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EmergMemeHologram, in Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first...

Did Charlie Kelly write this?

WashedOver,
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I didn’t seem any reference to his speciality bird law

ininewcrow, in Very powerful video card!
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Turns on new system with enormous video card … runs 16 bit Super Mario Bros for the nostalgia

Alivrah,

After that we should push this beast to its absolute limit…

Opens Minecraft

Delta_44,

Opens minesweeper at medium quality

TeckFire,

Me running Fallout New Vegas again

Melochar,

You laugh, but I just bought an Omen 45L i9 with rtx4090 and 64gb ram, (for work! I swear! ) and the very first game I played on it was… Rimworld

whereBeWaldo, in Cross section of a bamg bang ball.

I could’ve sworn this stuff had CBT in it

Semi-Hemi-Demigod, in Revolutionary free thinker Andrew Tate
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"Fuck the G rides, I want the machines that are makin em"

NegativeLookBehind, in Very powerful video card!
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Maybe this will run Star Citizen at 30 FPS?

Kidplayer_666,

City skylines at 15fps

Kidplayer_666,

City skylines at 15fps

HonkTonkWoman,

It’s the only way to watch Oppenheimer exactly as Nolan intended.

eager_eagle,
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still can’t hear the dialogue, but at least it’s as intended

alienanimals, in Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Tobacco is a shitty drug. We should ban it entirely and federally legalize another drug like cannabis instead.

c0mbatbag3l,
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Cause banning cannabis worked so well lol

theangryseal,

Prohibition of any drug is stupid. Especially a damn plant.

dependencyinjection,

I’m all for legalising cannabis, but to ban tobacco seems pointless.

I want to legalise or decriminalise drugs because it doesn’t work. Banning tobacco also will not work.

Tax high - use money for education and healthcare.

theangryseal,

Ah yes. The poorest people are the smokers, let’s just make them more miserable. Sounds about right.

You should work at a place that sells cigarettes for awhile and scope out the customers. I’ve seen people count pennies and cry because they’re hungry but they’d rather not experience the anxiety of nicotine withdrawal.

dependencyinjection,

As a former very poor person and now just regular poor person who used to smoke ikr.

That said, smoking never made me a happier person and at some point we have to do something. Smoking related issues cost the NHS an absolute fortune.

Do I think that corporations and billionaires should pay their fair share so us peasants don’t need to pay at all. Sure do.

Do I think that’ll ever happen. Heck no.

So given that, then we need to do something.

You shouldn’t make assumptions about people!!

gila,

You can have a look at some places that implemented the policy you’re putting forward to check if it works though, right?

Have a look at Australia & New Zealand. Taxed at around 65-70% respectively with intent to make cigarettes cost prohibitive

A summary of some outcomes following a decade or so of implementation of these policies:

  • No acceleration in the overall decline of smoking rates at any stage following policy implementation
  • Reversal of trend in Australia where tobacco use is currently increasing
  • The disproportionality in smoking rates between Europeans and the countries’ respective indigenous groups is now higher
  • Politicians (even the health minister himself in Aus) now champion increases to tobacco excise as a means to secure the financial stability of the country

All this while cost of living increases, rate of poverty increases. I mean not all of these things are solely attributable to periodic tobacco excise increases but it hasn’t fixed a thing. The government got some more money to blow on some antiquated nuclear submarines to defend our massive island, surrounded by allied nations and thousands of miles from the nearest potential adversary. They’ll be ready in about 20 years. Great to see the extra tax dollars at work!

dependencyinjection,

Unless I’m mistaken but correlation isn’t causation. Meaning that an increase in tax revenue from cigarettes around the time some new subs were ordered doesn’t mean that one is paying for the other.

Is it unreasonable to make the assumption that the extra tax revenue in fact goes into public health to combat the effects of smoking on an aging population?

smoking for those abive 15 has dropped from 24% in 1991 to around 11% in 2019

although i will concede that this tax disproportionately impacts lower income people

gila, (edited )

The current excise policies were implemented around 2010, at which point the global decline was already well underway. As I mentioned originally, there has been no stage following implementation of the respective policies in which the decline in smoking accelerated. It has only slowed since that time, and in Australia is increasing as of 2023.

It’s unreasonable to assume that allocations of tax contributed by smokers and tobacco companies is proportionately allocated to areas relevant to the stated intent of the tax policy. That just isn’t a thing for really any tax policy in any government - there’s no point at which the public health cost of using tobacco nationally is reconciled against the tax income from those products to see if things are evening out. They’re entirely separate vectors that are unrelated.

correlation isn’t causation

Do you think these are magic words or something? The entire stated intent of the policy is to cause a correlation that is inverse to the one that’s been observed since. Nowhere above did I say that tobacco excise causes the problems I mentioned - I responded to someone putting forward the idea that it is a viable solution to those same problems. I have trouble considering your response to be in good faith, since I already disclaimed this in my original comment. I’m sorry, I misread yours. I was just making a joke dude - it’s just meant to be an example of how 1. government expenditures are fundamentally disconnected from the tax funding source and 2. the government having an excess in tax funding often doesn’t result in them doing anything of significant benefit to anyone with it. Who are the subs meant to to protect us from, Indonesia? Wait, that’s right, it was just to piss off our #1 trading partner

dependencyinjection,

correlation isn’t causation. Do you think these are magic words or something.

Actual quote

I’m uncertain…

So no I don’t believe they’re magic words and I find your quote disingenuous.

Have a nice day and we can end this here. No hard feelings.

gila, (edited )

Hey I misunderstood you there and corrected my comment. Just in case you didn’t see that. I thought you were referring to a correlation of increased tobacco usage not equalling a causation by the excise tax policies, given the sub thing was kinda completely aside from the central point of what I’m saying

Mongostein,

Obviously smoking anything isn’t good for you, but tobacco on it’s own isn’t that bad; it’s all the chemicals added that make it so shitty.

However, unless you grow your own or know a farmer, good luck finding any pure tobacco.

psud,

Tobacco on its own will cause cancer. Note how pipe and cigar smokers get mouth cancers despite taking only pure tobacco

gila, (edited )

That is patently false. There is only one single risk factor for cancer generally that is bigger problem than smoking unprocessed tobacco - that is smoking processed tobacco. If you charted endemic cancer risk factors in order of risk, with smoking processed tobacco at the top, then smoking unprocessed/organic/raw tobacco would be about 5% away from the top. The next biggest risk factor would be obesity about halfway down the chart (close to smokeless tobacco products like dip, which has a higher specific risk for mouth cancers). Turns out lighting something on fire and inhaling the combusted free radicals is universally a terrible idea, who’d have thunk? Personally I’m amazed that this kind of misinformation still propagates, on Lemmy of all places, sixty years following the surgeon general’s warning.

Eheran,

This is what I do not get. The effect is literally zero. You need to be addicted to even feel something, and then it is only not having withdrawal.

zaph,

The effect is fucking awesome… The first couple of smokes. Then it’s only effect is getting rid of the headache withdrawals cause.

dingus,

What do those first couple of smokes feel like?

zaph,

It’s been awhile but kind of like being buzzed from alcohol but it only lasts like 20 minutes

shalafi,

If you’ve never been a smoker, maybe withhold your opinion on the effects?

TheGrandNagus,

Imagine looking at the war on drugs, prohibition in the US, etc then thinking “I think we should ban this drug that’s already normalised and used by millions. Then nobody will use it and everything will be fine.”

It. Doesn’t. Work.

It especially wouldn’t for something as addictive as nicotine and so trivially purchasable abroad and easy to import.

Tobacco is already dying. Just let it continue to run its course.

YoBuckStopsHere, in Yeah, yeah, yeah...
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It should be pointed out that the vast majority of the military are in support career fields, not combat units. Also, the GI Bill absolutely makes it worth it.

DontMakeMoreBabies, (edited )

And the VA loan. That's how I got my house!

Plus all the intangible benefits of being 'prior service.' Certainly has been useful in my real career.

YoBuckStopsHere,
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Generally speaking, a military career is the best means of advancement in social class for Americans. You’ll easily move up the middle class and likely upper middle class or upper class depending on time served.

PhlubbaDubba,

Problem is for people with fundamental incompatibility with the military, either disability or personality clash with authority

Even civilian work parallel to the military can be hard to access in those circumstances

Zehzin,
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Service Guarantees Citizenship

Would you like to know more?

YoBuckStopsHere,
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Not everyone is willing to be a public servant. Of all the things from Starship Troopers, that is something I liked. I’m a fan of granting a free college education to public servants, military or govt employees after four years of service.

Citizenship isn’t a perk of military service in the United States, you don’t have to be a citizen to serve but you still earn the benefits.

c0mbatbag3l,
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Too bad the movie just glossed over the whole “Anyone can be a citizen, no matter who you are or what you can do physically” so they could make a satire on military fascism instead.

The conversation Rico has with the “anti-recruiter” is the only point you need to show how ridiculously out of context the movie was, it clearly demonstrates not just a lack of nationalism but its opposite. A concerted attempt by the state to stop getting people to sign up because they don’t have the resources or need for the amount of people that want to join.

It was a clear indication that Heinlein understood the dangers of the ever growing military industrial complex, and how a reliance on it economically will result in constant warfare to justify its existence.

No one cares though, they just quote propaganda that wasn’t even in the book (since it doesn’t fit with the book’s theme at all) and pretend that Heinlein was absolutely devoted to the ideas presented in the novel. The dude wrote about so many different kinds of societies that it’s almost impossible to define what his actual beliefs were.

BackOnMyBS,
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This is interesting! I haven’t read the book. Can you elaborate on the point of the Rico and anti-recruiter conversation?

c0mbatbag3l,
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Yeah less than ten percent is combat trained and tasked and only a tenth of them (so 1% of the total) are combat veterans.

Most of the people you’ve thanked for their service probably worked at a job that civilians do everyday like fixing things or doing paperwork. Just in a uniform.

YoBuckStopsHere,
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My primary job was a logistics account, but that meant I had to inventory high value items at Forward Operating Bases in Iraq and Afghanistan and I drove in a few convoys, only once anything significant happened.

NegativeLookBehind, in Yeah, yeah, yeah...
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Dying for big tobacco: omg what a tragedy

Dying for big oil: omg he’s a hero

Pick your corporate servitude carefully kids

JustMy2c,

Dude, you finally made me understand.

it’s just big corporations fighting amongst themselves for available manpower and manlives. But still much better as the alternative, which is politicians fighting amongst themselves for manpower etc

Wogi,

Politicians do it in public, corps do it in secret.

RadButNotAChad, in When Horses replace electric is the circle complete?

When people tell me electric cars will never see mass adoption, I’ll remember this.

thantik,

3D TVs will totally be a thing too! You just wait!

gramathy,

Yeah but nobody actually believed that, even 3D movies weren’t good

Speculater,
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Just wait until VR goes mainstream

atlasraven31,

I’ve been waiting since the '80s.

Zron,

I’ll wait until there a cheap surgery to fix motion sickness.

Can’t play any VR game for more than an hour or 2 before I feel like I’m gonna fall over or hurl.

ThrowawayPermanente, in Redemption

Black Friday Deals Out Street Justice?

owenfromcanada, in It's that time of year again.
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so MUCH more

dipshit, in Redemption

50% off! but which half?!

FlyingSquid, in When Horses replace electric is the circle complete?
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Dobbin is a stupid name for a horse.

SpaceNoodle,

You’re a stupid name for a horse.

FlyingSquid,
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Well yeah. Who ever heard of a horse named Flying Squid?

pensivepangolin,

I mean… “Hoof Hearted” was a real horse name. (Read it out loud)

Fosheze,

That is a great horse name though.

HikingVet, in When Horses replace electric is the circle complete?

You don’t need a licence to ride a horse

FlyingSquid,
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You do need a shovel for afterward though.

HikingVet,

Maybe not on the street if you plan accordingly , but yeah at some point you are going to need one.

FlyingSquid,
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And you’ve got to empty that bag. Gross.

WashedOver,
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On local shared hiking trails they make dog owners scoop up after them with plastic bags so it can be flung into trees further down the trail, but with the horses they can just do their business where ever they want on trail. Some sections get pretty covered in it.

HikingVet,

On the multi use trails we have locally there are people who ride horses, but I have never seen horse shit on the trail while biking. though I have seen the dog poop bags on the side of the trail. on the hiking trails I see dog poop bags everywhere, would be happy if they threw it into the woods (without the bags, because even if they are designed to breakdown, that only in specific industrial compost heaps)

EmergMemeHologram,

What’s the point of bagging to carry it and then drop it. You already did the awful part of bending down, staring at and smelling the shit, feeling its warmth and consistency with your fingers…

Then you drop it when it’s at its least annoying

HikingVet,

I’ve had dog owners say they don’t want to carry the poop with them on the hike and they will grab it on the way out. Which at best is a 50/50 shot. I let them know of a product called a dumppouch when I see them do something like that. I carry one for garbage I find on trails as humans make a mess pretty much every where.

WashedOver,
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I wish this was the case at my local park. It is surrounded by horse stables and owners. There’s a lot of horse traffic being one of the local rural areas with horses. The local roads have flashing signs to warn of horses on the road and to slow down. There’s even a pub further up with a small paddock out front for owners to tie up their horses while they go in for a pint.

I would think just flicking the dog poop off the trail would be better for the environment than plastic bags left everywhere but in the times above when car first came around, our cites were covered in horsesh!t and in some cases bloated horse carcasses waiting to be disposed of. In many respects we’ve come a long ways since.

HikingVet,

It depends on how much poop is in a specific area. There is a gradient. Like a little bit isn’t bad, but one you start getting piles it can be pretty bad for the area if they aren’t allowed to breakdown or aren’t removed.

QuinceDaPence,

There's a few reasons for that. One is obviously the having to get off the horse to deal with it but also dog poop smells way worse and doesn't degrade the same as horses does. It really doesn't take that long for horse poop to turn to pretty much dirt.

-someone who's shoveled or mowed over my fair share of both

HeartyBeast, in Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first...
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This has got to be someone trolling, right? Right?

r00ty,
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It's hard to be sure these days.

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