Justin Kase Conder

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Justin Kase Conder

Justin Kase Conder

@JKasePhoto

An ever curious, outdoor seeking, commercial & editorial photographer based in Raleigh, NC, telling stories as I go. IG:JKasePhoto

Raleigh, NC Katılım Eylül 2009
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Justin Kase Conder
Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
@mspairport why’d you take the inflatable pads out of the viewing area in terminal one? Those were great for long layovers, one of the most unique qualities of any airport I’ve traveled to. Also, can you please get someone to fix the flickering overhead lights in here?
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Matt Huntsman@glint0b·
@mweinbach Confirmed it's been removed. It's only in Business now. Damnit!
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Max Weinbach@mweinbach·
Did OpenAI get rid of ChatGPT Record for meetings in the Mac app? I used that all the time
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@ElGuapoTron4000 Your dad was one of a kind. I liked him the moment I met him. He was smart, funny and kind. I was saddened by the news of his passing. I can't imagine what that must be like for you. I’m sorry. I can only hope to leave such an impression on others when that day comes. 😔
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GUAP@ElGuapoTron4000·
I miss talking to you every day, Dad. You were one of the special ones. I hope you're forever snorkeling in Bora Bora and sailing the world. 6/46 - 1/25 ☮️💚🌎
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Drugs. We all know what we think about drugs: we're against them. We're against people pushing them on our kids. We're against having our property stolen, or having ourselves and our loved ones assaulted by those who abuse or deal them. We're against being endangered by vehicles operated by those under the influence of them. We're against anyone abusing them, and the consequent loss of person and talents. We're even against anyone using them ... except for the ones we use, or the ones that are legal, or the ones that are prescribed by a doctor. So sure are we of this conventional wisdom -- floating from personal to social to moral wisdom -- that being against drugs has become the last political absolute, a touchstone of political correctness, a proof requiring no proof. I, too, am against pushing, and against crime, and against driving or piloting under the influence, and against the social and personal harm that substance abuse causes. But I am also against the failure to accept reality. The failure to grasp reality and to direct our actions and expectations in accord with it – is the definition of insanity. The reality here is that human beings have always used intoxicating substances and will continue to do so. Ten to fifteen percent of those who use illegal drugs get into trouble ... about the same percentage as get into trouble with alcohol, or gambling, or sex, or automobiles. The substances themselves rise and fall from favor over the centuries, the same beverages and herbs and crystals alternately touted as elixirs and condemned as scourges, their medical acceptance and legal status ever changing. In early 18th century England, for example, the alleged cause of lower-class violence and a sure path to depravity was drinking ... coffee. Throughout, we have continued to attribute to the drugs themselves the power of good and evil, to describe them as if they had human volition, and thus to justify or deny responsibility for our own actions. "It's the liquor talking." Because drugs continue to be romanticized by proponents and opponents alike, we continue to not see them, their use, or the trade in them clearly. No matter what policy we choose, drug use will be with us forever. I believe that the guiding principle of drug abuse control should be to reduce the harm to us as individuals, as a people, and as a society as much as possible: the greatest good for the greatest number. However, the approach we have thus far chosen as a nation is a law enforcement strategy, enshrined in recent decades as The War On Drugs. The drug war over the years has: - Moved the market towards the most profitable substances, those most easily smuggled or manufactured, not simply those most in demand. - Driven the trade into the hands of the most ruthless. - Escalated the scale of armaments and the willingness to use them, increasing the danger to innocent citizens and law enforcement officials as well as the culpable. - Prompted or justified human and civil rights abuses and intrusions into appropriate medical practice. - Jacked up the price, increasing the incentive for pushing and committing crimes against property and person on the part of users and sellers. - Distorted judicial judgments about the consequences of a given offense. - Obscured the social cost and artificially divided the remedies for legal versus illegal drug abuse. - Diverted resources from education and treatment, and from addressing the social and the economic factors fostering drug use and the drug trade here and abroad. Above all, despite a wholesale commitment of resources, the War On Drugs has produced results utterly contrary to its objectives. Pushing is up, crime is up, DUIs are up, abuse is up, use -- at least in the inner cities -- is up. The War On Drugs is not only an expensive failure, it has undermined civil liberties, medical practice, the criminal justice system, and foreign policy in ways more consequential to more people than drug use itself. It is the best-financed (though not yet the most draconian) installment of an approach that has failed for 5000 years, and yet all we can come up with is more of the same. It is the benchmark of wrongheadedness. For that reason, I seek a policy reexamination to generate alternatives to The War on Drugs -- to develop initiatives, measure their results, and then move the institution of the most effective policies and practices at the national, state and local level -- based on a public health rather than law enforcement model for drug abuse control. - First of all, you want to preserve the milder rhetoric of the Clinton Administration, replacing "War" metaphors with harm reduction concepts and public health models. - Achieve legislative relief via the crime bill or a change in administrative directives from the Attorney General which would reverse extensive and strict minimum sentencing for low level possession or sale of controlled substances. - Obtain legislative relief via the Hyde Bill or a change in administrative directives to curb the abuse of asset forfeiture in drug cases. - Secure federal regulatory changes to fund pilot needle exchange programs, permit the medical use of marijuana, and spare physicians who appropriately prescribe pain medications unwarranted harassment. - Reverse via the federal budget the current tilt in drug control funding toward law enforcement, expanding programs for prevention, education, treatment and research instead. - Promote the adoption of state level reforms increasing the funding of prevention and education, an expanded array of treatment methodologies, and a greater range of drug maintenance options - Increase the number of cities, following the lead of Baltimore and New Haven, trying a package of alternatives ranging from community policing to drug courts to needle exchange programs to better prevention, education, outreach and treatment initiatives. - Develop a comprehensive national model for more effective drug abuse control, bottom up from the results of these experiments and those in other countries, as well as top down from a consolidation of the best policy thinking. Longer term, we will want to consider innovations such as experiments with rational selective enforcement -- arrest guidelines that take a pass on simple possession or small quantity sale without violence, for example -- and with loosening legal control, e.g. marijuana decriminalization. (My father wrote this “On Drugs” piece in 1993. Aside from a few outdated references, it feels like it could have been written yesterday. He was the Research Director for the Coordinating Council on Substance Abuse in the City of Boston in 1975 - 1979.)
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
I thought my job was cool… and then I met the performers of @bandalooping !!! Proud to have provided the still and motion imagery for the @thefalloncompany ‘s grand opening of 301 Hillsborough. Together with our friends at @fwv_us I’d say we hit a home-run!
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
@RegalMovies I’ve sent multiple messages already. Several this past Wednesday as well as multiple today. Can you help me?
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
@RegalMovies Hi there, I am currently a Regal Unlimited subscriber but I would like to take advantage of the Black Friday deal, can you please help me.
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Guy Rhodes
Guy Rhodes@guyrhodes·
I have easily seen the same pre-roll YouTube ad for B&H over 1,000 times since this summer, and it’s starting to drive me a little insane. It features a glum saleswoman answering the phone while working from home, “B&H, how can I help you?” Is it just me?
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Justin Kase Conder
Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
Recently found myself in my favorite element, i.e. photographing salt of the earth people on a beautiful farm with and surrounded by all of the ice-cream you could imagine when I got to photograph a “Farm to Freezer”… instagram.com/p/B3F0kmADsUq/…
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
Celebrated 39 last night in my backyard with some of my best folks I know. It was nothing short of beautiful. Tremendous gratitude and appreciation to kaitydont, @UrbexAshley and roeintl for their incredible help. @… instagram.com/p/BzV8Fu3DAtd/…
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
This image is a result of my finding myself sleeping in my car overnight in a residential neighborhood of Palm Springs - the result of leaving my wallet in a restaurant and only realizing… instagram.com/p/BuEVrD_DLDq/…
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
Swipe ➡️ for the BTS. This shoot seemed pretty straight forward, but I never imagined how freakin big the set piece would need to be to make it happen! It was over 14’ tall and several… instagram.com/p/BtmU5Bcj2Uq/…
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
Swipe ➡️ for the BTS. While we anticipated that this would be the “easiest” of our four shoots, it was anything short of easy. I have a new found respect for folks who photograph shiny… instagram.com/p/BtY20FkDKaX/…
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
Swipe ➡️ for the BTS. This was another exceptionally exciting day of our @lenovo shoot. You hear people often speak about their success resulting from being a problem solver. This image’s… instagram.com/p/BtWMF0MjkT6/…
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Justin Kase Conder@JKasePhoto·
Live Black Mexican King snake and two snake handlers made this image possible. Swipe ➡️ to see this beauty move. When we got this image in the bag, I was elated! Easily the most… instagram.com/p/BtTTpcYjT9x/…
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