I have no strong opinion for/against legalizing cocaine, but your statements don’t seem to align with the literature I’ve read on the lethal dose of alcohol vs cocaine - which I’ve always seen list alcohol as worse.
For example the chart below which measures the dose required for an active dose vs a lethal dose as a ratio - alcohol is worse.
Source listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drug_danger_and_dependence.svg
As has been shown time and time again, the 2A people only want the freedom to own guns so they can shoot up a carpark or nightclub full of unarmed brown people or school full of unarmed children and teachers on minimum wage.
They don’t actually have the balls or follow-through to, ya know… form a well regulated militia and bear arms to oppose tyranny. Even while the oppressors are stealing from them right out in the open every day of their lives, shooting and imprisoning their friends and family, and laughing about it to their faces. So long as they have their cosplay 1911 and AR15 to pose with in the mirror at night… all is well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_fighting
Read this to know the history of roughly thirty breeds of dogs that were selectively bred (some over hundreds of years) with the primary goal of being used in fighting.
You are just another of the many people who will happily ignore or hand-wave statistics and historical facts simply because it supports your predefined ideas that your special puppy would never. Until, they do.
The trouble is really twofold, firstly the people that are most impacted with heavy disease and death from measles are small children (whom have no say in their vaccination status, and we as a community should protect), and the massive additional unnecessary burden that will be placed upon the already struggling healthcare systems.
Just like we saw with covid, this will cause necessary medical procedures & treatments to be delayed, medical staff burnout, and an overall rise in ‘excess mortality’.
All because people have been listening to dipshits ‘just asking questions’ platforming antivaxxers and a rise in vaccine hesitancy due to mass propaganda online through poorly-regulated social media who value clicks and engagement (ragebait) over accuracy.
Damn, 20 long is gonna be hitting the limit in some sites
Trump’s terrible response to COVID19 resulted in a daily thousand people dead for nearly three years, 10,000 a week at it’s peak, almost a million in total.
His admin has also been accused many times of using terror tactics.
I think 20 years is long enough that political cartoonists can make 9/11 similes without worrying too much about pearl clutching.
And here it is as foretold… The first of no doubt many “1 week extensions” to the deadline.
Discord is just another social media site that has a whole lot of people fooled into thinking it’s not creating profiles on them for advertising. Gonna get real obvious real soon though.
I guess thats OK for community dev teams and stuff - like it works well, users can come and accesa the faq or support and leave. But it can leave a walled garden of data in there if they want to move elsewhere later though.
Larger issue is the people that share their whole lives there as a quasi-Facebook. That’s all getting hoovered up and sold to the highest bidder - alongside data like exactly what activity you do on your PC (processes running when and where for how long etc - Discord monitors a lot)
Better though because you don’t need an account, and can gain a lot of anonymity via an eggdrop or vpshell etc.
Coupled with other recent actions by the White House and DHS I’d say it’s very reasonable to file this under stochastic terrorism. They know the likely violent outcome, they are hoping for that outcome, but they’re doing it under a guise of “just sharing information” with “a concerned public” whom are “under attack”.
It gets thrown around a lot but Orwell’s 1984 has a passage, the context in the book is the protanonist realizing specifically about how it is impossible to argue against the fascist party as they happily substitute alternate facts whenever desired, and mandate the loyal adopt them wholesale.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
This is the chapter. https://george-orwell.org/1984/6.html
I mean the section you list ‘reception’ lists some vagueries about how it’s been recieved (positively and negatively) in various countries but it’s certainly not shouting out that it’s unreliable.
Likewise the controversies section below has three relatively minor events over its entire history.
Hardly seems like a smoking gun…
This doesn’t even make sense in the context of (almost always terrible) political compass meme. Who’s even in each quadrant - the person making the statements or those responding?
I feel dumber for reading this.
OP specifically used cop unlocking your phone as an example. Don’t argue in bad faith.
Absolutely no access control on a consumer device is impervious to guns and torture.
TL;DR: The end product is the same, whether it be natural or artificial. The real concern, is if the product should really be consumed at all.
This is hot crap. They are different chemicals, the end product is not the same and you’re spouting misinformation.
Most of the artificial dyes that people have banned in countries other than the USA are derived from petrochemicals. Natural dyes have been in use far longer and have been shown to have fewer negative health outcomes.
Eg. Red dye containing bugs (cochineal, E120) has no known health effects except to an extremely small percentage of the population whom are allergic to bugs, hence it is marked as an ingredient when used, to alert those with allergies. Its replacement alternatives are:
And that’s just red dye.
Change takes time and they’ve been anti-gay for a very, very long time. No sane person thinks a single pope solved all the centuries of repression in 10 years.
What I do know is that the conservative Catholics I personally know thought Pope Francis was “too liberal” and “just saying woke things because that’s what young people like nowadays” and those are both endorsements to my ears.
Especially his attitude on climate change and income inequality and tax avoidance by the wealthy - there is a lot of that in conservative church groups and if their God’s PR representative is telling them to cut that shit out and look after the environment better then great.
This meme just needs a few arrows and ten more text labels and then it’ll really get its point across.
Definitely the ‘least bad’ pope of my lifetime. Let’s hope the next one continues the progressive stance he adopted on many aspects of life.
The point is how much you need to take for an active dose (eg getting drunk/high) and when you take this into account - it’s actually more likely you’ll kill yourself getting drunk than doing coke.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drug_danger_and_dependence.svg