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Ah yes, the delicious false equivalence.


“Got it through sharing needles” was the 90s version of “got herpes from a toilet seat.”


Even these days, when cops accidently pike themselves with needles when dealing with addicts, they go to HIV center for preventative drugs. So that they, a cop who got piked exactly once, do not get HIV.


Yes, obviously.


Um, no? Unlike with toilet seats, tons of people got it this way. There were even cases of hospital outbreaks due to insufficient sterilization of reusable syringes.


Citation needed.


Is it really that hard to find?

About 270 patients, mostly children, were nosocomially infected with HIV subtype G in seventeen hospitals in 1988–1989. The infection was mainly transmitted between children through contaminated catheters and needles, and from children to mothers through breast-feeding.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905505/


$60,000 fine… who can imagine why these were anonymously donated… probably dug them up in his backyard


Which on top of the fine, I imagine they wouldn't be thrilled to have a digging operation right by their house. The anonymous packages make perfect sense.


Semaglutide is not a drug taken casually. Speak from experience on this one. :-/


What went wrong?


Complete indifference to food and water that led to fainting and probable heat stroke. Extreme nausea. All mitigated now with medication and forced hydration. Not fun.


Sorry to hear that. Thanks for sharing.


Doesn't sound too serious.


They’re still around, just not as caffeinated. Still fun to drive around with one between your legs. Just alternate sips with a Monster.


Are you kidding? Most of them are tiny and weird looking in person. Have you seen what Nicole Kidman looked like in her 80s Australian movies? I enjoy her performances but now she is one of the strangest looking people I’ve ever seen.


I mean… I was being told 20 years ago that Kaspersky was sketch..


Pixel cut peridot is nothing new.


How old is it?


I was shown one at some game room supply store in 2005, and I would presume older than that. They were meant to be strewn about your poker table.


Ah, I was expecting some real historical info!


A staircase with individual stairs 10 feet tall? Cmon. It looks like a cool dive but cmon.


There’s an optical drive emulator now, no need for discs.


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