they keep bringing unreasonable charges and the jury doesn't buy it.
There's a term for that, and the term is "jury nullification".
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People been getting snatched up by masked men for that long, the memo has nothing to do with it.
It feels like they really dialed in the extraction shooter gameplay with ARC. It combines gambling mechanics (looting = rng, they even play a little tone when you get an epic item to really drive it home) with a solid third person shooter and makes pvp optional. It's less intense than tarkov and more serious than duckov, and lots of people seem to enjoy it.
To be totally clear, the UK has been a fucked up place for centuries, I don't think Meta fundamentally changed the culture.
Having said that, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc are tools that enable political influence over the population at levels that were previously unimaginable. Look into Cambridge Analytica a bit or borrow Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie from your local library for details.
Starting as early as 2012 we have evidence that Facebook was pivotal in stoking racial tensions in Myanmar, leading to a genocide.
There's evidence that Meta was a major factor in Brexit, which more specifically relates to my claim with respect to influence in the UK.
The US election in 2016 was clearly influenced by Meta platforms, including taking Russian money to stoke racial tensions in line with the Russian Manifesto, The Foundations of Geopolitics.
I'm currently reading through Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, which is a memoir about how these systems were conceptualized and built at Facebook, and so far I'd recommend it.
Obviously Meta isn't the only problem, Tiktok is clearly a problem of similar size and scope, and other social apps have their own challenges (X being owned by the richest man alive and actively influencing the algorithm, for example), but in many ways Meta is the OG, and blazed the trail for others.
Meta happened. UK, US, all over the world there is a correlation between the adoption of Meta's products and the corrosion of basic human rights.
You should try asking people about the last EULA they read the next time you're at a party. You're gonna be blown away.
But how could the trolls enrage well meaning people into moving to a less privacy respecting browser if the post wasn't designed for performative outrage?
A buddy of mine works for a fortune 500 company that started giving out MacBooks as the standard hardware this year. Apparently you need to jump through a bunch of hoops if you want to run Windows. I was shocked to hear it but Microsoft deserves to be humbled.
Bro I think you might need a T break.
You didn't need to say cannabis was good, you suggested that it was better that we think of the plant smoked as cannabis than tobacco as to warn people about the societal ills of tobacco use.
I'm not going to do a lit review of all of the studies about cannabis risk for you, I just picked an article that cited the one you provided with a different conclusion. The point is that there is no academic consensus on this and we don't need to revise LOTR because of your feelings about tobacco.
You're not wrong, smoking things is bad for your health. I'm not saying that the risk is exactly equal, but if you could lay out an easily understood framework for how to assess the impact of smoking a single cigarette vs a single joint, I would be impressed.
All I'm saying is that Tolkien wrote the books with tobacco in mind, which was way more popular during his time, and we don't need to pretend that they were smoking cannabis instead as some sort of some great societal PSA against the dangers of tobacco.
If we want to get really nitpicky, you don't even inhale pipe tobacco smoke, whereas you'd never do the same with cannabis or you'd miss out on the effects. Obviously there's a risk factor for mouth, nose, and throat cancer, but most western societies agree that adults should be informed of risks and allowed to make their own mistakes. Same goes for alcohol, mountaineering, and owning weapons.
Look, I can find academic papers that support my claim and cite them too, but the fact is that there isn't nearly enough data on cannabis consumption to reach a scientific consensus. We know that putting toxins in your lungs is bad for your health overall, but I don't agree that we can, in the same sentence, say "cannabis good, tobacco bad". They're both bad for you, and adults should be allowed to make their own decisions about when and how to use them.
Here, I'm not paying for full access to this paper, but it cites the paper you linked to and this one has itself been cited more often.
Marijuana use and risk of lung cancer: a 40-year cohort study
Russell C Callaghan, Peter Allebeck, Anna Sidorchuk
Cancer Causes & Control 24 (10), 1811-1820, 2013
Purpose
Cannabis (marijuana) smoke and tobacco smoke contain many of the same potent carcinogens, but a critical—yet unresolved—medical and public-health issue is whether cannabis smoking might facilitate the development of lung cancer. The current study aimed to assess the risk of lung cancer among young marijuana users.
Conclusion
Our primary finding provides initial longitudinal evidence that cannabis use might elevate the risk of lung cancer. In light of the widespread use of marijuana, especially among adolescents and young adults, our study provides important data for informing the risk–benefit calculus of marijuana smoking in medical, public-health, and drug-policy settings.
Nothing gets me ready to oppose fascism like some jury nullification in the morning. Should be part of every complete breakfast.
This make it sound like you're under the impression that tobacco is big cancer and cannabis is completely harmless?
Do you think it's the nicotine that does the cancer and THC actually cures you? Because while I hate to be the one to bear that bad news for you, it's the byproducts of combustion that cause the cancer, regardless of whether it's cannabis or tobacco.
Basically, stop gatekeeping and let people, halflings, elves, dwarves, and ainur enjoy tobacco if they want. We're all here for a limited amount of time, let me enjoy some pipe tobacco or a cigar without turning it into a moral panic requiring the redaction of one of the best stories of all time.
Also yes 10/10 for LOTR while stoned.
Good on you, keep it up. We simply cannot wave our hands at these people and dismiss them, they represent a majority of voters in the country. When they start seeing cracks in the facade, we need to engage them thoughtfully and with kindness to wedge those cracks open even more - until they're able to see past the hatred and ignorance and towards a future that is beneficial for all Americans.
Literally everything you said is just dumb hater bullshit. You added nothing to the discussion.
That information is available from the CRS; unfortunately it really isn't completely clear in the way you're suggesting because of the role of the Senate - in the few instances where the Senate has voted on a bill that includes provisions relating to Israel, they have been part of some other enormous bill, often in bills that were already contentious on their own.
The article linked makes it clear that these Senators understand that America is complicit and they're using their limited power to call attention to the issue.
There are no single issue voters in Congress, and certainly none who place the affairs of Israel-Palestine over the issues that the voters in their districts care about. That these two men took the time to travel to the other side of the world and return to share their finding should be celebrated, held up as an example, not treated with derision.
While your rhetoric sounds geared in favor of ending the genocide, you're either not considering the above or your goal is to cause further division. It's unclear if you consider yourself to be a Progressive, and I'm not suggesting you do or don't, but for those of us who do use that label, ask yourself: when elected leaders take steps towards our ultimate goal (ending the conflict/genocide), is that worth encouraging or discouraging? Progress is defined by incremental positive change over time, changing everything all at once is a revolution.
Conflict in Palestine has raged cyclically for millenia, and while I understand the outrage, it sounds like the demand is for these two Senators, 1/50th of the Senate, from the party that currently holds no power in any branch of government, to single-handedly solve the conflict. Anything less is a failure. How could anybody possibly meet that standard? Just for sharing this report, both of these Senators will face an uphill battle in their next election as Israel funds their opponents' campaigns. It is therefore unsurprising that so many politicians have given up on this issue, realizing that the costs vastly outweigh the benefits.
@hector@lemmy.today - you seem to have a lot of feelings about this issue, which is awesome. Instead of being enraged about it online, insisting that the entirety of the Congress is fully aware of the intricacies of this issue and therefore complicit, perhaps channel some of that energy into making positive change? Amplify the messaging from these Senators, whose report you seem to wholly agree with, and become a thorn in the side of the other 98 Senators who, frankly, probably don't know enough about this issue.
Learn more about the way that Congress operates; did you know most Congresspeople spend a majority of their time fundraising? It makes sense if you think about it, but unfortunately it leaves an insufficient amount of time to focus on the issues they need to make tough decisions about. Instead of assuming maliciousness, assume ignorance, because the average person is not evil, just lazy. Congress too. It's shitty, and it should be different and better, but it's the system we've got until someone like you has enough rage-fueled energy to make positive change.
It's too bad there isn't a way to use something like a flipper zero to compromise the cameras and simply disable them, or insert malicious video files into their network...
Oh I agree that you won't be able to fire your shotgun in a large urban area, but if you're someplace less densely populated I can imagine being able to drive up from behind in the middle of the night...
It's too bad there isn't an easier way to deal with this problem, especially in the instances where the cameras are being installed without consent.
Akin to having foreign adversaries set up a spy network within our borders, and instead of being punished for it, many law enforcement agencies are choosing to buy the subscription plan!
I think we would all prefer if the US would stop pretending the 6th amendment didn't exist and if trials could be carried out without endless delays.