Comment on foil

• Gregers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Like we don’t have addicts doing stupid stuff in Europe

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  • Soleos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But you don’t have aluminum foil over there. You only have aluminium, it’s a completely different situation, you wouldn’t understand.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      as everyone knows, aluminium foil is completely unusable as drug paraphernalia.

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      • restingOface@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        We use lead foil like God intended.

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    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah… al-you-min-EE-um

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  • bryophile@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course we do, but at least in Western Europe we take better care of them. There’s generally social welfare programs, shelters, etc. In Amsterdam there’s shelters where they can safely use crack so they have access to clean supplies.

    The question “like we DON’T have” is kind of silly. It’s about how predominant the problem is, not whether we also have a couple.

    The US has several times the crack user per capita compared to Europe, depending on where in Europe.

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The CIA worked very hard to get those numbers where they are thank you very much.

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    • Gregers@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some people are just assholes though. There was some junkies poking used needles in lemons in stores here to clean them some years ago, even though they could get free needles

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      • bryophile@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes some people are just assholes, that is true. The point is there’s several times more assholes per capita in the US.

        O, crack users I mean of course.

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• CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am North American, and I have never seen this before.

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Am Canadian and have never noticed it before but I have no doubt it happens in my city. I never thought about how they get that stuff

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I ve heard from someone in europe how a shopkeeper frequently has candy bars stolen.

  The candy gets tossed on the street, its the foil they want.

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  • bryophile@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Having heard from someone” this or that is a whole different category than the extent of the drug problems in the US.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wasn’t really comparing the severity of drug problems in the US vs Europe.

      Just that the phenomenon is not exclusive to the US just like being naive about drugs isn’t exclusive to Europe.

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      • bryophile@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Of course it’s not exclusive to the US?

        What do you mean with being naive about drugs? I don’t think in Europe we’re naive about it, we know there’s addiction here as well but we take care of them as fellow human beings instead of excluding them from society and making the situation worse.

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fake news

    They would obviously eat the candy also

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    • LSNLDN@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not on crack they wouldn’t

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would have assumed the same but the littering of the candy bars was a specific part of the problem.

      I have little reason to believe this person was lying, i also don’t want to give to much if their personal detail context online but fair i wasn’t there myself to witness it.

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