And Poles are all stupid and Irish are all drunks, right?

I mean, it’s just other magic.

I feel this is payback for the opium.

Not making excuses, but gross profit doesn’t account for a bunch of other business expenses. Yearly net profit is more like $30B. That makes the fine ~4%.

The profits are still criminally high and the fine is criminally low, but it should be compared to net.

No, no: this is the payola.

588-2300

Get ready to make some really difficult decisions. There is no neutrality in a dictatorship. When shit goes completely sideways, it’s going to happen suddenly.

History will ask “How could they have not seen this coming? Why wasn’t this prevented?”

904.68 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

(It’s 494.56, at an average speed of 2.58 football fields per mooch.)

How many football fields is that?

Probably heroin.

I’m old. I do not understand the modern fashion of “appear completely naked at least from the waist down”.

But I don’t fucking say it like that.

You’re incredibly intelligent.

You live for two years.

I think that if you’re Speaker and you’re not actively against it being broadcast, you should be forced to watch it.

The other part of drugs being illegal is that addicted users may resort to crime in order to continue the habit. Decriminalization or legalization makes those drugs less expensive (ideally), which means less incentive to commit adjacent crimes.

That reminds me of “A man with no socks is like a man who has no socks.”

Not that that’s a bad idea, but it’s not going to take care of the transphobe shit.

Mmm it was mid flip. Don’t forget that Republicans railed against Social Security that FDR was proposing.

Only because of Upton Sinclair.

So you also remember how fast rumors and gossip would spread without technology. It’s a thousand times worse now. As a parent, I’d be happy to play the bad guy if my kid thinks that’s the best choice in their social dynamic. They know better than I do what kind of risk of social backlash there might be.

It’s hard to be a kid. Anything that I can do to give them a leg up is okay. I should also mention that that kind of bad guy ploy is only part of it. Talking about situations before and after is a much bigger part.