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Journal Journal: Decriminalize All The Drugs 1

I know drugs are bad (m'kay) and many of you have known people who have self-destructed with drugs.

However, criminalization clearly is not working, and legalization failed to get rid of the illegal drugs trade because when you tax stuff like a politician, you make it more expensive than what the free market offers.

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Journal Journal: The Ecocide Threatens All Future Life

Yes, I know you want to get off this rock and in the long term, that is a necessary goal for not just humans but other species that humans want to preserve. You want a universe that always has cats and hummingbirds.

But in the meantime, humanity is near the tipping of The Ecocide, which is the displacement of the complexity of life on Earth (biodiversity + internal variation) by human overpopulation and urbanization.

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Journal Journal: Problems with Christianity 1

1. It's foreign. This should be enough. It is from a half-Arabic people in the middle east.

2. It's dualistic. Symbolic Heaven plays by different rules than Earth, causing people to reject reality. This is schizophrenia.

3. It's exoteric. The idea that normal people can understand religion forces a constant dumbing down.

4. It's universalist. It rejects hierarchy, except from the church of course.

Submission + - Missions to Mars with the Starship could only take three months (phys.org)

alternative_right writes: Many researchers consider the technology the only means to reduce transit times to the point that a mission will fall within NASA's career radiation limit of ~600 millisieverts (mSv). Kingdon's study challenges this prevailing assumption and advances the theory that a 90-day transfer can be achieved using conventional propulsion.
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Journal Journal: Diversity Does Not Work 2

Diversity -- the presence of multiple ethnic groups in a nation -- does not work, which means it can never achieve the function it was intended for.

Even worse, it destroys those nations by erasing culture, allowing bureaucracy and commerce to take over.

Eventually, diversity leads to conflict between these ethnic groups through passive-aggressive means.

Submission + - Student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD's inventor (sciencedaily.com) 2

alternative_right writes: Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified when he invented LSD in the late 1930s.

Hofmann hypothesized that a fungus in morning glories produced alkaloids similar to those in LSD, but the species remained a mystery until Hazel and Panaccione's discovery.

Comment Millennials can't code (Score 1) 99

These apps are all abysmal and seem to have learned 0.00% from the last fifty years of software development.

Even worse, most of the movies/television is just bad, stupid, or what I think kills most of it, basically near-clones of similar stories.

I opted for a middle path, which was to watch Forensic Files when I needed a quick break but otherwise, touch grass. Go outside. Take a walk. Make a boat out of scrap lumber. Read a book. Write some code for fun. Set up a Raspberry Pi to automatically upload ambisexual midget porn to Twitter. Listen to the standouts from jazz and classical (I ended up going in for Bach). Talk to your family members. Go to Walmart and meet the average voter (spoiler: most of them are rather nice).

Comment It's an old movie theater thing (Score 2) 99

Movie theaters wanted to increase profits so they made every soft-drink half ice, so people started asking for no ice or low ice in their drinks, and the theaters cut down the amount of drink people could get, so everyone started smuggling in cold cokes in their girlfriend's purses. The shareholders always want higher profits so their retirement accounts go up.

Comment Entitlements (Score 1) 244

Politics has a specialized vocabulary. What are entitlements? Let's find out!

First the dictionary definition:

3: a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group
also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program

Next the encyclopedia definition:

generally, any government-provided or government-managed benefit or service to which some or all individuals are entitled by law.

Then we should ask the US government:

Direct (mandatory) spending, which is the budget authority provided by laws other than appropriation acts and the outlays that result from that budget authority. Direct spending funds entitlement programs and certain other payments to people, businesses, and other entities.

And then there's The New York Times :

Elon Musk, the world’s richest individual, suggested on Monday that his government cost-cutting team would scrutinize Social Security and other entitlement spending, describing the expenditures as rife with fraudulent transactions and repeating a conspiracy theory that Democrats were using the programs as a “gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants and have them stay in the country.”

Comment You miss the point (Score 1) 244

Being able to accept that there is complex nuance in the world and that people's beliefs cannot always be reduced to a binary is great, but taking that too far and failing to apply ANY critical evaluation is just as bad.

Science has reversed itself too many times for your statement to make any sense. Given that we are talking about censorship, what you are advocating is a pre-filtering of potential competitors to established "truths." That is not how science works, nor learning, nor history.

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