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You will not stop people from taking drugs. They will bring them over whatever distance, border, or other obstacle you put in place and the harder you try, the more money they'll make and the more havoc that will be wrought on your society and neighboring countries. How's it working out currently?

Criminalizing drug use and distribution creates a condition far worse than a legal and appropriately regulated market for marijuana, cocaine, heroin, mushrooms, opium, and more where users can buy standardized, well-labelled, individually packaged doses from a normal store (not a criminal empire).

Amongst all this crying about some idiots raiding the capitol and wanting to ban everyone for bad opinions, all these replies are hard to take seriously.

Ban reddit then.

There were guillotine memes with 50k upvotes on reddit right before the "insurrection" happened!

The blood is on your hands then.

Edit: The poster I'm replying to should be deplatformed immediately for inciting violence, specifically for perpetuating black markets that have devastated entire countries, for supporting raids of homes at gunpoint over possession of substances that are bought and sold without coercion, for the inconsistent doses and impurities and stigmatization that will continue to kill addicts, and for widespread incarceration which is targeted toward already disadvantaged minorities.

Demonetization has been a common occurrence for leftist online figures, even ones that are not at all "radical".

Bob Graham is the highest elected official that has challenged the government's narrative on 9/11. He was a US senator, the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and he led the joint congressional investigation into 9/11.

In these interviews, he indicates that there are reasons to believe that Bush administration had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks. These statements came long before the "28 pages", which removed any doubt that there was a cover-up after the fact and provided more evidence that Bush and his terrorist friends organized the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRNti8P_o-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656b7n9--ps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Graham

What, you mean the truth about people like Bandar bin Sultan and other connections between the Bush administration and the Saudis?

No idea why this is downvoted, there's no better example of censorship than this.

We would be in a better situation right now if voters had the facts about these four FBI investigations back in 2018, so perhaps the Democrats could have nominated a candidate that isn't a criminal.

I still voted for Biden, already aware of his family's influence peddling, because Trump is a repulsive moron in addition to being corrupt... just to be clear.

Yeah, me also.

This accounts for like 15% of all comments on political threads here.

> Anyone is free to set up a computer in their basement, install a web server, open up port 80 to the world, and serve to the world whatever blog or forum they want.

The internet as it exists for many people all over the world does not always include control over ports, or even a static IP address. Even if you do have a static IP you'll still need to go through a company to register a domain.

And as far as I know there's nothing stopping an ISP from refusing service, which could be coordinated just like this app store removal.

You have no clue how many professional athletes use marijuana! It is not dangerous in the slightest. I would go as far as saying it is performance enhancing even.

I am injured at the moment, but I can go run a sub 11s 100m for you right now, right after smoking.

I'm doing cervical spine traction right now... it makes my head hurt but I've found ways to do it that are less uncomfortable.

My story is similar to others here, I'm a lifelong athlete with some injuries that are exacerbated by computer usage. I now stand all day, every day with a monitor at head height, which has been the most impactful lifestyle change. Otherwise I do stretching, some exercises like in this article, deep breathing, and massage.

Looking forward to getting back to lifting and sprinting full-time, meanwhile though my cervical spine needs to become more stable. I'm never going back to sitting at a computer, because I literally can't! I suppose that's good ultimately but I do find it hard to concentrate on certain things while standing.

So we should all defer to the superior rationality of who exactly?

Intellectual property laws are going to be more deadly than usual in the next few years. The populations of many countries won't get vaccines until 2022 and beyond, it's completely unnecessary and immoral.

My mom bought thousands of dollars worth of journal articles so that she could self-diagnose a serious lung condition that doctors had missed. They ended up studying her case at the Mayo clinic.

Alexandra Elbakyan is a hero.

The largest repository of knowledge in the history of humanity, gotta make sure we destroy that!

I for one support the yahoos on both sides. Burn it all down.

The circumstances were completely different. I feel quite bad for the lady that died yesterday, but she put herself in a dangerous situation. That pig shouldn't have shot her in the neck.

And yet the people that work there every day do far worse on a regular basis.

This mindset is terrifying and yet most people here would probably agree with you.

We are headed for dark times unless people like you are removed from positions of power.

OP said innocent, not unarmed.

It used to be possible, not anymore.

What? That's ridiculous. How is everyone on Hacker News so miseducated? This goes back to real inequity, even if the details are beyond the folks currently storming the capitol building.

But it's a shame there's no national ID, because then both sides would have to stop griping about disenfranchisement and fraud.

Look at the percentage of GDP that the US spends on healthcare.

Wealth is a terrible proxy for contribution to society.

The consideration is whether or not to boycott their software in response. Whether or not Microsoft decides to provide services to ICE is still up to them.

Now I think you are being intentionally duplicitous. You know that there were at least two prior whistleblowers who did go up the chain of command, and as a result both were harassed and persecuted? If not, why did you not know this? Why are you commenting almost a decade later about a topic that you still know nothing about?

Edit: What a surprise, you "work in defense".

They are different, but maybe not consistently so for everyone. The visual distortions might be similar but the feeling will probably be different.

I get a certain uncomfortable bodily sensation on LSD, to the point that after fifty or sixty experiences with it I no longer use it. I strongly prefer mushrooms and suggest mixing them with small amounts of MDMA for an incredible experience.

The quality of my comments lately is quite low, I'll give you that.

You're actually more than welcome to delete the account, aren't you guys supposed to allow that anyway under GDPR (for Europeans at least)?

Felicia Pearson was in prison for murder...