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Nobody in the USA wants anything like that. The bad optics alone would be enough to convince Americans to go back to the War on Drugs.

Pharmacies and Liquor Stores need to be the only vendors of legalized drugs in order to keep the optics from becoming something that undercuts progress. Plant law would simply revert to how it was before the War on Drugs where people could grow whatever they want for personal use.

Eventually all drugs will be legalized and regulated just like alcohol and tobacco. The War on Drugs is America's worst mistake and our biggest most expensive failure.

The big issue is going to be the "how". Who would manufacture the drugs and how would they be sold? Cocaine HCL is Cocaine HCL and the market wouldn't really need more than one brand like it does with cigarettes and beverages. Back when drugs like opium and cocaine were legal in the US the regulatory system was completely different and we don't have any idea what it will look like in the future.

It would likely involve the downsizing of the DEA and expansion of the ATF, putting drugs in the same regulatory area as Alcohol and Tobacco - DATF. Grocery stores and liquor stores would be the obvious vendors.

A non-profit needs to start a think tank to figure out the best intelligent way for a modern America to manage legal drugs.

IIRC, RDR2 does exactly this.

The issue is that you know exactly what percentage of the game you haven't experienced and exactly how good the game is and it makes it next to impossible to stop playing.

The formula is something like the longer a game is the less linear it needs to be to have a high replay value.

'The Last of Us' is incredibly long and among the best linear non open-world games ever made. That said, it's entirely linear and the thought of sinking such a massive amount of time into a game that's effectively a very long movie give it a very low replayability factor.

Likewise, Skyrim is a massive open world game that's incredibly linear and repetitive, giving it a low replayability factor.

Rockstar has several very long open world games that have massive replay value and don't get stale with repeat playthroughs. On the flip side, if you haven't played through 2 or 3 times you've generally missed a decent amount of content. GTA San Andreas, RDR2 and GTA V all fall into this rare category of long games that are highly replayable.

With open world games the key to high replayability seems to be NPC AI quality and providing different outcomes for different actions and the order in which you do things in-game. Allowing you to do lots of missions in whatever order you choose goes a long way to breaking up any feeling that you're watching a movie.

With black boxes being what they are, prices in a constant state of flux and the deal where amazon has several 'pages' for the exact same item with each page having maybe a dozen different prices - how would it ever be possible to determine anything about how amazon does its pricing?

It seems like Amazon could take a cue from the tactics employed by very small shops and start dynamically adjusting prices per item per customer. Strategically lowering prices for some customers and raising prices for others could quickly become more profitable than worrying about the average customer. Amazon's already got their system setup like a shell game with multiple pages selling the same item via multiple sub-vendors so placing blame on Amazon would be incredibly difficult if not impossible for anyone outside of Amazon.

Artificially deflate prices across the board for some customers while artificially raising prices across the board for others. Some customers could end up paying 4x the Walmart price while others might end up paying 1/2 price - there are customers that don't care or don't pay attention to how much things cost.

Jack up prices for the big spender while slashing prices for cheapskates and offer bulk discounts to customers who will lay out more cash for single large purchases.

If this can effectively regrow replacement teeth it seems that the dentist will want more than anything to suppress or somehow monopolize the technology in order to maintain their role as "fixers of teeth".

Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before any doctor (or layman) will be able to pull damaged teeth and then easily regrow them, avoiding the endless thousands that would be otherwise charged for dental repairs.

This is expected in the US, the kicker is that even in the comfortably socialist EU dentists generally aren't included in the state healthcare unless it becomes an emergency room issue.

The dentist is in this regard a unique animal.

"People" in general are incapable of making these kinds of logical decisions and can't be blamed for the behavior of corporations.

This guy's a big part of the reason America is so deeply screwed. America's eating habits have been artfully manipulated to the point that dietary common sense in the US is likely among the lowest in the Western world.

Hold onto the phone and just don't use social media.

We know factually exactly what "Apple organized for innovation" looks like - it's Apple with a brilliant innovator dictator running the show. What portion of Apple's budget is being spent searching for the next Jobs?

Intelligent systems look for outliers and evaders as potential threats. This guy going so far out of his way to evade detection most likely got him flagged and monitored to an extra degree.

What kind of meaningful data is Disney going to gather on people based on their limited range of actions within the theme park context? This dad drinks Coke and never drinks Pepsi, dislikes the tea-cup ride...

As an academic exercise it's interesting as a solo project or as an adventure with a fellow researcher. With the kids it's effectively spoiling their vacation while teaching them things they shouldn't have to know or understand for at least a few more years.

The people answering are probably not situated in the USA.

Italians do this kind of thing as well.

It's the biggest PITA I've ever encountered. Just getting an app added to F-droid is a ridiculous hurdle.

F-droid is flawless in terms of security.

Hyphenate surname couples seem to universally not worry about the dilemma that they invariably put their offspring in regarding their options for last name arrangements. What the hell do your kids do, especially considering that high odds that they will end up marrying other people who also carry the burden of a hyphenate surname? Easiest option is to just pass the buck and compound matters for the next generation; "Jones-Bass-Richards-Berg", "Smith-Stein-Lee-O'mally". Americans with hyphenate surnames will soon overtake Indian surnames as the longest in terms of sheer letter count.

The US doesn't keep local businesses the way Europe does. Corporations with local branches is about as close as we get. A small rural CVS next to a small rural Texaco next to a small rural Dennys is a rural town economy.

America lost most of those villages that raise children and families with two parents decades ago.

IRL cocaine is about as safe as caffeine and can be consumed in beverages (tea, Coca-cola, etc.) by healthy people without any real negative issues.

Right now in 2023 we as adults should have two options for beverage stimulants, caffeine and cocaine. Basically the beverage market has been artificially cut in half for no good reason.

https://www.tni.org/en/primer/coca-leaf-myths-and-reality

No, filters really were the biggest step towards a "safer cigarette", despite the official stance that no such thing can ever exist.

Non-filter cigarette smokers are 40% more likely to develop lung cancer and almost twice as likey to die from cancer than filtered cigarette smokers.

*https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/5789/presentation/230...

Bingo. Offline gameplay that feels live and connected to the world inside the game.

GTA SA has literally the best soundtrack ever made in any game at that point in time. Period.

It utilizes a complex system to keep repeat plays from ever becoming repetitive. No other game had anything like that then and very few, if any, non Rockstar games have anything like that now.

It'll be interesting to see how Musk handles negative sentiment regarding him and his IP trending. Stories about burning Teslas and Tesla wrecks trending will be a thing of the past.

On the flip side, boosting the visibility of pro Musk IP content is an inevitability along with unfairly boosting Tesla stock and never-ending SEC investigations.

And then Rage Against the Machine's sound in the GTA San Andreas soundtrack changed everything again.

Combining an open world game and a flight-simulator together with baked-in FM radio stations was literally the best thing to ever happen to gaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLGuDj2oGLU

You're giving the 9/11 terrorists far too much credit. They were supported/financed by the Saudis[0] and America dropping the ball was the only reason they succeeded.

It's not so much a big victory for the terrorists as a big black eye for America and our intelligence agencies.

One of the 9/11 pilots was reported to Federal agencies multiple times[1] and the hijacking still took place.

[0]https://theintercept.com/2021/09/11/september-11-saudi-arabi...

[1]https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91659&page=1

Mushrooms aren't like MDMA - terrible experiences aren't out of the question.