He knew. He probably referred to it as a documentary to get you all spun up.

It was the Royal You.

I mean, it’s just other magic.

I feel this is payback for the opium.

Probably heroin.

You’re incredibly intelligent.

You live for two years.

I think that if you’re Speaker and you’re not actively against it being broadcast, you should be forced to watch it.

The other part of drugs being illegal is that addicted users may resort to crime in order to continue the habit. Decriminalization or legalization makes those drugs less expensive (ideally), which means less incentive to commit adjacent crimes.

That reminds me of “A man with no socks is like a man who has no socks.”

Filibuster!

Only because of Upton Sinclair.

So you also remember how fast rumors and gossip would spread without technology. It’s a thousand times worse now. As a parent, I’d be happy to play the bad guy if my kid thinks that’s the best choice in their social dynamic. They know better than I do what kind of risk of social backlash there might be.

It’s hard to be a kid. Anything that I can do to give them a leg up is okay. I should also mention that that kind of bad guy ploy is only part of it. Talking about situations before and after is a much bigger part.

Been a parent of three, was a teenager myself before the Communication Age. It’s good to be honest with your kids that they’re going to do dumb shit and you’re going to bail them out no matter what. They have to be presented with difficult situations to learn how to respond to them, and knowing that their parents have their back is part of what gives them confidence.

could

Check engine

Go buy some lottery tickets, you’re bad at math.

Never said it wasn’t, but that’s the realpolitik.

So this sounds like a kid who’s in high school, probably 14 or 15. Enough freedom to go off and make mistakes, not old enough to always be able to bail from weird situations (no car or license, just doesn’t have the confidence yet to speak up).

You want your kids to go out and make mistakes, just not ones that have permanent consequences. Having a set up like this is how you let them go get in a little trouble and have a reasonably safe exit plan.

It’s just math.

When you have, for all practical purposes, two choices, and one of them will win, you’re most likely in the position of having to vote for the least shitty candidate. Failing to do so only supports the most shitty candidate.

As long as the general election is FPTP, that math will hold. Specific to Newsom, as bad as he is, I can think of a whole lot of people who are worse than him.

Not for me. But combine it with some delta 9 and strap the fuck in, it’s gonna be a crazy ride.