That might have been the main reason I left the other site. Wasn't banned, wasn't using apps, but one can only take so much of this being labeled r/wholesome or something before I had enough.
I mean, in some places. The tax is generally a disencentive to start the habit. I'd be curious to see a natural experiment comparing places with and without it as the US dropped it's smoking rate to low teens (at least, until vaping became a thing).
I mean, not everyone in prison is innocent. Some of them are cartel members, gang-affiliated face tats and all. But I guess, statistically speaking, quite a few probably weren't actually guilty of what they were put in for. Best not to think in absolutes.
Edit: clarified. That said, tats are not exactly something you're born with and prison tattoos are a thing, and a real problem for people seeking reform after gang membership. Family friend of mine was in XIII but ended up a muralist and needed it removed.
Yup, I know. Actually, when they did this with cigarettes they did see it go down a little with adults but the main thing was that it helped reduce youth smoking. Teens have a tighter budget for these things.
All of this is a bit of a waste, really. A lot of those people were already in US prisons to begin with. We're paying ICE to re-arrest people. It's so dumb.
Well, I mean the worst Walz did personally was maybe his performance against JD, but that's pretty small compared to a lot of other errors that can be attributed to the collective campaign decisions and DNC as a whole. And yes, Biden. And really, 2020 and 2016. Actually fuck it, compared to all the butterfly effect possibilities, Walz is such a small part of why we're in this mess, lol. I still want the 2000 supreme court to support the Florida recount that actually says Gore won.
That's more an argument in semantics. Developmental psych actually has this as a brain development stage, with the later stages being about critical thinking even if the earlier phase doesn't seem so. Experiments were done where children of various ages were tested on benchmarks such as volume and kids under a certain age failed almost universally (I forget the age, something like 5 or 6) in the same way that infants lack object permanence. Later, at 9 and around 13 (?) the same framework argues that the brain gets basic and advanced problem solving and critical thinking, although even that theory admits plenty of people skip that last milestone.
Your point is more a common logical (sensory?) fallacy that plenty of adults fall into, but isn't necessarily the same thing. At least, I think it is, I'm a bit busy right now to check and it's bad enough I'm typing this out instead of taking care of my own toddler, lol.
I want to point out that, especially after No Child Left Behind, we've actively worked to teach-to-the-test in public schools. That was a bipartisan compromise to make education "accountable" that ultimately worsened education. Obama's DoE helped, slightly, in 2015 adjustments but it's still no where near where it should be and made only worse by a push to get more charters and affordable private schools that don't understand pedagogy.
That is to say, uneducated isn't quite right as It's not a lack of education, but more of a misguided pedagogy that prioritizes rote memorization over deductive reasoning and critical thinking. It's not a lack of trying, but an avoidence of evidence based approaches.
Critical thinking (or at least reasoning) is everywhere, even when people drive or do chores, an ounce of thoughtfulness at the very least makes a difference.
You know, this should only trick young kids as they genuinely believe taller = more. The fact that it probably tricks a ton of adults just suggests their critical thinking never made it past adolescence and we should be very concerned by that.
They had me at coffee. A music festival that's just chill, low energy, sipping espresso or tea or hot cocoa, and listening to nice music all day. Why are there no vibe concerts, is that a contradiction?
On the one hand, the strikes last time have my wife a difficult situation that caused her to have to unpaid overtime (and her company has no interest in AI no less!). On the other hand, her company was and still is actively union busting by emailing anti-union shit and lying. Iirc, they even hired a firm for it.
So, out of spite for those jackasses lying about unions, please keep fighting! (Plus, why can't the producers, like her, organize?)
Yeeaaaah, I miss the dark humor, people here are sometimes a bit too literal. To be fair, they have their reasons, from being neurodivergent to being from cultures that just don't do dark humor. Our All feed really is everyone.
Weeeelllll... technically there are a couple of Lemmy cliches, but you make a good point. Canned bot responses to farm karma are certainly awful, with the only human exception being "look up en passant" because that was intentional predicability.
That might have been the main reason I left the other site. Wasn't banned, wasn't using apps, but one can only take so much of this being labeled r/wholesome or something before I had enough.