Wow, it's hard to remember this is what human beings can be.

Yes it can be saved and it starts with gratitude. We all stand on the shoulders America has built up from generations of relative freedom.

America stands on the grave of the British empire

Nasa is the best ambassador the US has, if they took 1/3 of the military budget and put into space travel the US would be back like Jordan.

Space travel for what? Branson is going to operate consumer flights, but how many times can billionaires fly to ISS before they get bored? Not many people can afford $150k for a short vacation.

tourism will always remain in the back seat. the commercialization of space has been about serving the planet as a whole with communications, its brought up the un-cabled world just like mobile phones have brought up the last mile. there is huge potential in energy production and distribution coming next.

Elon Musk estimates 5-10 years to get to Mars. At present the cost is $1 Billion per ton, so it'd need to be 1/1000th of the cost, apparently. The ship will also need to be reusable.

Traveling Mars is also not a point and shoot mission. You have to coordinate launches with the alignment of the planets' orbits to travel the shortest distance and not fly past the sun. This also requires a stay on Mars as you wait for safe realignment after landing. Current technology estimates a 21 month round-trip given a ~3 month stay on Mars. Money is not the biggest hurdle.

When I say 5-10 years, I mean to design and engineer the cost down, not journey time.

Sure kid, just like a horse race.

go open source, add new states, virtual citizenship and most of all healthy competition with other nations not war

Competition in what? Our largest industries are healthcare and pharma. Getting Americans to change is a huge hurdle.

competition for new citizens, with decreasing population the game is going to change and the usa at least remembers how to play

No, this country is cursed, theres a lot of bad karma waiting.

k-rino has a nice rap-recap on this

You like this check out vinie paz on this

If its a 12 step program, seems like all this realisation right now is step 1.

So who is the cool cowboy now?

America needs a strong leader. The country is in a mess and it's going to get a lot worse till it gets better.

outlaw political donations there's plenty of free coverage to get the pitches across anyway.

The population grew to large. The citizen / individual is now a defunct concept. Group politics prevail. Democracy is dead.

americas greatness came from common values attracting immigration from around the planet. make that again and yall have a chance

Only problem I see is too many people

not enough young people, not enough people moving up economically.

Hollywood. The American dreM. Clever marketing for a past its date super power.

Was catchier than Dried Pubes

I started smoking weed in '70, and the main difference I can tell between late 70s and now is that back then sinsemilla was just a part of the market, with a lot of packages containing seeds and more leaf and stem (amount varied with price). Today it's all sinsemilla (so much so that the term isn't even used anymore). The quality is pretty much the same. We had thai sticks and Hawaiian that certainly equaled top shelf strains of today (as far as anyone could tell - there wasn't much precision on reporting THC levels). I'm happy with the situation, but I stopped smoking between about '83 and 2009 (job), and wasn't amazed by any changes in potency; just the fact that it's all sinsemilla. I did feel silly when I first got back in the market and asked a seller whether or not his product was sinsemilla and he didn't know wtf I was talking about. I quickly found out that was a stupid question... :>)

I remember references to what I thought was the "sense" now I get that was sinsimilla :) Thanks

Yep, that's what it was called. Just Spanish for "without seed". Speaking of Spanish, if we could find Oaxacan sinse we considered ourselves lucky, because it was just about as good as Thai but cheaper. Availability (in my part of Texas) wasn't reliable at all though. Now, it's like going to the weed supermarket. We're living in the future in that sense. Life is good and getting better...

Alternate title: The Current State of Irish Cannabis

LMAO

Started smoking back in the 80s red leb ,black.good shit joints or hot knives they rocked.

Yeah bro the stuff with the cloth attached to it, red leb think there was gold leb too it was lovenly stuff. Early 90s.

How did people live with that? With the way weed has gone it's a different world and are kids will think the same as are weed lol

Let's hope there's a little weed in their shunt/ brain interface

Cannabis has came a long way

I was there from 1972-ish, it was mostly pretty good in the Uk depending who you knew, or what grew ;) Avoiding the street ofc.

Most of the pictured weed was grown outdoors on a hillside without fertilisers, boosters and the other shit habitually used today.

I partook in the some of the countries of origin at the time too, thank you Magic Bus. I preferred hash at the time and still do, real Temple Balls were trippy, Leb was a knockout and the black in the Dam was unbelievable and so on. Impossible to get around here, so pleased to have found LB at last!

Vaguely remember smoking some stuff looking similar to that here in the UK circa late 90s.

Hey biggaz
I used the minitel during years as a good french; but they never improved the technology and it remained fucking slow but wasfunny...
I still have one somewhere...

so not so different from orange's service today?

So true ?

Haha thanks for that. Reminds me of my first foray into the web dialing into BBS in the US to play doom 1 against people around my area.

LB gives of a similar vibe as those early BBSs.

I have sold from every production run Sun (a bit less from the other manufacturers) has had in the last 3 years and have zero reason to believe in bad batches.

That said the complexities of medicine make these claims impossible to prove or disprove on their own merits.

I would welcome anyone that wants to develop a real testing solution to this. It would help me sell more and I'd pitch in to funding it, I'm sure most of the other sellers would too, we don't gain anything with questionable product.

Most of the allegations regarding pharmaceuticals from India being inferior in quality is a load of crap. Big Pharma sources a lot of precursors there. For cost cutting a lot of work was outsourced to India and the knowledge gathered was later used in new founded companies that made generics, that ironically has become a serious competitor for Big Pharma and a certain threat to their business model.

As precursors, knowledge, production process and so forth is identical to that of Big Pharma, I don't see why there would be any difference in quality. I'm not talking about counterfeit pills, they do exist, but any vendor selling that is out of business soon.

Testing that is not that difficult. A Marquis reagent is a good indicator to isolate what is in a pill sold as modafinil. The shade of color visually indicates the strength.

That does not tell you how much mg you have in a pill, but does allow you to test a so called 'US/EU' Premium brand. Basically there should be little or no difference.

Word, someone should tell this to the fuckwits on r/afinil.

dont take that subreddit seriously, its all shitposting to support adrafanil.

I'm what you end up with when racism and bigotry are allowed to run amuck. I'm the omini hater. I hate everybody. Young, old, white, black, yellow, male, female, beautiful, ugly, l don't give a shit. There's always room for everyone at my table of hatred. Come join your family and friends. I guarantee you will see someone you know, so you'll never be alone;-)

I love all races except Ascott

I hate the Indy 500 it's a greedy bag of shit

It's like Bernie Ecclestone that way

What do you mean hate on Chinese, this guy is just a reasonable businessman.

What about Arabs, no wait they've done that one

The English are depicted as incompetent

And rather fussy I gather

I always stack moda with coffee, and have great results. My emphasis with both is moderation. 100 - 200mg day depending on my sleep cycle + espresso, both in the morning.

that's interesting, as i just read about moda + caffeine on reddit today. someone mentioned using something called 'smart caffeine'. do you know what that is?