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Opium is being consumed for at least 5000 years, and has only been banned (mostly) in the last 150 years. In the 19th century there were two opium wars between western powers and China because the latter banned the use and import of opium. So opium was definitely grandfathered and normalized not too long ago.

The rich.

super-annoying Instragram French guy that just screams everywhere

Not narrowing it down are we?

These all require someone to actually pick up the phone, instead of playing an automated message.

I have seen ads on the internet for over twenty years. The enshitification is not because of ads, but because of the will of a few big companies to extract as much money from the internet as possible, without wanting to give anything in return and without even contributing in any way.

Edit: the OP however, should really learn to use a free photoshop alternative for the logo creation thing.

I’ve been working with my current company for 6 years, company before this one 11 years, before that one 8 years (and before that some shorter terms). These last two times I’ve switched because I didn’t like the way the company was managed anymore (and where my job was going because of that), coworkers were great and pay was fine both times. I found it refreshing to start somewhere new both times, you get to reposition yourself because you have no history in the company and you can view the “company politics” from some distance. Based on my experience I would always advice to look for a new job when in doubt.

I hope the Democrats get their heads out of their asses

All you need to know is this.

About 60-70% 20-30% (edited, some googling returned a lot lower numbers than I remembered) of Bitcoin is estimated to be out of rotation. They reside in wallets that haven’t been accessed in at least 10 years. Most About one million of these belong to the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto, the main developer of Bitcoin. He disappeared some 15 years ago, and nobody knows their real name, or even if it’s one person or more.

The same way Bitcoin keeps value; most of the supply never changes hand. In Bitcoin because the wallets are no longer accessible, in stock because the owners live comfortably on dividends alone.

You don’t?

But that makes sense because I’m a warm blooded creature.

It probabily doesn’t. Most likely it’s because what you grew up with. Like drinking water with ice if you’re from the US, or carbonated water if you’re from Germany. Anyway, totally off topic.

This made me think “WHEEEE!” when I imagined riding along, and that made me think of the longest cocktail party from the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy. So thanks I guess.

Judging from what happened in Ukraine, the King will be walking around in T-shirts a lot /s. In reality, only bad things can happen from this.

Protection aigainst rain? Whenever there’s a light drizzle, I get waterdrops on the inside of my glasses.

I don’t think Einstein hurt the bottom line of anyone, his work was mostly theoretical.

This might be so traumatic, that young Billy wouldn’t produce offspring. Evolution in action.

Biggest decline in my country is because lease companies don’t like them in their fleet anymore; Musk has just randomly reduced prices in the past, making it difficult to estimate the remaining value at the end of the lease term. On the other hand business drivers used to have a generous tax exemption when driving an EV, which has been cut by our government. These drivers may now be better of driving an ICE. All in all this reduces the market share of Tesla drastically, since Tesla’s are almost exclusively used as company lease cars.

As someone who did this, I just found the material quite easy. You need a good intuition for math, and the ability to place the learning material in context. It can work against you though, I had some very bad learning habits, and when I struggled with a topic I would go from 10/10 to 3/10 real quick. And to this day I still struggle with writing reports, fortunately I only need to do this once every couple of years.

Not quite 2005, but in 2006 olga.net was taken down by the music industry. It only got worse from there.

I don’t know if this is possible on Amazon, but on our local alternative (bol.com for the Dutchies) it is possible to buy e-books for one cent, which will get you free shipping. I have quite a selection of e-books I’ll probably never read, but which were just the right amount to get free shipping.