Zitronensaft

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marijuana was banned to target minorities, but alcohol prohibition mostly was repealed not because white people like alcohol, but because alcohol is stupidly easy to make from a wide variety of substances so most cultures around the world produce some kind of alcohol with their local crops. You can use pretty much anything sugary: fruit (wine), honey (mead), and grains like rice and wheat (sake & beer). It is really hard to ban a substance when half the foods in our diet can be turned into that substance if you let it sit in a jar or bucket in your closet for a few weeks.

  Prohibition was repealed primarily because it was a futile effort and with alcohol being banned, very strong distilled spirits were the economical way to discreetly transport and serve alcohol since it is easier to hide a few bottles of liquor from authorities searching your truck or business than to hide large barrels of low ABV drinks like humans had been brewing and drinking for millennia. It is also a lot easier for people to drink themselves sick with distilled drinks, so ultimately it was decided that it was safer to make alcohol legal and regulated instead of having it still plentiful, but getting people sicker and funding criminal empires. It’s a lot easier to ban one plant than to ban every food source with sugar in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastic tea bags⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paper tea bags usually contain polypropylene or another plastic so they can be heat sealed shut. They aren’t fully compostable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Barbie’ To Play Imax Theaters This Fall With Never-Seen Post-Credits Footage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck yeah! That movie was a delight with catchy music and entertaining choreography, plus it was refreshingly bizarre while also being relatable. I don’t normally watch movies more than once, but I was planning to watch this one again once it came to streaming. My boyfriend hasn’t seen it yet so this is just enough of a reason to bring him to the theater instead of watching at home. Besides, Dune has been delayed and that was the next one we were planning to see in the theater so it will be a while before we visit the theater again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨inundated by ads on iPhone. how do i stop them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Brave browser was full of ads for crypto currencies last time I looked into it. It hardly seems like a good option for someone who is trying to avoid ads.