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writing off real dangers based on scientific journals....and you've never even travelled there....this take some special type of hubris.

what they do is let you get close and blow the powder in your face and that is enough. usually a distraction like they will get you to open a card and doing so it sprays the powder as you get close to inspect it. super scary.

man I'd be super careful being handed anything in Colombia. Scopolamine is a real danger down there.

Doesn't make sense, Roman engineers discovered steam power but it was cheaper and easier to use slaves. It's more of a problem of demand. Why would I need a loud clunky steam engine when I can hire a dozen slaves who will not only row my boat but clean, and perform whole bunch of auxillary tasks?

a deliberate ponzi enabling mechanism shouldn't even be available

I see Brave. I close tab. I don't trust them or anybody that pushes their offerings which are just crypto ponzi schemes.

The weirdest part of it all is I see censorship, gaslighting when you bring up contraception possibly having impact on fertility. All discourse around it is stopped. We can't even question it. But we do know that contraception in developed countries were pushed heavily and is it concidence that in countries that don't have access to it have unchanged birth rates?

Even without evidence of contraceptions impact on fertility, when you repeatedly disrupt a natural process such as through abortion, is it any surprise that most development countries have dwindling birth rates? Is it a surprise that a country like South Korea with high abortion rate have the lowest birth rate?

Correlation may not mean causation but the probability is high. What doesn't help is that we censor/cancel people for even mentioning that abortion/contraception have unknown impact on fertility and we are left guessing what else it could be: plastic? air pollution? marijuana? All of these have been without previous generation but what was absent then compared to today was the ready availability of contraceptives/abortion.

Women have more power and independence than anytime in history, they can have a career, they can be sexually active, they can abort their fetus or put in their body all sorts of ways to prevent pregnancy. Is it any surprise that they are now finding it difficult to conceive?

is PunkBuster safe?

or in the case of Paris, extreme tax/socialist policies/reckless immigration creating uncivil environment. Seriously, very few places I find in Europe that is attractive now, lot of places in Asia have caught up or exceed in value.

For Canadian nomads: can't one just move to Malaysia/Jersey and not pay taxes after the tax residency kicks in? Taxes are ridiculous in Canada

I wish East Asia was more proactive with digital nomads. For example, Japan is notoriously tough to get in. Korea offers visas for Korean diaspora but not much for foreigners.

My dream would be remote working in Japan but they still rely on fax machines and stupidly outdated formal procedures, it was like living in the 90s, but I loved it while I was there shortly. Many foreigners I saw were working remotely but never reported it on their "tourist" visa. I wonder if this is sustainable.

Tether will get to keep all the bitcoins and people will be holding the bags.

According to my friend, psilocybin itself is therapeutic and allows introspection, provided it is done in a safe environment.

Think they are looking for the USG to sanction them....hear me out:

what better way to never have to redeem ppl than being sanctioned? oh we are a stablecoin and we want to cash your tether to USD but unfortunately we got sanctioned ---> pass blame to USG

I can't believe they are this stupid and brazen enough to challenge the USG like this.