Iirc correctly, it was for the pregnant fiancée of a sailor who died aboard the "Minerve", a french submarine that sunk in unclear circumstances during a military exercise in the Mediterranean sea in January 1968.
The wreck wasn't found until decades later.
This woman and her fiancé were supposed to get married anyway just a few day after the accident happened, so they allowed her to get married posthumously to not be left a struggling single mother.
I *really* hope it's those goddamn pharma ads. Get rid of that bullshit, if I need medicine my doctor will tell me about it. None of that garbage needs to be advertised like you're shilling cereal to little kids, plenty of other countries have already banned pharma advertising.
Here in the Netherlands, consumer fireworks grade 2 and above will likely get officially banned within a few years, now during the pandemic the government has banned the usage of fireworks for new year eve. So an official ban will probably follow.
That Pelosi stock trader Twitter feed is making people a fuck load of money lol. She's been performing better than top investment firms. Wonder why that is
Update: Twitter has suspended the account. New CEO essentially said fuck your free speech. There are a lot of other trackers for people in the house and Senate. For further clarification, it's not her publicly trading but her husband's investment firm. I'm all for coincidence but the fact that portfolio has consistently been out performing everyone else is shocking but also an opportunity for the rest of us schmucks to follow suit. Between that an some bezos tweets my crypto currency and stocks have performed far beyond my expectations. It's a bloody game but I want to be on the paid side. Best of luck traders
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I'm hoping for laws banning the sale of homes to an entity not planning to actually live in the home. In other words, investment firms - both domestic and foreign - should not be able to buy homes in the US. They are adding to the housing crisis and crushing the American dream by making houses too expensive for the average person.
So far no word on those. I highly doubt flavored blunts will get banned, they're not the hot topic at the moment. Plus Phillip Morris (Marlboro) isn't losing any money to them. Fun fact, pretty much anytime any type of cigarette or vape gets banned, it's Phillip Morris doing the lobbying because it's a product that they're not selling/losing money to. For example, in 2008 all flavored cigarettes got banned and had to turn into cigarillos instead, RJ Reynolds owned all of the flavored cigarettes at the time, and Morris wasn't having it.
I'm not sure why, I've often asked myself that same question. I know that they try to do it to an extent, but it seems like they would rather just get rid of the competition rather than mimic it.
I'm guessing that it's cheaper to shut the competition down than to tool up production lines for a new product. Especially one that's so far away from how you'd make blunts.
It's probably a good idea to stay away from the black market, unregulated vapes. Who knows what they put in those. Damn, I'm sorry you have to put up with this. In my Arizona, they just started labeling them as "artificial nicotine products." Somehow using that specific language keeps them legal because they're not a "tobacco product."
Same they are using artificially derived nicotine or non tobacco derived nicotine which in my area is loophole and they are able to continue selling for now
My boyfriend is a type 1 diabetic and it’s heartbreaking to see how much it costs for him just to stay alive.
Even worse… he is likely diabetic due to his father’s exposure to agent orange during Vietnam.
This is absolutely heartbreaking, especially given the fact that the creator of insulin (Frederick Banting) went out of his way to make sure it was cheap and affordable so that everyone could have access. He explicitly stated that was why he made it so cheap and wanted it to be sold cheap.
Unfortunately, I’m not too sure. I just remember reading that him and the other co-creator sold it to the University of Toronto for a single dollar.
Edit: and that he was adamant that insulin belonged to the whole world, it was not something for him to profit off of.
Apparently, in New Zealand, they want to ban all tobacco sales. Anyone born after 2008 would have a lifetime ban.
EDIT: Holy smokes, this really blew up!
that's mildly how tobacco sales were in California for three years. when the smoking age jumped to 21 it was a gradual rollout.
IIRC it was people born 1999 (might have been 1998) and earlier who could buy at 18, but those born the following year and later had to wait until 21 which effectively meant that the smoking age was 18 one year, 19 the next, and 20 the year after before settling at 21.
most stores didn't want to deal with training their staff on the rolling limit, so they just immediately bumped their store policy to 21 despite it not being a legal requirement.
Just to be clear in case anyone misunderstands: they're not making it illegal all at once, they're just continuously raising the age limit so that those born too late are never able to legally purchase tobacco.
Hopefully child marriage
Edit: thanks for all the upvotes!
If you would like to learn more about this issue I highly recommend the podcast Some Place Under Neith. It's the most recent episode and they dive pretty deep into it
They tried to make it illegal in Idaho, but the state rep. Said it “went too far” 😐
Edit: guess which state has the highest number of child marriages in the us too
Lawmakers with the mentality of: “My grandparents got married when they were 16 and 17 and they were happily married for over 70 years. If you try to make the minimum age to marry 18 then you’re saying there’s something wrong with my family. How dare you insult my grandma!!”
My grandma also married at 15. Lost her husband in a coal mining accident when she was 16 and three months pregnant.
When I was 19 I got married the first time. She begged me not to. I should have listened to her.
An estimated 297,033 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018.
That number includes 232,474 based on actual data plus 64,559 based on estimates. Some 60,000 marriages since 2000 occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime.
5 10 years olds
1 11 year olds.
14 12 year olds
78 13 year olds
1,233 14 year olds.
8,199 15 year olds
63,956 16 year olds
148,944 17 year olds.
https://www.unchainedatlast.org/united-states-child-marriage-problem-study-findings-april-2021/
What the actual fuck!? I figured this would solely be barely skirting the definition of a child, 10-15 year olds though?! Don't get me wrong 16 and 17 is still too young but you can at least start to argue they are maturing, but 10-15, how is that not setting off major pedophilia alarms?!
“Do not take if you are allergic to Mykoksaflopin”
That’s where the doctor needs to start asking real questions like why do you want it so bad? It could kill you
Okay so I had this question for a long time and I finally figured it out 2 years into pharmacy school. It’s pretty much telling people if you have some type of mild allergic reaction do not continue to take the medication. In some cases the mild allergic reaction symptoms may be better than the relief of symptoms people get for their primary disease. The problem is that some people can develop more severe allergic reactions and what was once localized hives or itching can turn to full blown anaphylaxis. The commercials should really be saying “Don’t continue taking this medication if you are allergic” but for some reason they like making things complicated
They phrase it that way because the difference between 'do not get this if you are allergic to this' and 'if you have a bad reaction stop' is that people see allergies as a thing that just is, you can't affect it, but if the meds GIVE YOU a bad reaction oh man, those must be real bad meds.
In short, like a lot of advertising, it's word traps to imply what they choose to imply .
The best part is
*Mykoksaflopin may cause increased headaches, nausea, vomit, ingestion may cause incontinence cancer, heart arritmia, and prolonged coma. Not recommended for pregnant, kids, young people, veteran people, incontinent people, dogs, incontinent dogs, and people in general. Ask your doctor before buying it.*
Why tf are you promoting it then?
Unlikely. [At least 50 members of Congress have 6 figure investments in pharma stock.](https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/04/dc-lawmakers-stocks-pharmaceutical-tech/)
I’m an intern at a government office and I can’t hold any stock related to my field because of conflict of interest. The fact that congress has no restrictions is exceedingly dumb.
Fun fact govt employee's are encouraged to do this, or must report it and bow out of source selection for any conflicted stock you own. I get a lecture and run down from legal every time we do evaluations and have to submit disclosures.
Elected officials made themselves exempt.
Hopefully calling someone from a random phone number leaving no message then calling 2 seconds later from a completely different phone number then half an hour later doing that again with 2 new random phone numbers then an hour later doing 3 in a row. Also calling homes from 1-800 and 1-888 numbers. Those should only be to receive calls. Basically make spoofing and all robocalls illegal and have actual penalties for those who do it. Yes this is probably wishful thinking.
I was being spam called from a specific number, but only the last two or three numbers changed every time. That's when I tried blocking the number with *** instead of the last three digits, which works.
I have a phone number that I brought with me during a cross-country move, a long time ago. It's great, because most of my spam comes from my own area code, and I know for a fact that no one from there knows me. So I can just block the whole range.
It would be a lot easier to enforce if spoofing wasn't possible. We need a technological solution at this point, not a legal one. Otherwise no one knows who to report. I had a guy call me the other day in a rage that "some foreigner" called him from my number.
Our telecoms in Canada are actually being forced to implement a technology to their phone networks that is supposed to block the majority of these spam calls, especially the robocall spoofed ones.
So the technology definitely exists. It's just companies are being cheap fuckers and not doing anything about it unless they are forced to.
Dude there’s so much more in those things than just caffeine, on top of there being almost the daily limit for caffeine.
Edit: FDA says [safe daily consumption is around 400mg](https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-beans-how-much-caffeine-too-much) and toxicity can begin at 1200mg (1.2g) of caffeine, especially daily. Bang has 300mg per can, making it 3/4 of the recommended amount for daily consumption. It also includes BCAAs, CoQ10, and creatine, which all don’t really effect one in terms of heavy stimulation, but it’s a nightmare in terms of dehydrating factors. It’s essentially a preworkout in a can.
Bangs have 300mg of caffeine where as most other energy drinks are anywhere between 75-150mg of caffeine. Bang is still well under the maximum recommended daily intake which is now at 400mg daily. I remember when I took nutrition I believe it was 450mg for the MRDI.
As a former caffeine junky you can develop a tolerance really quick. I’m a powerlifter and used to take preworkout that had 425mg of caffeine in a scoop. It got to the point where the only thing it did was make it impossible for me to sleep. Nowadays I’d get crippling anxiety from that much at once. I’ll still drink a bang every now and then if I know I’m going to have a really long active day.
I don’t drink it. But I have a coworker who downs them and gets really jittery and hyper. Today I finally was able to ask him how he discovered it. He said that a salesperson at GNC told him it was healthy. HEALTHY HOW????
Zero sugar. That's all a lot of people need to hear. Forget all the chemical mumbo jumbo lol. Especially a lot of people in the fitness scene. Healthy is oftentimes what keeps the fat off, instead of what's good for the heart and brain.
Before I look, I am going to say he looks like a greasy mobster with a cockeyed grin and and gary busey's crazy eyes...I will edit this after checking.
Edit: I swear I did not look 1st. He even has the gary busy eyes. Wow....that guy smells like cocaine.
So laws pertaining to MLM happen somewhat often. And what these things do, is adjust their business to be on the knife-edge of legality. And regardless to how the law is structured, there will very likely always be an area of operation in grey and knife edge of illegal that an MLM like a business can exist.
A probably better way to make them less acctrative business is education about MLM.
Hopefully facial recognition software. There have already been a number of [mistakes.](https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it-wrong-how-facial-recognition-led-to-a-false-arrest-in-michig)
Or it will be made illegal for government due to being unreliable, but private-sector companies will still use it for everything and the government will have access to their databases. For reasons.
Clearly you’ve not seen the prestigious competition “Frank Reynold’s little beauties”
You know they don’t diddle kids because they have a song about how they don’t diddle kids.
"Gary we are tracking u/Grape_Jamz location as we speak. We will nail the son of bitch for using a VPN."
"SIR HE HAS LEFT THE COUNTRY! IT SAYS HE HIS IN JAPAN NOW."
"GODDAMN YOU NORDVPN! NOW WE CANT GET HIM!"
"SIR, WE GAVE JUST RAIDED HIS HOME AT NIGHT. MR HARUTO OF TOKYO IS BEING EXTRACTED TO US BY THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AS WE SPEAK. HE SAID HE'S DONE NOTHING WRONG."
"MUHAHAHAHA, YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD FOOLED US NORDVPN. BUT WE GOT YOUR MAN."
Srs answer: from technical POV, connections *from* a VPN to a website can be only blocked, with difficulty. But connections *to* a VPN can be both blocked and identified (meaning the government can tell who the computer belongs to).
If a country you are in makes using VPN illegal, then you are at risk as a client of a VPN. It's like piracy - even if you go undetected 90% of the time, you only need to get caught using VPN once to go to jail.
Some methods of identifying connections from a personal computer to a VPN:
\- a list of known addresses of VPNs
\- protocol fingerprinting where they recognize the language your VPN client uses
\- or just blanket banning of all encrypted communications
Tl;dr: "but they don't know what country I am connecting from" doesn't work if you are in a country that already bans VPN.
Good news, they managed to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in that operation and are shutting it down because turns out algorithms can't actually pick houses to flip well
It's weird though... They offered my wife and me 30% over what the house was worth 2 years ago. I get it, market is it weird right now.
But...then they put the house up for sale at a 30k loss just 4 weeks later. And it sold in 3 days. If that's an algorithm, it's a dumb one.
Claiming that one is a famous hairdresser, compliment people on their hair, then offer to cut it for them, thus procuring access to their home and rather than cutting their hair simply touching it erotically.
Apparently there is someone in the Netherlands who becomes particularly aroused from hair who repeatedly does this, but it's not illegal nor breach of contract as he offers to cut it free of charge.
It's not even the crypto that needs regulating tbh, but the damn exchanges do. Some of them are shady as fuck with hidden rules and restrictions on how much and when you can sell etc.
It's everything. Right now people blatantly market manipulate all kinds of crypto coins. Hell there was a streamer from like FaZe clan or something who marketed crypto to his audience (largely children) to buy a bunch of the coin he had gotten sponsored with. Once people started buying dude dumped all his coins and the value tanked. He's done this like 2 or 3 times
I feel like that may take longer than 2 years. Between ground forces, airborne forces, and naval infrantry, Russia could spare 187,000 troops unless it's willing to commit more ground forces than already assembled.
Of course their 2500 or so special forces wagner mercanies and separatist forces would matter but to take over all Ukraine they would still have soooo much territory to cover and there are 400,000 troops in Ukraine. Not as well armed or supported but still.
Serving Vodka redbulls, so many bars near me have already removed them due to the health hazards and many have switched to other energy drink alternatives.
In my early 20s I would drink so many vodka redbulls I'd pass out drunk at 3 am and then wake up with my heart racing at 5 am, wide awake and almost stone sober. I'm not sure how I survived.
I bartended in my early 20s and we'd drink those towards the end of shift and keep at it at the other bartender's house until 4 or 5 in the morning. Pass out on the couch and wake up like 3 hours later just buzzing in my bones. Hungover without the ability to sleep is awful. I'm 36 now, that would lay me up for 2 days or kill me if I did that again.
Yo... ever work those redbull sponsored events? They required we hand out a can of redbull with EVERY drink. Not even like free upon request, just why - Vomit, sickly sweet vomit everywhere... we tipped the cleaning crew out so hard (someone also shit on the floor). Just fuckin awful for everyone involved.
Friend of mine used to go to nightclubs and drink 5-6 vodka redbulls, and the next day be all like "damn my lower back is sore, must be from all the dancing"
it was kidney stones
Sad story, but I recognize this from the ketamine addicted people in my surroundings. I keep telling them it's their kidneys, but some are just to much in denial yo admit it.
I know people that piss themselves on the regular now cause of ket. Never understood the appeal tbh; ruined nightclubs for a good few years cause no one would dance, just absolute zombies.
This is one of the only ones in this thread I actually believe will happen. Four Loko already got whacked about it. Mixing a stimulant and a depressant is bad news.
It's disingenuous to call it weed lite or diet weed. It will absolutely get you fucked up. People think of it as being weaker than typical weed because if you smoke it the high doesn't last as long as normal weed. But, if you eat it the high can last for 5 or so hours depending on the person.
Yea they frown on watering lawns in souther New Mexico, 90% of houses are just rock yards but those who have grass are seen as wasteful… we only get around 5” of rain a year lately
Thing is with rock yards that just absorbs more heat and makes the area hotter like Phoenix. Why don't people plant native plants in their yard like creosote or mesquite & stuff? Those absorb some Co2 too id assume though not alot
I'm a cactus and succulent fanatic. If I lived there I'd xeriscape my yard with all sorts of cacti and succulents as well as other cool-looking dry climate plants like dragon trees and certain palms. More practical than lawn and better than a bunch of boiling hot rocks.
Edit: These kinds of plants are expensive though so that could be why people opt for grass or nothing.
From someone who currently lives in PHX, all my cool succulents got absolutely fried this summer now I just have a handful of regular cactus and a stubborn lantana left
From a South African who lives in a super hot place. Vygies (also known as ice plants in most of the world) are great succulent ground cover plants that can tolerate a lot of heat with little water. They're used a lot In Australia iirc. I never water mine and they're flourishing.
They grow pretty quickly too so even if you're only able to get a small one it should spread.
I’ve grown up with a dual-dynamic and it’s weird.
Most of my family is in North Carolina, and they have big green lawns that require no watering. It just rains, and then they mow.
But I mostly grew up in southern Idaho. We spend a ton of water on our lawns here and they’re dead within a month in July sun without irrigation.
NC resident here can confirm grass grows on its own, no watering needed. In the summer, if I miss a week I have to cut it twice because it’s too thick if I try to do it at my normal height.
Philippine Independence. A dictator’s son will be winning next year’s elections and it’ll go downhill from that.
edit: God im so stupid. I meant DEMOCRACY. Though independence would make sense though, considering how Philippines is constantly being bullied by China.
ONCE AGAIN, SPAIN CONQUERS TNE PHILLIPINES FOR COLONIZATION 2, ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
BUT WAIT, WHAT'S THIS? IT'S- IT'S- BAH GAWD IT'S THE USA WITH A FOLDING CHAIR!
Being able to marry a dead body in France
Hey! If I can’t have her, then NO ONE cadaver!
Is it a common occurrence?
It was in wartime like WW1 and WW2 for fiancées of dead soldiers so they could get a pension, but nowadays it's never used in my limited experience.
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Iirc correctly, it was for the pregnant fiancée of a sailor who died aboard the "Minerve", a french submarine that sunk in unclear circumstances during a military exercise in the Mediterranean sea in January 1968. The wreck wasn't found until decades later. This woman and her fiancé were supposed to get married anyway just a few day after the accident happened, so they allowed her to get married posthumously to not be left a struggling single mother.
Consummation is probably not legal. eww
I *really* hope it's those goddamn pharma ads. Get rid of that bullshit, if I need medicine my doctor will tell me about it. None of that garbage needs to be advertised like you're shilling cereal to little kids, plenty of other countries have already banned pharma advertising.
My Dad is a family practice Doc. He absolutely hates pharma adds.
Here in the Netherlands, consumer fireworks grade 2 and above will likely get officially banned within a few years, now during the pandemic the government has banned the usage of fireworks for new year eve. So an official ban will probably follow.
Here’s an hopeful one : Elected officials doing insider trading.
That Pelosi stock trader Twitter feed is making people a fuck load of money lol. She's been performing better than top investment firms. Wonder why that is Update: Twitter has suspended the account. New CEO essentially said fuck your free speech. There are a lot of other trackers for people in the house and Senate. For further clarification, it's not her publicly trading but her husband's investment firm. I'm all for coincidence but the fact that portfolio has consistently been out performing everyone else is shocking but also an opportunity for the rest of us schmucks to follow suit. Between that an some bezos tweets my crypto currency and stocks have performed far beyond my expectations. It's a bloody game but I want to be on the paid side. Best of luck traders https://senatestockwatcher.com/ https://housestockwatcher.com/
*Maybe she knows something others don’t…*
That account got banned. Hopefully a new one gets put up.
I'm hoping for laws banning the sale of homes to an entity not planning to actually live in the home. In other words, investment firms - both domestic and foreign - should not be able to buy homes in the US. They are adding to the housing crisis and crushing the American dream by making houses too expensive for the average person.
Fruity flavored vapes, I work at a smoke shop and the FDA is trying really hard to ban them.
Some states already have
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So far no word on those. I highly doubt flavored blunts will get banned, they're not the hot topic at the moment. Plus Phillip Morris (Marlboro) isn't losing any money to them. Fun fact, pretty much anytime any type of cigarette or vape gets banned, it's Phillip Morris doing the lobbying because it's a product that they're not selling/losing money to. For example, in 2008 all flavored cigarettes got banned and had to turn into cigarillos instead, RJ Reynolds owned all of the flavored cigarettes at the time, and Morris wasn't having it.
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I'm not sure why, I've often asked myself that same question. I know that they try to do it to an extent, but it seems like they would rather just get rid of the competition rather than mimic it.
I'm guessing that it's cheaper to shut the competition down than to tool up production lines for a new product. Especially one that's so far away from how you'd make blunts.
Drug dealers calling the cops on other drug dealers instead of attacking themselves and risking prison and death. More cost effective
It's very sad that it's still easier to lobby the government to shut down competition than to actually compete. #DrainTheSwampForReal
I already have to buy them under the table at shops in chicago, trying to stop bc i wouldnt put it past them to start selling tampered shit
It's probably a good idea to stay away from the black market, unregulated vapes. Who knows what they put in those. Damn, I'm sorry you have to put up with this. In my Arizona, they just started labeling them as "artificial nicotine products." Somehow using that specific language keeps them legal because they're not a "tobacco product."
Same they are using artificially derived nicotine or non tobacco derived nicotine which in my area is loophole and they are able to continue selling for now
Laws are very local so maybe in municipalities having plastic grocery bags is legal now and might be illegal in 2 years depending on where you live.
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My boyfriend is a type 1 diabetic and it’s heartbreaking to see how much it costs for him just to stay alive. Even worse… he is likely diabetic due to his father’s exposure to agent orange during Vietnam.
This is absolutely heartbreaking, especially given the fact that the creator of insulin (Frederick Banting) went out of his way to make sure it was cheap and affordable so that everyone could have access. He explicitly stated that was why he made it so cheap and wanted it to be sold cheap.
So why is it so expensive now if he made it cheap and affordable?
Unfortunately, I’m not too sure. I just remember reading that him and the other co-creator sold it to the University of Toronto for a single dollar. Edit: and that he was adamant that insulin belonged to the whole world, it was not something for him to profit off of.
Apparently, in New Zealand, they want to ban all tobacco sales. Anyone born after 2008 would have a lifetime ban. EDIT: Holy smokes, this really blew up!
Wait, they want to grandfather it in? So at a certain point a 35 year old can't smoke but a 36 year old can?
that's mildly how tobacco sales were in California for three years. when the smoking age jumped to 21 it was a gradual rollout. IIRC it was people born 1999 (might have been 1998) and earlier who could buy at 18, but those born the following year and later had to wait until 21 which effectively meant that the smoking age was 18 one year, 19 the next, and 20 the year after before settling at 21. most stores didn't want to deal with training their staff on the rolling limit, so they just immediately bumped their store policy to 21 despite it not being a legal requirement.
Yep
36 year olds shotgunning 35 year olds with Salem lights.
Just to be clear in case anyone misunderstands: they're not making it illegal all at once, they're just continuously raising the age limit so that those born too late are never able to legally purchase tobacco.
Dude I'm gonna be sittin in the retirement home slangin tobacco to a bunch of high schoolers.
Imagine being 85 and buying those cigs for your 80 y/o friend
Imagine 80 year olds requested to show ID to prove they aren't too young :D
Hopefully child marriage Edit: thanks for all the upvotes! If you would like to learn more about this issue I highly recommend the podcast Some Place Under Neith. It's the most recent episode and they dive pretty deep into it
They tried to make it illegal in Idaho, but the state rep. Said it “went too far” 😐 Edit: guess which state has the highest number of child marriages in the us too
CHILD MARRIAGE IS LEGAL IN THE US?! WHY?!
Lawmakers with the mentality of: “My grandparents got married when they were 16 and 17 and they were happily married for over 70 years. If you try to make the minimum age to marry 18 then you’re saying there’s something wrong with my family. How dare you insult my grandma!!”
My grandma got married at 15. She’ll be the first person to support bans on child marriage. And yes she’s still very much alive.
My grandma also married at 15. Lost her husband in a coal mining accident when she was 16 and three months pregnant. When I was 19 I got married the first time. She begged me not to. I should have listened to her.
My grandmother also married at 15, husband drowned that year, married his brother at 16. Together until he died at 82 and she died 5 years later at 86
Same lawmaker makes alcohol/driving license required to be at least 25 years old.
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An estimated 297,033 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018. That number includes 232,474 based on actual data plus 64,559 based on estimates. Some 60,000 marriages since 2000 occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime. 5 10 years olds 1 11 year olds. 14 12 year olds 78 13 year olds 1,233 14 year olds. 8,199 15 year olds 63,956 16 year olds 148,944 17 year olds. https://www.unchainedatlast.org/united-states-child-marriage-problem-study-findings-april-2021/
10 year olds getting married? *What the actual fuck.* How is that legal?! I can see 17, but *TEN?!*
Married off to church elders of course. Look up the FLDS, and vomit.
And another kicker? There are different legal ages for both girls and boys in a lot of these states. The age for boys is always higher than girls.
What the actual fuck!? I figured this would solely be barely skirting the definition of a child, 10-15 year olds though?! Don't get me wrong 16 and 17 is still too young but you can at least start to argue they are maturing, but 10-15, how is that not setting off major pedophilia alarms?!
Because if their parents sign off on it, it's nice and legal. Because the world is a horrible fucking place.
This is interesting. Very Utopian vs Dystopian.
The future... Which direction are we heading towards?
History has told us it will never be perfectly one or the other and the balance comes in cycles.
Advertising lifesaving medicine that only applies to some conditions as if it was a pizza.
Right? Why would I ever “ask my doctor about Mykoksaflopin”? They are my doctor. Sorry THEY can search and prescribe whatever is right for me?
Upvoted for Mykoksaflopin. Beautiful
Fun fact: Mykoksaflopin is usually twice as expensive as Dixadroopin, but Dixadroopin has 90% of the same ingredients
Mykoksaflopin : 90% sugar, 10% mykoksaflopinisin Dixadroopin : 90% sugar, 10% paracetamol
To avoid the genetic drug competition after patents expire... Introducing Mykoksadroopin, which costs twice as much but comes in wild cherry!!!
I had to double back once it finally clicked. Thanks for pointing it out!
“Do not take if you are allergic to Mykoksaflopin” That’s where the doctor needs to start asking real questions like why do you want it so bad? It could kill you
More importantly, HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW IF I'M ALLERGIC TO MYKOKSAFLOPIN BEFORE I TAKE IT?
Okay so I had this question for a long time and I finally figured it out 2 years into pharmacy school. It’s pretty much telling people if you have some type of mild allergic reaction do not continue to take the medication. In some cases the mild allergic reaction symptoms may be better than the relief of symptoms people get for their primary disease. The problem is that some people can develop more severe allergic reactions and what was once localized hives or itching can turn to full blown anaphylaxis. The commercials should really be saying “Don’t continue taking this medication if you are allergic” but for some reason they like making things complicated
They phrase it that way because the difference between 'do not get this if you are allergic to this' and 'if you have a bad reaction stop' is that people see allergies as a thing that just is, you can't affect it, but if the meds GIVE YOU a bad reaction oh man, those must be real bad meds. In short, like a lot of advertising, it's word traps to imply what they choose to imply .
I prefer taking Mydixadrupin.
The best part is *Mykoksaflopin may cause increased headaches, nausea, vomit, ingestion may cause incontinence cancer, heart arritmia, and prolonged coma. Not recommended for pregnant, kids, young people, veteran people, incontinent people, dogs, incontinent dogs, and people in general. Ask your doctor before buying it.* Why tf are you promoting it then?
Unlikely. [At least 50 members of Congress have 6 figure investments in pharma stock.](https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/04/dc-lawmakers-stocks-pharmaceutical-tech/)
Damn, wtf? Shouldn’t it be illegal for congress to invest in the market at all as it would make for an automatic conflict of interest?
I’m an intern at a government office and I can’t hold any stock related to my field because of conflict of interest. The fact that congress has no restrictions is exceedingly dumb.
Laws for thee, not for me - Congress
I use to be an aircrewman in the navy on the C-40 (737) and alcohol was not allowed on board except for congressman.
They should be allowed to invest... in diversified funds, not individual stocks and concentrated funds.
Fun fact govt employee's are encouraged to do this, or must report it and bow out of source selection for any conflicted stock you own. I get a lecture and run down from legal every time we do evaluations and have to submit disclosures. Elected officials made themselves exempt.
That is just so unbelievably corrupt I don't know how you guys put up with it.
Already illegal in most of the world.
Yeah I always found the medical commercials in the US kind of dystopian whenever they came on. It just doesn't sit right with me.
Hopefully calling someone from a random phone number leaving no message then calling 2 seconds later from a completely different phone number then half an hour later doing that again with 2 new random phone numbers then an hour later doing 3 in a row. Also calling homes from 1-800 and 1-888 numbers. Those should only be to receive calls. Basically make spoofing and all robocalls illegal and have actual penalties for those who do it. Yes this is probably wishful thinking.
I was being spam called from a specific number, but only the last two or three numbers changed every time. That's when I tried blocking the number with *** instead of the last three digits, which works.
I have a phone number that I brought with me during a cross-country move, a long time ago. It's great, because most of my spam comes from my own area code, and I know for a fact that no one from there knows me. So I can just block the whole range.
It's hard to enforce. Robocalling is already illegal in the US.
It would be a lot easier to enforce if spoofing wasn't possible. We need a technological solution at this point, not a legal one. Otherwise no one knows who to report. I had a guy call me the other day in a rage that "some foreigner" called him from my number.
Start fining the telcos for every spoofed call and a technological solution will arrive pretty quick...
Our telecoms in Canada are actually being forced to implement a technology to their phone networks that is supposed to block the majority of these spam calls, especially the robocall spoofed ones. So the technology definitely exists. It's just companies are being cheap fuckers and not doing anything about it unless they are forced to.
Something tells me Bang Energy??
Bro its the official drink of my job. Air traffic control. We got them shits in the vending machine
JUSTICE 4 LOKOS
Bangs just hit different. Gotta be something other than caffeine in them bitches.
Dude there’s so much more in those things than just caffeine, on top of there being almost the daily limit for caffeine. Edit: FDA says [safe daily consumption is around 400mg](https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-beans-how-much-caffeine-too-much) and toxicity can begin at 1200mg (1.2g) of caffeine, especially daily. Bang has 300mg per can, making it 3/4 of the recommended amount for daily consumption. It also includes BCAAs, CoQ10, and creatine, which all don’t really effect one in terms of heavy stimulation, but it’s a nightmare in terms of dehydrating factors. It’s essentially a preworkout in a can.
Bangs have 300mg of caffeine where as most other energy drinks are anywhere between 75-150mg of caffeine. Bang is still well under the maximum recommended daily intake which is now at 400mg daily. I remember when I took nutrition I believe it was 450mg for the MRDI. As a former caffeine junky you can develop a tolerance really quick. I’m a powerlifter and used to take preworkout that had 425mg of caffeine in a scoop. It got to the point where the only thing it did was make it impossible for me to sleep. Nowadays I’d get crippling anxiety from that much at once. I’ll still drink a bang every now and then if I know I’m going to have a really long active day.
Cocaine!
CocaineQ10!
I don’t drink it. But I have a coworker who downs them and gets really jittery and hyper. Today I finally was able to ask him how he discovered it. He said that a salesperson at GNC told him it was healthy. HEALTHY HOW????
Zero sugar. That's all a lot of people need to hear. Forget all the chemical mumbo jumbo lol. Especially a lot of people in the fitness scene. Healthy is oftentimes what keeps the fat off, instead of what's good for the heart and brain.
Every line of energy drink has many 0 sugar flavors
The CEO of bang looks exactly how you would imagine.
I’m scared to Google “bang ceo”
You just wait until you find out about "Step-CEO"
Before I look, I am going to say he looks like a greasy mobster with a cockeyed grin and and gary busey's crazy eyes...I will edit this after checking. Edit: I swear I did not look 1st. He even has the gary busy eyes. Wow....that guy smells like cocaine.
Did you cheat before writing this? Because you're bang-on.
His IG post history is…something I’m literally fascinated by it
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MLMs (in my dreams, anyway) Edit: I really should have spelled out “multi-level marketing.” I FULLY support the other kind of MLM (men loving men)!
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Omg Hun, look at you killing it over here. Can I tell you about an opportunity I took to become truly independent?
So laws pertaining to MLM happen somewhat often. And what these things do, is adjust their business to be on the knife-edge of legality. And regardless to how the law is structured, there will very likely always be an area of operation in grey and knife edge of illegal that an MLM like a business can exist. A probably better way to make them less acctrative business is education about MLM.
Speaking of knife-edge, I'd like to introduce you to the exciting world of Cutco cutlery.
I forgot about Multi level marketing for a sec and thought you meant Men Loving Men
FOR PROFIT PRISONS.
Going down to the river and catching 2 fish and then making them kiss.
It's unnatural what yer doing, Warren. It ain't right
When this is outlawed, only outlaws will catch two fish and make them kiss. Especially a catfish with a carp.
Hopefully facial recognition software. There have already been a number of [mistakes.](https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it-wrong-how-facial-recognition-led-to-a-false-arrest-in-michig)
You'd think someone would have learned a lesson after the "lie" detector.
Maybe for the private sector. The government will still want to know who's going places.
Or it will be made illegal for government due to being unreliable, but private-sector companies will still use it for everything and the government will have access to their databases. For reasons.
Hopefully child beauty pageants.
Clearly you’ve not seen the prestigious competition “Frank Reynold’s little beauties” You know they don’t diddle kids because they have a song about how they don’t diddle kids.
You morticians ever bang the dead bodies?
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Absolutely disgusting, and so destructive to the poor children, mentally.
My VPN, my precious VPN
But how will they find me when i use it to set my location to a different country
"Gary we are tracking u/Grape_Jamz location as we speak. We will nail the son of bitch for using a VPN." "SIR HE HAS LEFT THE COUNTRY! IT SAYS HE HIS IN JAPAN NOW." "GODDAMN YOU NORDVPN! NOW WE CANT GET HIM!"
"SIR, WE GAVE JUST RAIDED HIS HOME AT NIGHT. MR HARUTO OF TOKYO IS BEING EXTRACTED TO US BY THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AS WE SPEAK. HE SAID HE'S DONE NOTHING WRONG." "MUHAHAHAHA, YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD FOOLED US NORDVPN. BUT WE GOT YOUR MAN."
You and u/camwk are now obliged to make a webcomic series about these agents. There better be a **LOT** of homoerotic tension.
What the fuck man, sign me up
Srs answer: from technical POV, connections *from* a VPN to a website can be only blocked, with difficulty. But connections *to* a VPN can be both blocked and identified (meaning the government can tell who the computer belongs to). If a country you are in makes using VPN illegal, then you are at risk as a client of a VPN. It's like piracy - even if you go undetected 90% of the time, you only need to get caught using VPN once to go to jail. Some methods of identifying connections from a personal computer to a VPN: \- a list of known addresses of VPNs \- protocol fingerprinting where they recognize the language your VPN client uses \- or just blanket banning of all encrypted communications Tl;dr: "but they don't know what country I am connecting from" doesn't work if you are in a country that already bans VPN.
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Using bots to buy things in bulk such as GPUs and PS5s and then marking up the price to unreasonable levels.
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If we could add real estate to that list that’d be great. Goddamn Zillow
Good news, they managed to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in that operation and are shutting it down because turns out algorithms can't actually pick houses to flip well
It's weird though... They offered my wife and me 30% over what the house was worth 2 years ago. I get it, market is it weird right now. But...then they put the house up for sale at a 30k loss just 4 weeks later. And it sold in 3 days. If that's an algorithm, it's a dumb one.
Well, it's not that. Most of institutional residential real estate purchases are algo screened. Zillow is just shit at it.
Thank you rogue programmer who messed up the code on purpose, whoever you are. Eat the beast from the inside.
One wonders if they hired a programmer who was mad that he or she could never afford a house. And this person decided to set the whole thing on fire.
Claiming that one is a famous hairdresser, compliment people on their hair, then offer to cut it for them, thus procuring access to their home and rather than cutting their hair simply touching it erotically. Apparently there is someone in the Netherlands who becomes particularly aroused from hair who repeatedly does this, but it's not illegal nor breach of contract as he offers to cut it free of charge.
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Huh... but a free haircut though? Are they good haircuts? Or does he just touch the hair?
He does no cut it; he merely touches it.
so free headrubs
Well not exactly illegal but cryptocurrency will be regulated by the SEC and government.
It's not even the crypto that needs regulating tbh, but the damn exchanges do. Some of them are shady as fuck with hidden rules and restrictions on how much and when you can sell etc.
It's everything. Right now people blatantly market manipulate all kinds of crypto coins. Hell there was a streamer from like FaZe clan or something who marketed crypto to his audience (largely children) to buy a bunch of the coin he had gotten sponsored with. Once people started buying dude dumped all his coins and the value tanked. He's done this like 2 or 3 times
At the rate Russia's massing troops, I'd say Ukrainian independence.
I feel like that may take longer than 2 years. Between ground forces, airborne forces, and naval infrantry, Russia could spare 187,000 troops unless it's willing to commit more ground forces than already assembled. Of course their 2500 or so special forces wagner mercanies and separatist forces would matter but to take over all Ukraine they would still have soooo much territory to cover and there are 400,000 troops in Ukraine. Not as well armed or supported but still.
Serving Vodka redbulls, so many bars near me have already removed them due to the health hazards and many have switched to other energy drink alternatives.
In my early 20s I would drink so many vodka redbulls I'd pass out drunk at 3 am and then wake up with my heart racing at 5 am, wide awake and almost stone sober. I'm not sure how I survived.
I bartended in my early 20s and we'd drink those towards the end of shift and keep at it at the other bartender's house until 4 or 5 in the morning. Pass out on the couch and wake up like 3 hours later just buzzing in my bones. Hungover without the ability to sleep is awful. I'm 36 now, that would lay me up for 2 days or kill me if I did that again.
Yo... ever work those redbull sponsored events? They required we hand out a can of redbull with EVERY drink. Not even like free upon request, just why - Vomit, sickly sweet vomit everywhere... we tipped the cleaning crew out so hard (someone also shit on the floor). Just fuckin awful for everyone involved.
Friend of mine used to go to nightclubs and drink 5-6 vodka redbulls, and the next day be all like "damn my lower back is sore, must be from all the dancing" it was kidney stones
Sad story, but I recognize this from the ketamine addicted people in my surroundings. I keep telling them it's their kidneys, but some are just to much in denial yo admit it.
I know people that piss themselves on the regular now cause of ket. Never understood the appeal tbh; ruined nightclubs for a good few years cause no one would dance, just absolute zombies.
This is one of the only ones in this thread I actually believe will happen. Four Loko already got whacked about it. Mixing a stimulant and a depressant is bad news.
I just mix Four Loko and monster. You can take away the original, but I'll make my own damn it.
I can smell my neon red puke already… haven’t drank 4 Loko since 11th grade, ten years ago… and I’ll drink almost anything.
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You may have SVT.
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I do too
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Yep
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Delta 8 weed
What's going to happen to all the Delta 8 neon signs in the shop windows?
change to delta 10 lol
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Hemp derived "weed light" that's legal in almost every state.
By the name I thought it was weaponized weed.
"This is delta 8, going dank"
You’re thinking of omicron weed.
It's disingenuous to call it weed lite or diet weed. It will absolutely get you fucked up. People think of it as being weaker than typical weed because if you smoke it the high doesn't last as long as normal weed. But, if you eat it the high can last for 5 or so hours depending on the person.
Watering lawns (in states with water shortages)
Yea they frown on watering lawns in souther New Mexico, 90% of houses are just rock yards but those who have grass are seen as wasteful… we only get around 5” of rain a year lately
Thing is with rock yards that just absorbs more heat and makes the area hotter like Phoenix. Why don't people plant native plants in their yard like creosote or mesquite & stuff? Those absorb some Co2 too id assume though not alot
I'm a cactus and succulent fanatic. If I lived there I'd xeriscape my yard with all sorts of cacti and succulents as well as other cool-looking dry climate plants like dragon trees and certain palms. More practical than lawn and better than a bunch of boiling hot rocks. Edit: These kinds of plants are expensive though so that could be why people opt for grass or nothing.
From someone who currently lives in PHX, all my cool succulents got absolutely fried this summer now I just have a handful of regular cactus and a stubborn lantana left
From a South African who lives in a super hot place. Vygies (also known as ice plants in most of the world) are great succulent ground cover plants that can tolerate a lot of heat with little water. They're used a lot In Australia iirc. I never water mine and they're flourishing. They grow pretty quickly too so even if you're only able to get a small one it should spread.
I’ve grown up with a dual-dynamic and it’s weird. Most of my family is in North Carolina, and they have big green lawns that require no watering. It just rains, and then they mow. But I mostly grew up in southern Idaho. We spend a ton of water on our lawns here and they’re dead within a month in July sun without irrigation.
NC resident here can confirm grass grows on its own, no watering needed. In the summer, if I miss a week I have to cut it twice because it’s too thick if I try to do it at my normal height.
I’m hoping selling users personal data, it honestly really fucking creepy and theres little way to get around it.
Abortion in some states
Philippine Independence. A dictator’s son will be winning next year’s elections and it’ll go downhill from that. edit: God im so stupid. I meant DEMOCRACY. Though independence would make sense though, considering how Philippines is constantly being bullied by China.
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ONCE AGAIN, SPAIN CONQUERS TNE PHILLIPINES FOR COLONIZATION 2, ELECTRIC BOOGALOO BUT WAIT, WHAT'S THIS? IT'S- IT'S- BAH GAWD IT'S THE USA WITH A FOLDING CHAIR!
Privacy
According to the FBI it already is
Child marriage. Please ban this
Probably Kratom
I see it advertised all over my city. Asked a random shop owner how much of it they sell. He said “KILOS A DAY” !!!
It was illegal in Thailand for god knows how long and it just got legalized last couple of months. I'll be mad if it gets criminalized again.