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calmoo06/16/20252 repliesview on HN

Not to defend the author, but I think a more generous reading of this section from the blogpost:

> A brief summary is that I'm currently serving prison time for poor decisions and lifestyle choices I made in my twenties, all related to drugs.

Is that their poor decisions were related to drugs.


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Hamuko06/16/2025

The blog article that he links to has this in it:

>My name is Preston Thorpe, I'm 31 years old and I've spent just under 10 years of my life in Prison (all for non-violent drug crimes.)

https://pthorpe92.dev/intro/my-story/

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riv99106/16/2025

In his earlier blog post that this one links, he says:

> I've spent just under 10 years of my life in Prison (all for non-violent drug crimes.)

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