Tradition. Alcohol has a long history in European culture and by immigration the United States. It’s common to have a glass of wine or a beer with dinner, the rich will impress their friends with the extravagant alcohol they drink serve, you take a glass of wine at communion… heck at one point weak beers were drunk more than water, because at the time nobody knew what made water safe to drink but everyone could tell if beer smelled rotten.
Production. Marijuana is easy to grow, but it takes a lot of time and space to produce. Alcohol on the other hand you need something with sugar and some yeast or starter. It can be fermented in some corner of the basement or even a cupboard. It’s so hard to control the production of alcohol even in prisons there’s usually somebody fermenting pruno somewhere and that’s one of the most controlled and monitored environments. It’s really hard to prevent people from brewing some form of alcohol because it’s about as easy as making bread.
When you combine these two you end up with the disaster that occurred when the United States tried to ban alcohol during prohibition. An easy to produce intoxicant with a large market was suddenly banned, when people started looking for more organized crime stepped in to fill the void.
Speaking with ComicBook.com, producer Jerry Bruckheimer stressed that the franchise was still on track to return but that they would now be bringing in a new cast to tell new stories, adding that he was unsure if Pirates or another legacy series, Top Gun, would return to screens first....
It’s not so much that their out of ideas, it’s that they don’t want to take a chance on a new idea. Why take a risk on a unknown writer or producing what could be a revolutionary film when you can just regurgitate a movie that you know was already a hit before?
Fenbendazole: Relatively low toxicity de-wormer. However, it was actually investigated as a possible chemotherapy drug… but didn’t produce notable results.
Aprocot seeds: Contain cyanogenic glycosides
Soursop tea: Contains annonacin, a neurotoxin linked to Parkison’s disease.
Dandelion root tea: Not gonna cure your cancer, but apparently fine?
Frequency therapy: Run of the mill “healing with tones” quackery
Antineoplastons: Never heard of this one. Apparently a term made up by a quack cancer center for some chemicals he found in urine.
I also find it amusing that they’re railing against chemotherapy drugs… while pushing a drug investigated as a chemotherapy drug as well as some quack compounds pushed as chemotherapy drugs. I guess it’s only bad when they’re mainstream, hipster “You wouldn’t have heard of them they’re too underground” chemotherapy drugs get a pass.
The berries are sorta edible, sorta poisonous. Basically they took the “cyanide in apple seeds” trick and cranked it up to eleven, so you don’t want to eat the fruits. However you can boil the fruits to extract the juice and make a jelly out of it.
The fish pepper (named for its common use in seafood dishes) is popular today, but it nearly disappeared altogether: that it still exists is thanks to William Woys Weaver, a Maryland author and ethnographer. In 1995, Weaver discovered a jar of seeds in the bottom of a freezer that belonged to his grandfather, H Ralph Weaver....
It’s interesting to consider how many distinctive breeds of plant just vanish.
One time when I was making hot sauce my mother started reminiscing about her grandmother would soak some tiny peppers in vinegar to make hotsauce. From the sounds of things it was some variety of tabasco pepper. But she had been growing and selecting these peppers for multiple decades and so they had probably grown into a distinct variety… and then she died and the variety was lost.
God I hate those. Paper tea bags you can toss into the fireplace or in the compost depending on the time of year, but those plastic ones you can’t do anything but chuck them into the trash.
Don’t I know it. My house is right next to a highway and was apparently placed by someone who loved the sound of engine breaking. I probably have tire rubber dust settling on everything outside.
Are you sure those aren’t nylon bags? Anyway I’ve found PLA’s biodegradability highly over rated. When Sunchips were doing those PLA bags I threw one into a worm bin, when I emptied the bin a year later it looked pretty much unchanged.
Who’s predicted to be Trump’s pick for vice president… because apparently watching Trump supporters chanting about hanging his last VP wasn’t a large enough red flag.
To be as generous as possible maybe they’re going for a The Sims 4 approach; the base game is free, expansions cost money. I suspect though they’re going to go for a pay-to-play style game, there’ll be a ultra bare-bones base game and all meaningful content will be locked behind macro-transactions.
IIRC they avoid “Birth” like the plague because in Sovcit world “birth” actually means “berth” and means you’re actually cargo bound by admiralty law or something nutty like that.
Just to play devils advocate, maybe there is a author out there who has a stockpile of unpublished books that he’s publishing all at once. I mean it could happen.
What gets me though is that if they set the amount that high there had to have been people spamming AI “books” at a rate much greater than that.
Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?
Yes, the New 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Movie Will Be a Reboot, Confirms Original Producer (collider.com)
Speaking with ComicBook.com, producer Jerry Bruckheimer stressed that the franchise was still on track to return but that they would now be bringing in a new cast to tell new stories, adding that he was unsure if Pirates or another legacy series, Top Gun, would return to screens first....
Sure lady, you bet. (lemmy.world)
[OC] I love oranges.... wait a second (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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TIL The fish pepper was thought to be extinct for much of the 20th century until the rediscovery of fifty year-old seeds in a family's freezer (www.bbc.com)
The fish pepper (named for its common use in seafood dishes) is popular today, but it nearly disappeared altogether: that it still exists is thanks to William Woys Weaver, a Maryland author and ethnographer. In 1995, Weaver discovered a jar of seeds in the bottom of a freezer that belonged to his grandfather, H Ralph Weaver....
Bloodbath at RNC: Trump team slashes staff at committee (www.politico.com)
Plastic tea bags (lemmy.world)
I decided to have a green tea because it’s healthier than soda. It’s healthier, right?...
Gotta show up (lemmy.world)
Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Saying Ex-Wives Responsible for Collapse of Civilization (futurism.com)
Laundry detergents with strong smelling aroma should be banned
Libs of TikTok, other right-wingers lose it after X reinstates bans on misgendering, deadnaming trans people (www.advocate.com)
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Water is expensive, ammo is everywhere (lemmy.world)
The Sims 5 Pre-Release PC Build Has Been Leaked Online (www.dsogaming.com)
Sovcit is waiting for payment. (lemmy.world)
Sovcit got a sovcit ID. (lemmy.world)
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Invokes ‘VeggieTales’ In Ruling (www.theonion.com)
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Isn't Out Yet But Fans Are Already Obsessing Over Tifa (www.ign.com)
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
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