost certainly smoked weed with him at the White House, and her friend Timothy Leary (along with the CIA's counterintelligence chief, James Angleton) claimed she also got JFK to take acid at one point.

    JFK actually taking acid is unverified, but Leary alleged that Pinchot's influence on JFK was making him less willing to back war hungry policies of some very powerful men in the U.S. government, and that as a result, he became a bit of a thorn in their side. He also claimed that the day JFK was assassinated, Pinchot called him and said "he was changing too quickly."

    About a year after JFK's assassination, Pinchot was killed in a still unsolved murder, and shortly after her murder, her sister and brother in law claimed they found James Angleton breaking into her home to steal her diary.

    https://archive.is/2021.04.29-040456/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1998/10/11/the-woman-who-knew-too-much/47b45afd-5676-47d4-b035-56287b129d07/

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon.

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  • [–] 53 points 5 months ago (6 children)
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    Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

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    I go to the doctor a lot. I'm not young but most of the patients my doctor sees are probably around twice my age ... And they love to gossip. As I live in a small town, they all seem to know each other, too. The most recent time I went there, a small gaggle of seniors were gathered in the room bragging to each other about their stereotypical old person injuries.

    One of the first times I was at the office of the particular doctor in question, there were three older ladies chatting in the waiting area. They were specifically discussing their plans once their (presumably similarly aged) husbands died.

    I don't remember what the other two said, but one of the women declared that she had a cache of drugs stashed and planned to take all of them.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    I can hear old boy cackling like a fiend lol

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Is metal health by buckethead and bootsy a cover?! Ill hafta check that song out.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Is it just me? I can't be the only one seeing it...

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Fuck whoever it was who snitched

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Little known fact: the music was GWAR.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The hardest part would be deciding which gwar songs. Probably just put Scumbdogs of the Universe and America Must be Destroyed on repeat.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Ok, so anyone terminal, why not do some good on your way out? There are a lot of, uh, wrongs, that could be avenged. Obviously you would have to be smart enough not to be tooled by a malicious person to target the wrong things.

    But think about all of these, can I say, uh, mario brothers type targets? Can't go wrong there.

    Go out in a blaze of glory, you will be remembered as a saint and hero.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    I don't know anyone terminal currently, but the guaranteed imminently terminal patients I've known were pretty much unable to leave their beds, regardless of how they may or may not have acted if they were ambulatory.

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  • [+] -7 points 5 months ago (1 child)