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• Seattle Learns From Its Mayor That the Abundance Generated by the Long Boom Is Worthless

  26-09-2018 23:50 via thestranger.com
  
  The mayor's austerity talk is cruel and mean. What she's really saying is that abundant Seattle needs less of the abundance that is positive for the majority of its inhabitants.by Charles Mudede irina88w/gettyimages.com
  Seattle is still experiencing a boom whose length and scale is astonishing. As a consequence, the city is in a position that all other mid-sized US cities find desirable and spend a great deal of mental energy (and money) attempting to obtain. What we can say about Seattle with g
  
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• Considerate Partners Can Work Out a Compromise Where Porn Is Concerned

  26-09-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I’m a 27-year-old woman in a relationship with a 50-year-old man. Recently we had a fight about him showing me a video a friend had sent him of a woman he'd slept with in the past. It was an explicit video which I wouldn’t have wanted to watch. I’ve told him in the past that I don’t care if he watches porn when he’s alone but I don’t want to watch it with him, which he has mostly respected. I’ve thought about it, trying to get to the root o
  
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• Woman stabbed in North Seattle; police arrest suspect

  26-09-2018 22:22
  The 55-year-old woman was taken to Harborview Medical Center, and is in stable condition.
  
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• Countries pledge billions to fight tuberculosis worldwide

  26-09-2018 22:16
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The World Health Organization says governments have agreed to contribute $13 billion a year by 2022 to prevent and treat tuberculosis, a communicable disease that claimed at least 1.3 million lives last year. The agency said Wednesday that countries at a high-level meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly […]
  
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• After fits and starts, Cantwell agreed to debate Hutchison — or did she?

  26-09-2018 22:13
  Cantwell announced late Tuesday that she would attend an Oct. 8 debate at PLU — but there's no event planned for that date.
  
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• Washington state Uber drivers to get payout in data-breach settlement

  26-09-2018 22:05
  The settlement is part of a 50-state resolution over the data breach, which became public late last year.
  
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• Salmonella that’s sickened 7 people traced to Issaquah Costco, King County says

  26-09-2018 22:02
  Health department investigators visited the store's deli four times over the course of about six weeks starting in early August this year, each time recording "inconsistent" hand washing and "improper" cleaning of surfaces that touched food.
  
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• Flash floods trap people in homes, vehicles in north Alabama

  26-09-2018 21:49
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Flash floods trapped people in homes and vehicles in north Alabama on Wednesday, and forecasters said the threat could last another day. Torrents of rain from a cold front moving through the state caused water to quickly cover roads and low-lying areas near Birmingham. Video and photos showed homes surrounded by […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in US

  26-09-2018 21:34
  Flu experts knew it was a very bad season. The tally was nearly twice as much as what health officials previously considered a bad year, said a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Speedy Metal Blast of "Volt Rush" by Heavy Roadburners Earthless

  26-09-2018 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Hear a blazing tribute to Blue Cheer's "Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger" by San Diego stoner-rockers Earthless, who play tonight at Chop Suey.by Dave SegalSan Diego's reigning third-ear blackeners. (Nice Hawkwind t-shirt!) Ed Dominick
  Earthless, "Volt Rush" (Nuclear Blast)
  San Diego trio Earthless always struck me as stoner-rockers who could play their asses off, which distinguished them from the hordes of their ilk who often merely ride bongwatery riffs, run everything through an array of FX pedals
  
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• I-5 will add a fifth express lane to serve future Eastside-South Lake Union bus routes

  26-09-2018 21:20
  The question of how to get buses through clogged Mercer Street and into their new I-5 interchange remains a mystery. Agencies have four years to figure that out.
  
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• I-5 will add a 5th express lane to serve future Eastside-South Lake Union bus routes

  26-09-2018 21:20
  The question of how to get buses through clogged Mercer Street and into their new I-5 interchange remains a mystery. Agencies have four years to figure that out.
  
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• Seattle police gang detectives arrest 15-year-old in connection with nonfatal shooting in Northgate

  26-09-2018 21:19
  A 17-year-old boy was shot in the stomach on Sept. 19 but was expected to survive. He told officers he may have been targeted because he was involved in selling marijuana.
  
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• Boeing saved $227M from state tax incentives last year while it cut 6,000 jobs

  26-09-2018 21:00
  Boeing disclosed that Washington state’s aerospace industry tax incentives saved the company $227 million in 2017. The figures indicate that after subtracting the incentives, Boeing paid about $27 million in B&O tax, the major portion of its state and local tax bill.
  
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• Sex offender pleads not guilty to killing woman, 89

  26-09-2018 20:57
  Marcine Herinck was reported missing on Sept. 19 from her home in northeast Portland, Ore.
  
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• Police: Body found in car trunk ‘likely’ missing woman, 89

  26-09-2018 20:57
  Marcine Herinck was reported missing on Sept. 19 from her home in northeast Portland, Ore.
  
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• Controversial tiny house village for homelessness in North Seattle to close

  26-09-2018 20:54
  This was the first sanctioned village in Seattle that doesn't require sobriety; it's also the first to be shut down.
  
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• Where the Kavanaugh Crisis Will Go Next

  26-09-2018 20:47 via thestranger.com
  Episode 167 of the Blabbermouth podcastby The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!The sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh keep piling up, with the latest stomach-churning claim landing just as we sat down to record this week’s show. Dan Savage, Eli Sanders, Rich Smith, and Katie Herzog talk about what’s sure to happen next (fantasy and reality edition).After that, The Great Ted Cruz Restaurant Chase and a book by Michi
  
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• A Third Kavanaugh Accuser Comes Forward to Allege Gang Rape

  26-09-2018 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleBrett Kavanaugh leaving his home in Maryland this morning, the day the world learned of "horrifying" new allegations against him, as Senator Patty Murray put it. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
  One day before his first accuser is due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her allegation of being pinned to a bed, groped, and silenced from screaming by a 17-year-old Kavanaugh when she was 15, a third woman has come forward. Her allegations (which Kavanaugh denies)
  
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• Oregon officials: 23 drug overdoses in Lane County since weekend

  26-09-2018 19:58
  Police believe an extremely pure type of heroin or heroin laced with fentanyl is circulating in Oregon's Eugene-Springfield area.
  
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• Kirk, reformed as tropical storm, gains strength

  26-09-2018 19:37
  MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Kirk is gaining strength in the eastern Caribbean. The system was downgraded to a tropical depression earlier this week. But the National Hurricane Center says it has since reorganized, At 5 p.m. EDT, the center of Kirk was located about 260 miles (415 kilometers) east of Barbados. It […]
  
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• The Government’s Secret Anti-Cannabis Agency Can’t Be Real... Can It?

  26-09-2018 19:16 via thestranger.com
  Fourteen federal agencies are involved in this thing.by Josh JardineConspiracy theory time! Is there really a secret multiagency federal government committee that’s currently drafting prohibitionist anti-cannabis policy and generating reports to be spoon-fed to our mentally deteriorating dotard-in-chief? Wow... how high would you need to be to believe that? (Here, take this giant hit of hash off a bong—that’s how high.)Well, get ready to learn about our government’s Marij
  
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• UN chief blasts lack of ‘strong leadership’ on climate

  26-09-2018 18:53
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations secretary-general blames lack of leadership for the world’s failure to take tough decisions needed to stop runaway climate change. Antonio Guterres bluntly told leaders in New York Wednesday that unless current emission trends of greenhouse gases are reversed by 2020, it will be impossible to meet the goal of […]
  
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• Yakima officer on desk duty amid probe into kicking of teen at fair

  26-09-2018 18:49
  Officer Ian Cole kicked the 17-year-old in the backside, sending him to the ground after he pepper-sprayed the boy.
  
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• Report says fishing rule might put whales at greater risk

  26-09-2018 18:31
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A report by federal scientists about a critically endangered whale says some regulations intended to protect them aren’t working and might have unintended consequences for the animals. The report is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration technical memo and it concerns the North Atlantic right whale. The right whale is one […]
  
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• Back to School 2018: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Drugs, College, and Life Itself

  26-09-2018 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle Tyler Gross
  Hello, college students—and welcome to Seattle!
  If you moved here from some other part of the world, you're probably still just getting oriented. We're here to help. These are going to be the most exhilarating and confusing years of your life, full of hidden dangers, giant opportunities, tons of work, clouds of pot smoke, and people who want to have sex with you.
  Your college probably gave you an orientation packet. The first thing you're going to want
  
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• Seattle's DOPE Magazine Sold to High Times for $11M

  26-09-2018 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's DOPE Magazine just got purchased by High Times.by Lester Black SETH MCCONNELL VIA GETTY IMAGES
  High Times just bought the Seattle's DOPE Magazine in a deal worth $11.2 million, according to an announcement from the two companies. DOPE was started seven years ago in Seattle and has grown to distribute eight different editions in six different states.
  DOPE's founders George Jage and Dave Tran have ridden the legalization wave, launching in 2009 under Washington's medical market and publi
  
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• Barack Obama takes swipe at Trump’s attitude on environment

  26-09-2018 17:59
  OSLO, Norway (AP) — Former U.S. President Barack Obama took a swipe at President Donald Trump’s attitude to the environment Wednesday, saying the world needs “political and social commitment” to achieve sustainability. “Unfortunately we have a U.S administration that deals differently around these issues,” he said to laughter from the audience as he addressed business […]
  
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• Barack Obama takes swipe at President Trump over environment

  26-09-2018 17:59
  OSLO, Norway (AP) — Former U.S. President Barack Obama took a swipe at President Trump’s attitude to the environment Wednesday, saying the world needs “political and social commitment” to achieve sustainability. “Unfortunately we have a U.S administration that deals differently around these issues,” he said to laughter from the audience as he addressed business leaders […]
  
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• Fierce gales close schools on 3 Greek islands, halt ferries

  26-09-2018 17:51
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Gale force winds predicted for parts of Greece, some exceeding 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph), have prompted authorities to halt ferry services and shut down schools on three islands. The storm named Xenofon sent temperatures dropping from nearly 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday to 18 degrees C […]
  
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• Big Tech Is Fighting to Change Washington's Pioneering Rules on Election Ad Transparency

  26-09-2018 17:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Here's the Google and Facebook wish list—and how to make your voice heard on this issue tomorrow in Olympia.by Eli SandersGoogle, for example, doesn't want to be held responsible for knowing when ad it sells is political. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
  Ahead of an important public hearing tomorrow, lobbyists for the nation's leading tech companies are urging Washington state officials to make major changes to powerful rules governing online political ads.Among other things, the tech lobby'
  
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• Slog AM: Students Protest Seattle Public Schools; Salmon Protest Hot Waters; Senator Maria Cantwell Protests Agrees to Debate

  26-09-2018 17:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Maria Cantwell will debate, Nova high school walks out, climate change is still realby Michael BellDear god, help.GETTY / GU_MUNDUR TMASSON
  Nova High School students walked out on Tuesday, in protest of two of their teachers being reassigned: The re-assignment is part of a city-wide staffing adjustment of teachers. Seattle Public Schools say that due to lower than expected enrollment at 28 Seattle schools, teachers from 19 of those will be moved to schools with higher than anticipated enrollment
  
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• Man injured in Burien shooting that police say is ‘not random’

  26-09-2018 16:01
  The man suffered non-life-threatening injuries and is cooperating with police. A sheriff's spokesman said it was not yet known if the incident was gang-related, but also reassured people that crime is actually down, not up, in the Burien area.
  
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• Man injured in Burien shooting; police investigate

  26-09-2018 16:01
  The man was taken to Highline Hospital by his brother, where he's being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
  
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• When a million bucks ‘is nothing’: Bidding opens to try to save historic house

  26-09-2018 15:00
  A historical house on Beacon Hill is on the market, and a $1 million offer to save it from the bulldozer was reportedly rejected as far too low. How much will it take for Seattle to save a piece of its past?
  
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• Seattle bike commuting hits 10-year low, census data show

  26-09-2018 15:00
  Last year, just 2.8 percent of workers who live in Seattle biked to work as a primary mode of transportation. The raw number of bike commuters is down, too.
  
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• 1 death reported as cold snap hits parts of Romania

  26-09-2018 13:52
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Suddenly subzero temperatures have hit parts of Romania, and one hiker has died after being caught out by the cold snap. Weather forecasters said temperatures plunged to minus 3.8 Celsius (31.5 Fahrenheit) in the central city of Miercurea Ciuc early Wednesday. Colder weather is forecast for Thursday. Authorities said a 22-year-old […]
  
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• Where to See Music in Seattle If You're Under 21

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Here are the best places to see music in Seattle if you're under 21.by Dave SegalUnder 21? Fear not. You have lots of options for seeing music. Many traditional venues (Neumos, Crocodile, the Showbox, etc.) open their doors to all ages, because they realize the young have an abundance of enthusiasm and energy for their offerings—even if y'all can't guzzle booze. Also scrutinize The Stranger's online calendar, and if you're on Facebook, join the Seattle DIY Shows! group. Record stores like
  
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• Tour de Dick's

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Tour de Dick's is a bike race through Seattle. It involves burgers, fries, and ice cream.by Jon MeyerI like to think the idea for the Tour de Dick's emerged in a fashion similar to other great epiphanies of the past, but instead of a Middle Eastern teahouse or a Renaissance period cafe as the point of illumination, it was Rooftop Brewing Company's deck on a cold night.My friends had just been debating which Dick's Drive-In is the best in town. There are five in Seattle and one in Edmonds. "Has a
  
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• There Is a Much Smarter Way to Deal with Controversial Speakers Than Deplatforming

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Deplatforming doesn't work. Here's a much better idea for beating awful conservatives at their own game.by Katie HerzogConservatives have always been afraid of dissent. From the Red Scare to the Vietnam War to the first (and second) invasion of Iraq, it doesn't take much for conservatives to rally around a cause, no matter how immoral, and crank up the inquisition. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11—when you were in diapers and the rest of us were waiting for our internet to dial up—
  
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• The Strange Erasures in an Art Show About Planetary Crisis

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A review of Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity at Whatcom Museum in Bellingham.by Katie KurtzA deep-brown buffalo stands alone on a green grass plain, against a background of anonymous hills and a setting sun. Its tail forms a kind of question mark. It's hard not to anthro pomorphize the buffalo's gaze as beseeching the viewer to save it from extinction. This interpretation isn't too far-fetched, as George Catlin painted it (and titled it Buffalo Bull, Grazing on the P
  
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• The City Council Might Not Be Able to Save the Showbox

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The legal showdown over saving the Showbox.by Lester BlackCheers filled City Hall on August 13 as hundreds of people watched the city council unanimously vote to give a 10-month protection window to the Showbox. The music venue's supporters had gotten their first victory: The Showbox was now temporarily covered under the Pike Place Market Historic District, making it nearly impossible to demolish it and replace it with a $100 million apartment building.However, saving the venue for 10 months is
  
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• Study Whatever You Want in College

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The case for studying the humanities in college in 2018.by Rich SmithIf you treat your education as a means to an end, you're going to wind up shooting yourself in the head. Worse, you'll wind up dying long before they bury you. Worse still, you'll be so boring that nobody will even want to bury you.Though I have great respect for my colleague Lester Black, I couldn't disagree more with his advice for students. His "unpopular" suggestion to earn a degree in "the natural sciences" so as not to be
  
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• Orcas Island Gears Up for Its Fifth Annual, Star-Studded Film Festival

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  How a top-tier film festival got to Orcas Island.by Charles MudedeEarly this summer, the world learned that American billionaire and media icon Oprah Winfrey spent a cool $8.3 million on a 43-acre luxury compound on Orcas Island. The 7,303-square-foot house on the property was built in 2007 and designed by the Bellingham-based RMC Architects (a firm with a reputation for Northwest retreats), and it has a huge pizza oven.It is a palace made of wood, according to photos and news reports, and its l
  
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• On Break from Portishead, Geoff Barrow Uses Beak> to Rock Out, Strangely

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Let Beak> take you on a harrowing ride down the autobahn.by Dave SegalAs Portishead's sonic architect, Geoff Barrow helped to define that genre to which no artist will admit to belonging: triphop. But there's no fighting the name now; it's too entrenched in music history. And Bristol, England's Portishead—along with Massive Attack and Tricky—represent the pinnacle of the style of down-tempo, cinematic funk that remains to this day the de facto soundtrack of chic bistros and upscal
  
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• How to Survive a Night in Jail If You're a College Student

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  What happens when you do something stupid in college and go to jail.by Charles MudedeOne night not too long ago, a 21-year-old college student with not much to do decided to attend a party. To protect the identity of the young man and his family, I will not name him or the college.At this party, the young man met some friends and some enemies and drank a lot of cheap beer. At around 11 p.m., he was very drunk and in an argument with an old enemy, who was a member of the frat house where the part
  
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• How to Drink in Your Dorm Room Without Getting Caught

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Advice from someone who drank in their dorm room and got caught.by Nathalie GrahamMy older brother Michael learned everything before me. All I had to do was follow in the tread of his footsteps. When Michael came back from his first quarter of college with a taste for PBR and a hankering to play King's Cup, I learned about drinking and drinking games.I thought I was hot shit, getting truly drunk for the first time at 16. I drank like it was the end of the world at my high school's spring fling a
  
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• How Not to Be a Ding-Dong in the Woods

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  One of the best parts of living in Seattle is getting out into the wilderness. Here's how to do that and not die.by Katie Kurtz"I now walk into the wild," Christopher McCandless wrote in his journal before heading into the Alaskan wilderness with a sack of rice and not much else (an adventure immortalized by Jon Krakauer in his book Into the Wild). His is just one of countless stories of people going into the woods and never returning. Here's how to not be that ding-dong.Let's assume you've just
  
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• Hey, Writers: STFU About "the Muse"

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  An interview with Sarah Manguso, who says making art is more like love than war.by Rich SmithIn certain circles, you'll hear writing described as a magical process. The writer sits at a desk and transcribes thought-stars directly from the mouth of the muse. Another school of thought compares writing to wrestling. In this formulation, the writer isn't some passive vessel but rather a champion fighter who types out a sentence and then puts it in a choke hold until it sings.Essayist, memoirist, and
  
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• For Success in College—and Life—Put Down the Bottle and Pick Up the Pipe

  26-09-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Why smoking weed is a better idea than drinking in college.by Katie HerzogCollege can be the most fun, engaging, sex-charged, memory-making four to six years of your life. It can also be a stressful, dramatic shitshow that leaves you decades in debt and, quite possibly, dead.Let's try to reduce the possibility of the second option, all right?The single largest cause of college student deaths is alcohol, either due to drinking-related accidents or just plain binging until you choke to death on yo
  
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