The drug wars obviously didn’t start in the 20th century with Nixon’s war on drugs. For example Britain fought two opium wars in China in ths 18/19th C. to force the export of opium to those communities to balance our trade deficit with tea. China had tried to ban opium several times before but I suppose it’s just that some western propaganga is to blame? Then there is the temperance movement which started in the late 19th century and had alcohol prohobited for many years in the states.

There is something ingrained in people that distrust drugs, and therefore make propaganda campaigns like the war on drugs a vote winner.

Anyway I really didn’t mean to reply again to this thread. Have a good rest of your day!

Edit: I’ve got a postgrad master degree in philosophy btw

Let me summarise the dozens of comments here. You have been arguing with 2 or 3 people for a day or so about drug liberalisation.

All 3 of those people agree the drug laws are overly punitive at the moment and the stigma is unfair. At least two of them have said that they have used drugs in the past and had a positive experience.

The only point of disagreement is the extent to which propaganda from the 20th century shapes attitudes today. I think we all agree it still does to some extent.

I think you need to work on your persuasive writing and debating skills if you’ve managed to create a flame war out of a comment chain where almost everyone is in agreement. Calling people “stupid” and “thick” doesn’t help you win your case, and neither does being patronising to people.

In my opinion you made the original post because:

1. You wanted to soapbox about your political beliefs regarding drugs.
2. You wanted to argue with people who didn’t share your views.

You’ve ended up with a thread where most people share most of your views so you’ve just started trolling them.

The phrase “absolutely decimated” annoys me since to decimate has a really exact definition of shedding 10% of something

I have some empathy I remember posting on /r/drugs when I was 16 too…

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is probably what I’ll remember her best for

Man you had a lot more effort to dedicate to this guy than me lol

I wonder when he’ll realise that everyone he’s been rude to was basically agreeing with him

I thought her husband took a lot of the credit at the time. Might be mistaken about that though.

I like any of the Nujabes albums. He makes chilled, mainly instrumental, hip hop music.

Could also add Marie Curie in there. I didn’t realise until recently that there is a lot of controversy over France “claiming her achievements” since she was born and educated in Poland.

Have enjoyed memes pointing out that a character who is a diddler named Diddy could have been written by Hideo Kojima.

I have a gentoo desktop but for a convenient middle ground just put Debian on my laptop. It’s stable, things just work out of the box, maintainers/devs are competent, they haven’t drunk the snap/flatpack kool-aid…

Switching to Testing is always an option but I’ve not found the need to do that yet when I can install programs from a deb package or just compile from source and install it in ~/.bin in my home directory.

lol we get it you like drugs

No, that’s just your opinion.

I don’t think there is a correct answer to the question you are posing. You asked for people’s opinions and I gave you mine.

Sustainable growth is popular but we are going to need to invest in unpalatable energy sources like nuclear power in order to power it. We also need to make sure recycling actually happens as opposed to local authorities shipping the materials overseas for “processing” (i.e. being dumped or burned).

Human populations tend to decline as an economy becomes more advanced and people are able to plan their families. We are already seeing population growth stagnating much more quickly than expected in countries like China. That will cause demographic challenges so we are going to need to rethink how we manage immigration so it can happen sustainably with public consent.

Lastly, increasing economic output doesn’t necessarily mean consuming more resources. If a country becomes more productive, by for example integrating a new technology, then you can increase output with the same or fewer resources.

In my opinion it’s because in the past human beings needed to be constantly working or assisting with a group in some capacity in order to ensure mutual survival for the group. Let’s say a village.

Activity which is not seen as being productive or could be construed as lazy has a stigma around it because it casts doubt on your ability to contribute to society.

Obviously none of this applies in the same way these days but there is a kind of primal conflation of intoxicants and laziness. Laziness is bad and so consuming intoxicants turns into a moral issue.

These attitudes are very deeply ingrained and although they can shift a bit as people become more liberal the deep suspicion remains.

DF is reporting some serious frame rate issues. Similar to the Links Awakening rerelease.

RustyTrombone: An unusual musical instrument. (Urban Dictionary)

Java class names look like German compound nouns though

I believe if the instance is still up then it will still work up until a daily limit is reached. Most of them appear to be broken because the limit is fairly low.