It used to be fairly common with the big "epic" films. And probably no live theater production is going to go much over 90 minutes without an intermission.
Except the brands I'm talking about sell directly - the stuff you're buying on Amazon is the cheapest drop shipped products on Ali marked up ridiculously to extract the maximum profit.
> When I lived in the UK a lot of people who couldn't afford real juice would buy 'squash' and drink it as a replacement for juice. I personally found it entirely revolting and way too sugary
Are you aware that you're supposed to dilute squash to taste? It's just concentrated juice. If it's too sweet, you haven't added enough water.
Yes, even then the horrid taste left a terrible feel in my mouth, which is why it was only palatable with fruit tea and with additional citrus juice for my tastes: and even then I still don't want it removed from the market if it serves a specific demographic.
Do you remember the early "bug" in HL2 where you could bind shoot to mouse wheel up, then flick the wheel to magdump the pistol and blast anything? Good times :)
Let me preface this by saying that I'm generally pro-legalization. Particularly of consumption, which when criminalized, makes things worse for everyone.
That being said, heroin is one of those things that are genuinely dangerous to try. It's so easy to become addicted to the stuff, and the costs to society are so high to get an addict clean, that one has to at least consider the pros and cons of prohibition. In an ideal world, all consenting adults should have the free choice to ruin their life if they wish, and perhaps in a post-scarcity society this is what we should allow everyone to do. But while resources are still limited, heroin addicts (and by extension opiates) create a lot of negative externalities. Personal freedom is all good, but where does it end? Should a person be free to ruin the lives of others when they cannot get their fix other than to rob people? And when someone is getting withdrawal symptoms, they have no more free will, they'll do anything to avoid that suffering.
It's tricky to say what would be the marginal increase in heroin users if it was easily available. I agree with you that rational people with well balanced lives and a strong safety net in terms of family and finances are unlikely to go out and buy heroin. People who are bored, in a bad spot, depressed, etc... might just go out and do it if all it takes is a short walk to the nearest shop.
And they shouldn't. China has been doing that for years and it has been very bad for the western world. This is basic game theory. How about China stop being an adversary and allow US companies to settle in their country without needing a chinese owner and having its IPs stolen?
Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent’s Perspective
Abstract: The premise that constituents hold representatives accountable for their legislative decisions undergirds political theories of democracy and legal theories of statutory interpretation. But studies of this at the individual level are rare, examine only a handful of issues, and arrive at mixed results. We provide an extensive assessment of issue accountability at the individual level. We trace the congressional roll-call votes on 44 bills across seven Congresses (2006–18), and link them to constituent’s perceptions of their representative’s votes and their evaluation of their representative. Correlational, instrumental variables, and experimental approaches all show that constituents hold representatives accountable. A onestandard deviation increase in a constituent’s perceived issue agreement with their representative can improve net approval
by 35 percentage points. Congressional districts, however, are heterogeneous. Consequently, the effect of issue agreement on vote is much smaller at the district level, resolving an apparent discrepancy between micro and macro studies.
Control-F: "In what follows, we uncover a picture of the electorate that, although not hyperinformed and hyperrational, is one in which constituents are sufficiently
attentive that the majority can and does hold their representatives accountable for the decisions that they make
on important pieces of legislation."
Verification Materials: The materials required to verify the computational reproducibility of the results, procedures
and analyses in this article are available on the American Journal of Political Science Dataverse within the Harvard
Dataverse Network, at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QOVWMM
Debian is a popular choice, as is Ubuntu Server LTS. I've chosen Ubuntu Server LTS as my base. It's a nice compromise between the rock solid stability of Debian, whilst allowing for some more recent sofftware package releases in the repositories.
I have some ansible playbooks for setting up my "standards" on new machines. The very first playbook that runs, first step, checks for os_family = "Ubuntu" and runs the snap remove & purge command!
> whilst allowing for some more recent sofftware package releases in the repositories
That really depends on how the Debian and Ubuntu releases line up.
A lot of the packages in Debian 12 are more current than 22.04, because Debian 12 was released in 2023. That will change this month, because Ubuntu's newest LTS will be from this month.
Debian stable isn't as old on release as it used to be.
I had to drop ubuntu because of their stance of having unattended upgrades enabled by default, this in turns translates to ansible failing every time when I first run it on a brand new server, because the first thing it does is installing updates.
It's frustrating that the unattended upgrades apply to every package, but luckily you can blacklist things that cause problems. I've had problems with NVidia tools being upgraded before the driver is (since I rarely restart), and don't like upgrades that require restarts, so I do this first thing:
That's fine on a desktop machine, the problem on a server machine is that as soon as I start the server, I will probably be in automation mode and I definitely need to run `apt` for some reason. But APT is unavailable, so everything is blocked until unattended upgrades are done. So much for being "unattended", I have to attend to start the next script.
Often during a three hour film I've ran out of refreshments and would like to buy a drink or something for the last hour.