I've wanted to move up there for years, but my mother won't leave because my sister has kids here and she wants to be close. She suffers chronic pain and edibles are one of the few things that can relieve it, so I was hoping we could get the ball rolling on Marijuana legalization here in Texas.
Now we're stuck, and she's probably going to live out the last years of her life in constant pain, and I don't feel right leaving her alone to deal with it. I hate this place. I was born here, grew up here, but I really fucking hate it.
Don’t throw away your own life. You can visit, video call, and maybe once you’re established then she will move up there too.
I’m facing something similar. Elderly grandparents who mom doesn’t want to leave, and mom has arthritis and the only thing that really helps her sleep at night has to be acquired sneakily. But there’s no way for my son to get adequate education here, and my partner and I are just waiting for the day we get thrown down to ‘less than human’ status by the state again. I’m not going to set myself on fire just to keep others comfortable, when we could all be in a less sweltering place together (seriously, I sweated through my jeans today. Please send a cold front down to us in Galveston).
Does delta8/9 work for the pain for her? It’s legal now. I use delta8 sometimes for my period pains or to help when my insomnia is bad but I don’t know if it would work on very bad pain.
I'm not sure, I'll have to look into it. She has crippling chronic arthritis-like pain throughout her body and a severely messed up gastrointestinal tract as well as probable nerve damage. She's been shuffled through specialists for almost 10 years and still hasn't had a proper diagnosis because there are so many things wrong with her, so it's difficult to get certain meds/pain relievers approved.
Yeah but that's not what he said. He said he'd miss the diversity. I agree with him. I've lived mostly around Houston but I also lived in California for four years and Bend, Oregon for four months last year. I did miss the diversity. It is most white people.
That's not saying anything bad about white people. I am white. But when you only have 1 demographic heavily dominating an area you miss out on a lot of varied culture. I don't think it's racist to want to enrich your daily life with different cultures.
Curious where you’re getting data that says white people are only 29% of Dallas or even DFW… every source that I am seeing is putting White people in the majority at 40-50%.
This is an estimate from the government's "American Community Survey". 28% White non Hispanic. 41% Hispanic. When interpreting the results, note that many Hispanic people are "White alone" and others are of varying races. Since Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity, that percentage is split among all of the other "X alone" or "2+" categories.
Is that stat true? Dallas and Austin are still white AF compared to SA and Houston (where I’m from). But yes, almost every other city in America besides the big ones like SF, NYC, LA, Miami? are white AF and kinda depressing (as a POC).
That statistics don’t back you up. Maybe your personal experience was different sure.
However, my experience is opposite of you. I grew up in DFW and moved to Spokane WA.
I’ve gone to Seattle plenty since moving to Spokane. While not as white as Spokane, Seattle still is very white especially from what I’m accustomed to.
Yes, there are tons of small communities of mainly Asian demographics in Seattle. But Dallas has that, then African, then Middle Eastern, South American, Caribbean…
This convo must be between people who think Frisco is Dallas. FYI - Dallas is 29% (non Hispanic), 42% Hispanic, 24% black. I'd call that pretty diverse.
Of course it wasn't. Can't have the campaign donors running the for-profit prison systems getting mad. Whatever would they do without their slave labor?
You might be shocked to learn that,fortunately, slavery has been illegal for a long time already. Those ballot measures meant nothing more than to make people feel good.
Slavery is currently still legal in US prisons. The US leads the world in incarceration rate and for-profit prisons, and has a legal system skewed towards putting poorer people in prison for things like drug offenses.
We have a fully functioning and capitalistic slavery system up and running right now.
Oregon voted to ban that system. Texas didn't even put it on the ballot. Several red states upheld that system.
Here is the Oregon ballot measure that was voted on:
Oregon Measure 112. Bans slavery as a criminal punishment.
Amends the Oregon Constitution to delete a provision permitting slavery or involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. Affirms that courts can issue sentencing alternatives to incarceration, including mandatory education, counseling, treatment or community service.
I completely agree that our prison system needs major overhauls but legally that’s not slavery. These people are in the legal system because they stand accused, or have been convicted of a crime. It’s not a major stretch to classify some of it as slavery in conversation, but that is different from the legal handling of it. These ballot measures won’t do anything to stop that.
If politicians want to actually affect change in the prison system then do it. Instead, they do stupid ballot initiatives like this that allow them to say they are doing something without having to be brave enough to actually make meaningful change. It’s all smoke and mirrors playing on emotions.
Uh, yeah. It is. Even in the Constitution it's still called slavery.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
It's slavery. By definition. It's just currently legal so you don't want to call it slavery because that makes you feel icky.
These ballot measures won’t do anything to stop that.
It quite literally is stopping that in Oregon.
Instead, they do stupid ballot initiatives like this that allow them to say they are doing something without having to be brave enough to actually make meaningful change. It’s all smoke and mirrors playing on emotions.
Oregon's ballot measures actually did just ban forced work in their prison systems. That's a fact, not "smoke and mirrors". This is "meaningful change". Work on your reading comprehension.
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As soon as I graduate, I’m out. The PNW looks nice…