CRTs are popular with people who have retro games consoles.

They’re surprisingly difficult to acquire though. Big, heavy and either very expensive or free.

I would change the word “almost” to “some of”

Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.

I didn’t even know this was possible. Looks like my current oven may be able to do it - it has a ticking timer knob - but pretty sure all previous ones didn’t have this feature.

Other than the use case you have mentioned I can’t see any reason to use it. It would be annoying to have the oven turn off before the food is cooked to perfection, which it rarely is at a prescribed time

Violence is the most direct and effective method of control, of obtaining and maintaining power.

And that is why nation states have a monopoly on it

They are either domestic bootlegs or imports. If cigarettes were actually fully banned, organized crime groups would begin mass cigarette smuggling and manufacturing operations. Sounds ridiculous, but it’s true

Not necessarily. People could actually start smoking more because tax free cigarettes are astronomically cheaper

Moving the goalposts or something like that?

Humans have been smoking tobacco for thousands of years. Banning it will only allow the black market to swell to an unimaginable size

First and foremost, people have the right to slowly kill themselves with cigarettes as long as it isn’t harming innocent bystanders.

Arguably more importantly, the proposed ban is worryingly dystopian.

Finally, agreeing with anything Sunak does is unforgivable. And in this case would reflect neo-liberal sympathies.

This is the situation I am in right now. It hasn’t happened for months but I really needed to catch up on sleep, apparently. It used to happen all the time and I would just pull all nighters but that started giving me really bad anxiety when I’d have to go out into the world on no sleep.

Thinking I’ll just take whatever sleep I can get then force myself out of bed in the morning, and try not to lose the plot with the irritating people I have to deal with at college.

Does melatonin work well for you?

No shit, we’ve known this for years ever since Portugal did it

In this question I was more specifically referring to the psychological warfare between citizens, in the quest for dominance and control in the social hierarchy present in our societies

Just imagine how bad it is for the employees

Dogwhistle sounds pretty accurate

Whilst this has some truth to it, it is a gross oversimplification

Thanks for this!

Yeah, any example will do.

Seconded Wikipedia. The amount of knowledge that can be gleaned in mere minutes from Wikipedia is insane. It contains enough information to do most stuff, aside from blatantly illegal things.