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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Because prohibition doesn’t work. We tried it with alcohol, it didn’t work. We’ve tried it with most other drugs for decades, it didn’t work.

    Prohibition just creates a black market for whatever drug is banned. The drug will still be available. It will also be adulterated and untested for purity.

    If they were banned, cigarettes would become more like modern heroin. The contents of them would be unknown. In addition to the harms of tobacco, there would be the harms of whatever adulterants the black market sellers put into them.

    Instead of dying over the course of decades of consumption, the smokers of Black Market cigarettes would also potentially be dying immediately from whatever random stuff people put in the cigarettes.











  • It’s very tempting to shamash that button. Intelligence is lionized. It’s high praise to call someone a genius. I’d probably wait on any button pushing until I’m old enough to have some cognitive decline.

    I’m no genius. I’m a bit above average intelligence. And I have to say, I’m not sure it’s done much to improve my overall happiness.

    Like many gifts, it’s a double-edged sword. Having a higher capacity for language, problem solving, and memorization has done a lot to ostracize me for my peers over the years.