@LoriQuaid The fact that there were no known side-effects to using marijuana was used as evidence that it should be legalized, but since people who showed up in an ER would be arrested most people wouldn't, and research of cannabis was banned.
I think the next decade will show the reasons why we need to be careful of cannabis (probably not banning it again, but just being careful of it) which might be better in the long run.
I think the next decade will show the reasons why we need to be careful of cannabis (probably not banning it again, but just being careful of it) which might be better in the long run.
@guttersessions Important thing to note here is that this is going to be crime data that actually gets reported. The data that gets reported isn't necessarily representative of the actual data because of bias at each level.
I think the current institutional bias is clear in the direction it would lean, and the effect it would likely have on the data. The fact that even with that bias some of the data says what it says is surprising.
I think the current institutional bias is clear in the direction it would lean, and the effect it would likely have on the data. The fact that even with that bias some of the data says what it says is surprising.
[Admin mode] blocked everything from app.kenhbit.com, it's just another instance of solangg.com and is behaving in the same bad way.
[Admin mode] Blocked the entire domain solagg.com because it appears to consist solely of spammers.
@ThreeOneThreeChris That crowd is low key hilarious.
"What are your thoughts on Taxes?": Rape
"What's your thought on foreign policy?": Rape
"What's your thoughts on how money should be spent by the government?":Rape
"What's your thoughts on World War 2?": Rape
"What's your thoughts on how kids should be raised?": Rape
"What's your thoughts on TV?": Rape
Trying to put yourself in the boots of one of these people I can only come up with one conclusion, and they're not gonna like it.
"What are your thoughts on Taxes?": Rape
"What's your thought on foreign policy?": Rape
"What's your thoughts on how money should be spent by the government?":Rape
"What's your thoughts on World War 2?": Rape
"What's your thoughts on how kids should be raised?": Rape
"What's your thoughts on TV?": Rape
Trying to put yourself in the boots of one of these people I can only come up with one conclusion, and they're not gonna like it.
@alex What a brave stance. I think we can honestly say that with this racism is over.
@AnonymousBosch It's one of the things I say often: People assume that kids are good at computers. They are not necessarily good at computers! The kids who put the work in are good at computers, the same as the old guys who put the work in are good at computers. You don't get skilled at something just by virtue of being young.
@rasterman @ChristiJunior My head is like "Wait, is that xenogears, xenoblades, xenosaga, xenoblade saga? I can't keep the xenos straight in my head! Which ones did I like!?"
@tpostmillennial Sounds like a you problem, speaker of the house for the majority of votes.
@flvc It seems to me that she deserves some respect for being willing to be pragmatic on real-life issues, and to accept that sometimes someone she doesn't like has policies that work.
@jeffcliff Without disrespecting the cause you were protesting for, good.
It shouldn't be possible for any given political group to shut down critical infrastructure just because they have a message they want to get across.
You might think it's ok this time because you agreed with the political cause, but it could just as easily be a KKK rally next time. It could be opposing political parties shutting down the country every day or in multiple places all the time. People expressing their views without being challenged when they disrupt others like this would be able to take the country hostage at any time.
The two situations of shutting down the rail system and the PPC holding a political rally aren't really the same. People were allowed to have their rally, they just weren't allowed to shut down infrastructure they had no right to. By contrast, the PPC was also allowed to have their rally as well.
As far as I'm concerned, the government has no business shutting down peaceful rallies at all. I may disagree with some of the demonstrations indigenous groups put on (I've lived in northern Manitoba and I've never lived in downtown Toronto, making many of the arguments catering to that demographic unpersuasive), but if they're making their voices heard that should be totally protected speech, regardless of the message of that rally.
And similarly, the moment the government starts allowing the violation of people's rights en masse by a demonstration (freedom of movement being a basic human right), then that's a problem. Making your voice heard isn't the same as putting a knife to someone's throat and making demands. When that happened here, it was to me a massive failure of the federal government.
Although I wouldn't (and didn't) go to any rally during the pandemic, I supported the right of both BLM and the PPC (who have both had large rallies during the pandemic) to do so. Shutting it down over concerns of a virus is to me getting our priorities backwards.
Unfortunately, we have our priorities backwards, and it's a disgrace to the people who have fought for our basic human rights throughout history, from pushing against the crown under absolute monarchies, to fighting in world war 2, to pushing for universal civil rights.
It shouldn't be possible for any given political group to shut down critical infrastructure just because they have a message they want to get across.
You might think it's ok this time because you agreed with the political cause, but it could just as easily be a KKK rally next time. It could be opposing political parties shutting down the country every day or in multiple places all the time. People expressing their views without being challenged when they disrupt others like this would be able to take the country hostage at any time.
The two situations of shutting down the rail system and the PPC holding a political rally aren't really the same. People were allowed to have their rally, they just weren't allowed to shut down infrastructure they had no right to. By contrast, the PPC was also allowed to have their rally as well.
As far as I'm concerned, the government has no business shutting down peaceful rallies at all. I may disagree with some of the demonstrations indigenous groups put on (I've lived in northern Manitoba and I've never lived in downtown Toronto, making many of the arguments catering to that demographic unpersuasive), but if they're making their voices heard that should be totally protected speech, regardless of the message of that rally.
And similarly, the moment the government starts allowing the violation of people's rights en masse by a demonstration (freedom of movement being a basic human right), then that's a problem. Making your voice heard isn't the same as putting a knife to someone's throat and making demands. When that happened here, it was to me a massive failure of the federal government.
Although I wouldn't (and didn't) go to any rally during the pandemic, I supported the right of both BLM and the PPC (who have both had large rallies during the pandemic) to do so. Shutting it down over concerns of a virus is to me getting our priorities backwards.
Unfortunately, we have our priorities backwards, and it's a disgrace to the people who have fought for our basic human rights throughout history, from pushing against the crown under absolute monarchies, to fighting in world war 2, to pushing for universal civil rights.
@jeffcliff I should add because the other one successfully stopped rail travel and there were questions about basic supplies in eastern Canada because of it.
I've started uploading some of MIT's OpenCourseWare to FBXL Video, our peertube instance.
In particular, I started with Professor Lewin's incredible 8.01 and 8.02 science courses.
Incredibly, OpenCourseWare was knocked off of Youtube for TOS violations for a time! I want to make sure they're available whether or not some big tech lackey thinks it's worth hosting.
https://video.fbxl.net/my-library/video-playlists/e7302606-814b-4b0d-9188-b65c02999377
https://video.fbxl.net/my-library/video-playlists/6a70160a-297f-4cf6-b01f-aee5b70988d1
In particular, I started with Professor Lewin's incredible 8.01 and 8.02 science courses.
Incredibly, OpenCourseWare was knocked off of Youtube for TOS violations for a time! I want to make sure they're available whether or not some big tech lackey thinks it's worth hosting.
https://video.fbxl.net/my-library/video-playlists/e7302606-814b-4b0d-9188-b65c02999377
https://video.fbxl.net/my-library/video-playlists/6a70160a-297f-4cf6-b01f-aee5b70988d1
@dushman @velartrill One of the neatest little tricks I've learned for getting old games to run on Windows 10 is a wrapper built on wine that uses vulkan as a back-end API.
https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag
There's been a number of games that didn't work at all that suddenly started working very well once I dropped the wine d3d files in the running directory.
https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag
There's been a number of games that didn't work at all that suddenly started working very well once I dropped the wine d3d files in the running directory.
@velartrill I hope HaikuOS becomes something I can multiboot soon, I've been keeping an eye on that one forever, since I liked BeOS back in the day.
@softinio @peertube FBXL Video's code of conduct is simple: "GTFO of here with your 'Code of conduct'. I'm not your Dad."
I prefer FBXL Social's Terms of Service: "I'm not your dad, you're not mine, this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign"
Shocking how many people manage to violate TOS by acting like I'm supposed to be their dad.
I prefer FBXL Social's Terms of Service: "I'm not your dad, you're not mine, this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign"
Shocking how many people manage to violate TOS by acting like I'm supposed to be their dad.