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  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldDo you smoke?
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    Yes it has around the same health effects if you smoke it in equal quantity. I think tobacco is a little worse because of some unique compounds or something that are generated, but ultimately smoke is pretty bad for you.

    The thing with weed is that the quantity is often way lower, so practically speaking is often not as bad.











  • It’s just that capitalism rewards the worst actions taken by the worst people.

    Um, unregulated garbage late stage capitalism sure. Maybe that’s all capitalism, because it does seem like it degenerates to that in every case. 🤷

    The only way to build a better one is by fighting for it.

    That’s exactly what democratic socialism is. It’s the fight for a better world.

    It’s funny to me that folks can easily see the flaws in “the other side” but never their own side. Like, pretty obviously communism sucks in reality (the theory is well meaning) because you “have” to go through single-party socialism first, and once people get power they’re unlikely to ever give it up, but just as obviously capitalism sucks in reality because if a business has too much money and no government is enforcing antitrust it can buy up all of the competition.

    That’s why you’re better off with a compromise. That compromise, IMO, is democratic socialism.




  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    EVs have completely killed “the car guy” to me. Like you can just buy a run-of-the-mill EV and it can easily have better overall performance characteristics, better energy efficiency, and require less maintenance than a random “sports car”.

    But hey, I guess it doesn’t go “vroom-vroom”, set off everyone’s car alarm on the street when it passes, and doesn’t function as a dead giveaway that you’re an asshole creep who is having trouble masking their psychopathy.