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by nickpp 3y ago
I only tried edibles from coffeshops in Amsterdam, and they came with plenty of warnings. Like "eat a quarter first, wait half an hour, see how you feel". But even if it didn’t, I still struggle to understand what is the problem w
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by nickpp 3y ago
You don’t eat the whole brownie or vape the whole bud at once. The shop keeper will tell you what you are getting as well, including dosage advice for your level. You FEEL getting high and when you had enough. If you get too high, you stop.
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by nickpp 3y ago
The level of THC is completely irrelevant as one simply stops when she had enough or has some more if she feels like it. It’s not like a set physical portion of flower.
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by nickpp 3y ago
They do disincentivize and thus reduce the investment in the area though. An area which helps the economy grow and in process creates good services and jobs for everybody.
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by nickpp 3y ago
That would restrict access to early investment deals and opportunities for regular folks even more (today you have to be a "certified" investor) in turn increasing wealth inequality and social mobility.
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by nickpp 3y ago
> dubious value to society I am curious if you know a system that can rank and precisely tell me the respective values to society for each action, job, hobby etc humans engage in.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Isn't it in the consumer's best interest that the creator is also happy and well compensated as well and that a fair, competitive ecosystem of middle-men (distributors) exists?
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by nickpp 4y ago
And why would a better choice magically appear though when it’s illegal to put it on the market to let it prove itself? Why would anybody who is actually innovative pay to research and risk such a better choice in the first place? To wait
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by nickpp 4y ago
Oh, since you had to go all the way to the Second World War to find some arguments, here in Eastern Europe we remember too. We remember the grandparents gone to Siberia never to return. The hunger. The Red Army atrocities. The Nomenklatura
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by nickpp 4y ago
Obviously unfortunate, but tiny, isolated and unintended incidents. Handful of victims. Widely condemned by the society. Meanwhile, Russia is bombing countries and killing millions as a strategy of conquest, while most Russian are clapping
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by nickpp 4y ago
It doesn't even compare. Countries unlucky enough to be invaded by Russia wished we were "conquered" by USA instead.
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by nickpp 4y ago
USB-C itself was that "magic" new port 10 years ago. EU at the time was recommending standardization on the abomination that was micro-USB. Luckily they didn’t make alternatives illegal, like now, or you’d never have seen your muc
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by nickpp 4y ago
> reports of dust clouds I wonder if Texas experiences any natural dust storms.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Elon chimed in on Twitter: 3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount. Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it t
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by nickpp 4y ago
... and is also the ideology of every single species on Earth from bacteria to higher mammals and humans (we're not special). And it applies within species and across species. The evolutionary equilibrium can only appear from matched c
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by nickpp 4y ago
You'll have to take that up with Mother Nature and its evolution & natural selection. She's the one who imprinted "progress" in our genes and I do not think we are far enough from our origins to overwrite that.
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by nickpp 4y ago
I doubt we can uphold those standards even in people. If the last 4 years have proven anything, it is that we cannot agree what is true and what is false for a population. And to have that across different countries… impossible.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Except that countries letting people freely use AIs unencumbered will quickly outcompete luddites. You cannot regulate progress.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Oh, I am no fan of ICE engines, at all. Hate them, personally. But I know how harmful heavy handed-mandates can be. I have seen the damage such mandates have already made in other instances with voters being then easily recruited and radica
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by nickpp 4y ago
Some people like freedom of choice, I guess. Like in a democracy, where you can vote whatever candidate you like, except here is with your wallet. Others like dictatures.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Banning ICE cars in cities is completely different from banning ICE car sales in whole countries.
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by nickpp 4y ago
> Its a failure, but it's a testing failure, so its a success. Cultural misunderstanding then. Only in USA failure is seen as learning opportunity. Most other countries punish you severely for failure, hard enough to discourage you
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by nickpp 4y ago
Plus the combinations.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Considering one of the possible outcomes was for the whole thing to blow up on launch pad, the crater and debris storm were nothing.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Funny enough my country was starving under communism but we are living in plenty under capitalism. Since I lived under the alternative and I have seen its evilness, I will take capitalism any day - the very system that allowed and incentivi
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by nickpp 4y ago
This very thread is exactly about how, in US, it doesn’t.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Not allowing sex apps on AppStores and banks and credit cards refusing to process sex-related transactions seems pretty anti-sex to me. Also getting all bent out of shape at a the image of a nipple, breast or pubic hair while not batting an
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by nickpp 4y ago
But look at how investment in weed, which was once considered "drugs == bad", flourished after legalization, with ETFs and such. Lots of sex work, including porn, is legal afaik. However banks and other civilian gate holders (Appl
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by nickpp 4y ago
> Plenty of greedy people in non-capitalist systems. Totally agreed. But I am not placing any moral value on either greed or capitalism. I would think, however, that capitalists would not ignore such an obvious profit center as the sex i
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by nickpp 4y ago
The moment Europe decided to regulate tech, it decided in effect to stagnate. Innovation and creativity are incompatible with regulation. Unfortunately for us, tech is where progress happens currently. Europe is being left behind. Not that

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