HopingForBetter @ HopingForBetter @lemmy.today

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You do realize that your providing sources for someone else who didn't doesn't make them less emotional, nor my original post "ironic" for not knowing your sources.

I stand by my original post, which was a cursory google search of us history.

Thanks for providing sources.

However, my ultimate point that it was never a gateway drug and bans were consistently protested remains.

Is your point that I'm wrong for not knowing everything because I said "Here's what I found, stop being emotional and show me what you found."?

Good day.

You're going to have to provide some source for it being illegal. Arguably, it was contentious in the 30s, but the first official ruling was 1970.

It also seems like you don't understand that it being banned 50 years ago is not the same as it being banned for 50 years.

It was banned in 1970, but 3 years after, states pushed back.

Alcohol was banned in 1920, and 13 years later, it was unbanned.

You are coming across as very emotional about this, but you are showing how little you have researched. I don't have time to bring you up to speed if you are only going to keep your fingers in your ears while you shut your eyes and scream how right you are.

Have a good day.

After a quick search through us history, alcohol was banned around 1920 and lasted for about 13 years. The marijuana ban that we all know of happened, get this, in 1970, and states began pushing back only 3 years after. So, alcohol was banned far longer than marijuana. The d.a.r.e. campaigns and other propoganda coupled with the inability to do scientific studies on the drug created the mass panic. There were not serious problems, other than some politician needing a platform.

What an unusual shrimp.

Voda - water

ka - a little

Vodka - water, a little

Checks out.

Uh oh... This would actually work. I'm already on board for the squeaky king. ALL HAIL THE SQUEAKY KING!!!

Those poor multi-billion dollar...

Nope, I cannot even finish typing that sentence.

Fuck 'em.

My hands feel weird...

Spam, spam, spam, spam Spam, spam, spam, spam Lovely spam, wonderful spam

I'll agree that competition is not as robust.

However, it will be interesting to see how many "non-techy" people discover how easy it is to find content for free without ads.

Good o'le "Bobwehadababyitsaboy"

I also remember when CarrotTop did the C-A-L-L-A-T-T commercial, so that's fun/old...

So, the dictionary is not a gold-standard.

It is, in fact, the opposite and in very simplified terms, just a book of how people currently pronounce words and their meaning today. Think of it more as a record book for the time it was printed, rather than a rule book; living languages are funny like that.

If you would like to know more, I highly recommend Word by Word written by Kory Stamper, one of the editors for the Merriam-Websters Dictionary.

It's good.

If you've never played the games, it may take a few episodes to figure out, but my kids (who've never played) enjoyed it.

The universe has so many characters, factions, and creatures that I would say not even 1/4 are in the first season, so there is a lot of in universe room to expand and explore story-wise.

Not often I say this about new streaming series, but I highly recommend!

I definitely would argue most people don't ever work 8 hours a day.

Even when I was scheduled in a factory, I had 10-15min here, 30min there of downtime waiting on the line, going poo, being told to change posts, watching people drop pallets and then everyone scrambling to pick up the spill.

That's why I'll always advocate work from home. Get your shit done, and get on with life.

It's a very hard line to tow.

I think the death penalty should really only be allowed for mass murder / enslavement.

However, I doubt any billionaires are innocent of enslaving people, even if it's "I paid them ($0.07 / day, which is slave wages)!" So, fuck the ultra rich. They didn't get there by hard work; they got there by exploiting people and the system. Finances are not unlimited, so funneling that much money to yourself means you are directly depriving whole communities of livelihood and, almost always, actual life.

Apostrophes create contractions, hyphens create compounds.

Sorry, but um, actually, that's a hyphen. An apocalypse is the goddess from Pirates of the Carribean who is in love with Davy Jones.

For my current use, (mostly screen sharing) I think it has to be connected.

Also, I think most smart tvs require regular updates or they "won't work".

It's worth a shot though, I'll have to look into it.

All I found in a cursory search were commercial displays. But I'll keep looking.

I've got a 30"? VISIO that's over 13 years old and doing just fine. I'd love to get another something of that quality; planned obsolescence sucks.

Unless you're trying to achieve 4K on a projector, you definitely don't need a $12k model.

Similarly, sound is dependent on the user. I've used many projectors that had decent speakers. Yes, speakers can be expensive, but not outlandish unless you're going for an audiophile set, but then you're going to drop money either way because most TVs don't have movie theatre level speakers.

I'm just interested in having a big enough picture without paying a fortune or having unskippable ads while I play Horizon: Forbidden West.

An $80 projector works just fine for me.

I'm not trying to build a theatre or anything here.