Whelp, a lot of people like the idea of torturing queer children. Not much else to it than that.

I’m going to go against the grain here a little. First of all, it should absolutely be decriminalized. No one should spend time behind bars for using or selling it, obviously.

But it got legalized here back in 2022 and while it was great at first, weed sort of sucks now. Because of legal limits to how many plants you can grow, CBD disappeared. Every strain is somewhere between 20-30 percent THC and just makes your brain numb, doesn’t get you high the same way. Everything is way more expensive because every few years they vote to increase taxes on it, so strains that were 5 bucks a g when it was illegal are 10-11 now. Edibles have concentration limits so you’re paying out the ass now for 100 mg, which someone would before make in their kitchen and give away for cheap.

Not to mention that there is one. On. Every. Street. Corner.

It’s insane. Every business that closes down turns into a dispo and the added competition does not lower prices. Out town is losing cafes, art stores, all sorts of businesses because the cancer that is a dispensary keeps spreading. On a personal note, I’ve been trying to cut back for years and honestly I think if I still had to call “my buddy” to pickup i would have stopped a long time ago, but now it’s in my face everywhere and tbh, it just sucks. It just gets you high. That’s it. I can’t explain it, it lost so much heart.

Now it’s probably cleaner, safer, more ethical. But from a consumers perspective, it kind of sucks now.

Same. My teachers may not have sexually assaulted me, but the students absolutely did and the teachers just pretended not to see.

That’s a lot, but by some back of the envelope math I calculated that American consumption of cheese alone uses four times that amount in a year.

Based on this, 4 oz of cheese uses 450 liters of water. https://foodprint.org/blog/dairy-water-footprint/

Based on this, the average American consumes 41 lbs of cheese per year. Each lb of cheese uses 1800 liters of water per the above. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183785/per-capita-consumption-of-cheese-in-the-us-since-2000/

That means that each US citizen uses 73,800 liters of water per year on cheese alone.

Multiply that by 340E6, the US population, you get 25 trillion liters of water per year. That’s 25 billion cubic meters of water a year.

Not that AI is environmentally friendly by any stretch, but dairy is the equivalent of like, a dozen AI industries all stacked on top of each other. Feel free to check my math and correct me as needed.

I go to protests at my courthouse every week man. Like you said they never stop, but it also doesn’t stop what’s happening.

It hasn’t stopped what happened to the federal government, and it wouldn’t stop a military takeover of Canada. The kind of fighting we need is considered “disruptive” by almost everyone, and there’s never enough people willing to do it. Not to mention the fraction of people who protest or do anything at all is so fucking small that I’m comfortable saying by and large, Americans are not fighting.

Edit: It probably was inappropriate for me to come out with “bitch” right out the gate, sorry about that. It felt comedically appropriate but probably wasn’t the best lol

Bitch we didn’t even fight for our own freedom

I think the issue is you’re waiting for the negatives to be equal to the surplus of one month, when the trend (from three points of data so do with that what you will) is negative. So, ostensibly, after enough months of negatives, there will be much, much more negative than positives.

“brown colored water” very weird way of describing coffee but okay lol