And I probably Jimmy Carr, because YouTube kept pushing his shorts.

I googled this Hovind fella and you’re right, I can see that as well.

Yes yes, ofc they “controlled for”. It’s always the same argument with these studies. And you know it isn’t remotely enough so you appeal to authority by saying “reputable universities and institutions”, as if there hasn’t been literally hundreds of billions put into anti-cannabis research and there’s still only massively vague correlations instead of being able to show a single causation. Unlike with alcohol, which you can clearly demonstrate a sudden onset psychosis from pretty much anyone as long as you’re giving them something above say 8% ABV for a few hours on an empty stomach.

Yet you’ll also be able to find millions of people smoking weed daily without issues. You can’t say that for alcohol. Yet the implication is still one of “we can’t legalise more drugs” as if legalising made people less aware of the risks and less likely to abuse those substances, when we *know" it doesn’t. It actually does the opposite. Prohibition increases abuse and associated risks.

But hey, let’s spend another day arguing about how theres definitely a “link” between cannabis use and mental health disorders, even though not a single person can say what the link is how it forms or why.

Last time I did it I ended up having to read and Google all sorts of “reputable institutions” and once I did find the material, turns out even though they claimed to have controlled for all of those aspects, every single cannabis user was from a lower socioeconomic group than the control groups, which were in areas which were distinctly higher in average socioeconomic class. Then they just claimed that they had “controlled”. They clearly hadn’t. They had done the exact opposite.

Edit and just to make it clear, ofc any substance use has risks. Caffeine moreso than cannabis, for real.

And that’s because Trump is a Russian shill and Russia promised to bring down America in this exact way, a half a century ago. Edit dmn I’m getting old that’s closer to 3/4ths of a century

Have to agree there.

How does the financial system work

I actually thought he looked liked Jimmy Carr

I know the game but haven’t played it, so you tell me. Am I?

Thanks. Had no idea as a Finn what this was about and I was born in the 80’s.

I’m sure you were very good, but I doubt that you had that good a name memory as a five-year old.

I taught myself how to read as well, so I ain’t the dullest of pens either but somehow I just doubt you could’ve rattled off that many correct names and titles as a five-year old. Although, it might just be projection from my almost 40-year old weed-smoking soon-to-be-some-serious-memory-problem having ass. If so, apologies.

Can you understand that I see a fluffy animal I’d like to pet despite thinking it’s not immoral to eat them?

Because I don’t think you do. And if you want more people reducing the amount of (factory farmed) meat they eat and/or supporting vegan products, perhaps don’t paint eveyone who eats meat as a “someone only capable of seeing burgers and leather belts”.

I have a leather jacket. It’s older than me. It’s from the 70’s or perhaps even 60’s. It’s still in good condition because I take care of it. How many plastic (polyester) jackets have you gone through in the last 20 odd years? Because those hurt mother nature both directly and indirectly. How often do have you used an airplane? What’s your carbon footprint? Despite me eating meat, I guarantee mine is lower than yours.

But that’s okay, because you’re not capable of equating indirect harm to anything you contribute to, no, it’s only the evil “carnists” who just can’t be nice to animals or even ever really feel happiness from the gut wrenching hunger to consume animal flesh they must be suffering from all the time.

Oh well, it’s still a bit cheaper than here, relatively.

But I remberer lots of people saying how they were gonna quit once packs hit 5€. And at the time it felt like something crazy that would never happen, and packs cost like 3 or at most 4€ then.

I mean yeah, I don’t consume as much cigarettes nowadays, in fact none, but am still a smoker as I don’t like smoking weed without tobacco, but I also don’t like smoking tobacco without weed.

My opinion is just that vice taxes are shit, because while there might be an argument made, it disproportionately affects people of different income. What’s a pack of ciggies tripling their price to someone with high and stable income? Nothing. What is it to the lowest classes? With minimum wage back in idk say 2005 you only needed to work like 15-20min to earn enough for ciggies, now it’s definitely more than an hour. And that’s not counting income taxation etc, just from gross pay.

Honestly it’s weird how adamant people are there have always been people who solely preferred one sex over the other. While it’s generally true for modern society, people wouldn’t have even understood what you mean in ancient times by “sexual orientation”, really. I mean you could obviously explain it and people could answer to a degree, but…

Well, think of this, we have left and right in our languages. We all know those are relative terms. My left and your left are different, most of the time. Anyway, there exists a tribe who don’t have relative words for directions, and they only use cardinal directions, all the time. As in if they’re hanging a painting, they’d say “no, no, a bit to the north” instead of “left”. On a tangent, it makes them very much immune to getting lost as they have incredible sense of direction for that reason. My point being that to us it’s simple that you just use left and right, why wouldn’t you, when people know what it means and it’s simple. So why doesn’t that tribe use them? Idk, it’s just not in their culture. Just like such strict classifications of sexual orientation weren’t much of a thing in ancient and prehistoric times.

Bill And The Romans Talk About Sexuality | The Eaters Of Light | Doctor Who

Cornelius: Yeah, don’t worry, Bill, Lucius will look after you.

Lucius: Shut up, Cornelius!

Bill: Ahh, Lucius, erm, right, listen there’s, erm, something I should explain.

Lucius: What?

Bill: This is probably just a really difficult idea. I don’t like men that way.

Lucius: What? Not ever?

Bill: Nah, not ever. Only women.

Nah…not ever.

Lucius: Oh. Alright, yeah, I’ve got it. You’re like Vitus then.

Bill: What?

Lucius: He only likes men.

Vitus: Some men. Better looking men than you, Lucius.

Lucius: I don’t think it’s narrow-minded, I think it’s fine. You know what you like.

Bill: And you like both?

Lucius: I’m just ordinary, I like men and women.

Where? In EU and Australia at least tobacco is taxed to high heaven and costs like 10+ western money units (take whichever, dollar or euro, still roughly applies) a pack/pouch

I pay 14.30€ for a 30g pouch of rolling tobacco. And it’s probably more expensive the next time I buy because the pack before that was 13.50€. There’s a few price-hikes every year.

And not just for the humans using the road either.

https://yle.fi/a/3-7094020

##Glittering antlers to improve road safety

Employees at Finland’s Reindeer Herders’ Association are testing two different reflective sprays on reindeer’s antlers as a means to make the animals more visible to motorists on Lapland’s dark roads.

Finland here, third gen professional driver, dad had “Gentleman of the Road” taped to the back of his taxi-van. You couldn’t find a more patient driver (unless he was driving us to a bus and we’re running late or if the liquor store was closing.)

No matter how carefully you drive, human brains just can not pick out a dark thing that’s practically stationary against another dark thing when you’re in a vehicle moving >50kmh.

And our kids walk to the school by themselves if it’s less than 3km iirc, and lots of those roads don’t have sidewalks. Lots do, most probably, but in rural areas not every road has a sidewalk. And it’s dark most of the year.

So you really get taught to wear at least a small reflector. It’s not because of inconsiderate car-brained drivers. It’s because humans don’t have HD thermal vision that keeps perfectly up at high speeds.

This video might illustrate it better. (Pun intended.)

https://youtu.be/38xkAV8YC4k

Someone with a reflector can be spotted roughly 150m away, whereas some one without one from about 40 meters. Going 60km/h you travel 40m in 2.5 seconds. The average reaction time for general road users is put around 1.5s. Leaving you a whopping one second (1s) to slam your breaks, and even then you won’t make a meaningful difference. Whereas the driver seeing someone with a reflector has almost 10 seconds, leaving them with 8.5 to reduce speed and dodge the pedestrian a bit.

So while I don’t own a car, but an ebike, and take public transport and am against car-brained culture, in this instance it’s you demanding everyone in countries with long winters spend all of their driving time driving about as fast as one can run, in order to have enough reaction time to avoid pedestrians without reflectors. And I think you understand that while we all dream of better public transport and less car-brain, in this instance wearing a tiny reflector you literally get for free from most places (my bus pass holder is one, for instance, because hauling hailing down buses is a lot more effective with a reflector than a dark mitten) can’t be such a bother. Also you can just take it off when you get to where your going and pocket it if it so bothers you.

Also, what about pets?

Most pets nowadays here have either reflective “clothing” or leashes/bands with small leds. And a lot of the time you just spot a dog in a reflective harness and perhaps a leash hanging in midair until you see the person.

Russia is free again

I really wish that will happen as well, but when has Russia actually been free?

“No. They aren’t. You can only keep them for eggs in some places.”

I call bullshit.

There is no U.S. state where it is illegal to kill your own chickens or where you are restricted solely to keeping them for eggs. While California has strict humane slaughter laws ( California Humane Slaughter Act) and various localities have zoning restrictions, home slaughter for personal consumption is generally legal throughout the United States, provided it is done humanely

https://www.animallaw.info/article/detailed-discussion-legal-protections-domestic-chicken-united-states-and-europe#2D

A lot of them look rather too sleek and modern to me.

Mines more rugged imo. I don’t even know what country the company is from tbh. I know a store that still sells it in a nearby mall though, just peeked in out of curiosity once. Not that I need a new bag, since this one is still fine.

Well aside from the straps I had changed a couple of years ago, and annoyingly the new material is more plasticky and has reflectors on it. (And I don’t like reflectors installed in my things without being asked. What if I wanted to run away from someone in dark woods and they’re chasing me with a torch in their hand?)

I have a Hedgren backpack and it’s lasted through the toughest of outdoor drinking trips and daily use for more than 30 years.

I’d suggest them, but I have no idea whether the company has the same values anymore and if the new backpacks are even comparable.

I was like, wait, what’s “touch typing”? Oh writing without looking?

Yeah, been doing that a couple of decades prolly. I even do it on my phone most of the time. That’s why I typo quite a lot unless I proofread. I do usually use the suggestions and glimpse at the kb from time to time and you can half see it anyway but yeah.

With a computer I don’t really ever look at the keyboard. My speed has been measured a couple of times I think but can’t recall anything except getting the highest grade. And I think those tests limit my speed as I don’t copy things as fast as when I’m heatedly constructing and argument myself. Feels like I’ve got much better flow then than when reading a word and then having to output it at the same time.

I need to see whether I can measure my own speed sometime when I get into a nice argument and have good flow again.

Idk about others, or if this counts, but I know for a fact that social security in Finland or use AI to transcribe discussions.

I’ve tried how well they transcribe and would never ever ever let them transcribe something as important as social security meetings etc.