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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • Wide gulf between having a permissive attitude to drugs and going full draconian like Singapore. Being draconian like that is a huge rule of law issue IMO, you can put someone in prison by smearing some drugs on their shoes.

    IMO the issue with the west isn’t that they’re too soft, but that they often don’t go all the way - even the Netherlands, which is known for letting people legally buy and sell cannabis, doesn’t actually allow growing cannabis. There’s no way to legally acquire cannabis for the sellers in NL, it’s incredibly stupid.





  • Many fruit contain a lot of sugar and not all of them have such a strong laxative effect as apples. It’s harder to overeat on them than with cheese or bags of chips and they certainly contain a lot of healthy stuff like vitamins and fiber that many people are a bit short on, but it doesn’t take that much additional sugar in your diet to become overweight. It’s especially dangerous when you start processing them, e.g. smoothies or juices.


  • I read the whole thing, yet still don’t understand how they actually reduced the light pollution. LEDs shouldn’t inherently create less light pollution than light bulbs, halogen bulbs etc…

    They also wrote that street lights only contributed 8% to overall light pollution. 8 to 2% might be significant in the statistical sense, but that’s a pretty small decrease for the overall light pollution. Though I still appreciate that they’re doing something, rather than going full steam in the wrong direction.


  • They don’t care about fairness, they only complain because they don’t come out on top. They also care a lot about IP/trademark law when it’s their own brands, yet they have apparently been selling what is basically counterfeited champagne and prosciutto di Parma. They’d throw a fit if someone tried selling non-US “Bourbon whiskey” in the EU.

    Also, I bet most South Americans wouldn’t care about the difference between the original and the fake (or “feta-style cheese Made in USA”) if the fake is actually cheaper while still tasting mostly the same.