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[egosomnio]

Just some things I wanted to share, or at least found interesting. Really, it's largely just letting me close a few tabs. I've mostly been staying away from Facebook this week (for reasons I may get into in a future post), so the compulsive need to share fostered by having been on it so long needs an outlet. And I can ramble on for no good reason

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[egosomnio]

Video link acts buggy in IE for me, and LJ seems to be refusing to let me embed the video to start 18 seconds in. Worked fine in the preview. Whatever. It's at if it's not working for you while embedded.

[katura]

I had a rant on facebook about not only all the speculation around the Miami attack, but the fact that people seem to think it's a big joke, when in actuality it should be a call to address serious issues like addiction, if anything. Tired of misinformed media repeating unconfirmed information and then it taking on a life of its own. It loves to do this when drugs are involved. (Read an article recently that referred to "Cocaine and other LSD-like drugs" - WTF.

[egosomnio]

Pretty much everything I've heard about it (beyond the bare facts of what was directly witnessed) is speculation. I know there are drugs that, at least under certain circumstances probably linked to preexisting issues, can cause problems that present like psychosis or schizophrenia (PCP is one of the ones that, though it might not be a likely outcome, it's a possibility). I've read enough about MDPV to make me think it's a possibility there, too. Whether or not something like that actually had anything to do with it is probably going to remain a matter of speculation (maybe a more informed version of it, but still) since he can't weigh in on what was going on in his head

[katura]

I read an article based on an interview with his live-in girlfriend, who said he was a heavy pot smoker, but she didn't think he would take something like bath salts knowingly, and didn't know him to be a violent person at all. She outright stated she believes he must have been drugged/spiked. I'm not an expert either, but even marijuana can induce psychosis. Or a joint could easily contain something he wasn't aware of. But all these journalists who have the balls to use statements like "cocaine and other LSD-drugs" when cocaine isn't even the same class of drug as LSD, need to get fucked

[egosomnio]

In fairness to the police, at least in this case, it was a pretty extreme situation. Yeah, it would have been better for them to use a taser instead, but I don't know what sort of training could have prepared them to respond calmly and rationally to something like that. Frankly, I'm a little amazed the responders to the guy in Jersey managed to keep their heads enough to bring him down alive.