@MicroWave "So remember, kids -- drugs'll make you do really weird stuff, like pay $153,000 for a Cybertruck."
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"For over three decades, our DARE officers have driven attention-grabbing and one-of-a-kind vehicles that never fail to turn heads and excite students,” the department said on Facebook.
How many of those excited students were stopped from using drugs by these attention-grabbing one-of-a-kind vehicles? An exact number isn't necessary, I'll accept an educated approximation.
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And she said the department needed a new D.A.R.E. vehicle anyway.
I may be showing my age here, but back when I was a kid, Officer Friendly used to come to my school and tell us how drugs did not make you cool in his regular old patrol car.
They were usually seized assets which is awful but seems less so than spending over $150k on a vehicle that major insurers refuse to cover.
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…or $44 billion for Twitter…
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didn't rule out other uses
- Paper weight
- Accidental jail cell
- Battery ram (see what I did there? Hold for applause)
- Means to explore young citizens' limited value
- Digit amputator
At $150k, I'd say it's a 6-digit amputator
Don't forget - flint and steel for fire starting when you happen to be in an area of the wilds accessible by a shitty city car that dies if it sees a puddle!
Of course it would fucking be Irvine and of course it would be the provenly-inedfective D.A.R.E. folks.
For you non Californians, Irvine is a corporation that bought up land and made a "utopian" suburban city. I went to grad school there. It's the kind of place you get pulled over for having long hair (as I can attest to).
Edit with a joke: People from Irvine be all like "Who is John Galt".
For everyone's reference, D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was not only ineffective, they were anti-effective. Their presence and total demonization of weed not only didn't reduce drug usage rates, they frequently increased the rates.
They've been known to be ineffective since at least 2004: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448384/
DARE is a wild program. They finally admitted defeat to drugs and have switched to suicide prevention. The kids that do petitions for them, at least around me, are militant. I had one follow me into a restaurant to keep pestering me. Didn't stop until I told the children to kindly fuck off already
Yeah, that was my experience. All those stories made me more curious about drugs than anything else even back in elementary school. Also, having people that used to have addiction problems come in to talk about them showed that you could get through them.
Also didn't really help that the one guy's description of things going wrong for him was basically a bus ride with a hangover where he needed to puke out the window. And that he still did it after that, implying that there was something good about it.
It wasn't DARE exactly but some Canadian equivalent. I hadn't really thought about drugs that much before that and didn't shy away when I had an opportunity to try weed a few years later (thought it was interesting but not worth the money at the time).
Also it only took taking psychedelics a few times to figure out the real problem authority has with them: they can help you break down your preconceived notions and see through the leaps of "logic" that the current system depends on.
Like the first time I did mushrooms, I realized that authority figures (like doctors, police, etc) were just people like you or me and included people having bad days, people not focused on the current task, people who cheated their way through school or got to where they were via corruption, people who think they understand something better than they really do or base their knowledge on outdated information, trolls and bullies, as well as people trying their best in good faith.
It was so obvious in hindsight, but I realized that up until then I had this implicit trust that even if there were times I didn't fully agree with them, they were generally "different" in a "better" kind of way instead of a spectrum of the same kind of people you went to high school with, just with a selection process that is supposed to filter some out (with varying degrees of success).
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D.A.R.E. taught me that random people will force me to take drugs. Still waiting on that one. We did learn you can get high from sniffing glue though.
It's a real shame; Irvine has lots of great food, and it's another large east-Asian population center within the LA-OC metro area, but it's also so staunchly Republican that I can't stand to watch local news down there.
That's nothing against the university, though. I have family who got their degrees there, and I even took summer classes on campus once. I dig the school and it was my fallback when I applied for colleges (back when it was possible to have a fallback).
Cops are a parody of themselves.
Didn’t they see the episode of Reno 911 where they bought a Hummvee for “community outreach “?
Really hard to park
Do they still give out D.A.R.E. shirts? Those things made you the king of the party when the bong was being passed around in high school.
My son has an old school D.A.R.E shirt he got from Goodwill. He wears it sometimes to go play hardcore shows.
I had a black DARE shirt growing up. It disappeared or got given away at some point and I didn’t care.
Now, the purple Jump Rope For Heart shirt I had was my absolute favorite. I wore that until it evaporated.
I'm still trying to find a D.A.R.E. beer koozie.
Cops handing out drugs from a cybertruck saying shit like "this stuff is the skibidi rizzlest!" sounds like the best way to keep kids off drugs. It's like watching your dad get into that thing you like and suddenly that thing is super uncool.
... yea, that would probably work.
The cybertruck is 100% the result of misuse of drugs, and if presented in that fashion, might at least help in some way with making it clear how important it can be to use drugs responsibly.
For some reason this had me thinking of the scene in Waterboy where Bobby gives a talk to some kids, and immediately when he finishes the teacher or coach or whatever for the kids says "which brings me to my next point: Don't. Smoke. Crack." And all the kids just nod. Just replace Bobby with Elon presenting the cybertruck.
I like how they're trying to encourage people to say no to drugs with an expensive vehicle from a company headed by a notorious drug abuser.
Wankers. ACAB.
All
Cybertrucks
Are
Bad
The ~~uninsurable~~ cybertruck being bought by police stations is the surest sign that police are ignorant money sinks.
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I think if I were like 10 years old and some cop showed up in a Cybertruck and told me not to use drugs, I'd probably wonder what's so good about drugs instead.
Oh don’t worry, that’s dare’s normal effect
"Hey kids, this is what cars look like when you're on drugs. Do you really want THAT?"
Maybe just... Defunding the police just a liiiiitle bit wouldn't be so bad...
Im joking btw dont hurt me or argue at me ;-;
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Oh good, now you can get away with crime if it's raining
Nothing would drive me to drugs faster.
Unless you need to go through sand to get to the drugs, or it's raining.
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I remember in the late 90s the cops in my large city caught flack for buying SUVs in a city with no offroading and zero hills. They gave the same reason. Now all the squad cars are SUVs.
Are car manufacturers actually making cars anymore? Seems they all shifted to SUVs.
'member when all the "cool" DARE cop cars were seized drug dealer cars?
I’m more surprised that D.A.R.E. still exists.
Even when I was a kid in the 90s, it was largely known then it was a massive failure.
By highschool, most of the kids doing drugs renamed it Drugs Are Really Expensive. Probably didn't help that the police officer assigned to the high school was known amongst the students to be selling drugs to the students.
This seems like a wild misuse of government services. Aren't the police in the law enforcement game and not the drug abuse game? Why aren't the city bus drivers also teaching these programs and getting to drive around sweet ass cybertrucks?
Screw Elon. Stop spending tax money to support his endeavors.
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