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by cr1895 10y ago
And the weirdest thing is that the prerolled joints are 95% of the time rolled with (a lot of) tobacco. And those are perfectly fine to sell and smoke in the coffeeshop!
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by cr1895 10y ago
>On certain streets every couple of hundred feet there was some pusher asking if I wanted drugs. By the third day or so I was getting really annoyed with them. Get out of the RLD! The street dealers are a truly obnoxious blight on the ci
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by cr1895 10y ago
Minor quibble...you won't be buying a beer in a coffeeshop. If they sell weed they do not sell alcohol.
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by cr1895 10y ago
>Sea ice doesn't contribute to sea level rise when it rises Isn't there a small but not insignificant sea level rise due to warming of the water due to less sea ice (less light reflected, greater warming of the sea than with an
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by cr1895 10y ago
There are some bars that encourage weed smoking, often those that were once a coffeeshop themselves but lost their license (Hill Street Blues, for example). The vast majority of bars in the city however would be quite upset with it and do f
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by cr1895 10y ago
There are around 155 coffeeshops in Amsterdam, a number which is only decreasing as the Gemeente are not issuing new coffeeshop licenses and coffeeshops have and continue to be closed due to city cleaning-up initiatives and on occasion rela
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by cr1895 10y ago
>Much worse than Rome or Paris for example. Anecdotally, I think the opposite is true. There are far more noticeable scammers and pickpockets in for example touristy areas of Paris, or even its metros. It's surprisingly hard for me
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by cr1895 10y ago
And currently the stubborn opposition to change from the national government is largely due to international treaties.
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by cr1895 10y ago
>Most historical sites are completely safe I'd contend literally every site of historical interest in the NL is safe. Which would you consider unsafe? Neglecting, of course, pickpockets; they're not really a threat to personal
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by cr1895 10y ago
It's because there's really nowhere you should avoid for your own safety at night, and the OP was fed a fantastically untrue story of the city.
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by cr1895 10y ago
>Having toured Amsterdam on a business trip, I was surprised that, even with the easy access to weed and prostitution, taxi drivers would not take me to certain historical sites in the city because they were too dangerous. The "safe
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by cr1895 10y ago
Glad to hear that about KLM. My folks did the same with Aer Lingus and were quite happy with the experience. I don't recall how much they ultimately paid to upgrade but to them it was a good value.
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Germany grapples with its African genocide(nytimes.com)
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by cr1895 10y ago
In some situations the risk that a bag doesn't make it to your destination is too great to take, and therefore it's necessary to carry on. If checking a bag gave the same assurance that it would make your destination with you as c
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by cr1895 10y ago
As I said, crude, so I just grabbed some numbers I found quickly to illustrate "a lot." Here's where the 2010 (I notice a typo now in my original post, it's not 2011) comes from: http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/F
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by cr1895 10y ago
"Gaelle Caroff's parents blamed their daughter's death in March on hallucinations brought on by the mushrooms, although the teenager had suffered from psychiatric problems in the past." http://www.washingtonpo
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by cr1895 10y ago
Have you noticed any pick-up from the offshore wind industry? There's certainly some overlap between oil and wind industries, and Scotland is doing quite a lot of offshore wind development nowadays.
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by cr1895 10y ago
Crudely (haha) crunching some numbers, if we consider the oil spilled in the US in 2011 (incl. Deepwater Horizon) of 4.95e6 bbl compared to the total oil consumption in 2015 of 7.09e9 bbl, the oil spilled is less than 0.07% of the oil consu
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by cr1895 10y ago
The F.D.A. today has approved further clinical trials into the use of MDMA to treat PTSD: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html We can only hope this sort of research will continue
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by cr1895 10y ago
There's another of him working 4! turntables and a synth. Dude is a legend.
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by cr1895 10y ago
No, it's painfully, obviously sarcasm.
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by cr1895 10y ago
> And no, small subreddits aren't the answer. Seriously, Reddit about oh 8 years ago was just fantastic. Reddit of 8 years ago had on the whole much smaller subreddits, so that does suggest that the size of the communities plays a r
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by cr1895 10y ago
>what shouldn't be able to do is to lock access to your data or the option to extract your data off their servers. FWIW, download all your Google stuff: https://www.google.com/settings/takeout
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by cr1895 10y ago
>Music help get distressed very easy. You mean de-stressed, not distressed: the captain of the Titanic sent out a distress call because his ship was sinking, while the string quartet played music in hopes of de-stressing the ill-fated pa
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by cr1895 10y ago
Is growing also illegal? The Netherlands has a similarly bizarre circumstance where it's perfectly fine (though technically illegal) to buy <5g in a shop but it's still quite illegal for that shop to be supplied with product, a
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by cr1895 10y ago
>You still pay US income taxes while an expat as long as you have your citizenship. Misleading. You are compelled to file taxes in the US. It's quite unlikely that an American living abroad must actually pauy tax on foreign-earned i
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by cr1895 10y ago
They haven't left yet. Brexit hasn't happened.
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by cr1895 10y ago
>You actually think it's a good thing that millions of people spend their time this way! I think you're putting words in riskable's mouth. What the comment actually said is that you were vastly underestimating the disrupti
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by cr1895 10y ago
Ha believe it or not yeah; it wasnt the relatively inexpensive black roe you find in grocery stores, but proper sturgeon caviar. My grandfather loved it and always used to share some with me when I'd visit. He especially liked malossal
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I was fortunate to fly on Concorde with my grandparents once when I was young, towards the end of its operating life. Things that I most remember: - it was tiny inside! the seats were comfortable, but small. 2 by 2. - the force with which y

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