Completely agree, in for a dime in for a dollar. The reality is legalizing drugs is a politically untenable platform to get elected on because economic realities like supply and demand play no role in the deeply entrenched moral prejudice that is so prevalent in the (often older) voting population.
I don't mean to be offensive or ageist and I'm sure lots of older people have been touched both directly and indirectly by drug abuse, my experience is those that have been affected in some way have changed their long held views on drugs being a criminal issue as opposed to a medical one.
Amazing. Collaborative bookmark management needed to happen.
Imagine deciding you want to learn a new skill and not having to start from square one learning the lay of the land around your newly chosen subculture but rather it's already been curated for you and you can hit the ground running with great links to various assets and communities like software tools, forums, discords and video tutorials. I love the archiving functionality too.
Your website looks great and all the information I needed was right there. Concise, informative and neat.
I think the real value here is a tool that will allow people of all kinds to aggregate relevant content and help onboard people to the communities they know, live and love.
I feel like a freemium model would allow this tool to reach a massive scale as I see awesome utility in it but I don't expect normal people would self host or pay for it even if it cost 10 cents. It's just too much inertia.
I feel so dirty telling you how to charge for your own product.
Pagerank and SEO killed search. What you have here sounds a hell of a lot better.
This seems like more than just an alarm clock with NTP; it's got weather and stuff.
Sorry for self promotion, but If you want an alarm clock with NTP and iCal, you might take a look at my project. https://github.com/russor/ClockThing I'll try to get some pictures up soon.
Indeed TimeChief is a Smart Clock with rich features planning a closed beta early next year followed by open beta. Currently:
* 90s aesthetic theme
* Configuration GUI
* Weather integration
* Google calendar integration
* Retro sound synthesis
Planned
* More aesthetic themes
* More sensors
* More calendar integrations
* More data displays (weather maps)
About USB charging ports etc. This seems like a bit basic. I think everyone is saturated with options to charge things. These suggestions should be remixed to make them more interesting.
Yeah, it's gotten so bad that I'm starting to seriously contemplate rolling my own web crawler and indexer.
The logical side of me says that's going to be way too much work to manage on my own. But it's hard to shut down the nagging feeling that pops up every time Google chooses to disregard a "+" or double-quotes around a word. That feeling of "would it really be that hard to toss a bunch of site data into an ELK stack and implement a primitive PageRank-ish score on sites? Hmmmm..."
Maybe just a YouTube indexer (whose search has also gone to complete garbage these last few years). Though, that would have the disadvantage of not being justifiable via eventually helping to make me more productive.
Crawl the internet archive Wayback machine slowly. Once you have built your index, you can fill your corpus gaps with public crawls. Patron services can advise to be helpful without causing stress on their infra.
Prohibition will lead to abuse of other drugs and empower local criminal elements.
Inhalants, petrol, glue, nitrous oxide. Whatever is available.
There are no opportunities in these places, people get fucked up to make life more bearable.
If you've never seen a remote town in outback Australia before, the film Cunnamulla (2000) is a pretty accurate representation. Might be a little dated but not much has changed.
The health of these communities is at serious risk when you force them in to using unregulated black market narcotics and cleaning products to get high.
>The health of these communities is at serious risk when you force them in to using unregulated black market narcotics and cleaning products to get high.
In which case, all "drugs" should be legal, with safety/dosing standards and regulation.
That removes the violence inherent in a black market and reduces negative health outcomes (overdoses, etc.).
There are many other reasons (both economic and societal) for full legalization of all "drugs" as well.
> all "drugs" should be legal, with safety/dosing standards and regulation.
i don't think 1 or 2 beers per day would be better than none. i think everyone would get their 2 beers even if they don't drink. so they can give them to others or use them for currency.
How I read safety/dosing would be standardized weight/volume/concentration of the drug and not the idea of prohibiting sales over a certain amount per person per day. Which as you say would just turn in to a secondary market.
>How I read safety/dosing would be standardized weight/volume/concentration of the drug and not the idea of prohibiting sales over a certain amount per person per day. Which as you say would just turn in to a secondary market.
Exactly.
The idea isn't to limit access or consumption, but rather (as totalconfusion correctly noted) to ensure quality and dosage standards (as the US already does for prescription drugs as well as all the US states with legalized cannabis), as well as ingredient lists and other disclosures.
The specific regulations might vary (e.g., dosage accuracy/precision would likely be significantly more stringent for fentanyl than for cannabis).
My apologies for not being as clear about that as I could have been. I hope I've done better this time.
>Inhalants, petrol, glue, nitrous oxide. Whatever is available.
Relevant:
TIL that "petrol sniffing" to get high is a big problem among Australian aborigines. Opal, a special gasoline, is sold in aborigine areas to discourage sniffing; although it requires a government subsidy, doing so saves money compared to the cost of treating petrol sniffing. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6mtqb9/til_th...>
Never read anything quite like it since