Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-31-2010

[andrewducker]

• A recipe for unhappiness - Our workers are more educated, but our jobs require less intelligence.
  (tags: work jobs education)
• An alternative plan on housing
  (tags: housing uk politics)
• Man Built a Sanctuary for Homeless Cats. And by sanctuary I mean _city_.
  (tags: cats funny usa)
• Public sector job cuts to increase unemployment to 10%
  (tags: unemployment government uk)
• The Joys Of Incomplete Information. We won't see days like those again.
  (tags: childhood comics memories)
• A Hit Song on YouTube, Unnameable on the Radio
  (tags: music media censorship society)
• How Quake 2 was nearly developed on a Cray supercomputer
  (tags: software hardware games)
• Oxford English Dictionary will not be printed again
  (tags: dictionary books language technology)
• Drugs are fun. If we don't accept that, we can't even talk about them honestly.
  (tags: drugs society)

Comments

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

[Some] drugs are fun. Other recreational drugs fuck up your emotional balance and leave you an jittery mess, (aka Crystal Meth.) But marijuana can be both a healing drug and a recreational drug.

As far as I'm concerned people should have the right to do whatever drug they want. They're going to be "paying the price" of using that drug, and as long as they're not hurting anyone else they should have the freedom to do what they want.

[andrewducker]

The problem is that "fun" and "fucks up your emotional balance and leaves you a mess" aren't necessarily contradictory, at least in the short term.

If we don't admit that people trying meth can actually enjoy it _for a short while_ then we can't really debate openly about it, is all.