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by hsuduebc2 420 days ago
Yea it's weird. Even when alcohol is one of the most dangerous substances for some criteria and I'm aware of it I still perceive having a few beers while doing something more acceptable than smoking a joint. The cultural indoctorination is hard.
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My brain still imagines what a bad example I’d set using weed in front of my kids, but they've seen me sipping a beer after mowing the lawn or having a glass of wine with dinner. Objectively, that's a worse example but it sure doesn't feel like it.

Yes, its weird.

My theme was that a lot of it is delayed understanding if caution isn't applied. Parents should be the most sensitive to this theme, because truly, you won't have a clue about the outcome of your parenting until about 20 years later. Society is collective parenting, and often the collective foregoes their duty (often parents do). But I have mostly shifted away from western individualism by this point of my life, so just my perspective.

Anyway, I didn't actually address the OP yesterday, so I'll do so now. It's one of the more beautiful and well-done dashboards and visualizations on HN. Regardless, our tendency here would have been to marvel at the tech but not actually take in the data which is that a lot of people are now on drugs.