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I do get that sense coming from your posts towards me, but I promise not to hold it against you. We all have bad days sometimes. You misspelled “broken”

You’re forgetting economies of scale. It’s not the individual case of a sore loser who refuses to simply wear a nicotine patch or chew some gum during the weekend of their UK visit that matters here. I’m sure all 3 of them feel quite righteous and smug in their refusal to visit UK due to cigarette costs and policies, but they’re not even a nanoblip on the annual financial radar relative to the additive benefits to their economy from removing additional carcinogens from the air over the entire whole country and inhaled by all her subjects.

Which is likely a marginally tiny amount relative to the annual savings they’re now realizing on the NHS side of the ledger… the side where they’re spending millions upon millions on the treatment of conditions exacerbated by first and second hand smoking, and where these negative effects are also nearly always cumulative.

Looks like homework (as I already stated elsewhere when this exact same post was submitted there)

Incorporate walking into your day. It does amazing things for our minds. Also, the world is weird right now and humans are experiencing rather persistent traumas together. You’re not the only one seeking emotional comfort and escapism as a path to reaching it. In other words, be kind and patient with yourself. Kicking yourself when you’re down won’t help you to stand back up any faster.

Totally agree. What’s that have to do with religion? Other sources of social mores were clearly present and contributing to all that. Why lay the wreath of victory squarely at the feet of theistic religion? Again, we’re in violent agreement. I can’t stop people from believing in stupid fictions, but will defend like Voltaire their right to live life in such a foolish misplaced trust kinda way. Yeah. Thank goodness their prohibition nonsense got reversed, for example. Christmas with the extended family would be hard if being sober for amorphous religious reasons were mandated for all. Like in Qatar, for example (but even there the wealthy have ways of cheating).

And before religion, tribal cultures, mores, and triggers for ostracization from groups did the same thing. Religion borrowed from existing neural and social structures already long ago in place, one’s long before imposed, and ones which arguably apply also to non-human animals, ant colonies, bee hives, schools of fish, bacteria, and maybe even the rules of combination within chemistry itself. Basically: So what? Religion taking credit for something seen throughout the world and throughout the entire entire animal kingdom doesn’t mean said credit was earned nor was ever even warranted. The deference so many expect others offer to religion is IMO too often undue.

Have you considered shock collars?

Who defines right/ethical, and how is it measured? Is there a scoring system? No, because training ensures awareness, not compliance nor adherence.

Metal sucks in this weather. Tool use is painful Merry Christmas, StringJunky and all other readers

That’s bananas! I’ve had hair freeze a bit from being slightly damp but nothing like that

Lol. I feel ya. I really do.

Thankfully, mathematicians and physicists are well known for working with just the gist of things based upon intuition. * * The philosopher and pub located speculator were too far off to the left to get depicted on the spectrum

Maybe if you eat right and exercise

Lol. Frosty had no carrot! They rode that poor eunuch hard and put him away wet. We’ll be that cold tomorrow night. At least when I’m clearing snow before then tomorrow morning it’ll be relatively warmer at a “feels like” temp of only -30F… -8 actual. Depends rather a lot on whether or not I’ve had coffee, how much, and how long ago ☕️

My beard hairs grow fat bulgy icicles after a few minutes out clearing snow. The humidity in my exhaled breath is enough to make me look like I just had a juicy make-out session with Frosty’s crystally curvy wife. ⛄️❄️ #The air shouldn’t make my face hurt

It’s tribal. Cannot be allowed to challenge or contradict their worldview or ideology, regardless of how fictional the narratives have become.

The bigger issue is expansion of the water as it heats, and yes. The experts who’ve been studying this are accounting for variables like these in their models. https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/water-cycle-climate-change

Just to be pedantic, they have already been investigating regardless of what the committee did or does, including having a special master appointed so as to minimize the risk of it being viewed as partisan (not that it will matter to the “I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any” supporters)

You’re broken, bot. Go away.

No. I’ll do what I want. Keep your childish fairy tales to yourself you deluded fool. lol. Too over the top?

This is an excellent point and seems more efficient than my idea. Perhaps that bit of extra friction added by the requirement for private coverage could, however, be enough of an extra nudge tans lead to measurably better results (though likely not results as good as the outright ban after X age which was implemented)

The software here is configurable, not customizable. Not all ideas are able to be configured within the UI

I think they should allow sales on the condition that the smoker pay for extra private insurance on top of the national healthcare guaranteed to all citizens and paid for with tax dollars.

We used to have this here and seeing who neg repped you led to an epidemic of retaliatory neg reps back. The anonymity helps prevent tensions from snowballing.