madstap

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   by madstap 8y ago

   Even if you triple the official Chinese number that only gets you to about 54% of the US rate. Your speculations about China sound about right to me, but as a European looking in from the outside, any time someone talks about how much freer
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   by madstap 8y ago

   Sure, rich democracies are outliers, but you did say "one of the freest societies on the planet", which I parsed as somewhat stronger than "one of the rich democracies" or "not third world". I think you're
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   by madstap 8y ago

   What metrics are those? The US has the biggest prison population in the world by a big margin, 655 per 100k people (El Salvador is in second place with 604/100k and China is at 118/100k). I'd call that state repression. In ot
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   by madstap 8y ago

   In Norway hectograms are frequently used. We use them for things like potato salad at the deli counter, pick'n mix candy, berries and small-time-dealer quantities of hash.
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   by madstap 8y ago

   They weren't alone.
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   by madstap 8y ago

   In Indonesia they're legal, you can buy mushroom shakes at the beach. In general there are endemic psilocybin mushrooms most everywhere, though it might be illegal just to pick them, like in my home country Norway.