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Theresa May was all about drug control because her husband is high up in a company that pretty much has a monopoly on medical cannabis export.

It looks like you're confusing Theresa May and Victoria Atkins:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-44109060

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/41519/did-the-husbands-of-theresa-may-and-victoria-atkins-then-british-pm-and-drugs-m

It's also worth noting that Theresa May (whose father was a Christian minister) introduced the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, which criminalises the production or supply of any substance whatsoever that effects the nervous system which was a huge power grab, essentially taking control of and criminalising the deliberate altering of consciousness by human beings. Her concerns were far broader than just cannabis.

New labour, in the early 2000s, made moves to be more lenient on cannabis, and they were absolutely hounded by the conservative press for it, which then prompted them to reverse track.

No. New Labour under Tony Blair didn't just make moves, they changed they law in 2004 and reclassified cannabis from class B to class C. This was fine and even up until 2006, the Blair government stated that they would not be reclassifying cannabis to class B. Then, after Gordon Brown (whose father was a Christian minister) became prime minister in 2007, his government changed the law again in 2008 and reclassified cannabis back from class C to class B, based on lies which they themselves produced.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that the conservative press had anything to do with it. This was entirely the doing of Gordon Brown (whose father was a Christian minister).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_classification_in_the_United_Kingdom

True but I found it interesting reading positive drug stories in The Mirror.

give me a dirty look

QED. A dirty look doesn't convey happiness.

they’re people too

This does not accord with my experience.

They generally don’t care on a personal level

Again, this does not accord with my experience.

except pearl clutchers

You mean like mini Hitlers who get nervous when people don't Follow The Rules? AKA police officers?

Alcoholic drinks are the blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

if they were to stop everyone like that they’d have their hands full

Just because they have to prioritise, doesn't mean they're happy about people using cannabis.

FYI:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mums-whose-children-died-ecstasy-16201475 ( https://archive.is/bLmoB )

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/i-lost-15-year-old-8514650 ( https://archive.is/Cm52V )

Why won’t they just take the shot?

Religion. Many people (like Theresa May, whose father was a Christian minister and Gordon Brown, whose father was a Christian minister) see taking drugs as inherently immoral. Many see getting out of your head in any way whatsoever as immoral.

I think the government/police are generally happy to ignore it

I'm not sure where you get that idea from.

on the internet always ...

Please don't presume to advise me.

You're not willing to be candid about why you posted a negative article about drugs. I presume your reasons are religious or otherwise ideological, and would not be appreciated by the majority of people.

I don't believe I need to know anything presented in this article. I would like to know why the author thinks I need to know lots of dry statistics and speculation but they don't bother to present that bit of information, alas.

OP: why did you post this?

Terrible report, doesn't even say the cause of death.

You first.

the very tone of this thread is suggesting that the HA developers choice in how they distribute their platform is "incorrect"

Not incorrect, just poor engineering. Anti-social ultimately.

you seem to disagree with explanations provided as to why those choices were likely made

I can see only two disagreements in the whole post. Only one of those is about the reasons for creating an OS rather than distro packages. I have corrected a number of factual errors and errors in reasoning but those aren't disagreements.

Dismissing those statements and observations do not make them incorrect.

Yes, my dismissing of them is not what makes them incorrect.

Nothing I stated is dramatic

LOL "this evil developer is doing a sinister thing"

this evil developer is doing a sinister thing

Nobody has said that here.

that community

I've no idea what community you're referring to. Nobody here has demanded that any developers cater to their distribution's needs.

If your community is getting cut off because, frankly, it's being unreasonable... don't come here looking for a personal army.

Again, I've no idea what community you're referring to. Nobody has come here looking for a personal army.

Your characterisation of the commentary on this post seems like that of an overly. dramatic. teenager.

This appears to bother a particular community who feel entitled enough to demand multiple developers cater to their distribution’s needs.

Your reading of the situation is wrong.

this is probably a ton of work, for which a purpose-built solution already exists: Docker

LOL Docker isn't a "solution" to the pressure of good engineering.

it could not feasible

I disagree.

He alone has behaved like a child, dragging his end users along with him in his over-reliance on one failure point for his entire distribution system

Yeah, this is exactly as expected. Someone with poor engineering skills finding themselves in a position of power and making sure everyone knows they're king of the hill. See this kind of thing all the time unfortunately :-(