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  • BaskerviIle2

    Why is legalising cannabis a big progressive move these days while at the same time we've been tightening restrictions on tobacco and smoking for years?

    I understand the potential medicinal properties of cannabis but surely smoking it adds a bunch of negative health consequences – these are always discussed for tobacco but I rarely see enter the arguments on cannabis.

    • Tobacco's necessarily and inherently physiologically-addi... Cannabis is not. Both should be on sale and taxed accordingly.Nairn
    • Personally, I think there should be a distinction between a raw product (tobacco leaf) and a fabricated product (a cigarette). As too other legal drugs.Nairn
    • If the UK legalised Cannabis, it would make a huge amount in taxes. So, if tobacco and booze are on sale - why not cannabis?Nairn
    • Also, when legalised, as the markets have shown in America, it leads to safer forms of consumption. Edibles and vapes/etc aren't easy to come by here.Nairn
    • Are there studies on the health effects of smoking cannabis? Does it cause lung cancer etc? I genuinely don't know. Just interested.BaskerviIle
    • Less so than tobacco - perhaps only because you need only smoke less. Any inhaled combusted material is going to fuck lungs up, regardless.Nairn
    • Agree that safer forms make sense. Just feels like smoking is the primary form for now. And it flies in the face of progress with tobacco lawsBaskerviIle
    • I'm old-school, so smoke leaf/hash, but honestly - the US-led vape/etc thing's really becoming A Thing here. I know of a few converts.Nairn
    • ^ those US vapes are good, I smuggle them down into Mexico, the entire country of MX is legalizing in spring, no more smuggling soonGuyFawkes
    • I’m sure if one smoked as much pot as a smoker does cigarettes then risk of lung cancer would be similarGnash
    • Drugs, cigs, everything should be freely available. And health care should be free. However we should have ID cards, and which each purchase of drugs/cigs, yourshapesalad
    • healthcare budget is reduced... So if you want to drink and smoke yourself into a cancerous mess, so be it, but don't expect state to pick up tab. Welcome to geshapesalad
    • get 3rd party private medical care.shapesalad
    • If only there were a way to make smokers pay for their supposed increased healthcare costs over the span of their shorter lives.Nairn
    • There are still WAY more restrictions on cannabis than tobacco and no one proposes banning any use of tobacco.CyBrainX
    • Risk of lung cancer with joints likely higher as there's no filter just a roach ;)microkorg
    • But in places where its now legal arent people moving away from smoking it, choosing to vape or buy jelly/choc etc?microkorg
    • I saw some talk mid last year about UK Gov legalising weed etc to help pay for Covid debt.microkorg
  • utopian2

    There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

    And no one is lying.

    • And then there's the 5th dimension whereby your story is merely a fragment of the simulation.shapesalad
    • How can there be an objective truth to a story? Stories are inherently subjective.mort_
    • Reality is entirely subjective.mort_
    • People lie about their own side of the story all the time.i_monk
  • Gardener0

    • We're only on the third page. Send this to Blog or Randomize me_.CyBrainX
  • Nairn3

    The thing that's never focused on - perhaps because the patriarchy didn't want to promote the capability of a young female entrepreneur - is just what a salesperson the girl who sold sea shells on the seashore was. She had some chutzpah.

  • cherub0

    I wonder if galaxies go thru a mid-life crisis period where they think about all their stars that have gone supernova and they get all existential.

  • utopian-5

    We barely knew ya

  • Krassy3

    Chevy Chase would have made a better Han Solo

  • Morning_star0

    1980 The Empire Strikes Back
    1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
    1982 Blade Runner
    1983 Return of the Jedi
    1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    Can Harrison Ford's 'five in a row' be beaten by any other actor?

    • I was pretty sure De Niro would beat that but the best he has is 4 in a row (imo) a couple of times and after 1995's Heat no chanceBluejam
    • I was getting drunk with a buddy last night on a teams chat. 3hrs we tried to think of an actor that had, had a better run. No luck.Morning_star
    • Temple of Doom sucks assnb
    • Joaquin Phoenix is the closest but in an entirely different way.nb
    • 2012 The Master
      2013 Her
      2014 Inherent Vice... only 3 I guess. Nevermind.
      nb
    • superb, watched them all yet again recently as well.fadein11
    • Pretty damn good. Could Witness creep in at number 6?MrT
    • It could, I’m almost tempted to stick in Apocalypse Now as well.Morning_star
    • Al Pacino?
      1) The Godfather – 1972
      2) Scarecrow – 1973
      3) Serpico – 1973
      4) The Godfather Part II – 1974
      5) Dog Day Afternoon – 1975
      Akagiyama
    • I despise Tom Cruise but I suspect he might have a good run of five.CyBrainX
    • I'll second the notion that Temple of Doom is not up to par.CyBrainX
  • grafician-5

    How is something NSFW when we are all adults...working?

    • From home, in most casesscarabin
    • Yeah, but in general, excuse the pandemic situation rn, just wondering...grafician
    • Kids at home too for some of us!mort_
    • Traffic monitoring by employernb
  • nb1

    https://media1.fdncms.com/orland…

    1998 The Waterboy
    1999 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    2000 Little Nicky
    2001 The Animal
    2002 The Hot Chick

  • scarabin0

    Jim Carrey knocked out Ace Ventura, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber in just one year (‘94), and all three were fantastic.

    But yeah, if you’re only counting one film per year, he still has Harrison beat:

    94: Ace Ventura
    95: Batman Forever
    96: The Cable Guy
    97: Liar, Liar
    98: The Truman Show
    99: Man on the Moon
    00: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    01: The Majestic

    He keeps going after this but skipped ‘02 so i guess they don’t count. Dude was an animal.

    • This is impressive. However, they had to be consecutive otherwise I would have loved to include Apocalypse Now.Morning_star
    • The pashword is n!pplestoplying
    • This is insanity. Jim Carrey has a career based on making ugly faces in horrible movies. The Man on the Moon is the only one here that isn't revolting.CyBrainX
    • I haven't seen The Truman Show but heard it was very good.CyBrainX
  • Morning_star2

    After watching eight seasons of The Curse of Oak Island are they ever gonna find any treasure or is the best we’re gonna get ‘a British ox shoe from the eigh’een ‘undreds’

    • Awsome, didnt know they made a show about it. I heard about this years ago, I thought they will never find treasure. It's a lost cause.Sellies
    • I sometimes flip over to it late at night, but it makes no sense. It's like a bad Egypt documentary stretched over multiple seasons. So no, I doubt it. :-)PhanLo
    • Read about Oak Island as a kid in a Readers Digest magazine. Always loved a mystery. It’s a fascinating show.Morning_star
    • I heard about it from leonard nimoy’s “in search of...”scarabin
    • lol, I have watched them all also. They have spent millions and found v.little! Crazy place though, they may find something one day hopefully.fadein11
    • I always wonder what would happen if they finally found it in the 1st episode of a season... ha, the show would be over.fadein11
    • I don't think there's any question that there is/was some treasure there. The evidence of the vaults and tunnels etc is overwhelming. The maps and markers...Morning_star
    • ...and templars and sacred artefacts maybe a little too far fetched. I'll still keep watching though. Lets hope they can ramp it up next season after Covid.Morning_star
    • It would be cool if they did find stuff, it's like ultimate adventure tv. But the US ad cliffhanger format is quite draining. So much money they've spent there.PhanLo
    • I often wonder how much income a series like that would get for the participants. Same with Gold Rush and the like, does their income from the show matter?Morning_star
    • they get a lot from what I have seen. But the Lagina's are loaded anyway hence all that time spent looking for treasure. Well Marty is, that's why he spends afadein11
    • lot of time on Zoom calls rather than being there. Both millionaires... Such entertaining TV like gold rush etc... It helps me relax.fadein11
    • that cross was an insane find from a while backfadein11
  • Nairn4

    To be honest – I just eyeball a lot positioning these days.

    Fuckit.

    • Try drawing a grid over your composition after. Its surprising how precise you can be with just eyeballing.monNom
    • Are you my CD? His idea of “centered” is literally anywhere on the canvasscarabin
  • doesnotexist0

    coo, snort, slurp

  • Krassy3

    if humans are so good at global warming, why not global warm the hell out of Mars so the ice there melts and turns to water so we can grow potatoes there?

    • - that ice evaporates
      - toxic af
      - ~150 days in transport
      next.
      sted
    • the process of terraforming would take thousands of years and could be potentially dangerous to Earth. It's a pipe dream although not unachievable.StoicLevels
    • It’s fucking embarrassing that we destroy earth through recklessness and greed so we have to find another planet, and do it all again there no doubt.mort_
    • Terraform Earthscarabin
    • ^Krassy
    • Terraforming earth is easy, just have to plant way more treesGnash
    • Terraforming earth is easy, just have to
      get rid of the humans.
      sted
    • ^Krassy
    • Why would terraforming Mars be potentially dangerous to Earth?Nairn
    • It could destabilize Earth.
      https://www.youtube.…
      StoicLevels
    • Your video doesn't appear to make that claim.Nairn
    • it's been awhile since i saw it, basically mars' atmosphere could fuck with Earths spatial relationship to the sun. i thought it was this video, maybe it isntStoicLevels
    • https://www.nhm.ac.u…StoicLevels
    • "Mars also can't support a thick enough atmosphere for humans because it doesn't have the same magnetic field as Earth does."StoicLevels
    • Maybe changing the variables of Mars atmosphere's magnetic field is what would cause the effect to Earth.StoicLevels
    • a) that sounds like pseudo scientific bullshit. b) terraforming mars would ideally use mars' mass itself = no gravitational impact on EarthNairn
    • c) even if we had to add an atmosphere from elsewhere in the system, apparently the ratio of 'planet to atmosphere' is about 1:1,200,000, so ...Nairn
    • would also not likely impact Earth's orbit. Presumably at that level of engineering, any effect would be taken into consideration, addingNairn
    • or subtracting a relevant amount of mass to Earth to compensate.Nairn
    • Also, you can nix the magnetic field problem by constantly replenishing the atmosphere. The amount of loss compared to the amount of replenishment is tinyNairn
    • I suppose given Mars' lower gravity, the atmosphere:planet ratio would have to be significantly higher. Still 'no biggie' lol.Nairn
    • you eventually came to the conclusion that I had proposed. What if "no biggie' actually were catastrophic.StoicLevels
    • Anywhoo, the prospects for terraforming are so ridiculous and farfetched I think biospheres / terrariums make much more sense.StoicLevels
    • well exactly - terraforming could, feasibly/optimistica... take 10s of thousands of years. Solar stripping of atmosphere takes 10s of millionsNairn
  • Nairn4

    'Missing' should be be spelt 'mssing'.

  • Nairn5

    In the not too distant future we will have a service that literally transcribes hash values into a block of something permanent. Be it stone at a large scale, or something like sapphire at a micro scale.

    This system will allow for the writing of permanent, one-time write values, and the reading of them, by some secure remote-inclusion technology.

    Vast halls of stone, writ in CNC, or crystal etches all microfiche-like.

    This system will be run by a long-view supra-government agency, rendered permanent and ultimately accountable by the highest orders.

    The purpose of this will be to verify bullshit digital security, be it NFTs or ether hashes or whatever other pointless - but highly valuable - fuckery that comes along.

    Full circle to the first clay tablets cast in ancient Sumeria, recording transactions as proofs.

    • You been at the edibles?MrT
    • Haha, not this evening. Yet.Nairn
  • StoicLevels-1

    I'm about to sit down and watch Zack Snyder's Justice League movie. I'm somewhat disappointed in myself for this 4 hour investment. Lord have mercy on us all.

    • After viewing at least 24 revised, updated and re-cut trailers for Justice league...I find no need to watch the movie again.utopian
    • 4:3 ratio is annoying. Shoulda been a miniseries. I can't sit for four straight hours.lemmy_k
    • i dont mind the ratio since im projecting but Utopian may be right about the trailer prob being the better thing to watchStoicLevels
    • Ooooh cool ratio must see TVnb
    • Its a pretty movieStoicLevels
    • Snyder made a lot of improvementsStoicLevels
  • StoicLevels-7

    This Snyder guy, he makes very cool looking movies. He's like the Wes Anderson of big budget, pulchritudinous, hyperreality cinema. Perfect for superheroes, really.

  • Nairn4

    Investobator.

    You're moderately well off and have nothing else to do all day but sit around and trade stocks and teh cryptoz from your smartphone with your hands down your pants, between trips to the gym and the coffee shop downstairs.

    • 2021 babyAQUTE
    • at least the gyms are opening up againAQUTE