I wonder how much of the rejection of real issues with marijuana are the after effects of nearly a century of it being demonized with sources like "we made it up" or "we just really want to jail black people and college students".
Then again, we have people out there believing that the entire world was ruled by a single nomadic horde, the world was flooded with mud in the mid 1800s, and 1*1=2 so we might just have a broader issue with people rejecting facts they don't like.
Order people to fire off more explosives than the human mind can comprehend in a war, then launch more explosives than that entire war in every battle of the next war, and you get called a "great man"
You toss a single grenade at that first guy and suddenly you're the "bomb thrower".
Blue sky (and just about anything else) is an improvement, but remember, there is no bottom, things can always be worse. Truth Social and Gab both still exist.
These websites, because they are all centralized, are all ultimately moderated in accordance with the whims of their owners, the effect of which was thrown into sharp relief after Apartheid Willy Wonka bought Twitter.
With a federated platform like Mastodon, no single owner would be able to do this. If an instance suddenly became terrible, they could be de-federated and they'd lose their reach.
Of course, if one instance became particularly large, the 'whims of the owner' problem would come right back, but at least the alternatives would still be readily available.
And Bond is British, what would he care about fashion trends on this side of the Atlantic?
The fact that there's very little clearance for a proper hat inside of a car (as opposed to the higher ceiling in trains and buses) played a much larger role in killing the hat.
The social media rhetoric is a response to the material conditions. If people weren't regularly pushed to bankruptcy or left to die by the "Delay Deny Defend" industry, they wouldn't have any malice towards the industry's leaders. If the industry didn't give nearly everyone a reason to hate what Brian Thompson represented, they wouldn't have celebrated his death.
Society will have to relearn a lesson like this every so often, because people kind of yearn to offload the mental energy involved in controlling some aspect of their lives to someone else. And while they'll probably start by offloading or to someone competent and with their best interests at heart, eventually someone who wants to extract wealth from that position will rise in such a space.
It is bad that vigilantism is being celebrated (though I'll admit to being aboard the "laugh about this specific murder" train).
But I think the reason that this is being celebrated is that this is the only kind of justice this guy could have ever faced because his crime is legal
If he was shtupping your wife, what better way to direct suspicion away from you than to play into the angle that would give every American not on the Forbes list a motive?
There is, and has been, a large number of left-wing podcasts. But the Dems don't want to pump money into Chapo Trap House, Five-Four, or the Cool Zone network. They want Ezra Klein to be as cool as Rogan.
There's probably a small loss of some nutrients (the heat breaks some chemical bonds). The benefit would probably be somewhere between negligible and marginal before you factor in the risk of food poisoning.
I wonder how much of the rejection of real issues with marijuana are the after effects of nearly a century of it being demonized with sources like "we made it up" or "we just really want to jail black people and college students".
Then again, we have people out there believing that the entire world was ruled by a single nomadic horde, the world was flooded with mud in the mid 1800s, and 1*1=2 so we might just have a broader issue with people rejecting facts they don't like.