The_Nybbler
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The_Nybbler
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28d ago
How many people are too stupid to read and follow the directions?
It's easier than measuring a dose of heroin, which druggies manage without instructions all the time.
Hundreds of people OD on Tylenol every year in the US.
Mostly deliberately.
The_Nybbler
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28d ago
Actual legalization would alleviate accidental fentanyl overdoses because they are due to insufficiently good manufacturing. There's plenty of margin between a dose which gets you high and a dose which kills you if you can get a consistent dose.
The_Nybbler
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28d ago
571 in 20 years in the US.
The_Nybbler
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28d ago
This forces underclassmen to rely on seniors to buy them booze, and means that nobody living in student housing (mostly first and second years) can throw their own parties.
(Laughs in party school)
The_Nybbler
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28d ago
Last time, the prohibition worked well in lowering alcohol abuse.
It worked well in reducing alcohol use. Long term it probably did lower alcohol abuse (basically by ending saloon culture) but I don't know that alcohol abuse during prohibition was down.
The_Nybbler
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28d ago
Japan is totally a police state.
The_Nybbler
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28d ago
Decriminalization has been a disaster. The overdose death rate increased by 2,400% between 1980 and 2020.
Which includes a large part of the drug war. Which hasn't stopped.
The_Nybbler
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28d ago
"Hiding one's power level" is a little different -- it's not about smarts, but about believing politically incorrect facts such as the disproportionate number of US murderers who are black.
I think possibly one of the most revealing papers about this sort of thing was the MIT paper where they lambasted COVID skeptics (and Trump supporters!) for being willing to do research.
The_Nybbler
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28d ago
Nevermind that there are alternative interpretations of the US's experience with alcohol prohibition in the 1920s.
Yes, there are revisionist interpretations pushed by those who want to do it again despite the clearly destructive results from the last time.
And the US drug prohibition has not, regardless of your protestations, covered itself in glory.
The_Nybbler
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29d ago
Reminds me of Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad.
Talking about how they had to work outside during COVID and how this was a threat is hilarious. They were certainly a lot safer from the virus than, say, grocery store workers.
The_Nybbler
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29d ago
What are they actually saying about it?
That it is Trump's plan for his second term. It is not Trump's plan, neither in the sense of Trump creating it nor Trump endorsing it.
The_Nybbler
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30d ago
I assume Chicagoans still call it "Lake Shore Drive" and nothing else?
There's also the case of the bridge over a wide part of the Hudson River in New York, originally named for that widening -- the Tappan Zee (from Dutch for "Sea") Bridge. It had the name "Governor Malcolm Wilson" prepended to it, but nobody cared and nobody used it. Then it was replaced by another bridge, which is named the "Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge". They managed to get the traffic reports on the local news station to call it that (I assume the Cuomos have stock), but no one else does. Even the signs indicating directions to the bridge in New Jersey still say "Tappan Zee Bridge". People call the new bridge by the old name of the former bridge.
The_Nybbler
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30d ago
Ask someone in New York about the Avenue of the Americas, or in Philly about Columbus Boulevard, Martin Luther King Drive, or the Avenue of the Arts. (The only renaming Philadelphians accept is Kelly Drive)
The_Nybbler
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30d ago
I just double-scanned some store-labeled bagels today. I had two packages and one of the barcodes was damaged, so I scanned the other one twice. Worked fine. Even when I picked up the first one off the scale (to rescan it) and put the second one on, Indiana Jones-style.
The_Nybbler
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30d ago
It's not a dog whistle, it's a train whistle; everyone can hear it. And no, you're not being charitable by implying your opponents are white supremacist traitors.
The_Nybbler
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30d ago
You know, renaming something "Liberty" has been a central example of overly-politically-correct euphemism since WWII's "Liberty sausage", "Liberty cabbage", "Liberty steak".
The_Nybbler
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30d ago
Yeah, but the numbers knock your socks off.
Fortunately, potassium acetate works just fine.
Though a nice sharp blade would work too, with less fiddling. For all its indubitably French origins, the guillotine really fits well with America -- the execution technique of the nobility, packaged and commoditized for the masses.
The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
Pedal Bikes - The obese and the stylish simply won't use them.
To be hard to steal and stand up to abuse at all, they're also heavy and slow. My 20 year old boat anchor of a low-end hardtail mountain bike is far nicer to ride than a Citibike.
The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
A century and a half ago there wasn't welfare, was precious little in the way of building codes, and forget about occupancy codes -- the immigrants were crammed into those tenements.
The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
I don't really know how it would shake out. I expect there'd be an excluded middle, houses that were almost good enough to last out a major hurricane, if that's what you're getting at. It's possible the rich would also have some "disposable" construction, though only as second homes.
The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
I'm curious what the alternative is to building homes and watching them get wrecked.
Concrete. We have the technology to build homes which would take a Category 5 to wreck (and Category 5s are very rare even in Florida). RVs would be a very bad tradeoff. Besides the problem of living in an RV all the time, they're going to get wrecked in lesser storms which most current Florida homes easily survive. Plus, you'd never be able to evacuate in time; the roads would be jammed with RVs which would then get wrecked.
Another alternative would be "don't live there at all".
If the cost of rebuilding weren't subsidized, the market would (slowly) come to an equilibrium where either the places would be left without permanent structures or a good tradeoff between "build strong" and "build cheap but accept rebuilding" would be met.
The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
Even if that is all true (and given Turkey's population size, I don't think it is; quantity has a quality all of its own), it's far better for them to be cannon fodder FOR the US than cannon fodder for the other side.
The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
Most colonized societies didn't have anywhere near the ability to do this.
And now you see the difference between them and the colonizers.
Roman male slaves were not castrated and could indeed have descendants. Roman female slaves could also have descendants, both with male slaves and in the typical way of slavery.
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