They are stupid, but also ruthless and willing to ignore the laws they don't like.
They are also surrounded by billionaires that want them to keep it going. Look at how Larry Ellison is buying up Paramount/CBS and soon, Tiktok. They just took Kimmel off the air.
Again, I know this sounds like histrionics on my part but what is happening now is not normal -- the fact that all "old school" republicans have left the GOP and it is now literally the Party of Trump. And they have millions of cult members who are itching to use their second amendment rights against "non-Americans".
I desperately want to be wrong, and would love credible evidence that could demonstrate this.
> October 7th was a valid reaction to people violently stealing your land and killing your families.
Well the Arab states collectively stole land 5 times the size of Israel from the Mizrahi Jews they ethnically cleansed (who now make up a majority of Israeli Jews)
So by your logic the Mizrahi Jews are entitled to enact October 7 style killings on the Arab states until they pay reparations for the land they stole.
This is false and never happened. Mizrahi Jews colonized Palestine under the banner of Zionism. Despite holding a lower social position in Israel than Ashkenazis, they are still colonizers.
You can't deny history, it's well documented that Mizrahi Jews hold the deeds to lands in Arab states adding up multiple times the size of Israel.
If the Arab states think the Palestinians deserve reparations for stolen land, then obviously the Mizrahi Jews deserve multiples of those reparations.
If the Arab states think they can avoid paying reparations for the land they stole just by taking Israel by force, well they tried that several times and failed already.
This isn’t an issue for Americans (which I am) we are complicit in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. We also have a major issue with Zionist control of our government. Those are the issues we need to deal with.
Are you 100% native American living on your tribe's ancestral lands? If not by your own logic you are illegitimately occupying stolen land and have no right to live there.
If this was 1592, you might have some kind of point. I do support reparations and land back though. I'm also not actively genociding Indigenous Americans.
Israel need US protection and money. If you take that away, the settlers go home. If they don't, then yes, I'm sure the US can defeat Israel in armed conflict.
I think Americans are done hearing about Zionist invented fictional scenarios. The reality is that Palestine has been ethnically cleansed by Zionists. The other reality is that young Americans see Israel as our enemy, so there will be no support in the near future.
Returning Palestinian land to Palestinians isn’t “ethnic cleansing”. It’s righting a brutal crime against humanity. It’s 100% on Zionists for creating this situation.
This is all on the Zionists to resolve. They created this situation and owe it to the world to clean it up. I don’t see anything wrong with Europe taking in the Zionists. It’s literally the birthplace of Zionism.
And what is your proposal for those with no other country of origin - either because they were born in Israel, were ethnically cleansed by their previous country, or their previous country no longer exists?
Exactly. Israel isn't exactly the nicest country but they're a porcupine. You leave them alone, they leave you alone. You keep poking them, you get hammered.
And, yes, the settlers are not a good thing--but the problem exists because the government knows they are not the actual cause of the problem, Israel would gain nothing from curtailing them. And note that the violence is wildly misreported, much of it is defensive in nature (look at how often you see one person get shot who is facing the settlers when supposedly they were fleeing--awfully hard to shoot a fleeing person in the front) and plenty of it is purely fake.
Very interesting conclusion directly from the human study you linked: "Marijuana use is correlated with lower BMI. As legalization and prevalence of the drug in the U.S. increases, the prevalence of obesity may decline. However, clinicians should view this outcome along with the known health risks associated with marijuana use."
feeling like i need to throw my anecadata on here. i used cannabis daily and went from a BMI of 34 to 26. Turns out I like getting stoned on the exercise bike and just tracking my diet for a month pointed out a few big, easy wins that I took in order to get my daily calories below maintenance.
I wonder if this is skewed by the states where marijuana was legal/more accessible during that time window. Colorado was the first state to legalize it and is also the state with the lowest BMI.
It has to be said that Colorado is a state known for outdoors culture and people are naturally more inclined to be physically active with more exuberant nature outings nearby.
Depending on the level of pedantry you want you could argue for either. Washington's measure went into effect first, on Dec 1st, 2013 while Colorado's went into effect on Jan 1st, 2014. Colorado opened retail shops that same day though while the first shops didn't open until July 2014 in Washington and they had a lot of initial issues around licensing leading to slower expansion.
Sure, but in reference to the comment "because of the time difference" it seems pretty obvious he was referring to time zones, not the dates the laws took effect.
I don't know why this isn't talked about that often, but a lot of people who smoke weed end up needing to smoke weed to be able to eat. Which probably is part of the thing that leads to reduced BMI.
> I don't know why this isn't talked about that often, but a lot of people who smoke weed end up needing to smoke weed to be able to eat.
As someone with a pretty drug-friendly friend group… I’m surprised to hear that happens ‘a lot’ because I have never heard of that, or experienced it myself.
In my experience, you eat food because it tastes good - and while being stoned might make some foods more satisfying texturally (ice cream when you have cotton mouth is rad) or lower your inhibition to try weird stuff, or to alter your perception in a way that exposes you to new avenues to appreciating familiar foods - I really can’t imagine that not transferring to being sober. Peanut butter and pickles still taste good sober, even if you develop an appreciation for them while stoned.
Are you saying a lot of people just stop experiencing hunger? Like does their stomach not growl and feel empty unless they’re high? Really having trouble thinking of what you could be describing, and squaring jt with what I know.
It's a pretty common mechanism in humans to replace one craving with another. AA (e.g.) doesn't necessarily care if you have a two pack a day smoking addiction -- that's not what they're "optimizing" for.
> Are you saying a lot of people just stop experiencing hunger? Like does their stomach not growl and feel empty unless they’re high?
I think maybe a better way is to understand what the best solutions are. Right now it seems to be replacing one craving with another. People who stop cigarette smoking often gain weight -- that's been well documented for decades now. Knowing that, is type 2 diabetes better or worse than smoking and risking lung cancer?
People who run get a lot of endorphins from the exercise. People who haven't run and start running get a lot of pain from it at first. Maybe after a few months they get endorphins.
GLP-1 agonists (wegovy, zepbound) do reduce food cravings, but they also are being studied for alcoholism. I've heard it could affect gambling addiction as well. The real question is, why would a GLP-1 agonist affect a gambling addiction at all?
Are they drug friendly, or are they stoners? In my experience it's not so much needing to be high to eat as it is the craving to get high outweighs that for food, then when you get high you forget to eat. Then when it begins to wear off all the hunger hits you and you eat a whole pizza and a bag of Doritos right before falling asleep.
When the first thing on your mind when you wake up is smoking weed and that's your primary activity throughout the day, food just becomes secondary, so the idea of eating without smoking first is just not realistic.
Yeah in my experience real heavy users of weed don't get munchies anymore and actually just smoke instead of eat pretty frequently. Eating kinda kills your high.
My personal hypothesis, is that cravings (drug, sugar, food, sex, alcohol, socializing, etc) fill a need for stimulation. Most people get that through maybe watching sports, reading books, or if you can, mental stimulation (math, science, programming, 3d printing, juggling, etc). Or maybe some combination of all of them. If you didn't have very many friends growing up, it felt agonizing with a deep desire to fit in -- that was the "social" craving kicking in early in life.
Some of those cravings exist to extend life and to help the species multiply. Some of them were artificial (drugs, alcohol, gambling, computer gaming).
GLP-1 agonists (wegovy, zepbound) are prescribed for certain addictions other than obesity. This shows that we don't understand addiction at all.
My wife is, in clinical terms, morbidly obese and, since the pandemic, has become more and more reliant on weed to cope with stress.
While Wegovy hasn't helped her lose significant weight or meaningfully enough reduced her reliance on food to deal with stress (yes, she vomits a lot), she has stopped smoking weed.
She claims quitting weed has nothing to do with the Wegovy, but before starting it, she wouldn't even acknowledge it was a problem.
> Many people might have removed alcohol intake with cannabis use, to reduce overall caloric intake.
A regular topic of conversation at college (in the 70s!) was, if you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one - demon rum or the evil weed - which would you choose ?
I actually would like to see a study about this. I am starting to think that the stereotype of lethargic potheads chilling on a couch comes mostly from portrayals in movies. Anecdotally, I encounter many people casually using cannabis while engaged in varying levels of physical activity, ranging from just hanging out in the city, to going on hikes, to outright partying or dancing late into the night. I even heard a couple folks use it as a "pre-workout" for long runs or lifting.
I'm sure it depends on the dosage, but the relationship between usage and physical activity seems to be more nuanced than is generally understood.
It's shockingly accurate. Sure people get high and do other stuff but the amount of people just sitting on couches passing weed around for hours is huge.
This poses a confirmation bias issue though, no? People obviously taking marijuana and sitting around: something you look for because of the stereotype/expectation, and relatively obvious if you’re around them. People doing activities not stereotypically associated with marijuana: less obvious.
Unless they are publicly consuming it (which I suspect is a bit rarer due to restrictions on and stigma about consumption in public), how would you count people who aren’t engaging in expected stoner behavior?
I don’t have a dog in this fight or suspected conclusion. Just seems like it might be harder than you think to truthfully assert “everyone knows most people who take pot just sit around”.
Which is interesting to me because, ironically, I use sativa strains to (very successfully) overcome ASD-related social anxiety so that I can go rock climbing in a gym. I use sedating indicas for the evening wind-down and sleep.
Could be, but from my own (and witnessing some others similar experiences) anecdotical evidence I think it's something else, more complicated.
Maybe related to the large and fast swings in blood sugar energy drinks, or other strongly sweetened sodas produce.
"The munchies" is what comes after, sometimes, but not at all necessarily. Depending on the composition of the stuff, I don't get them at all, and have to remind myself to eat and drink. Sometimes for days after.
But what if AI surpasses human skill and now you have need for 0 educated workers. Not good for human citizens...
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