In the EU or at least Finland, smoking in bars was still a thing in the 2010’s almost. 2007 definitely I was dancing and smoking a cigarette on the dancer floor of a club. Then 2007 they had go get non-smoking sides as well. And then the smoking rooms came in for some years, but you weren’t allowed in with a drink. (And you couldn’t get special dispensation, even for a bar which sold cigars as their thing, nope, can’t have your drink with you in the smoking room.) Idk how long ago the last tobacco rooms got banned as well.

But yeah in the 90’s it was fkin everywhere, not just in nightclubs and bars.

All cars were pretty much smoking as well. Any car from the 90’s definitely has a cigarette lighter and an ashtray. My -06 Huyndai still has an ashtray.

High times top strains 1977.

Led lights have done amazing shit for weed growers. Granted the 90’s already had good buds despite people having to use HPS lamps ans whatnot but LED has still been awesome for homegrowing, especially in countries where you can’t grow outside. Also autoflowers just came in like early 00’s. Well they technically existed in the 90’s but first successful commercial strain was Lowryder in 2002. (That shit was good smoke too, very creative high.)

“one of”

The law where I live pretty much says you have to accept all the most common forms of payment. Or used to, but after covid they’ve used hygiene as a reason to save on the costs of cash.

Yeah electronic is usually much easier, but unfortunately I have quite a few things which I need and/or get cash from. Which isn’t ideal, but since not doing it would mean worse things, I do do it, while waiting for my society to improve.

But Visa Electron doesn’t do all those things perfectly, btw. Better today, but I remember having overdrawn my account a bunch of times as a youth, because when I was broke I’d shop at small stores I knew that their machine didn’t properly verify funds before placing a pending purchase, even when it was supposed to not be able to do that.

Also I don’t have to pay fees to my banks or ATM’s here, not yet at least. Forex is pushing ATMs here though, with lots of ATM’s for foreign currency. Who is enough of a dipshit to use an ATM for foreign currency in their home country before going on a trip? Scams, the lot of them.

Here’s more from Janek on Honest Guides

I never mentioned anything about a spice road, so either that’s shitty sarcasm or shitty lying.

Edit sorry just bad reading by me I read “I’ve never heard of…” instead of “I have heard of”. Apologies.

Yeah cash is different, but dirty money isn’t always cash. If you believe that then you’re probably not aware how larger scale crimes work.

I am kinda annoyed with stores being allowed to not accept cash nowadays. When I was younger and drove a taxi I always had to have my own change on me, and sometimes I was broke when going to work and couldn’t break a 50 or a hundred and I’d just have to lower the fare to a sum I was able to break. Luckily hundreds were pretty rare and not being able to break one wasn’t a big deal. But breaking a 50 was assumed and once you were somewhere 20km from the nearest atm, the only choice for me was to just lower the price. Sometimes they’d tip the difference, but more often than not I had to round down like 5-10€.

Now it’s so digital, and there is no concept of dirty money.

Dude’s never heard of crypto.

Like 80% of what drove the rise of Bitcoins value was the drugmarket, ie dirty money. I myself had more than 120 Bitcoins for a few hours. I never invested in any crypto, just to make it clear. I just went to an anonymous automat in a mall, inserted cash, wrote in a crypto wallet address, went home and purchased drugs online.

Had I been a bit smarter I prolly would’ve invested a few euros into bitcoin, but to be fair I’ve not been in a financial situation where I’ve would’ve justified waited for it to grow for 10 years. I would’ve def cashed out at a few k.

Other than that yeah I feel your comment. I remember when all the adults had proper credit cards and kids had Visa Electrons, meaning it needed verification of funds before allowing a purchase, unlike a credit card you could just charge without verification. With one of these.. Dad had one, as he had a taxi. They don’t call it a “click-clack” for nothing. Using it felt like being an actionhero and loading a shotgun.

Are coin pockets even still a thing on jeans btw?

I don’t see how one wouldn’t naturally get that, no offense. I mean, if one didn’t paticularly really ever use a keyboard and typed like gen-x or olders, with index fingers, sure.

But surely if you’re 30 and used a keyboard all your life you don’t need to look at the keyboard while typing…?

No offense. I may just be way overusing one since I was a teenager idk.

I wasn’t even being judgmental. Just curious. I basically have a personality disorder because I have a loud voice and am kinda extroverted. But I think if I were to live in like L.A. I’d be considered introverted. Maybe average for like rural Minnesota.

We 6 American college students were louder than all the 1000 Swiss in the square, by volume.

You noticed this and just kept going?

Try DMT, that should answer some questions.

My grandparents on my mom’s side became Jehovas at a later age.

Grandma used to send longwinded letters about Satan and whatnot. When I grew up a bit I started to take enjoyment in just talking to her about Christianity, but just in a way that pointed out the irrationality, as she would always hang up, mad, because she didn’t have the answers. Like just the problem of Evil, but framing it so that Satan might be evil, but God made him, so what does that make God? Things like that, can’t recall, she passed away like 10 years ago.

Conditional pacifism

Tapping into just war theory conditional pacifism represents a spectrum of positions departing from positions of absolute pacifism. One such conditional pacifism is the common pacificism, which may allow defense but is not advocating a default defensivism[10] or even interventionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism#Types

Well that was fucking easy. /thread

People who palter often believe it is less unethical than outright lying

God I hate those people (no wonder the example used is a used car salesman)

It very much depends, actually. You can totally take a photograph of a single person walking on the street. Especially if their face isn’t clearly visible, like taking a photo from behind.

It would be determined on a case by case basis. Ofc even unrecognised is wrong if you actually follow a person instead of just taking a shot of a random person for art.

How is that interesting or news to anyone, honestly?

I seriously don’t understand in what sort of police state people thought they were living in that photography is banned in general public.

Until now I assumed without checking that they obviously would be.

Why, exactly? It’s a camera. Cameras aren’t illegal. You can do illegal things with cameras, but they’re not inherently illegal.

I don’t think they were trusted. It’s just one of those “pay-to-win” things. Can’t have people not graduating from Princeton or even getting bad grades. That would mean they’d need to improve something.

So just pretend like no-one is cheating, so you can have good grades to geta nice job with. Probably in politics. Or is that Eaton?

Exactly. Sexual innuendo.

Or who here or in the audiences actually thought the protagonist was going murdered in the middle of a movie like that?

No-one.

Thinly veiled sexual innuendo. Not perhaps from the characters own perspective, but we’re not her, we’re looking at the movies as structure. Did you by the way know the rule “any announced plans never happen”. And even the audience doesn’t know they know it, they do. Like whenever a hero goes over their plan or something. Any actual promises or plans that are announced and “will happen” never do. So “I will kill yourself if you don’t stop your horny (average looking) ass from from horning after me” actually becomes more like “I won’t kill you, despite you continuing exactly like before”

And even then GoG movies still have a better female character, Nebula.