https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Nod
This… might clear things up just a bit. The Book of Nod is loosely Christian/Abrahamic religion adjacent mythology of the origin of vampires in the ttrpg Vampire the Masquerade. It’s the in universe origin myth of vampires.
There are some kindred who consider that book quite heretical.
Dems don’t have the same expansive network of propaganda machinery backing them up no matter what like Republicans do. Don’t get me wrong dems are still wholeheartedly a capitalist political party but they aren’t working the shaft and fondling the balls of the capitalist class nearly as much as the republican party is and it show in the ability to get messaging out.
So if you have a 401(k) you agree to have part of your paycheck go to a fund and your employer matches however much you put in up to a certain percent. It helps get around some taxes when you eventually pull the money out for retirement.
Originally it was supposed to be a supplement for pensions but pensions meant less profits because they need to be fully funded, so over the years big corporations pushed 401(k)s as an alternative to pensions because they can just push that responsibility onto us.
This isn’t an airport, no need to announce your departure.
Oh yes, I’m quite familiar, the first university I went to was surrounded by corn and soybean fields.
I’d wager its also got something to do with how prevalent soy is used in various Asian cuisines, so like anything even remotely tangentially related to China is also a commie plot to take over The West™ in addition to the whole “soy mimics estrogen” thing.
Because the last guy spent so much time and effort pandering to the antivaxxer crowd and it resulted in the deaths of millions.
Ayyy for a first render this looks awesome! I didn’t even find the smooth geometry button for like 3 months and you’re already using addons too!
I’m saying that this should be compared by amounts of alcohol vs. amounts of caffeine, and then arbitrated somehow (say, “x grams of caffeine should be equivalent to x grams of alcohol”).
Please point out in the original post where anyone was talking about caffiene vs ethanol. The original poster said they gut instinct felt that people drink more alcohol than coffee, I provided a statistical source that contradicted that gut feeling about coffee vs alcohol. Now we’ve spiraled into some asinine overly complex “well we should calculate how much caffiene is in ever single cup of coffee because coffee has different form factos and calculate how much ethanol is in every single glass of alcohol because alcohol has different form factos and then normalize them against each other because they have different effects” that no statistician would ever dream of trying to attempt.
This is at best a bad faith argument of you trying to show how massive your brain is to strangers on the internet by being a contrarian dickhead.
Oh so like how there’s an ISO standard for determining caffiene content for use when maming comparisons: https://www.iso.org/standard/34185.html
And the Standard Drink for alcohol: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink
You’re splitting hairs and retreading ground that has already be standardized years ago and continually receives updates to maintain relevance.
We can argue over how to finesse the numbers to most perfectly represent the statistics until we’re blue in the face, but it’s really not that necessary to make it that complicated. Besides 1 serving of coffee is a pretty well established quantity, and 1 serving of alcohol is also a well established quantity. That semantic argument has already been had and settled years ago so that everyone compiling numbers and taking statistics are all operating on the same page.
Because it was just the fastest data source I could find. I was simply looking for any counter example. The point wasn’t strictly about the consumption of coffee vs alcohol, it was that there is an entire internet available to confirm or debunk a gut feeling.
So if you’re going to go into a discussion about public policy, back it up with facts and figures, not gut feelings.
Or we can go with statistics instead of gut reaction.
https://usafacts.org/data-projects/beverages
In the US it’s coffee by a wide margin.
For just about any other crime I’d tend to agree with the sentiment, but for nearly any other crime I can come up with some hypothetical scenario where that crime is justifiable, where I can comprehend the reasoning behind the act.
I can’t come up with any hypothetical where rape or sexual assault is justifiable.
It’s both? Hotter air holds more water overall.
The only thing that comes to my mind would be tipped service staff not reporting tips as income.
“I’m not uninformed! I got all the information I need from qanonisright.ru”