I was taking classes at a community college around I wanna say 2011 or 2012. Teachers didn't want you to use phones during class because they didn't want you to cheat or be distracted, but there was a big push from the administration to get students to buy digital copies of the textbooks (I assumed because physical copies can be sold used and that was eating into their profits). But reading the digital textbooks on your smartphone was in direct conflict with the no phone policy. So the workaround they found was to say, "phones are not allowed but tablets are ok and encouraged" (which is silly because a tablet can do anything a phone can do). To add confusion around this time phone manufacturers were exploring with making bigger and bigger screens, meanwhile tablets were exploring being more portable, so there was ambiguity in the distinction between the two both in function and physical dimensions. So how did they determine what devices were allowed and which ones were banned you ask? They landed on an arbitrary dimension of 7 inches. Anything smaller than 7 inches was a phone and was clearly being used to cheat, anything larger was a tablet and was an instructional tool. Teachers were given rulers to measure devices and if you were caught using a device smaller than 7 inches you would be disciplined for academic dishonesty. Mind you we also had laptops that also were not viewed as an issue, the school had free WiFi everywhere on campus, and we had apps like fb messnger for messaging and Skype and google voice for phone calls and also access to just Google, so there really was no distinction in mechanisms for academic dishonesty or for distractions between the two.

Perfectly legal in my state with a medical card, which is cheap and easy to get. No sweat off my back

I make booze and I grow cannabis. I agree you can make booze from anything. Ive made whiskey from frosted flakes. But getting seeds isnt a barrier, they come in your pot. If you consume pot, you have access to seeds

I homebrew beer, I also distil spirits, I also grow cannabis. Neither is difficult but out of the 3 cannabis is the least amount of maintenance. I have a large garden, I germinate in the spring with my other veggie seeds and water it along with the rest of my garden. It's really not any work. Longer production time than making booze though, but less work.

Agreed, but you need a referal from your primary care provider to see the GI and the primary care guy always says some variation of "Do you drink coffee? Do you drink alcohol? Do you eat spicy foods? Thats why you have diarrhea. No need to see a GI" Ive brought it up every time ive seen a physician for any reason. Different physicians, same response. I even switched from HMO to PPO to try to circumvent the primary care but every GI I called said even though my insurance didnt require me to have a referal, their clinic's policy didnt allow them to book appointments without referalls.

I am 37 years old and I poop my pants approximately twice per year, always from a fart. I've had perpetual diareah since I was a teenager. I poop many times per day, every poop is an emergency, every poop is liquid. Ive brought it up to multiple physicians and it has gone undiagnosed. Basically sometimes I fart without thinking about it and sometimes more than the fart comes out. I don't have any solutions, I just always have spare underwear and shorts with me anywhere I go.

So I am constantly told that local elections is where real change is possible and regardless of the shit show going on with the presidential elections its super important to vote down ballot. But then I look down ballot and its mostly a bunch of judges and like one department seat that had something to do with water. I look up all the candidates in all the down ballot races and there is zero information about their platform, their policies, how they tend to vote, nothing, no coverage.

So I feel like I believe when people say the down ballot races is where we have a chance to make a difference, but how can I make a difference if I can't even cast an informed vote? Do you have any resources to learn information on these judges?

How many times do we need to spell it out for you finance bros before you get it? The working class does not care about how Wallstreet is performing. The working class does not care about your cherry-picked misrepresentations of macroeconomic issues, nor do they trust them. The working class cares about the price of their grocery bill and the cost of housing, both of which have seen record increases in the last 4 years. You can shake your heads all you want and blame social media but until we dont have to chose between paying for medication or paying for groceries we are not going to buy any of the BS you are selling.

Yes but capitalism depends on the working class to continue consuming. As that becomes increasingly more difficult and also natural resources are depleting, the system is going to collapse