I guess he means a state that’s ok with illegal settlements and apartheid treatment.
Why would he mean that?
I think it's more likely that he's idealizing a future where Israel and Palestine forget their history and trauma and suddenly become best buddies who root for each other's success because no one is interested in inflicting any more pain on the other. This is a pointless exercise in imagination but it's probably what he's going for with this statement.
My philosophy is this: I’ll answer truthfully, and if my country gets to the point where I’m worried that being truthful in my census questionnaire will put me at risk, this is no longer a country I want to be living in and I’ll move.
I know this is coming from a place of privilege but I can afford it, and I believe that everyone that can afford it should do it too.
Not sure what exactly they’re expecting to have happen.
Great opportunity to go inform yourself then :-)
What new Gear Hub Tech?
I think nowadays most tech innovations have been in internal and integrated gear systems and drivetrains around continuous gear shifting, though most often related to gearbox and e-bikes.
But then new gear hub tech comes out, and you start considering ebikes, also a pannier would be nice... maybe a cargo bike makes more sense instead...?
Any hobby entry point can cascade into upgraditis
Interesting research but very early stages. There's a good chance that this isn't really specific to bikes, but more generally applies to the benefits of people enjoying hobbies and a good quality of life translating into a better psychological state, which is known to affect health outcomes in a myriad of ways specially related to brain function and hormones.
Interestingly, the data also shows that mixed-walking is associated with reduced dementia as well... and I find it a bit confusing that the authors are lumping driving and public transit together in the nonactive category because public transit usually involves a good deal of walking too without people categorizing it as a walking mode of transport.
Beyond separating public transit from driving, I think major factors to control for are: 1) how often these non-commute activities happen; and 2) what's the stress level of that transportation mode. With those three things in mind I think it would clarify why would walking be associated with worst outcomes than nonactive...
A bike (the bicycle kind, not the motorbike kind, that's a different wallet-sinking hobby)
Looks like we have different groups of experts in our respective informational sources
Ah ok, "they" meant cannabis magazines.
experts were ignored
The experts were on the side of legalization, so they weren't really ignored. If by experts you mean people who study public health policy and narcotrafficking.
Now that the consequences are being seen, what are we going to do about it?
What are these experts saying nowadays? What I see is a consensus that legalization was a pretty good move. There's probably more we should do, but it's stuff that builds on top of legalization.
Not really what serious advocates ever said. Maybe what random people on the Internet sometimes said?
This is all starting to turn the gears in my head.
Be careful with being too open minded so that weird debris come in
And? What's circular about it? Nations arise from self organizing societies, and these nations come together to define international laws. And then they define the right of self affirmation, and if the main powers recognize a state it is assigned the right to exist. And if the core powers of this world decide that a country does not matter, they'll look the other way as those rights are bombed. It's an emergent property of international politics.
No rights do, so I don't understand where you're going with this.