I suspect your answer to the original question was right in the sense that these two have the worst physical dependence but I believe another measure is Capture Rates where they survey users over a decade and they report the number of user still using the substance during the last survey who were using it in the first one. The highest capture rates are around 20% for H and cocaine when I saw the data last time which is worse odds than Russian Roulette!
Actually it’s quite funny, if you take a broad interpretation of sealioning that does not involve the internet, Ancient Athens sentenced Socrates to death for “sealioning” in 400BC lol.
This one I’ve always been wary of. I studied philosophy so I know a bit about arguments and sealioning is unusual because it can only really take place over the internet where someone is asking questions in bad faith and you can’t 100% call them out because you don’t know their identity for sure. Firstly I don’t like the idea that questions can be bad faith - especially seemingly trivial or obvious ones - since that goes against the Socratic method of questioning all your beliefs/shibboleths. Secondly, it is so context dependent that I think it is hard to universalise it like you can do with other fallacies like false dilemma (everyone is either a tequila or a whisky person, etc.)
Overton window appears to have shifted from a decade ago
I like negative income tax better. Basically you declare an amount that is the basic amount someone can live on, I.e. £20k and if you earn less than that your income is topped up by other tax payers. This has the advantage of high tax payers not being given a payment every month that they don’t need.
The downside of it is that means testing still requires some amount of beaurocracy. That means you’d be unable to completely axe the department of work and pensions (DWP) for example here in the UK. My understanding is that you could do universal basic income and pay everyone in the UK £1000 per month and those costs would be totally offset by no longer having to finance the DWP so it’s a budget neutral policy in terms of government spending.
Friend and I were joking about 120 Days of Sodom so I decided I should pick it up to see what the fuss was about… Huge mistake! It is more deviant than I possibly imagined a book that old being (and I was aware the first draft was written on toilet paper lol)
Democracy died under Kier Stalin /s
The other white meat
I kind of got caught out by this by attending A&E with severe uveitis. It turns out there are no eye specialist departments or referrals from A&E so it all needs to happen through private opticians. Personally did not realise opticians could do prescriptions beyond prescribing specific lens types.
My eye was so swollen that it ultimately needed atropine to unstick my pupil from the lens, in addition to steroids to fix the underlying condition.
Everyone in the comments are ignoring the tax advantages of being married. Let’s focus on the real issues, folks.
Curious about the adult figures because I’d guess they are lower but obviously can’t say anything for sure.
You’ll get cheffed up and put in a spliff if you set foot in central London
Actually as someone who does sometimes do interviews: acting like an asshole with a big ego will wreck your chances big time.
Who cares what those creeps say? Australia has harsh asylum laws and also the highest rate of approval for more immigration in the world. Labour are finally doing something right here.
Tell them I could do the interview better than them
I’ve got a couple dumb friends/colleagues too but just change the subject when they mention politics
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Yes, I experience something similar working for one of the two major gambling companies in the US. It is possible to move and get a raise; several colleagues have done so moving to Black Rock or JP Morgan which both have high barriers to entry and are more demanding of your time.
I’m based in the UK so not sure if the job market is as toxic as the US with LLM CVs and HR/TA processing of said CVs. When I did recruiting a year or so ago I found a lot of CVs that people had generated from their LinkedIn profiles and they looked terrible: do not say you are a 10X developer rockstar on your CV!
At the moment I’ve been at the company for over 2 years so that affords me a lot of rights in the UK and in a climate where there are a lot of layoffs, I’d hesitate to move. Like a few years back I was being spammed with recruiters trying to get me to join Spotify months before they axed their entire data team - if I’d gone for it I would have been totally screwed and with a mortgage I don’t feel I can take risks.
It’s a business: They want to avoid controversy and this musician is controversial.
Sucks, because he is probably right or at least not wrong in his views, but this is the society we’ve all built together.
I would have thought people who were proponents of the original formulation that said inflation is not affected by government spending - because of globalisation and China - would have egg on their face after we had >10% inflation immediately after all the covid spending.