The world has gone kookoo bananas mad, I would like to take a few years away in a saner place. Hell perhaps?

This is what I come here for.

store it for 20 years iiuc

And it's how radioactive?

Your first point is so far away from understanding what's written that I can't comprehend how to respond to it in good faith. Anything I type I delete bc it feels like either repeating the point or ignoring your remark.

Your second is not just pedantic, but desperate.

This isnt forcing a link. This is looking at historical progress and noticing patterns.

But its best to drop thr conversation if you aren't interested bc I'm very much against bad faith arguments.

Even still thank you for the response.

Isn’t liberalism giving rise to illiberal ideologies a predictable consequence of the paradox of tolerance?

So many problems here:

• The main problem with fascism is that it is illberal. Opposing liberalism because it sometimes is followed by fascism is missing the point.

• The article conflates "neoliberalism" with liberalism, when neoliberalism is explicitly a postliberal ideology, and opposed to Enlightenment liberalism. Neoliberalism is an illiberal ideology and worthy of critique, but one can't throw the problems of neoliberalism at the feet of liberalism and say the latter is worth opposing on those grounds.

I will confess that I had no interest in reading such drivel past this point and thus will leave further critiques to someone with more patience, or at least more insomnia.

Just like the 9/10 dentists.

But wait!

Did you know that more Doctors Smoke Camels?!

With advertising like that I'm moving to Kent too. Fuck off Marlboro

Hell yeah, asbestos cigarette filters.

Pretty sure this is unironically what killed my paternal grandpa.

"Modern day problems need modern day solutions!" -- Kent, 1952

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While the Cadmium is bad because its a heavy metal, I thought the worse things from bad vapes was the other metals in the alloys in the heating element such as Nickel and Chromium. One specific risk is the production of hexavalent chromium from the heating element. This compound has this wonderful side effect from osha.gov:

"Certain hexavalent chromium compounds produced lung cancer in animals that had the compounds placed directly in their lungs."

I was doing home experiments creating hydrogen at small scales using cheap stainless steel electrodes for electrolysis. While I was in a highly ventilated area, when I learned that hexavalent chromium was being produced I gave up on it because the health risks weren't worth it, and I wasn't doing something that directly inhaled the gases produced, unlike vaping.

Funnily enough, they actually got cold war.

But good news for the asbestos - cancer isn't the only problem that asbestosis can use to kill you.

Vapes genuinely would be a huge amount safer than tobacco if people were using the kind of vapes that the comparative studies were done with. However, in real life, people buy the cheap ones and/or the dodgy imported-despite-not-meeting-local-regulation ones, where it's just not viable to do things like avoid contaminating them with heavy metals like Cadmium. Cheap smuggled cigarettes aren't that much worse than regular cigarettes. Cheap smuggled disposable vapes are much worse than top-end reusable vapes.

Now this may be a stretch

Probably better than the microplastics from modern filters...

The legal system of Somalia has undergone significant transformations from its pre-colonial roots to the contemporary framework shaped by historical events. Pre-colonial Somalia was characterized by a rich tapestry of customary laws and traditions, known as ‘Xeer’, which governed social relations among clans and communities. These unwritten laws served as the primary legal framework, emphasizing consensus and negotiation. The importance of clan leadership was evident in how disputes were resolved and agreements made, showcasing a decentralized and highly localized form of governance.

With the advent of colonization in the late 19th century, Somalia’s legal landscape began to transform. The British and Italian authorities imposed new legal systems that often conflicted with traditional norms. In the northern regions, British colonial rule established a legal framework heavily influenced by common law principles, whereas in the south, Italian colonial governance introduced a civil law system. This duality resulted in a complicated legal environment where different regions adhered to distinct laws based on colonial influence, leading to eventual disparities in legal interpretation and administration.

Legally not allowed to have two at the same time

Did they get double cancer or did the 2 cancers cancel each other out?