“our century”, meaning the 21st century - not the last 100 years.

Same reason how you can be a woman and a catholic: Indoctrination

Every-time this is said I always think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gje3HiouzvQ

This will get repeated until it’s the year 2080 when it becomes doubtless. I still see the claim that vaping “fills your lungs with water” when VG/PG produced vapour draws moisture away, the complete opposite.

Does Russia have a foreign army in their borders? Very strange use of the word precedence there… there are also cases where countries at war have postponed elections, isn’t that precedence too? How is that relevant for Ukraine specifically?

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People will create a black market for them, but it will be really small and die out.

There’s already a black market for tobacco, and it will just grow in size not shrink. You can buy 50g for like £5 on DNMs.

Was going to ask if anyone owned a bangle.js 2, it’s on the top of my list so far but still unsure whether to pull the trigger

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Also worth pointing out the demand isn’t to dissolve the oil and gas industry over night - but to suspend all new licensing and expansion of the industry which in this case… is 1) something the UK should be doing anyway to meet their climate commitments and 2) not that radical or unreasonable

Reminds me, there was an article on the hill which blamed messaging from the scientific community to rising sea levels:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230621075834/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

Maybe if the media and journalists didn’t waste the last 30 years engaging in “is climate change real” and both-sideism. But apparently it’s the entire scientific community’s fault that they didn’t word it any better. Definitely not the publications’ fault.

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a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a society behaves