And all the major American legacy car companies filing bankruptcy through the years and becoming completely uncompetitive. Welcome to your soon do you come greedy unionion reps That will ensure high performers will leave for better pastures and low to average performers will stay and benefit from collective bargaining,. Unions always increase friction and company politics and stunts growth. Growth is what is key to success of any company and its workers.

Hello beuracracy, regulated relationships, and workaday droneness. What a shame for a company that has such a legacy of strong independent minded developers but that is the past.

Really poor example for grandchildren etc. Particularly now that plenty of evidence that marijuana can cause psychosis, depression in a subset and a decrease in ambition and drive, and increasingly a cause of traffic accidents.

Heavy and chronic usage of cannabis is associated with some of these things. I think "plenty of evidence that marijuana can cause {effects}" is somewhat overstating the consensus on the topic.

Like many things in life, cannabis can be enjoyed responsibly or irresponsibly. Irresponsible use is inadvisable and can absolutely ruin your life and the lives of others around you. I see no issue with responsible use, though. All things in moderation. Alcohol, social media, and caffeine all come to mind as examples of other drugs that can be largely safe and enjoyable if used responsibly, but which become dangerous/harmful when moderation is abandoned.

Signed,

a responsible/occasional cannabis user :)

Even never touching or being in the same room as cannabis does not per se prevent psychosis

This is a narrow minded take. I come from a family of Irish alcoholics. Most of the younger generation uses cannabis instead of drinking and avoids the devastation from alcohol that my generation and older experienced.

Counter:

I'm going to guess that it's easier to get addicted to weed than to alcohol due to price, pleasure, and no alcohol hang over.

Kids especially can get addicted to weed much easier than alcohol in my opinion.

I like alcohol but I see alcohol as a social drug. I never drank it alone. I also physically can't drink it too much due to hang over and complete inability to do anything useful after. During covid lockdowns, I was absolutely addicted to weed after I tried it. It had none of the draw backs of alcohol and even more pleasure in the beginning.

I was addicted for a while. It was horrible. I became unmotivated, fat from munchies, didn't talk to family or friends, always asked people I met if they wanted to smoke weed with me, was high during remote work, couldn't remember anything because my memory got very poor, had horrible acid reflux from all the smoke.

Thankfully I was able to remember what life was like before weed.

If you read https://www.reddit.com/r/leaves/ you'll see just how many people have been smoking since they were teenagers and are not 30 or 40 and don't remember what life was like.

I do agree with most of what you say (acid reflux is inherent to smoking in general, though; it's not specific to weed), but the point is that it's only problematic if it becomes a habit. It doesn't have to. If you were drinking as much as you were smoking, you would probably fare even worse, and I don't think alcohol has a lower potential for abuse; in fact, it is likely worse because it is not as strongly socially stigmatized.

Personally, I have rarely purchased weed myself, but I have consumed quite a bit because of many stoner friends. When they would share, I would never have the strength to refuse, but I could very much feel the impact the next day.

But I think that if you can manage the consumption just like you would do with alcohol, it's mostly fine. If you smoke a joint once every few weeks, the impact on your life is unlikely to be that bad. Of course the hard part is managing that, but it's true for alcohol as well…

Munchies are pretty benign if you have enough sense to stock your home with healthy options like unprocessed foods and no sugary stuff.

There is no benign volume of alcohol consumption. It's hard on your liver[0], causes cardiovascular disease[1], produces carcinogenic metabolites[2], it's a horrible drug... without even considering the high occurrence of abusive/violent drunks compared to weed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_liver_disease

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cardiovascular_dis...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer#Acetaldehyd...

I'm not arguing that alcohol abuse is better than weed abuse. I'm arguing that alcohol abuse is bad but weed is much easier to get addicted to.

If you don't like losing half your IQ points, then I guess this is a narrow minded take.

Extreme exaggerations make for poor arguments.

I guess we're a family of geniuses because with our IQ halved our younger members have gone into successful professional careers.

Lots of substances cause depression, loss of motivation, and lead to mental health issues.

A large percentage of the population enjoys and venerates the activity.

Not everyone is a type-A overachiever. Not everyone is a Puritan who treats their body as a temple.

Some artistic folks thrive on it.

I think it's okay to let people do what they want with their limited time here, but I also think it's okay to call out the potential consequences. We shouldn't be nannies, but we also shouldn't embrace irresponsibility.

I'm something of a prude when it comes to myself, but I don't think I'm better than people who drink or do drugs.

Sometimes it's not bad at all, sometimes it's devastating.

But so are some academic and professional careers.

Circumstance, genetics, situation, and volume all play a role.

We really have no place intervening unless it has gotten out of control and damaged their lives.

Worded like that does not sound very convincing. A lot of things "can cause" the things mentioned (overwork, bad weather, etc.). Maybe the risk is high, but clearer numbers would help. There are countries were smoking marijuana is not that special (The Netherlands) and it is full of depressed people and is quite safe from traffic perspective.

Don’t worry, some of those issues can be addressed with MDMA-assisted therapy and clinical psychedelic treatments.

I used weed to quit alcohol, lose 50 pounds, and lower my stress after dealing with nerds like you at BigCorp all day. Hush and let people enjoy things. We all end up as worm shit at the end of the day.

I prefer to get all that from alcohol

Better stop eating all that sugar.

You sound fun at parties.

That's inexcusable.

Spoken like an Ai bot.

woosh

I suppose you are not arguing in favor of pedophilia but just pointing out that RMs was actually a pretty big advocate?

Of course I'm not arguing in favor of pedophilia JFC.

Yes I'm pointing out that RMS was, judging from his own words, an advocate. He advocated for adults to have sexual relationships with children. It's gross. It's gross that he's still the face of free software.

Dell and HP still offer reasonable accidental next business day on site 3-4year warranties much more reasonable in my opinion than AppleCare

You can do better than porn which isn't very useful to society.

I think it's a fair comment though. Porn isn't really useful to society (one could argue that it's actually detrimental to society but that's a separate topic).

But what I understood from parent comment is that they just do it for fun, not necessarily to be a boon to society. And then if it comes with new skills that actually can benefit society, then that's a win.

Granted, the commenter COULD play around with SFW stuff but if they're just doing it for fun then that's still not benefiting society either, so either way it's a wash. We all have fun in our own ways.

It doesn't sound like anybody really knows or has any clue about what this law will do or be used for. Exactly what are the implications?

This law prevents future politicians from writing laws that place restrictions on AI companies.

I think this signals to data center builders that Montana wants their business, and this is really just a publicity stunt.

If you want to destroy and beuracratize your relationship with your fellow employees and boss unionize your workplace. In Unions have been on a downnward slide for a reason.