I hear you and I know the feeling very well. I just hate that really bad media reporting is causing people to lose trust in decent science.

I hope that if you find a moment of space and energy, you can consider adjusting the target of your anger. If not, I totally get it - I’ll continue railing against the wilful misrepresentation of people’s hard work elsewhere, and I wish you the best of luck.

But it’s not the study that said that weed doesn’t help. It says there’s no evidence that using it on its own will help, which is exactly what you’ve described. The awkwardly positioned dick sucking you demand should be from sciencedaily.com

It’s not the study that’s the problem here, the study clearly examined it “as the primary treatment”. This is a common science media failure, they’ve conflated “primary treatment” with “helps”, and that is not the same thing at all.

Crutches aren’t the “primary treatment” for a broken leg either, but they do assist recovery by allowing someone to not use the broken leg. I’d suggest cannabis plays a similar role, it gives people the distance from the pain that they need for actual recovery, which sounds like it could describe your experience.

So he’s originally from El Salvador.

He was going to be deported, so he designated El Salvador as the destination.

A judge blocked his deportation to El Salvador.

He was “by mistake” deported to El Salvador.

The courts told the administration to bring him back.

The administration said they couldn’t find him. Repeat 4 and 5 up the court ladder.

The Supreme Court told them to bring him back.

He was “found” and brought back to the US to face charges.

He designated Costa Rica as a country he’d be willing to be deported to, because he couldn’t be deported to El Salvador.

The Head of ICE says they have “decided to disregard” that, and they’ve negotiated to deport him to a completely different continent, because it would be “prejudicial to the United States” to deport him to Costa Rica. There is no indication he has any relation to Liberia.

ICE claims that preventing deporting him to Liberia is a “direct contradiction to established judicial norms” - as though it’s normal to deport people to entirely different places to where they’re from.

They’re punishing him because the Supreme Court embarrassed the administration, and now they’re reminding everyone that they were schooled by their own stooges. If they deported him to Costa Rica, the media might not have even picked this back up.

Their tourism and banking sectors start doing really well. Don’t leave without a visit to the iconic deposit box vaults, a real cultural highlight.

I don’t think all three will actually IPO, if any. But they do need to claim they are working on it to maintain plausible deniability. Why IPO when you can just keep raking in cash from gullible VCs without publicly flaunting your damning financial information? Not to mention wearing your crashing share prices like a cone of shame.

A lot of it is certainly imaginary cash, but there’s a lot of actual cash sitting in many of the bank accounts of the pre-IPO companies. Those companies are functionally running shadow markets at their discretion, with some light touch regulatory checks or possibly no checks.

Swap the names and this could have been an article from where I am. I’d give examples but it’s a small enough place that I try not to mention it online these days.

The military action against workers doesn’t surprise me, but the eugenics sex change law thing was a truly bizarre law to begin with - and 2013 is… quite late. I’m guessing the name “Sweden democrats” is deceptive given that vote.

I’m happy to live here, but we’re not some utopia.

I hear you, I’m in the same situation. And thanks for the links, I’ve learned a lot more about Sweden than I have in many years!

I hope we both are fortunate enough to make and experience progress again in our lifetimes.

Thanks for being real about it. As a non-Swedish-speaker living outside Scandinavia, I could only suspect that the frequent lionizing of Scandinavia (and dismissal of counterpoints with the magic word “homogenous”) was another flavor of white supremacy. I’m sorry that you’re dealing with exactly the same bullshit as many other places though.

Mine does if I use the defrost setting. I assume it wants me to rearrange the contents, but when it beeps the contents are still one solid chunk of ice. It doesn’t make sense, especially for a device that claims to have a “smart” sensor.

It’s a bit like the excerpt. It feels like someone is trying to rewrite the American Psycho routine, but it hammers the obsessive compulsive tropes with all the subtlety of a brick to the face while simultaneously lacking an overall purpose. It’s just noise.

The records include State Department visa records, some files of U.S. Postal Service inspectors, years of suspicious transaction reports from the Treasury Department and call records from the Bureau of Prisons.

Investigative files of the FBI, DEA and other law enforcement agencies often include information about witnesses, associates of suspects and others who have never committed any crimes, officials said.

He wants to know exactly what they’ve got on him and from who. The ability to supply ICE with target lists before election time is an added bonus.

I think we can anticipate more Epstein and Ivana style incidents in the future, and certainly many more people kidnapped off the streets.

He’s a crap reproduction of Pinochet in a power suit.