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Not only is decriminalization not legalization, even if something is legal your employer can prohibit it as a condition of employment.

I can guarantee you, even if marijuana is completely legal tomorrow and available in every 7-11 I'll be fired for testing positive, and for good reason. At least the reasons are good for me, for a lot of other jobs drug testing is bullshit.

While they do seem to be pro Ukraine, that's not their raison d'être.

They're just a national defense/defense industry shitpost community with what seems like a genuine appreciation for cool vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment, even if most of them would prefer that equipment was never used for its intended purpose. Credible defense was for serious military posting on Reddit, but I don't think there is a lemmy community for that.

Right now a lot of that equipment is being used in Ukraine so a lot of posts reference it.

Edit: Also, Russia is currently providing a lot of fodder for shitposts.

Balls

I suppose you could bake a brownie sphere in microgravity. That might be hard to get the center cooked without burning the surface though. Maybe a metal ball as a pan that you could coat with batter.

The genocide in Darfur is ongoing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80%93present)

It's a shitty headline made worse by a deleted word in the post title. The firm was found responsible for the death in a separate incident at a different plant from the one where they were found employing minors.

I don't recall that happening to any of the many services I subscribe to. I've always paid for no commercials and I've never had commercials without having to change plans, although I think the name has changed sometimes. Maybe my price went up and they added a new commercial tier near the price I used to pay? Could you give an example?

People keep using this term enshitification but my experience has only gotten better and better since I cut the cord and now more companies offer streaming increasing what is available to me. My total price has gone up as more things become available but it's still less than half of what I paid for cable.

Edit: I just remembered prime video did that. They started charging $3/month for no commercials, but that's the only one I can think of.

It sucks that Netflix doesn't have as much as they used to because stuff has been pulled for other services but the value proposition for streaming still blows cable out of the water, even with price increases. Adding free or low cost commercial tiers for more price sensitive people doesn't give me commercials.

With all the premium channels and three HD-DVR boxes I used to pay over $200, before internet, more than a decade ago with much of that going to a shitty middle man company. And that's for commercial, appointment TV. Even with the premium stations you had to DVR shit to watch later. I subscribe to a ton of services, even some fringe ones, so I almost never come across something that I can't watch immediately with no commercials on any device I have access to anywhere in the world. And with annual rates, discounts from my phone company, and kickbacks from credit cards I'm still under $100. And now the money goes to companies that actually produce content, even if some of them suck for other reasons.

With what I'm getting I would pay double what I used to for cable, but as it is I'm paying half. It seems like a lot of people complaining never paid for cable with all the packages/premium stations themselves and don't remember how much appointment TV sucked.

The thing these arguments never take into account is a fate worse than death.

That's the point you're missing.

Think about why someone would prefer the much more likely bear mauling to the much less likely worst case scenario with a man. If you can wrap your head around that, then consider why these women had that answer ready to go with very little thought. Considerations of a fate worse than death is something that women live with from the age where they first notice grown men noticing them. That averages 11 or 12 years old by the way. Maybe younger if their parents were a little more candid with them than the generic "stranger danger."

I looked it up the other day. The float that's currently available to trade is 6.32m shares. The total shares are 138.81m shares. And that's not even counting all the warrants outstanding (DJTWW). As I understand it, those are like options issued by the company, but when they are exercised they dilute the stock even further instead of entitling you to buy existing shares.

Right now it's just about 4.6% of the shares being traded by idiots who think Trump will make them rich and people taking advantage of those idiots. As soon as all those restricted shares hit the market, they'll be worthless. And I'm not just talking about Trump's shares, there are a lot of other insiders with restricted shares.

It'll be interesting though. It's kind of like a prisoners dilemma. If they all just hold and trickle out their shares over a long period of time, they could fleece a shit-ton of money from MAGAts before the bottom drops out, leaving them holding the bag. But they all know if any one of them dumps, the stock will tank and maybe even the idiots that buy trump bucks can't bring it back up.

What do you think the chances are that they'll all rush to be the first ones out because they think at least one other person will do the same causing it to go to pennies within days of those shares becoming available to trade?

Yup, it's always "critical support" for any country with an adversarial relationship to the "imperial core" no matter how fucked up they are on human rights, or anything else.

It's never critical support for any of the "succdem" countries for their advances on human rights and social safety nets despite not moving towards socialism/communism, and then trying to get them moving in that direction.

Not that all or even most of the countries they support are actually moving towards socialism/communism either. The countries they list as AES (already existing socialism) make me think they have literal holes in their heads, like that guy that didn't realize he shot himself in the head with a nail gun for years.

They're good at quoting Marx but when it comes to who they support their only requirement is anti-western aligned countries, and they'll twist their brains into any knots necessary to invent a narrative to justify that support.

Even if Tesla somehow managed to de-Elon themselves and address the quality issues, those cars look so dated compared to other EVs that are available and what's coming soon.

They gave the model 3 a facelift but they really need a major bodystyle update across the whole line. Nothing in the entire line looks much different than the 2009 prototype model S.

They went from being futuristic to boring as fuck.

Edit: Except for the truck, of course. But that's just something else entirely and I don't feel like writing an essay.

Even ignoring the primary arguments of bodily autonomy and health, both physical and mental, you can't be pro-life without being superstitious and anti-science. Being pro-science allows you to base your opinion on things like viability and brain activity instead of things like conception and heartbeat which are meaningless outside of religious nonsense.

But aside from that, he listed them separately so I don't know why you're linking this meme to the opinion that one follows naturally from, or is inseparable from, the other.

It's a lot easier to tolerate the copaganda when they're almost exclusively going after rapists.

The thing I found funny about SVU is someone obviously said "shit, Olivia has been at this for decades, she should be a captain by now," so they made her one but she's still taking calls, the first on the scene, and participating in the investigation.

What are you worried about? This is 1874...you'll be able to sue her.

I wonder about that. During the deepest part of sleep does your brain have enough activity to maintain a continuous stream of consciousness? If you go through two sleep cycles in a night does yesterday you die, and you from the first sleep cycle who only dreamed die, and you're a new consciousness in the morning?

Regulatory capture, it's a problem through the government. Decades ago U.S. regulatory agencies were well respected around the world, to the point where if a U.S. body approved something, many other countries automatically followed. Now they're a joke, taking orders from the industries they are supposed to oversee.

That's a common misconception. For the Romans, the year used to start with March and only have ten months. January and February weren't even named, it was just the time between harvest and the new year. Several calendar changes followed over the centuries. Adding two months (January and February). Moving the new year to January, which made September-December no longer 7-10. Adding random one-off months to realign with the seasons. And a couple different tries at leap days, among other things.

Edit 2: To clarify, the above changes were all made by the Romans, they only started with a ten month calendar.

This gives a quick overview.

Edit: The fifth and sixth months were originally named Quintilis and Sextilis before they were changed to July and August.