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America wasn’t trying to stop opium production, we were using druglords to beat warlords. The brother of the leader we installed was the kingpin.
America wasn’t trying to stop opium production, we were using druglords to beat warlords. The brother of the leader we installed was the kingpin.
Who would have thought.
As would I. Been a home theater/audiophile guy for 25 years
It is not only rare but a red flag if you can drink like a 21 year old in your 30s and 40s. If you can drink like that in your 50s you probably have ascites.
Some American Jews. Mostly the women.
But what about prohibition era gangsters smuggling guns cigarettes and liquor? How will we fight that scourge?
I just don’t know why we’re not making better legislation about single-use plastics rather than just arbitrarily banning plastic straws. It’s so weird. One fucking turtle video. This isn’t even picking low hanging fruit, this is legislators picking an apple off the ground and holding it up like they harvested a whole crop.
Meanwhile, I’m getting served a paper straw in a plastic cup with a plastic lid, neither of which I can recycle because it has food residue, and there are no public recycling bins anywhere anyway, and even if there were we don’t recycle that plastic in my district we just dump it directly from the recycling center to the landfill. That’s lip service, not progress. I’m throwing away garbage cans full of plastic every week without scrutiny, but the package of plastic straws that would have lasted me years is the focus of attention? Not biodegradable plastic? Not reusable packaging? Not paper packaging for consumer goods? Not analyzing the weight savings in fuel vs the increased weight of reusable packaging made of wood, glass, metal, cardboard, etc? No, just choose the smallest thing possible that still feels conspicuous enough for voters to think progress is still happening. With Amazon orders I’m throwing away as much bubble wrap these days as a retail store.
The topic is so big that any real progress is beyond the capabilities of our current government. The Democrats can’t generate political will, the Republicans are obstructionist, and both sides simply report to their corporate overlords anyway. The only levers progressives can pull are hoping that enough moralizing, intersectionality, and virtue-signalling will offset overconsumption. It’s the plenary indulgences of capitalism–we can still wastefully overconsume if we only buy fair trade products made out of recycled materials made by a diverse indegenous non-hierarchical employee owned collective of secular humanist queer amputees with developmental disabilities who donate a percentage of profits to protecting charismatic megafauna in developing nations. I can’t even afford regular groceries, fuck that.
As to your second paragraph, yep, yes, sure. We got beat by a bunch of illiterate desert goat rapists and jungle Asians. Just need to outlast the political will of the oligopoly
Just because the EU does something first doesn’t mean they were right to
Yes it is.
Historians could only “uncover” this reason because it’s buried under the actual reasons. All the rationale behind the constitutional amendments was highly documented at the time, public, and easily accessed and referenced.
did I say anywhere that I think religion is why we’re tribal?
did I? or are you fighting a straw man right now?
Unless they can make it also kill an animal, I ain’t interested. The suffering is necessary for the flavor.
Exhausted.
I’m exhaust-ed. I have absolutely no expectation that religion will go away, which means I have no expectation that religious warfare is going to go away. Humans are tribal, tribes commit warfare, tribalism has only increased in my lifetime. You’re all doomed.
Indeed. The idea that he was going to find a way around two incompatible cultures existing in the same space was too idealistic. The trick is to hate humanity and to expect nothing but terrible behavior from them and then you won’t be disappointed.
“Guy who can easily retire with a pension because he’s past retirement age anyway gives middle finger to his old boss as he leaves because he’s sick of things never changing”
it’s fine but it ain’t no cheezburger
I’m not eating Soylent so you can reduce carbon emissions. why don’t you put some restrictions on breeding?
The answer is economy of scale, the collapse of the American manufacturing industry, bloated budgets, especially brand/marketing budgets, and the prices set by OEM manufacturers who themselves have bloated budgets. A lot of these brands arent actually manufacturers but middlemen for manufacturers. They do design, service, marketing and maybe assembly. But manufacturing is primarily done overseas. If it’s manufactured domestically the labor and material costs are commensurate. Maybe the frame is made domestically, maybe not.
A perfectly decent bicycle is less than $100 in China.
If profiting from raising awareness is morally wrong then don’t donate to any charities either.
They ran the country before we got there, too.
Turns out Afghans just have a terrible culture.