HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Perhaps legalizing marijuana would have an impact on modern reefer madness rates if there was more of a free market to allow for non-insanity-inducing weed?
To point towards the gun analogy, the market has space for everything from wood-stocked single-shot shotguns and .22-caliber plinkers, all the way to semi-auto .50-caliber rifles and ATF-baiting niche products. Who's to say that the weed market cannot also sustain a range of products with different enough CBD levels to make things safer?
Now, granted, you might still be right that a thorough decriminalization might be enough to achieve this, but we must consider the possibility that the market may have an unaddressed demand for healthier product.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
But what does that mean for the above question, exactly?
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Trump’s reputation is different in China. He’s not considered a hapless buffoon. He’s kind of a Vladimir Putin figure. They don’t like him but they see him as extremely ruthless and cunning.
Huh, really? Where'd you find this out?
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I don’t think you fight most of these things by destroying the think tanks that already exist.
But didn't he just say he wasn't interested in doing that in the parent comment?
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I think MITE is referring to hurricane severity being (potentially) worsened by anthropogenic climate change.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
robo-dildo-taxis
...Are these a real thing, or did you just give the porn industry a free idea?
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
This maybe isn't too surprising: the process of turning an average joe into a soldier is often a psychologically-grueling process that we don't give much attention to undoing when that person's time as a soldier is done. Soldiers often have trouble readjusting to civilian life, and often find solace in civilian organizations run by fellow veterans.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I supposed it'd only make sense--Democrats love to advertise themselves as the party that will protect democracy, that's probably all you need to win over a constituency that was effectively prevented from using democracy to remove the tyrant of the country they fled.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I would have guessed LSD, personally.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Holy shit, those videos almost look like the effects of landslides rather than a hurricane.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I think they meant "give normal working people a $100 tax break for voting."
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
This is too much of a defense, IMO. I'd rather argue that, while voting is generally important, there are definite issues. We are supposed to be rationalist, and while principles are important, it is still valid and good to have doubts, to be forced into alertness by those doubts, and to begin asking questions. I won't go as far as Capital_Room, I won't proclaim that the scales have fallen from my eyes or that I can see through the Matrix here, but I think the OP is doing something important with their question and getting all these arguments in defense.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Y'know, come to think of it, most of our current calibers really do stretch back to sizes common in the days of muzzleloaders...
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
The Indian one at least has an explanation of "Indians idolize white skin and see it as perfect," AIUI.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
What does "5 Flags" mean in this context?
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I've been skeptical of these claims that Biden's own side sent him out to die during the first debate. I guess I forgot how much the moderators can put their finger on the scale when they really want to. They absolutely could have rescued Biden back then. +1 for that having been a palace coup.
I have not watched either of these debates, but did the moderators for Biden's debate with Trump not also try to give him some easy lay-ups?
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
The reply girls are arguably a big part of the reason why modern YouTube isn't what it used to be--the company changed the algorithm to punish reply girls, but it also punished non-garbage content in the process.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Galactica probably does deserve some of the blame, but I frankly suspect a lot of that was mostly just the post-9/11 zeitgeist (which itself influenced new!BSG). It felt like everything got darker, edgier, and more cynical around that time.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Maybe there's a synthesis here: Hollywood did use to be pretty corrupt and nepotistic in a way that everyone knew about, but now it's corrupt and nepotistic in a different way we're not aware of.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
In mild, mild fairness, I could imagine that, like with North Koreans, the modal Iranian might carry much less hatred towards an ordinary American in isolation compared to the totality, but that probably doesn't scale well.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Fair assessment! I don't know if that's how they try and mold their own universities back home, but that is all plausible, I think.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Arguably Japan more or less made the console a thing.
I'd quibble and say that us Americans made the console (Atari and Fairchild), the Japanese just figured out how to make them a sustainable business by learning from our mistakes.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Honestly, there's lots of games that feel Portal-inspired, even if they aren't particularly Portal-like in raw gameplay terms. It wasn't just a well-made 3D puzzler with a good story, it was practically the Myst of the 2000's.
Maybe the loans could be structured such that, while there's no serious obligation to pay it back, if you do, then...something happens. Not sure what, but that could make such a loan more than just helicopter money.
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