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I never understood this argument for "we need coal to run the power at night" like batteries have never existed. Do you still light gas lamps at night, or would you use an electric torch?

I do agree that police tend to lie about quantities of drugs confiscated (weighing including the packaging etc.), but a quick google search for fentanyl doses does line up with the OD potential. It is extremely potent in small quantities which is why you see so much fent ODs when a small amount of it is cut in to bulk up other things like heroin.

800mg is the maximum recommended dose (note: not OD dose), and 16,500 times that is only 13.2g. Therefore 33g probably does technically have the potential to OD 16,500 people who have no tolerance, but it's a really stupid way of putting it that has no nuance.

And yeah, the drug war is stupid, legalize everything.

It doesn't feel like a great idea to conscript those with mental health issues heavily impacted by stress.

I think a lot of these things are further reaching problems than first world 😅

I don't think you can call yourself grown up because you chose a couple of shitty games and threw your hands up to proclaim ALL GAMING IS DEAD

You must have some well curated Facebook. Mine has been mingling extreme left acquaintances with extreme right old country ass family members for over a decade.

This makes it sound like you float out a wishlist of movies into the sea and it floats back the DVDs you want like some kind of Poseidon's Netflix.

I honestly thought the headline was about a new twitch stream trend at first. It definitely seems like watching someone pick out movies on Netflix could be a Just Chatting trend.

My wife is also like this and I honestly think the algorithm is geared towards this pattern. It constantly offers a ton of stuff you've already watched.

"Hey you liked The Stranger, well i have the perfect movie for you, it's called The Stranger"

I think it depends on how much of the content you have already watched. I've personally watched a lot of Netflix in the past year and it keeps suggesting stuff to me that I've already watched. And I don't mean the "watch again" category. Literally every category on the main page contains stuff I've already watched recently and rated.

I also rate every title I watch, in hope of feeding the algorithm. It does offer me new releases which fit, but anything older is completely hidden behind recommendations that never really change (no way to hide away content i don't want to watch).

I get your point about it being good to guide people towards things they might like, but evidently from the article we are commenting on it's not really helping on the whole.

Unfortunately they only come if you need to be rescued from aliens.

I get the idea that it's freeing children from having to follow their parental oppression, but it would be nice to see some honest statistics on how many kids this actually is.

I would be inclined to think the more rabid fundamentalist types would simply seek a move to a school which allows their kid to wear it. Thereby not really reducing fundamentalism as is the supposed goal, instead segregating and entrenching it.

And it's not even a niqab of hijab we are talking about here, its just a type of traditional dress.

I don't think there's a law against MAGA hats.

The law has already been in place for many years and this item is just now being banned, as if they suddenly realised now that it's symbolic. Don't act like it should be obvious what items are included and what is not, as that is the whole point of this being news.

I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for a French perspective on the specifics.

It's not really obvious, which is why I had to ask. The article focuses on a piece of clothing which isn't really religiously significant being banned, so I wouldn't say it's obvious what falls under the law.

It's funny that the French are romanticised as a revolutionary people, always ready to stand up to the man and fight for the people.

They've probably just been shit on by their own government more that most other nations, so they've reached that tipping point of revolution more than anyone else.

Force them to wear some different clothes, that will make them tolerate trans people more.

I also went to a UK school and there was no jewellery of any kind because it was against uniform policy, not for religious reasons. I was pretty sure there was no problem with religious headgear though, for example Sikh turban wearing.

I was asking about the French public schools as thats what the article was about.

Thats interesting. Is that purely from a religious symbol standpoint or is it a jewellery thing too? And cringe that they were banned or that they were worn at all?

I honestly don't understand the contradicting argument of "there should be no religious symbol in a state school, if you want that go to a religious school" and "no religious symbols allowed will set them free".

Surely if you are funneling all of these kids into religious schools and away from the state system, you're going to entrench them in that religion further, not "set them free". It just serves to divide kids even more than if you allowed them all the freedom to mingle in the same school with all their religious garb.