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[mclaincausey]

Even as a nonsmoker, I don’t believe that we can consider ourselves to be free if we don’t have autonomy over the state of our own minds. Given this, the fact that nonviolent people minding their own business get locked up and their lives ruined, and the fact that prohibition only introduces violent unregulated markets, prohibition simply doesn’t make sense unless it’s something like fentanyl that is about as safe as anthrax.

The fact the America has had two constitutional amendments around the failure of prohibition and still hasn’t learned this lesson is beyond ridiculous.

[Matt]

@Tago-Mago I’m undefeated.

[goosehd]

@neph93 said in Random Announcements:

@ARNC death to the ketchup users.

and how do you two feel about Catsup?

[neph93]

@IrishHeart Yeah for sure. Way too much vinegar and sugar. My father used to complain, but my mother had the food budget under tight control.

[Jett129]

@Matt said in Random Announcements:

@Mizmazzle @Oaktavia weed’s a gateway alright. A gateway to Swedish Fish, Oreos, the kids’ weekend cereal, s’mores over the stove burner and whatever else I can find in the pantry that isn’t nailed down. Not once though have I ever wanted to get in a car and drive somewhere. Or get in a fight with anything bigger than a candy bar wrapper.

Several years ago a study was done on the effect of cracking down on marijuana usage on college campuses,and they found that it resulted in an uptick in alcohol related trips to hospital emergency rooms. Kind of like what you said,when college kids smoke weed they just want to hang out and eat.

[Giles]

When Alex was at boarding school we were told that the house masters were way more scared about the secret consumption of alcohol than the use of drugs....Possibly, in this instance because it was easy to steal it from the parents when they came home on out days...

[Tago Mago]

Speaking of no qualifications required:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[endo]

hahaha

[Giles]

I saw that earlier and wet my knickers....

[endo]

good staff at that polling station

[Tobi]

I was amazed that when I lived in the UK the main official ID I needed to proof my identity was a utility bill with name and address on it

[Brian]

That’s hi tech compared to here we just turn up say our name and address they look it up on a book put a tick next to your name and your good to go
If you were so inclined you could hit up multiple polling stations

[neph93]

@goosehd said in Random Announcements:

@neph93 said in Random Announcements:

@ARNC death to the ketchup users.

and how do you two feel about Catsup?

I always assumed this was the old name of Ketchup. There’s a difference?

[goosehd]

@neph93 It’s the same thing and something people used to argue about with the spelling. Which one is correct ketchup or catsup? Probably one of the murica things…

[Giles]

I'm just off to the gym (long time since I have been able to say that).....

[goosehd]

@Giles Name of a new pub in town?

[Giles]

Fuck off

[pechelman]

@goosehd said in Random Announcements:

@neph93 It’s the same thing and something people used to argue about with the spelling. Which one is correct ketchup or catsup? Probably one of the murica things…

in any case, all of these spellings are anglicizations of the name of a Chinese sauce that sounded something like ke-tsiup. Or so I've been told.

[endo]

[Tago Mago]

I think I can see Giles peaking out of the window