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username-1787 t1_j69dgrg wrote

More efficient allocation of public space on our streets.

More and more comfortable outdoor seating, mores street trees, pedestrian only commercial streets (market sq, walnut, penn in the strip), an actual cohesive network of safe bike paths (not just painting a bike symbol in a 2 foot wide gutter), bus only lanes on busy routes

It’s a lot to ask, especially since selfish and entitled as f*ck car owners may be asked to slow down a bit or take a slightly different route or park 1 block away from where they used to, but even a few of these incremental improvements to our public streets would genuinely transform the city

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historyhill t1_j69d2d3 wrote

Well, it was a bit more than that—it was also the promise that oxycontin wasn't addictive and was very safe, and suppression of any information that suggested otherwise. I think be a lot of the doctors probably truly believed it was a miracle pain cure initially, and the free food was just the foot in the door to get the doctors to listen.

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