Federal prohibition was the long pole in the economic tent shielding the pharmas, alcohol, tobacco and paper/textile companies from Cannabis’ potentially huge contribution to human well-being and corresponding cut of their markets. Those potential contributions are now slated to happen on not just the health and socio-economic fronts, but also informing the environmental debacle we now find ourselves in. It’s a good crop.
Cannabis prohibition pretty much constitutes Federally-sponsored book-banning. There was little hope for anything coming out of the Mississippi ditch weed scientists were forced work with. That paper stock requirement Hearst had for his newspapers at the turn of the last century will be on the down-slope going forward, regardless.
Let’s get to work boys ‘n girls – we’re running about 100 years late.
People will be discussing the cost of this war for decades, if not longer. Physical destruction is clearly devastating and widespread. The question of grain shipments will become moot when there is no grain to ship. The biggest line item on the bill will undoubtedly end up being the children.
It’s a complicated topic and a long sit for 40 minutes, but if you really want to know the story, Neil platforms the man who’s been there and is doing it now.
“Four lawyers said the fact that Bankman-Fried was courting regulators while taking massive risks with customer funds without anyone noticing exposes a yawning regulatory gap in the cryptocurrency industry.”
Daaaaaang! A whole industry that exists nowhere except on computers – imagine that. Now we’ll need to re-imagine the FIRE acronym (F)inance, (I)nsurance, and (R)eal (E)state), with crypto cronies busily scamming away billion$ from unwitting investors. As if the money-for-nothing people needed any help robbing the populace of their hard-earned cash.
Crypto is not actually a “thing,” with the possible exception of the irreversible math behind it.
“Nov 18 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Twitter Inc employees are estimated to have decided to quit the beleaguered social media company following a Thursday deadline from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for “long hours at high intensity,” or leave.”
Looks like the mutherfucker’s trying to accelerate cult expansion.
“This isn’t like a single web server is being taken offline,” he said, citing monitoring records that he shared with Reuters. “The network stress is so great their Domain Name System (DNS) servers have been taken offline and eventually the key routers allowing traffic in and out of the country entirely.”
With rare exceptions, the weather has been generally good around here right up until Thanksgiving. This year we will see single digit overnight temps the week before for the first time I can remember.
The title of the Scientific American article is “Are JWST images real?” Probably a fair question, coming from garden variety curiosity seekers. It’s a question leading to basic JWST infra-red tautology.
“Although the full-color images are captivating, many of the exciting discoveries show up one wavelength at a time.”
The only thing shortsighted people see on this program is the cost.
“Still, regardless of any mixed feelings surrounding this rocket, successfully launching it may offer a sign that NASA is making progress towards once again having the moon as a real destination for humanity.”
I was terrified those kittens were gonna destroy the grill on that subwoofer, but fortunately the scratching post I made with some sisal rope did the trick.
Pundits’ re-hash of the pollster’s failure and the GOP’s demise in 2022 is still fresh, but one thing about it won’t ever go away – the writing is on the wall: People don’t like being lied to.
…at least not any more than absolutely necessary. People should understand the simple fact that everything they do online gets recorded somewhere to some extent. Privacy controls are weak, and people of all colors scramble all day long every day to cash in on that data. From legitimate sellers trying to keep your pantry stocked to electronically-induced criminal thieves and everybody in between wants your money, one way or the other.
I’m not suggesting any sort of off-grid prepper extremes. Just be aware that you are being tracked everywhere you go online, and droves of people are vying to use that information for profit. Hell, depending on your Google Map™ settings, you are literally being tracked in meatspace. That may or may not be important to you, from a privacy perspective. Personally, I kinda like reviewing my whereabouts every month, and I’m not hiding from anyone.
Easy Internet-enabled money is hard to resist. Some types of online activity like social media and the entertainment stuff is designed specifically for marketing purposes – nothing else. Politics falls into that bucket. Ever wonder why the FAANGs aren’t doing more to protect their business?
“But look at that: Social media is now shot through with sketches and music videos made by rich personal brands and consumed by a passive audience that gets iron-skilleted with ads. The convergence I once cheered on has reinvented a medium that reminds me of something from my youth. It’s almost like network TV. Like the idiot box. Like a “vast wasteland,” as the FCC chair called American television, in 1961.”
In this photo provided by Nathaniel Ross Photography, a historic military plane crashes after colliding with another plane during an airshow at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. (Nathaniel Ross Photography via AP)
Big election news in the NORML pages this morning. It’s no news to me. We went through a shrooms period during my early 20s while trying to attend college in Pennsylvania before joining the Air Force. I naturally gravitated to the weed in recent years with arthritis and bad joints. Spinal injuries only sealed that deal.
The pharma industry’s death grip on healthcare portends no easy path to progress. Looking back at the time in between my hip replacements, I now shudder to think about the toxic cocktail of different substances the VA had me on. Things will improve on the healthcare pharma front after money stops vying for supremacy with science.
Stop abusing your body and take better care of your mind.
