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Really good game, the parts with Bruce Campbell are hilarious, still a fun play even all these years later...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/oregon-is-ready-to-restart-the-drug-war/ar-BB1juSlK

In the November 2020 election, Oregon approved a historic ballot initiative that decriminalized small amounts of hard drugs, like meth, heroin, and crack. Under Measure 110, people caught with drugs were to be cited with a $100 fine, similar to a traffic ticket, that could be cleared by seeking treatment services, which would be expanded with millions in revenue from the state's taxation of recreational marijuana sales. Winning nearly 60 percent support, the initiative promised to treat drug use and addiction as a public-health problem, not a criminal matter - adopting the logic that incarceration does little to curb the harms of substance abuse.

The Oregon experiment was unique in America, where on any given day 350,000 people - roughly the equivalent of the population of Cleveland - are locked up on drug offenses, and drug-possession arrests occur at a clip of one every 23 seconds. And the passage of Measure 110 was met with acclaim from reformers like Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, who celebrated the "paradigm-shifting" victory as perhaps "the biggest blow to the war on drugs to date," while predicting Oregon would "serve as a model" for the nation.

Instead, three years later, Measure 110 now stands as a cautionary tale about the failure to match bold policy reform with competent administration. Last week, the Oregon state legislature completed an about-face in the state's novel approach to hard drugs - voting to recriminalize possession as a misdemeanor, with penalties of up to six months in jail. The vote was not close: The state House approved the bill 51-7, the state Senate piled on 21-8. The legislation is now awaiting the signature of Gov. Tina Kotek (D), who has signaled a willingness to sign it.

Score one for the Drug War.

The saying goes that "failure is an orphan." But the collapse of Oregon's bold experiment in drug decriminalization has many fathers. Some dynamics were outside of the easy control of local policymakers, including a rising tide of homelessness; the Covid-19 pandemic's hollowing out center-city commercial life; and the flood of dirt-cheap fentanyl, leading to a scourge of street overdose deaths.

But the state bureaucracy also fumbled the implementation of Measure 110, attempting to delay and divert drug-treatment funding; failing to train law enforcement on steering drug users toward rehabilitation; and relying on a cumbersome call center that proved all-but feckless at moving people in out of the grip of addiction and into treatment.

As blocks of beleaguered downtown Portland got overrun by open-air drug markets and unhoused people smoking and shooting drugs without consequence, Measure 110 became an attractive scapegoat for the explosion of urban blight.

Correlation is not, in fact, causation. Research from Portland State University has shown Measure 110 had "no impact" on violent crime and produced at most a "slight uptick" in property crime. Overdose deaths have indeed increased in Oregon - but the trajectory was rising before Measure 110's passage, and Oregon's rates are "no different from similar states," the academics write.

But politics are driven by perception. And by last spring, polling had turned decisively against the experiment, with 63 percent of voters supporting a return to criminal penalties for drug possession. This year, as deep-pocketed state business leaders threatened to launch a punitive recriminalization ballot measure, Oregon's Democratic-led legislature snapped to action to put its imprint on reform.

The bill now on the governor's desk would empower police to again arrest and incarcerate repeat, low-level drug users. Under the bill, counties can choose to offer a "deflection" program for arrestees who agree to enter treatment, enabling them to avoid jail time and a criminal record. The legislation also offers more than $200 million in new funding for drug courts and treatment clinics, while maintaining the funding mechanism from Measure 110, steering marijuana tax revenue into rehabilitation.

Drug reformers are furious about the squandered opportunity to model a new approach for the country. "It is Oregon leaders that didn't work," says Frederique of the Drug Policy Alliance. "Their chronic underfunding of affordable housing, effective addiction services, and accessible health care are to blame for the heartbreaking public suffering seen in Oregon's streets." Frederique insists there "is not a shred of evidence" that Measure 110 increased homelessness, crime, or overdose rates. And she sees the recriminalization bill as "a false promise" of a fix, meant to distract from political "incompetence."

In retrospect, the key driver of Measure 110's political demise was that it entrusted implementation of a radical drug-policy experiment to rigid state agencies and police bureaus that were not invested in - or even hostile to - its success.

Cant say im shocked, this was a complete failure and proves mass drug decriminalization is near impossible to implement successfully...

People who whine about any steak cooked above medium are just meh in general

He was great, MJ may have had bigger hits, but Prince was a much better human being...

The nude foreign exchange student who kept changing her accent was hilarious

A little white rice, some protein, and some dumpling sauce is just *chefs kiss*

i hear canada is having immigration website upticks again...

no i watched YT highlights...

Poor Max Dood, rollback is his greatest dream...now it blows up a game...least he didnt name his kid rollback which some of his fans suggested...

Nopethough I thought it was another movie

1 and 2, there is nothing else worth watching only the t2 arcade game is worth playing

Eh if women have some odd standards, guys can too imo

I liked 3 and NV more

Pretty good though better with grilled chicken

Voidgolem posted...

and this is why I was never in favor of this form of protesting. It literally just is new-age McCarthyism.

K181 posted...

These types of shame campaigns are always about trying to appear like you're helping versus actually helping. These knobs don't really care, they just want to self-congratulatory pat themselves and others on the back.

Theseseriously what a ****ing bonehead

https://youtu.be/iepZBS9BxGo?si=UXY50gR5LdfI08XR

tl;dr Morgan Spurlock the director and subject of supersizeme, the movie that got McDonalds to end their supersize portions admitted to being a chronic alcoholic before, during, and after the movie. The scene where Morgan's doctor tells him his liver is in a bad way was implied to be because of eating all that food...but now with his alcohol use out there...well its casts doubts on the movie...

After Spurlock admitted to maybe SAing a woman in college, all his projects have been canceled but people including teachers still use his documentary to warn people about fast food even thought others have tried the same 30 day experiment and had none of the same issues except weightgain...

Never cared for it

Every since these ads started its slowed Gfaqs to a crawl for me...

https://youtu.be/1kZBD9xoQRQ?si=dT0GU9cFAqXSD9yO

For seven years, San Francisco kept a business ban on states that would defy the values of the city. But the plan backfired and in the end - the ban hurt San Franciscans more than the other way around

Well can not say im shocked this didnt work...

DrizztLink posted...

Yes, but it's also toxic in doses slightly higher than the ones that cause the effects, so it's not the best thing for a high.

my old man used to work at hospitals near native lands and some were so desperate for any buzz they would buy bread and shoe polish, pour the polish through the bread to get the alcohol seeped into a glass to drink the alcohol inside the polish

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0a7340ad.jpg

actually played him once online in MvC2 on the 360...dude cussed and screamed the whole match, and kept spamming invites to me to rematch him after i beat him...i was laughing so much is had to stop playing for a little bit. I get back on and he had sent dozens of messages to me...

https://youtu.be/bFqDRj0p9Us?si=s9OYMLXyRxTP9K1F

and here we go

Simon_Gruber posted...

At least two are:

Graves said three people were taken into custody after the incident that left the city reeling following what was supposed to be a day of celebration. Two of those suspects are juveniles.

https://www.kmbc.com/article/shooting-reported-at-kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-victory-rally/46790065

yeah its reported to be two juveniles. The 3rd person was cleared and released

New Order and Old Blood are great

New Colussus Is just not as fun

Youngblood is not worth anything

shooter has been ID'ed:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1144ee9d.jpg

IHeartRadiation posted...

What is the relation of the shooter and the child?

still uncertain i dont think the woman has been id'ed yet...

that first tekken anime movie was so ****ing awful...one of the worst anime i ever saw...

wow....she actually brought a kid with her to her shooting...the same kid she brought got hit...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/reports-of-shooting-at-joel-osteen-s-lakewood-church-and-a-possible-shooter-is-down-authorities-say/ar-BB1i7PWg

https://www.foxnews.com/us/lakewood-church-shooting-woman-child-tow-opens-fire-inside-joel-osteens-texas-megachurch

added some links...

just breaking, apparently a woman barged in, screaming she had a bomb and started shooting, a 5 year old got hit but is in critical condition and a 57 year old man got hit, a guard opened fire and killed the suspect...

opopopza posted...

Romeo and Juliet is a good call, kids in high school must have watched that for decades. I can't imagine they show it anymore though.

i believe when criterion re-released the movie, they censored that scene or cut it since it was like 2 seconds...

Yeah women went nuts for titanic in the 90s kinda like magic mike, twilight, 50 shades, etc...

Worst thing i ever saw at school was in my 9th grade year, an 11th or 12th grader just unmercifully beat up his girlfriend before 6th period. It took two teachers and like 4 football players to pry him off of her. Only thing she did was talk back to him. He had a full ride football scholarship but was immediately expelled and arrested. What a waste, the girl lived but her face was hamburger, it took a year of surgeries and therapy until she was able to come back. Think he got wasted in prison...

Isnt Hidive all the sentai stuff? Discotek is Retrocrush i think...

toadfan64 posted...

That's crazy. I didn't realize Steve's been doing it now for almost 14 YEARS! Jesus.

I like Steve as the host, but Richard Karn and Richard Dawson were the best imo.

Ray combs wasnt bad either but man did his life just go south fast...poor guy may he RIP...

annoying voice, but he introduced the world to Brett Cooper so that's a plus, also has surprisingly good movie takes...

https://youtu.be/plh3_jpedv4?si=7x3SeRWJWTx3GgyD

the only RTS i ever got into was romance of the three kingdoms...

always wanted to try of classic RTS's but was worried about the timesync they would be...

any good recs?

remember when the movie for Splinter Cell was announced, that was almost 20 years ago...

Ubisoft just left the series to die...

Not having a modern trilogy remaster (that bull**** PS3 collection doesnt count) is a bloody travesty...cmon ubisoft use the xbox or PC versions, add all the level dlcs, and an online spies vs merc returns mode boom instant money...

ForsakenHermit posted...

It's not the dumbest answer by any means but the disconnect and quasi absurdist nature of the answer makes it lmao worthy. The host getting yelled at for failing to keep a straight face doesn't hurt either.

The answer itself is cute but Richard Dawson losing it is what puts it over the top, now you see hosts crack up all the time but Dawson always kept it pretty straight so when he busts out laughing and falling to his knees that's what made it amazing...

"What's something you feel before buying it?"
"Excited"

PMarth2002 posted...

Yeah sometimes I do peanut butter with cheese instead of jelly.

You're on a watchlist aren't you?

"At what month does a pregnant woman start to show?"
"September"

"Name something that London is famous for?"
"I'm thinking Pasta"

sure why not...