jkf
22hr ago
The guns might not be legal, but even in Canada you do need to consider the possibility that anyone you encounter could be armed -- all the laws in the world can't change this.
jkf
1d ago
If you live in North America, the other people have guns whether you like it or not, though...
jkf
2d ago
There’s no way. Testosterone is a helluva drug.
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.
jkf
3d 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
3d 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.
They (meaning the American agencies -- local state capacity here is not even in the same ballpark) could probably get most of the guns in Canada; for the USA -- Civil War stuff aside -- there's not even the state capacity to win the War on Drugs.
The War on Guns would be much tougher even if you didn't have a rifleman behind every blade of grass fighting alongside the gangbangers.
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