caramel

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by caramel 11y ago
In my family there's a story about some relatives who lived in a village near Ypres. Their living room had a big iron stove. When the Germans invaded they they hid some jewelry in a hole under that stove, and fled like everybody else.
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by caramel 11y ago
What these sort of tests always ignore is that placebo effect really works. I refer to a recent study by the University of Manchester in which people who believed that they had better hearing aids objectively scored better on hearing test
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by caramel 11y ago
The difference between decriminalization and legalizing trade is significant. In Portugal drug traffickers need to spend energy just to avoid getting caught. A legal cannabis industry on the other hand will have free reign to spend vast res
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by caramel 11y ago
Growing or selling cannabis is illegal in Portugal. Owning cannabis seeds is illegal in Portugal. The only thing that was changed is that the consumer of cannabis is no longer treated as a criminal. I've yet to see a good argument why
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by caramel 11y ago
Then of course, if some speck of radioactive material gets lodged in your body the inverse square law works against you.
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by caramel 11y ago
There seems to be this public perception that wildlife around Chernobyl is just doing fine. Research indicates otherwise http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963711 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed&#x
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by caramel 11y ago
> I remember reading a hypothesis of why many middle eastern countries generate so many young angry jihadists Maybe we don't need to look further than the psychological impact of enforced genital mutilation past the age of infancy.