It’s important to evaluate the original sources in those cases. Oftentimes the “cannabis linked to bad health”-esque studies are epidemiological or sociological studies that are linking health or mental health outcomes with cannabis use - regardless of the source of the cannabis (recreational/medical/illegal etc) or the method of consumption. The studies that link certain cannabinoids (usually not cannabis as a whole flower) to assistive health outcomes are medical studies where the usage is determined and administered by medical professionals.

I used to self-medicate with cannabis and it was really bad for me. I ended up getting onto medical cannabis though a doctor and both my physical and mental health outcomes have improved, while my overall consumption has drastically decreased. I used to smoke 1-1.5g of flower a day, usually through a bong, where now I use around 3-4g of flower a month in a dry herb vaporiser as well as using a daily CBD/CBG/CBN oil. My experience is not universal and is only a single data point, but helps explain the differences between the conclusions from both types of studies, based upon what they’re actually studying.

Decent goal. Smart of you to give yourself 200,000 years to achieve it too.

It’s your land-bordered neighbour (who threatened to annex you, be it facetiously or seriously only time will tell) invading a country in your hemisphere. It’s worth knowing about. I’m Australian and I think it’s worth knowing about.

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Learning to read analogue clocks also helps provide some foundational learning for circular geometry - being able to quickly identify relevant segments of a circle and their respective fractions (5 minutes = 1/12 = 30° = π/6 rad etc.) helps build towards being able to compute circular geometric problems more easily in later years.

Yeah, the more heavily-clothed version is clearly the edited part. Her waist shrinks right down (along with the chair behind her) and the top has extremely uniform colour across it that doesn’t reflect the lighting environment accurately.

This is the exact problem I have with sitting to take a piss and, while I find it more comfortable, I’d prefer not to have to wash myself in the sink after every piss to feel clean again. Standing just cuts out the chance of getting that icy spicy porcelain all up on my wing wang.

The argument for higher wages for elected officials, when they were instituted a long time ago, was that low wages would create extra incentives for those officials to act corruptly and siphon away public money. That’s an argument that made sense at the time and genuinely held water.

What has happened over time though, is that the loosening of rules around lobbying (read:bribing); the continual massive gains of the ultra-rich to line the pockets of those officials in order to sway public policy; and the capacity for elected officials to use confidential information to engage in insider trading, has meant that those officials act corruptly, just often not in a direct “steal from the public purse” sense.

The original argument no longer holds water. If we instituted severe restrictions on lobbying and fundraising for elected officials as well as rules that prevent insider trading, I’d have no qualms with elected officials earning large sums of money. If their wage is literally the only way they can make money, they should make good money. The problem is that their wage is not the only way they make money.

I worked at a company that did this, and the retention rates were quite good against comparable businesses in the industry. They made huge savings on not having staff turnover. It’s actually just a wise business decision in addition to being the right thing to do.

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There are larger, more established correlational studies that show a link between dental health and overall physical health as well. There needs to be much more study done but preliminary evidence would suggest that preventive dental care provides for a cheaper overall health cost for a person over their lifetime.

On one occasion when an idiot was blaring music from their phone so loud the whole train carriage I was in were forced to listen to it, I queued up some metalcore and held my phone up so close that it was near his ear. He jumped, startled, and then tried to start a fight with me which was a bitch to de-escalate and prevent myself from getting punched without other passengers verbally backing me up and him eventually getting off at the next station.

Suffice to say two things: it’s not something I’ll likely do again for fear of my own safety, and the people who do this have a significant overlap with people who consider personal violence to be a warranted response when inconvenienced; i.e. they’re selfish, violent arseholes.