More like, you know damn well that Jim keeps passing code reviews without reading a line in them, he's been talked to, still does it, and you need something actionable to prove it so that you can get someone's ass in his chair who does their job.

As it seems to me, who hung around with a lot of drug users back in the day, as well as regular folks: most people who are interested in trying them can and will get their hands on it regardless of legality, sometimes easily. It's about as low risk of a crime as there is. Those who aren't interested, won't, again regardless of legality. There will be edge cases where somebody will go "Ah what the hell, it's legal now, why not" and toddle on over to their local dispensary for the first time but largely speaking anybody that wants to smoke weed or snort coke is probably already doing it.

Now what probably would change is the number of people on record using drugs, per capita, over the next few generations if it becomes normalized like alcohol has been. Which makes sense. But, counterpoint to that, in countries where they have legalized many drugs they still often have lower rates of severe addiction because they've generally also set up safety nets for those folks. Accessible medical care and available addiction treatment options will keep many drug users from hitting rock bottom, but we don't really have that in the US so many users will often go unassisted in any way for ages and lose jobs and homes because of it, only getting "help" when it becomes forced upon them by the state (which is frequently not in any way helpful).

Anyway, I'm rambling, but tl;dr it's definitely a multifaceted situation and blanket legalization probably isn't a great move without accompanying medical and social support, which needs to happen anyway regardless of any moves for drug legalization. Gotta walk before we can run, unfortunately.

That's an important distinction because an average person will not die from capsaicin intake.

Once upon a time I would have agreed with you but nowadays I see a couple bullet holes in Nintendo's feet as well. And Valve is a bit less quick on the draw with their lawyers it seems.

Respect. You know what you did, why it sucked for everyone, accepted your consequences and moved on to tell it as a warning tale to others. If only we could all be so graceful with our mistakes.

That's Comrade Earnhardt!

Serious: Dale Earnhardt is/was a cultural hero for rural conservatives, as he was one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time, so it's been fun for Lemmy meme artists to use his likeness for aggressively left-wing memes. It's a little bit "Ha ha funny NASCAR man makes memes about communism" and a little bit "conservatives will believe anything delivered to them in meme form so let's capitalize on that".

And they choose this path because LGBT folks have been getting bullied, assaulted and murdered for just existing for about as long as civilization has existed. If they don't stand up for themselves nobody else is going to do it for them.

The key word is "trying" - most of them are trying to live their lives largely without bothering anyone - except that "anyone" is composed of a lot of people that can't put up with their existence. Not through any fault of the person, just because of the way they are.

I do get what you're saying. But it's a half step away from deriding them for their very existence, which is disgusting. They are attempting to break the status quo in the same way the civil rights movement did.

I don't think the Waagh field is quite that strong in canon lore, but holy shit that makes way more sense than it should. I never even considered this as a possibility.

Counterpoint: Fuck you, I'm a wizard. Alakablam mfer

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I spent 12 years in American public school during which greater than 70% of the student body had cell or smart phones and 100% of them were successfully banned. If the phone is visible during the school day and you aren't currently receiving a phone call from the President or from your parents on their way to the hospital, phone goes in the teacher's desk. You get it back at the end of the day.

Its not that difficult at all.

If left unattended for any period of time it will immediately begin seeking out the nearest knife