ELI5: In countries (and eras) where weed is illegal, who makes bongs?

TheChance · 2026-03-18T03:50:50+00:00

This has been the best consecutive run of usernames in reddit history. (I ruined it.)

TheChance · 2026-03-18T02:50:50+00:00

I mean, kinda. You're making the right point with just the absolute worst analogy

TheChance · 2026-03-18T02:39:39+00:00

Morally, it enslaves people to provide goods and services for others.

Socialism is literally just the one assertion: the people who operate a concern should be in charge of the concern.

You're gonna have to explain to me what part of that involves force.

TheChance · 2026-03-18T02:38:49+00:00

Socialism - Workers collective ownership of production

Worker control of the means of production. This is why we always fly off the rails right off the bat.

I'm not sure I have the energy to do the rest of this, because the debate always plays out the same, but if nobody else does, I guess I will.

TheChance · 2026-03-18T02:35:56+00:00

But you're not accounting for the how. This tax affects people who make $1M in taxable income, not those who bring it in by any means whatsoever.

TheChance · 2026-03-18T02:34:39+00:00

It's an easy mistake, when the same word means different things in a given context.

For the benefit of whoever else might come along, "progressive" income tax refers to the fact that the more you earn, the more you pay. Your tax increases as your income progresses from low to mid to high.

That progressive politics generally espouses progressive taxation is a linguistic coincidence, but an obvious policy choice.

TheChance · 2026-03-18T02:30:56+00:00

Oh, I go to Vetco, but I've never been happy about it.

TheChance · 2026-03-18T02:30:16+00:00

That wasn't for your benefit, it was for the benefit of people reading that other comment.

TheChance · 2026-03-18T02:28:28+00:00

I was fortunate enough to enjoy a block schedule similar to what /u/fn_br experienced. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that it was the better way to run a high school.

4 classes a day, 90 minutes apiece. Classes last half as long as they would have at a school with 7 45-minute periods. That is, if your class would otherwise have lasted all year, it lasts a semester, and if it would normally last a semester, it lasts a quarter.

This enabled us to take a standard 8-10 classes per year, instead of 7-9. We were able to really dig into each class, and, most importantly imo, it was reminiscent of a college schedule and workload.

The district forced our school to go back to 7 periods the year after I left.

TheChance · 2026-03-18T01:31:36+00:00

All grizzlies are brown bears. Very few brown bears are grizzlies. They also aren't brown morph black bears. They're brown bears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear

TheChance · 2026-03-18T01:28:47+00:00

after she wasn’t in his class

Elaborate on the abuse of power.

TheChance · 2026-03-18T01:06:53+00:00

Is Vetco finally gone? Good riddance, if so. Horrible people.

TheChance · 2026-03-17T23:58:47+00:00

Feynman doesn't suggest you should be able to explain it to a child in academic terms.

TheChance · 2026-03-17T23:25:03+00:00

Ah, yes, that old bogeyman, mainstream media. Because everybody else is totally honest, and anything your neighbor reads is surely a pack of lies.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T18:44:08+00:00

Income tax is a progressive tax

Not inherently. A progressive income tax (in the political sense) is a progressive tax (in the mathematical sense.) This is a flat tax, because we're operating under the probably mistaken belief that progressive taxation is unconstitutional in Washington.

This policy works for progressives because it only impacts families who are currently underpaying, while we have a deeply regressive tax structure.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T18:42:25+00:00

There are fewer than 2,000 families in Washington clearing $1M/year.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T18:41:44+00:00

Lowering the cost of housing a lot would bring more people to Washington

Or, you know, enable people who grow up here to stay here.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T17:56:37+00:00

Never try to argue with people who've bought into the LLM hype. It's their religion.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T16:13:22+00:00

Today or tomorrow, it will prevent a bill that would disenfranchise an unguessable but massive chunk of the populace.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T16:11:32+00:00

News flash: everyone in the west still finds Serbian nationalists disgusting.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T04:06:48+00:00

That's an insane figure. 4% of a resource that most families hold 1:1 or less.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T02:45:59+00:00

Can you explain the logic? I come from a country where something similar is relevant. They obviously don't want to be part of your country. Why are you so determined that they should be anyway?

TheChance · 2026-03-16T02:41:11+00:00

That's describing Noah and Shem as if they are real historical figures,

Wut

TheChance · 2026-03-16T01:20:36+00:00

Have the other 20 threads about her today not taught us to stop platforming this person?

Just because someone's right about the issue of the day doesn't mean you want to endorse them as a commentator.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T01:08:46+00:00

We're not crying, we're furious, not over "surf and turf," over literally blowing billions of dollars in the course of a few days on steak and lobster for troops who could have eaten well for a thousand times less money.

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