My analogy is apt because both guns and drugs are dangerous and our society treats the things very differently for arbitrary cultural bullshit.

Pointing out that legally, guns are OK doesn’t contradict my point, it furthers it.

I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.

Just a reminder that Federal Law shields people who sell guns from liability over the just as inevitable consequences of that industry.

Had a friend who did this with poison ivy. I’m still laughing decades later just thinking about it.

I’ve never understood secure drop-off for used drugs. My mother gives everything to second-hand stores when she’s finished, but when it’s time to throw away pain pills, she jaunts off to the drug store like Jason Borne, to keep the drugs away from junkies.

I keep meaning to tell her that a junkie who discovers her oxy is going to be so much more grateful than whoever finds her old Capris on the rack at Goodwill.

I’ve never trusted full disk encryption because I understand the person most likely to get locked out of my data is me.

I can see the use case for laptops, but my security policy is “if you have physical access, you win”.

40 years ago, this article was titled “the toxic chemicals in no-smoking signs are the real cause of lung cancer”

My prediction is that it’ll come out that the Trump Administration was negotiating with Ahmed Chalabi the whole time.

They’re flying B52s over Iran now.

Trump’s rhetoric can’t stop SAMs so if Iran still has that capability I’d be curious why they’re not using it. Remember it’s still the US military, and squashing air defenses is like their whole deal.

Killing an F15 with a manpad is pretty lucky. F15s can make themselves immune simply by fling higher and faster. The missiles that can climb up there are as big as a telephone pole.

However aircraft like the A10 and all helicopters are vulnerable to this threat. And since the missiles are small, cheap, and easy to conceal, there is no way to counter this threat without physically controlling the territory. Ask Russia.

Why do the simple people of the world insist that inelegance must be linked to some obvious measurable physical characteristic?

No matter how many times this idea gets humiliated by science, the dull inevitably wander back.

This is a case where calling them pigs tends to slander the barnyard animal who’s way smarter than these bozos.

This meme is ageist because nobody over 11 yo could think it’s funny.

I heard that vapes were a conspiracy to get people used to sucking robot dick.

It’s a reference. The story that became “Blade Runner” was titled: “Do Androids dream of electric sheep?” Written by Philip K Dick.

There is a big difference between a “weed guy” and a drug dealer.

Show me a person who has 3 different kinds of weed, cocaine, LSD, and pills and I’ll show you a scary person.

Like all news orginizations, Al Jazeera is shit when you compare it to the platonic ideal of news. However, when you compare it to Western media, it’s solidly middle of the pack. During the Gaza genocide, it was the Al Jazeera reporters who were on the ground and targeted for death.

The biggest criticism of Al Jazeera is the race/religion of it’s reporters. People are going to show up to tell me that it’s Qatari state-run. But those same people don’t feel the same about DW, BBC, or NPR.

The best evidence for Al Jazeera’s credibility is they are constantly being banned in Israel for reporting on that regime’s crimes.

Laventiy Beria was the head of Stalin’s NKVD. He may not be the greatest villain, but more people need to know about this motherfucker.

Stalin introduced him as “My Himmler”. Despite all the spying and torture you’d expect from the secret police, Beria found time to be a prolific rapist as a side hustle.