While lead contamination must occur over multiple exposures, in children it has been associated with lower intelligence and behavioral problems.

Now we know what causes leftism

shriekingviolet posted:

In Victoria, there was an addictions recovery resource center located in the midst of a fairly classy downtown shopping area. Its location in the downtown core was ideal for the city's marginalized and homeless, it was very accessible and saw a lot of use. This caused no end of frustration to the local community business association, the presence of obviously impoverished people is bad for the image of the area. And that's bad for business. Across the street from the resource center was a small undeveloped gravel lot, it was a popular space to stop outside the center to smoke and socialize. This too was part of the success of the center, it's absolutely necessary for that kind of place to have somewhere people can smoke, and the sidewalks were narrow and unsuitable as Victoria is full of stuck up health yuppies and punishing civic bylaws.

The business association brought a proposal to the city: they wanted to give back to the community, and contribute to the beauty of such a lovely city. How kind of them! They wanted to build a community garden. What an excellent idea! They received approval from the city, and the business association reached out to various affluent leftist groups in the area to help with the project: the organic growers guild, student groups on campus, that sort of thing. They all loved the idea, community gardens are fantastic! It's good to see corporate types contributing to the community, maybe they're not so bad after all. On the empty lot, they built a beautiful garden.

Of course, a garden needs to be sheltered so that things can grow, so they built a fence around it. And we can't have cigarette buts polluting the soil, so littering was vigilantly and harshly penalized. Gradually, due to the lack of a socialization space and the increased presence of cops and clueless do-gooder students who want to feel safer, attendance at the center declined. The local business association came forward with another proposal: the current location for the addictions recovery center wasn't very popular anymore, but they had a larger place further out of town that they would generously lease for cheaper. The city thought this was an excellent cost saving measure for a program that had mysteriously declined in effectiveness.

They moved their offices, and now if you want to get to the center from downtown (where all their people are) you have to take the incredibly expensive Victoria transit system. The place is always practically empty. On the old downtown block, the business association is very happy.

Kill hippies.

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swirlsofhistory posted:

shriekingviolet posted:

In Victoria, there was an addictions recovery resource center located in the midst of a fairly classy downtown shopping area. Its location in the downtown core was ideal for the city's marginalized and homeless, it was very accessible and saw a lot of use. This caused no end of frustration to the local community business association, the presence of obviously impoverished people is bad for the image of the area. And that's bad for business. Across the street from the resource center was a small undeveloped gravel lot, it was a popular space to stop outside the center to smoke and socialize. This too was part of the success of the center, it's absolutely necessary for that kind of place to have somewhere people can smoke, and the sidewalks were narrow and unsuitable as Victoria is full of stuck up health yuppies and punishing civic bylaws.

The business association brought a proposal to the city: they wanted to give back to the community, and contribute to the beauty of such a lovely city. How kind of them! They wanted to build a community garden. What an excellent idea! They received approval from the city, and the business association reached out to various affluent leftist groups in the area to help with the project: the organic growers guild, student groups on campus, that sort of thing. They all loved the idea, community gardens are fantastic! It's good to see corporate types contributing to the community, maybe they're not so bad after all. On the empty lot, they built a beautiful garden.

Of course, a garden needs to be sheltered so that things can grow, so they built a fence around it. And we can't have cigarette buts polluting the soil, so littering was vigilantly and harshly penalized. Gradually, due to the lack of a socialization space and the increased presence of cops and clueless do-gooder students who want to feel safer, attendance at the center declined. The local business association came forward with another proposal: the current location for the addictions recovery center wasn't very popular anymore, but they had a larger place further out of town that they would generously lease for cheaper. The city thought this was an excellent cost saving measure for a program that had mysteriously declined in effectiveness.

They moved their offices, and now if you want to get to the center from downtown (where all their people are) you have to take the incredibly expensive Victoria transit system. The place is always practically empty. On the old downtown block, the business association is very happy.

Kill hippies.

Where was this?

hello FBI

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

i should start an organization that calls for the involuntary euthanasia of people who are utterly broken and who even in the best case are never going to be more useful to society than any one of billions of illiterate foreigners we could import tomorrow if necessary. it would be a lot better for everyone. a quick death is a lot more compassionate than dealing with withdrawals and absolute poverty and getting shuffled around by people who think they're too nice to kill you but are fine with running out the clock on you until you die a lot more painfully or end up in jail forever

This organization, following its mandate, would just kill you and then immediately dissolve itself. Go for it.

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

i don't know if you can really blame capitalism for that one. i think you will find better luck placing blame at the stoop of democratic liberalism which cannot muster the courage to simply mercykill these superfluous wretches and prefers a slow and unofficial death they can pretend isn't happening. capitalism is not trammeled by such considerations

i know you are making a funny but i still have to point out, that liberalism==capitalism, that a holistic view of the Drug's Problem recognises the opposite of the disgusting liberal notion of ""personal responsibility"", a malnourished and insignificant proposition compared to the actual responsibility of capitalism, at both the macro/imperial level, with regard to the production and importation of Drug's and the fundamental role that plays in Western Imperialism, no to mention the interreliance of legitimate and underground business and power structures, right down to the micro/societal level, with the availability of effective treatment only for the middle-upper classes, the overwhelming burden of criminalisation on the underclasses, the economic marginalisation of underclass communities, etc, etc, etc. anyway, haha, nice and funny post, mate.

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

Back in classical times

catchphrase

tpaine posted:

sorry i'm just really turned on by gardening progress updates. i eagerly await more...ghhnggreeghhh

the corn. is coming. up.