That would fall into the first category… Also, wtf? How can the same SSN be issued twice?!? It’s a frigging serial number, not a condom at a whore house.

I’ve been around cannabis products a lot. It’s never been legal in my country. I’ve seen people using it recreationally, I’ve seen people using it therapeutic. I’ve seen people who have used cannabis products their entire lives without issues, and people who have been unable to keep a job and earned a living doing crime.

The worst thing I’ve seen are the kids who came in to the psych ward I temped at. IDK how/what happened exactly, but it could be 20 yos with delusions and hallucinations, supposedly brought on by a misuse of cannabis. As in they probably already had some issues that they were dealing with, and found that cannabis made it easier to exist.

The what-aboutism of asking about alcohol is really not a good argument, because had alcohol been introduced today, and had we not had millenia long relationship with alcohol, then it would definitely have been banned as well.

With that being said, for profit prisons will never be a good idea, and letting prison corporations lobby politicians? If we just let them print their own money, then we wouldn’t have to lock up so many people.

Why? Because the system itself is arcane and could be done smarter? Or because the government has no business being able to distinguish between people with the same name? I need to understand this before going into a discussion with you.

.ml is still around? Huh, I must have managed to block that cesspool of an instance by myself

Isn’t that just because Firefox got access to location data because some site asked for it?

Ideology? GTFO with that communism libtard! /s

That’s the pedophile piss baby aka u/spez aka Steve Huffman, right? As in the guy that moderated a pedo sub?

What a greedy little pis baby pig boy.

Same! I think the missus might have a problem with me putting it on a t-shirt though

I don’t think that you can get the clue to stick to that amount of urea

Damn, that was a long rug pull, I bet Trump’s mad he couldn’t dump more of his concoin before he crashed it.

Like we can focus on memes alone, please!

If you want to understand motivation, not just for “today’s attention challenged individual on the go”, but something that’s universally applicable, I’d suggest you go to the source and look up self determination theory.

I’d be happy to apply the theory on your case, but for the sake of brevity I shall refrain from doing so unprovoked.

The tldr is that there’s three basic knobs you can twist to affect someone’s motivation: competence, self determination and belonging. You don’t need to actually invoke real change, but strengthening a person’s perception of those feelings will induce a positive psychological impact.

On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage

Jack of all trades master of… what’s that in my pocket? Oh yeah that’s from that project, maybe I could do this other thing entirely different now that I have this. Anyway what was I saying, sorry I didn’t pay attention to myself speaking.

I would

What, like droit du seigneur? In Denmark it caused a lot of debacle, when people receiving Danish citizenship, had to shake hands with the local mayor during the ceremony. But I do reckon that having to fuck the mayor to get citizenship, would be too much for even the most right wing … nuts

This is what I was thinking about myself. Because we’re cool with political caricatures, right?

I guess the problem is that nobody wants to feature in non-consensual AI porn. I mean if you’d want to draw me getting shafted by Musk, that’d be weird, but a highly realistic video of the same event, that would be hard to explain to the missus.

Besides what everyone else has said about screening, I’d suspect the astronauts are pretty cut off from the world.

If ground control can control all communication, what’s to stop them from censoring?

To me it’s not just “an empty sink”, that’s two empty sinks!

And the basis for setting up arbitrary rules for what each sink is for. Rules that nobody else cares to understand, but I will still try to enforce… Let’s just say that I get to load the dishwasher by my self.

Fly lady! That term is the only thing that stuck in our home.

Why are you using dating websites on work computers?

When I signed up with my psychiatrist the wait was 72 weeks.

I just looked it up, and the same psychiatrist now has a wait of 304 weeks! If I limit my search to psychiatrists within 50km, as the crow flies, basically about an hours drive, I have 6 psychiatrists "available. Their self reported wait periods ranges from 159 to 700 weeks. 700 fucking weeks! The 700 weeks is probably a case of “sorry, you’ll have to wait 14 years, because I’m not allowed to take in more patients, or pay for the eval yourself”, but the average for the 5 fastest is still 226 weeks.

I don’t know where you’re at, but my username gives me away - I just don’t want to fuel the American “socialized health care is ineffective” bonfire by making it too obvious.