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Exit polls showed the AfD did well among younger voters, winning in the 25-34 age bracket with 22% …

My source (https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundestagswahl-2025-ergebnisse-so-hat-deutschland-gewaehlt-aktuelle-daten-a-6ace92df-43cc-48de-b183-2c98c7c19c2f) says it was 24% there, and unfortunately, that wasn't their strongest voting age bracket. That was rather mine (35-44). Oh well

It's a hypothetical scenario anyways because Ukraine being a NATO member would mean NATO boots on ground in Ukraine, which the US (and in fairness a lot of other NATO countries, but for different reasons) want to avoid. But it calls the bluff on the unfounded dictator accusations that Russia and some puppets peddle.

The Family Guy joke what Meg is short for was tame in comparison

Got a giggle out of me

You can game “now” ? 🤨

Well, you can… in fact you you could also before… but it's technically correct

True! My original point though is that just providing a hash for a downloaded file is generally not required. It doesn't provide anything that other layers haven't already (a hash only guarantees integrity, while downloading over HTTPS provides authenticity). Personally, I see them as a relic of the past that made more sense when transmission was less robust (though even back then, a lot of layers provided some sort of error detection and correction), and modern filesystems can detect errors as well.

Those must have been really helpful in 1999.

Smoking became disgusting when the campain against smoking became effective.

Bullshit. My non-smoking parents called smoking disgusting in the 80s and probably before that. It became disgusting when addicts smoked everywhere without consideration for others, like in restaurants or on trains.

So what many people perceive as a disgusting habbit today is the effect of conditioning and propaganda. Smokers also had long lasting relations with non-smokers, now it is unthinkable a smoker and a non-smoker to even go out for a coffee together.

The fuck are you on about? I have no problem doing stuff with smokers and have had nobody ever claiming otherwise. Just don't smoke in a way that affects me.

I am also surprised this discussion has gone so far so long and nobody has mentioned sugar and its bi-products (soft drinks, candy, sweets, ...) Is there such an addiction recognized and known as dangerous?

Nice whataboutism. Btw, as far as I know, the same bodies pushing for regulating smoking and drinking more are also in favor of addressing this issue. And now matter how relevant it might be, your just detailing here.

Type-B diabetes has become common even for kids, especially in the west.

Sorry, I know types 1 and 2 only.

The sweetest thing you will find in China doesn't even taste sweet, and if you offer a middle eastern pastry to a Chinese person they put half a spoon in their mouth and think they are about to die.

Which China?

Or three, depending on how you count it.

Not even in Israel, all Jews agree with how things are handled by the government (and I'm well aware that Israel isn't all Jews, but also various Arab ethnicities).

Just because a person is Jewish doesn't mean they need to justify why they oppose the government of Israel. I'm not pressing Christians here either about whether they oppose the actions of the Trump administration which is heavily influenced by evangelicals. But this is unfortunately where Antisemitism kicks in: it's the thinking that Jews are a kind of global cabal, and everyone living in diaspora is a kind of agent. So they're responsible for any bad actions done by Jews anywhere.

Or any long-running process that's attached to a terminal for which you can't or don't want to guarantee that you keep it open all the time, yet still want to look at the output.

As someone said. they're different things, though they overlap in some areas.

There are just so many holes in that theory that I don't believe it, biochemist or not.

First and unrelated to any biochemical processes being that you claim that "it reacts with alcohol to produce the effects now known to kids all around the world". But kids for sure don't mix these with alcohol, the discussion here was always about marketing the drinks to kids while they have caffeine and high sugar. Not that they mix it with alcohol.

Second, at least for other previously legal substances that evaded existing laws that I read into, molecules were attached to existing substances (e.g. 1p-LSD) which in the body lost the attached molecule. However, the companies producing these had to handle LSD, and for that had a license. If this approach was used here, the energy drink companies would need to have licenses to handle methamphetamine and its predecessors.

Third, most chemical reactions are a bit more complicated than "just add ethanol".

Lastly, it was you who made an unsubstantiated claim and, citing Hitchen's razor, "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence".

At least tobacco takes decades to kill you but will keep your mind sharp if you need it.

Are you implying tobacco is less bad for your brain than amphetamines?

After his mother's death in 1971 he started taking antidepressants and amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking them for a month. Erdős won the bet but complained that it impacted his performance: "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his use of Ritalin and Benzedrine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality

Not that I'm recommending this.

There was also a modern American take on the matter

That sounds "far-fetched" to put it mildly.

You need to read this in the context of the post I replied to. I don't doubt what you're saying. But there was an implication that for some people, alcohol was the "healthier alternative" to smoking that they're now not using but instead smoke (which is supposed to be even less healthy, personally I can't rank their impact on health on a good foundation but this is what was implied).

I know people self-medicate and that others use recreationally. But I'm sure alcohol and tobacco industry don't give a fuck about the legality of the other. If anything, there's probably a synergy.

It makes money to a few while offloading the much higher cost to society.

Has smoking and drinking ever been an exclusive or decision for people? I never smoked and wouldn't have traded drinking for it, as I consider smoking completely disgusting. The effects are also very different.

The bigger issue is that drug laws regarding legality of a substance are completely detached from scientific reality, leaving people with no alternatives but some of the more dangerous substances for recreative use.

This is what people always seen to ignore about YouTube. It's not just another database frontend to use generated content. That is definitely part of it, but behind that is probably the largest public facing content library on the Internet with a full video recoding infrastructure attached. YouTube is the platform for which I understand that they need to monetize.

Sure, nowadays there's also tiktok as another big video service. But I like to think that YouTube is way bigger in most metrics.

Realistically, what do you expect at this point in time?

Trump's in office since less than a month. There have already been larger protests. With 50501, there is a movement growing. Things will take time.

I'm in favor of showing more empathy to everyone who's personally affected and didn't vote for this, including people who got robbed of their opportunity to vote.

It's unreasonable to ask already marginalized groups now "why aren't you correcting this?". There is no quick way to correct this. It will be a long and drawn-out process, and maybe will also require the insight of Americans that lying to masses is not voicing your opinion as free speech.

Suddenly feeling blessed with my (arguably not too many) friends here, also in Germany, who are all center to left. All of them despise AfD and Trump.

But at least people are revealing their true face. 🤷