great question! 1) people have fewer kids because more survive to adulthood 2) american revolution was victory over tyranny
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Replying to @literalbanana
Wrong. America's revolution was a bunch of hooligans destroying other people's property just because they thought they were on the right side of history
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Replying to @literalbanana
oh, right, we were saying coherent, not correct or incorrect. Okay, so you think the opioid crisis is just an ephiphenomenon of a lot of isolated stuff at the same time, and any partial story will just cut one head of the hydra?
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Replying to @SilverVVulpes
something like that - also not convinced that ENOUGH people are on opioids in the US at least
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even people using them rarely have reliable access long-term
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this is an almost perfect ambiguous sentence Banana. does "rarely" belong to "people using them rarely" or to "rarely have reilable access"? I know because I'm familiar with some of the outside context, but shit dude, well done on a problematic parse there.
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Replying to @danlistensto
oh sorry I meant the rarely to apply to reliable long-term access
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Replying to @literalbanana
awesome medical system "hey chronic pain sufferer, take this addictive medicine that will temporarily ease your pain but you have to take it every day forever, oh by the way, the government says you can't use this for more than 3 months have fun!"
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yeah people often do only need them for short terms but it’s rarely going to be the short term the doctor cops are stuck with
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