alcohol is especially hard to ban because it’s just sugar and yeast, and you can even use natural yeast if it gets banned, and you can use fruit if sugar gets banned. While with drugs some tyrannical empire might be able to ban every single lab-related equipment and chemical (and even then, you would be surprised what people can make by themselves without anything else other then natural resources, I mean that’s how we got here as a species), alcohol is such a simple recipe that it’s just plain impossible to regulate effectively, and the current way of having it cheap enough that people don’t brew their own but expensive enough that the 99% of the population doesn’t turn into alcoholics is good enough

Isn’t the hospital and medics the one who cares for suicidal people?

not in America, where hospitals aren’t free and a call to the suicide hotline will have the cops going to your house

I say ‘calculated’ above because maybe this is the very situation they wanted to create so they could point to the mess and sway the public to look at vapers like disgusting pigs in order to pass even harsher laws.

good. quit smoking for fucks sake.

https://xkcd.com/37/

ICANN is pretty strict about this following some complications that happened back in the 90’s . No country, no country code, no domain. No matter who, no matter what.

I don’t wanna wait until the system catches up I need to hook up my laptop to the projector now, and all the cables are hdmi

the majority of those who voted, not to mention most of them are well in their 50s and probably already married

I was sad once and then I realized that I cannot control my emotions and was forced to remain sad

FOMO is a bad beast

corporations use ice to give less of the drink, and shoved it up everyone’s ass with ads everywhere, and now people just accept it without questioning cough cough frog in a boiling pot cough cough

I really hate that California dropped all new shower heads down to 1.8 gpm

never heard of this, but wow I’ll definitely keep it in mind next time I buy a shower head (which is probably never because of how much those things last, but good to know anyways)

Everyone’s thinking it, I’m just saying it

stop with the fucking drugs already

so I actually tried it last night and it came out a bit too mushy for my liking, is that how it’s supposed to be or do you do something to it to make it more like regular pancakes in consistency?

What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?

Matrix is more like discord, no phone numbers, just email, and you can make big groups with different channels within. More meant for communities then something like Signal, that’s mostly for 1:1 conversation or small groups

What advantage would it give me over other services? Keeping the discord example i said above, no tracking, possibility to have end to end encryption, and open source code, along with the ability of having different instances that can communicate to each other, just like here on lemmy, so if you don’t trust anyone else you can run your own instance

Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that’s still fully in development?

It’s mostly good already, but as with many other privacy focused services it lacks a wide adoption, so most of the communities there are about privacy, Linux and that type of stuff.

How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?

The most used client, Element, is IMO very easy to use, you can directly register through there, and you get the choice of choosing between the official matrix.org instance (which on certain occasions is laggy due to the many people using it), or other instances

you absolute moron genius, as a fellow ketchup enjoyer I need to try this, what type of bread do you use?

“The probability of having a bomb on a plane is very low, and the probability of having two bombs on the same plane is virtually zero.”

I have next to no experience but from the few times I went on those planes I can say the G forces are much more then you expect. It’s not just “oh cool I feel lighter”, it’s " oh god I’m falling to my inevitable death"

although you gotta admit it’s gonna be funny seeing “Google Reactor” on killedbygoogle.com

I see you’ve removed your link, but before it was linking to a scam stream

either that or they keep some of them to make them reproduce