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.
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.
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.
Trying to see if I can find spores online. Then gotta grow morning glories, which I haven't touched since reading the Anarchist's Cookbook years ago.
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.
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).
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.
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.”
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.
1. No debt
2. Entitlements
Entitlements -- direct payments to citizens not for services rendered, like Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, welfare, school lunches, HUD, etc -- are three-quarters of our budget and are basically debt spending at this point.
What's our national debt again?
Reference the NULL within NULL, it is the gateway to all wizardry.
