There’s a strong cultural aversion in China to drugs in general (in large part due to the trauma of the Opium Wars) that need to be overcome for cannabis to be accepted, and there are signs that some progress is being made albiet very very slowly. But like you said it’s indeed a contradiction that alcohol and tobacco is much more normalized. I think a lot of the heavy handed drug enforcement in China is conflated to be due to socialism, but IMO it’s more due to culture and the socialist government, as any government should, conforms to the will of the majority on this issue. So the majority opinion/culture needs to shift first, kind of like the path toward legalization in Canada was in response to a similar cultural shift in its population. Am Chinese but don’t live in China so this is second hand information though.

Man they never stop trying to shoehorn caffeine in with liquor do they? Even when every doctor says it’s one of the worst things you can do besides drinking at all.

That makes sense. But still, tons of countries criminalize hemp as a material even with negligible THC levels. Which is bullshit even if you think recreational cannabis is bad.

Damn that’s some high praise.

Also, which is it libs? Did the USSR have a war on drugs a million times worse than the US where even touching a weed leaf got you the death penalty or was cannabis so normalized the government literally gave awards to producers? I’ve mostly heard the former in countries like Canada along the lines of “we never would have legalised weed if we were socialist! You’d be dead or in a gulag right now, stoner commie!”

Don’t want carbonated alcoholic drinks spraying on the books and dissolving the ink I guess? IDK that’s the only vaguely logical explanation I could come up with.

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Engineering spirit >>>> enterpreneurship spirit. I prefer to put all my energy into solving problems for the masses as the end goal, not maximize profit for the few as the end goal with solving problems almost as a side effect. Nothing suppresses engineering spirit more than enterpreneurship spirit. The amount of times complete, sustainable solutions get shot down by enterpreneurs in favour of partial, temporary solutions designed to manufacture dependency on the business is disgusting.

OK but the whole point of math is once a proof is articulated, it is trivial to verify its correctness. It could have come from the devil himself but if it checks out, it’s as valid as any other.

Whether the AI is “actually thinking” is irrelevant. We’re thinking, and we can verify proofs objectively. People say AI art isn’t real art and there are definitely arguments for that, but saying AI math isn’t real math is kind of ridiculous.

Yes, because the white investor of all people is the one we should be feeling bad for. Sure.

Y’all get paid enough to survive?

e.g. blind

Why? Is looking at the damn thing before you pay money on manufacturing that hard?

This baffles me about vibe coders too. You’re already saving a lot of time just look at the damn code and see if there’s any glaring mistakes.

Why are we treating AI assistance like it’s all or nothing? Why can’t we just have it help a little and still use our own skills?

Because it’s the only Canadian region with decent rail transit /s

Gonna guess they chose him knowing he’s the liberal’s darling and would trigger you.

That would be too good a death for any US president ever.

Also how do you make a pile of liquid?

All attempts to discover how the universe works benefits us. Even a lot of really esoteric stuff has proven useful in fields like medicine and civil engineering.

Honestly if we can pivot our high tech innovation efforts from being mainly driven by military needs to being driven by basic research (basic in this case meaning researching the natural world directly without any particular goal other than learning), we’d be a lot better off.

Central park used to be an “”“urban blighted”“” black community that was destroyed IIRC. Really unsavory stuff.

Why would he agree to having a movie made of him? Now everyone knows it’s a dream if you see him so it doesn’t matter. Is he stupid?

Why would I not like PCM? How else are you going to sample your audio? /s

Someone IRL asks my opinion on some politicical issue, I pretend to not be in the know to get them to drop it, and they take it upon themselves to “educate” me on it.

Last time this happened was about recent trends in Indian immigration to Canada. You can probably guess which side they were on. Also, they’re an immigrant and so am I.

What was it? Something generic about how “they’re falling into Chayna’s trap” or “wrong side of history” or worse?