jkf
1d ago
I somewhat agree (this past winter was pretty egregious in my location), but if we had happened to grow up near the end of the Little Ice Age we'd be saying the same damn thing, no?
jkf
1d ago
nicotine-naive included snus, which was later found to increase all-cause mortality, particularly CV mortality.
Do you have a citation for "later found"?
I'm personally a heavy user of synthetic pouches (actually homemade version which is pretty much free and difficult to ban) and have in the past dove deep into the literature on snus -- there's a lot, because the EU public health unit has been fighting with Swedish public opinion over actual snus since before vaping was even much of a thing.
My cowboy meta-analysis as of a few years ago was the there were a lot of highly motivated and well-funded studies which... pretty much failed to show significant all-cause mortality impact associated with long-term heavy usage of trad-snus; they would always find something to hang their hat on of course, but taken as a whole the literature was pretty unconvincing. And synthetic snus (in my case, unflavoured vape juice dripped onto cotton) seems unlikely to be more harmful than the tobacco kind.
I've been at this about five years; I'm sucking on the things basically all the time and it's cost me something like a couple hundred bucks and left me with entirely normal blood pressure; heart rate is a little elevated maybe? Infinitely better than vaping; not least because you don't need to go outside and look like a moron hipster pretending to smoke.
jkf
5d ago
Also a 1911 has always been kind of an expensive gun -- if you just need to wave it in somebody's face so they won't make a fuss and hand over their wallet, a little .25 works just fine. (and fits in your pocket)
jkf
6d ago
Canadian poster here -- the consequences of the policies were indeed terrible. A bit of a slow burn for the first few years maybe, but the fact that he lost his majority after the first term seems indicative of some sort of decline?
National politics are weird here, because the country is large and diverse -- Ontario is basically full of sheeple, but a lot of them -- and therefore the electoral map is such that being Current Thing enough for that crowd is enough to coast along pretty indefinitely winning minorities. This is basically what he's done; tbqh I'm coming around to separation as a solution (although I'd much prefer decentralization) now that Carney's decided backroom deals to secure a "mandate" are his best way forward.
It's probably mostly reporting bias -- women hit their partners all the time in relationships, but when that partner is a man it's:
a)no big deal because she hits like a girl
b) kind of embarrassing to report that your girlfriend is abusing you
In a lesbian relationship, neither partner is used to receiving any kind of violence, and both are socially predisposed to treat any kind of violence (done by someone other than themselves!) as a relationship red line -- so that cops/statisticians are much more likely to hear about it.
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