I really like this. Yes, it should be everyone’s choice to consume it or not. But there really shouldn’t be commercial incentives to get people addicted and to get rich from their addiction.
Imgine the same rules applying to alcohol and tobacco… (yes you can absolutely grow tobacco in Germany).
Germany. One of the oldest populations in the world. Results for the most recent PISA study were terrible. There’s a huge shift to the political right, where even the so called social democrats call for more restrictive immigration policy, while the scientific consensus is that we urgently need mass immigration now to build a workforce that can keep the economy afloat.
Our resource used to be people, but we’re in the process of completely fucking that up. Education going downhill quickly, rapidly aging population paired with a massive push against immigration, the most important jobs having some of the worst pay and working conditions…
We’re in a race to the bottom. Japan mas have overtaken us, but we’re folfowing closely behind.
Ask the Kurds.
Also, Hamas didn’t just come up in a vacuum. People here in Germany are radicalizing because they were asked to wear masks during a pandemic and they heard that brown people are now seeking refuge in Germany. Palestinians have been suppressed, starved and killed for decades and none of the more moderate forces have been able to do anything about it. Not that Hamas would do any better, but it’s understandable that people support more radical movements when they’re literally fighting for their survival.
Slaughtering civilians is never justified. What Hamas did was horrifying and a crime against humanity. But the reason why Hamas ever got so strong in the first place has a lot to do with how Isreal has systematically oppressed and killed Palestinians for decades. And the war it is waging now against the Palestinian people is also indefensible. It should be widely condemned, any support withdrawn and Israel should be sanctioned.
I wonder what kind of storage solutions we could have today if we were investing as much into it as into nuclear fusion and fission…
We do in Germany, every two years. It’s not helping and I don’t know why. Maybe people are aligning their headlights correctly just for the test. Or the test is garbage. Next time my car is due, I’ll ask the guy.
People living comfortably here in Germany are flocking to extremist parties, because having to wear a mask during a pandemic or minding the rights of other people makes them feel oppressed.
The rise of Hamas was absolutely inevitable given the way people in Gaza were treated. If you’re literally fighting for survival and you realize more moderate groups are unable to change anything, you will support extremists out of sheer desparation.
There are no good guys in this story.
Gambling, tobacco, alcohol and all sorts of other addictive things are for profit, so why exclude cannabis?
I would advocate for treating other addictions the same way too.
Alcohol and tobacco ads are targeting young people because they’re more likely to develop a lifelong addiction if you start them early enough. Gambling machines are set up to make people believe they can beat the system, so they stay hooked.
I just don’t think these should be legitimate business models.
I actually like it. Legalize it but make it non-commercial so nobody profits from other people’s addiction.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.
Yes, this is what made me switch. I had heard about the fediverse, but it seemed too complicated and I didn’t want to do the research and find out how it works. Then someone on reddit said “just sign up to lemmy.world lol”, I tried it and that was it.
After a while, I decided to go with a local instance, but just having somewhere to start was what pushed me over the edge.
Immigration is likely to skyrocket over the next decade.
Slovenia is one of the countries that you would expect people to migrate to. It still has a moderate climate, no severe droughts, not affected by rising sea levels (except a very small coastline), no tsunamis, no hurricanes, no typhoons… This just goes to show that there are no safe places. Doesn’t matter where you live, climate change can and will have disastrous consequences for you.
The number one thing people can do is get informed about climate change, talk to others and try to get them onboard without pointing fingers. And then vote accordingly. It doesn’t matter how much you recycle, ride your bike, stop flying- it won’t make a dent without major policy changes.
I hate those manly male scents for true men™ so much. I’ve now switched to odorless deodorant which is so much more expensive but it’s worth it. And when I want to smell nice, I use a perfume.
Where the fuck are my fellow car and tinkering nerds at? And no one does projects around the house? So few posts in some of the home owner communities as well.
I’m right here, where are you guys? Still looking for a good homeowner and DIY community on lemmy.
Not saying China is the good guy here, but a lot of people pointing their fingers at them come from countries with much higher per-capita emissions.
There are a lot of Boeing 787 in the air at any time. You can go to flightradar24.com, click the filter icon at the bottom, add new filter, then aircraft and as ICAO code you just enter
B78*and it will show you only this aircraft type.The risk for an incident with any 787 at any time in the next few years may be higher that it should be. But the risk for one individual plane on one single flight is absolutely negligible. You’re more in danger on your way to the airport probably.