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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Laws against drug posession and use target people that 99% of the times pose no harm to others. Drunk driving laws target people that can potentially harm, handicap or even kill innocents. This seems like an important distinction to me.

    I concede that cops will probably disproportionately target minorities, but I doubt they need these laws specifically to impose their will or harass them.

    “Higher intoxication” laws are necessary for DUI, imo. Is the severity of someone driving with 0.1 g/l over the limit the same with someone driving while scoring 1.2 g/l? It’s like scoffing at increased charges for murder vs assault.








  • I can’t be the only one that finds this cringe, right? It’s not like nations have a big red “get nukes” button at their governments’ central office. And Israel has bombed Iraq’s, Syria’s and now Iran’s nuclear power plants, all of which were civilian energy projects. Iran is even a signatory to the NPT and has been under IEAE surveillance for decades at this point. I don’t know about the cases of Iraq and Syria, but I assume they are similar.

    My point is, if these countries were trying to get nukes, they would get thwarted immediately.










  • I usually perceive these ultimatums as PR stunts to the general public, so as to not appear too strict, or to appear merciful, reasonable etc. I don’t expect people to actually turn themselves over.

    I wonder if Iran is simply lying (adding an extra headache to mossad: figuring out if their agents are compromised) or if the collaborators realized Iran’s intelligence services are good enough to catch them. And of course some may have regretted their involvement.