Canadian citizenship is a stunningly good choice

Internet Falsehood; I’m unsurprised at the lack of source.

I’ll counter your baseless claim with a contradictory one that’s at least easier to verify.

• The Lawsuit (True): In 2014, Red Bull settled a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. for ~$13 million. The lawsuit claimed the company’s marketing was deceptive because the drink doesn’t actually provide the physical or mental “boost” promised by the “Gives You Wings” slogan beyond what a cup of coffee would provide.
• The Slogan Change (False): Red Bull did not change the spelling because of the lawsuit. In fact, Red Bull had been using the stylized “wiiings” in various marketing campaigns and its logo long before the 2014 settlement.

“Lead a country” does not mean “win free and fair elections”

For Belarus, Lukashenko is the only President it ever had and super Trumpy-authoritarian. USSR broke up, he took Belarus. Since 2000 it’s basically been part of Russia (see Union State )

Kazakhstan is basically the same, except there were like 2 Presidents before the current one (Tokayev). Again, all Trumpy-authoritarian, just lording over a small economy & military instead of the world’s largest.

This is literally the breakdown of the world order.

For the love of God, Europe/Canada/Australia/Japan get a spine and CUT USA OUT!

For the love of country, will the fucking Congress IMPEACH THIS ASSHAT BEFORE HE COMPLETELY WASTES OUR INHERITANCE?!?!?

Still worth it to take the 30 seconds to click thru & use the form letter

I always like telling politicians who want my vote that I consider “faith” – belief without evidence – to be immoral. They used to take umbrage. Now in the post-truth age of Trump… some of the more progressive ones seem to start to get it.

Looks like you’re basically right. It’s much better than smoking, but not as good as fresh air. Quick summary:

Inflammatory Pathways: A 2024 study in the American Journal of Physiology found that regulated cannabis aerosol still induces transcriptomic and metabolomic changes in lung cells. It specifically affects lipid biosynthesis and oxidative stress responses, which are involved in lung repair and function.

Reduced Burden vs. Smoking: Recent human studies (e.g., UC Davis, 2025) indicate that the inflammatory markers in the breath of vapers are significantly lower than those of tobacco or marijuana smokers. Vaping appears to sit in a "middle ground"—cleaner than smoke, but more reactive than non-use.

Fine Particulates: Regulated vapes still produce PM2.5 (ultrafine particulate matter) that can penetrate deep into lung tissue, potentially triggering cardiovascular or respiratory irritation over time.

… to more closely match what biological brains experience as they learn in the noisy often-chaotic real physical world

I stole it too, enough decades ago that I forget who I heard it from. I think it may have been an old grizzled Chem Engineering professor my first semester of college

Stanislaw Lem (author of Solaris ) wrote a wonderful short story based almost exactly on this premise (AIs that must not think, but are trying to get even)

https://kingsridgecofc.org/pdf/the-three-electroknights/

This.

It’s a case of " A little knowledge is a dangerous thing " combined with " The difference between theory and practice, is that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice "

• If you only know “asbestos is bad!” this is obvs dangerous
• If you know “inhaling asbestos fibers is bad” this is maybe NBD
• If you’ve ever smoked a pipe often enough to clean it, this is obvs dangerous

(and besides smoking is pre-industrial barbaric; vaping is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age)

Try using a different bridge, or not using a bridge.

Try switching circuits (Ctrl+Shift+L in Tor Browser)

Also note that Tor is not designed for anything realtime or streaming. Those use-cases break its anonymity model. Do not use for voice, video, realtime games

Back on Reddit /r/tor this was such a common question that someone made a whole subreddit just so “/r/torwithvpn” could be replied as a FAQ

Here’s a privacy-preserving link to the subreddit post. It’s good info, worth the read

https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/TorwithVPN/comments/qm4d91/youre_here_because_you_wanted_to_use_tor_with_vpn/

In most cases using a VPN with Tor makes you less secure.

Any threat model covered by VPN+Tor is like a million times better covered by simply using Tor Bridges and no VPN

You call it “sensory hell”, but a grifting entrepreneur somewhere is putting together an ad campaign for “Natural healing PulseHead shower! Just $69.99! Comes with our satisfaction guarantee!”

See a professional. There are multiple possible causes. Most are not physically dangerous but social and psychological effects are not to be ignored, and almost all causes have treatments available.

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

While not as profoundly disabling as the physical symptoms of the most common diseases that cause it (such as ALS), PBA may significantly influence individuals’ social functioning and their relationships with others

holy shit I feel personally identified

Imma go get drunk

@!!!

Trump sweating, wondering if he can keep this Venezuela/Greenland level shit up for 3 more years

My IRL gravestone will read simply:

YASD

Seriously if you want censorship resistance, please use one of the 100% free to use Tor nodes maintained by people like me

Not only does it cost you nothing, but us Tor node operators can’t doxx you or track you, the way any VPN can

ASCII NetHack FTW

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