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well now i want to know your picks for the top 10 pjackk posts to read in jk simmons' voice.
the trick is that most pjackk posts are actually stanley posts so this is a very complicated process. with that said:
10. Felt heavy radiation close to gas station turkey sub at 0300 hours today
9. THE little squirt working the gas station said they arent doing the sweetwater IPPA 2 for $4 deal no more and yet the tags... are still there. Stop trying make me go crazy, okay ? (note: this is also a stan post. but it is also also a "ford having a paranoid episode trying to buy beer" post)
8. Wtf is the point of the tutty fruitty flavor when it just tastes like bubble gum wich btw there is already a fucking bibble gum flavored jellie bellie for your information i think the giys making these must be kind of fuckinf stupid from time to time
7. Shooting laser pointer in my eye is giving me steange sensation. Cant tell if good or bad. Who has info or data on this phanamena
6. My fucking puppy* just killed an elf
*shapeshifter
5. Did i just see a mutant malard with a green jead?or am i seeing thigns again
4. Ive circled the anomalieys....
3. IDea for a game i had in my dream
2. Amazing pull ruined by tutti frutti excess (obviously)
1. Im a freak in a fucked world 🌎🔫
Thank you for your inquiry hope this helps 👍
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dmv put a little warning box on my vehicle registration notice (for my 1999 explorer) that's like "there's a recall on your vehicle!" so i go to the nhtsa website to check what the recall is
it's from 2005 and it's like "sometimes a particular switch catches on fire. this can happen when the car is parked with the engine off"
on the one hand, worrying, but on the other hand i think if it was going to catch on fire it probably would have done it already
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A new bill in the capitol would legalize safe spaces to use drugs.
The bill would allow the Department of Human Services to license what the bill calls “Overdose Prevention Sites.” People could go to these locations and use illegal drugs under direct supervision, with no fear of criminal prosecution.
Right now, they are far from common in the United States. Rhode Island is the only state to legalize them, but New York City and several other cities have them. A pair of lawmakers are saying those spaces are the next logical step as the state tries to curb overdose deaths.
Opioid overdoses continue to be a leading cause of accidental deaths in the state for those between the ages of 18 and 49. In 2021, 3,013 people died from overdoses. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago), said supervised injection sites are a logical step to help curb those numbers.
“Why would we turn our backs on people struggling with a substance use disorder saying, ‘no, we don’t want to allow space for you,'” Ford said. “‘We would rather see you die on the streets.'”
Taylorville Police Chief Dwayne Wheeler takes his own unique approach to helping people who are suffering from addiction. The Taylorville Safe Passage program has helped hundreds of people get clean before they get in trouble with the law. The increased supervision is a sensible idea for Wheeler, but he is skeptical of the ramifications that come with giving people a safe space to use.
“There’s a lot of work to be done,” Wheeler said. “But let’s treat the people.”
Ford said in an ideal situation, there would be treatment options available at these facilities.
“I think we should have the debate to make sure that when we have overdose prevention sites, that they’re not places where people just go use drugs,” Ford said. “It’s the place where people go and get the help that they need while struggling with a substance use disorder.”
But the bill does not require those services. At a minimum, the bill would require these facilities to have a clean space to use, have naloxone to help people survive an overdose, staff that can help people who are in the middle of an overdose and equipment like fentanyl testing strips. It also would give legal immunity to people who use in those facilities.
Wheeler’s Safe Passage program gives people the opportunity to come into the police department and say they need help. It’s gained state wide acclaim, and even earned his department a $250,000 grant from the state to expand.
The program prioritizes getting people to treatment centers. It relies on people to take that first step and admit they need help, and once they take that step, the department — and it’s long list of volunteers — will drive that person to whatever rehab center they can find a spot in, no matter where it is in the state.
He said if the state is going to allow supervised injection sites, they need to carefully design the program, and make sure it leaves no questions unanswered on how it would work.
There is data that shows supervised injection sites have positive impacts, but they also come with societal ramifications, including arguments over where the sites will be located.
“Illinois should answer the call, knowing that this is the best harm reduction tool that we have in our toolbox,” Ford said. “When you look at overdose prevention sites, and you look at other harm reduction tools, this is the number one harm reduction tool that has proven to save lives across the world.”
This is not the first time the proposal has made its way around the Capitol, but it hasn’t found any traction in past years. So far, the bill has not been voted on in any committees.
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AR-1 Love Languages
Different people with different personalities give and receive love in different ways.
Ronon Dex: Physical Touch
It’s about expressing and receiving love through physical contact
Secondary: Quality Time
Teyla Emmagan: Words of Affirmation
It’s all about expressing affection and appreciation through words
Secondary: Physical Touch
Rodney McKay: Acts of Service
It’s about actions speaking louder than words
Secondary: Words of Affirmation
John Sheppard: Quality Time
It’s about giving the other person your undivided attention
Secondary: Receiving Gifts
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President, um ?
All right. It is 1975 and the President is going to walk off the tarmac of Air Force One and meet the Little Archie gang. And which president is that?
Okay. I know the 2000 reprise looks enough like Bill Clinton -- I guess? - - But what's up with this Gerald Ford? Is this off of his modelling days?
Clinton as a bobblehead. Or one of those relay mascots in baseball games.
Well. We know the story can't follow with the last president.
Though, if Bill Clinton is politicking for votes to the Democratic ticket he may be barking up the wrong tree.
The story does have a reprint credit for 1982. I am guessing they stuck with the old model that looks not at all like Ford and even less like Reagan. But, Reagan did make a stopover a few years' later.
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