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... Which is what FD was talking about, yes.

Nah, I meant temporally. If the 'verses were blended, y'know. Toads as the prototype.

Of course that relies on back-stretching WG lore, and the inconsistent nature of that is... hah.

Yeah, there'd be some weird stuff going on there. I mean, the warp provides, so it's not like it's impossible, just... very unlikely. Iirc, by 40k lore (if not perhaps WFB) the orks were flapping around before humans even developed as a species, so either the pipes are also involving temporal shenanigans or Mario & co aren't actually human in this scenario. Which, I mean. Maybe?

Though I suppose that would mean the koopa-kin in this scenario are proto-eldar? I guess with the magikoopas you have a baseline for the psyker predilection and they do have a sort of caste thing going on...

There'd be quite a bit of stretching and twisting to get all that to fit together, though. Could probably be done, but. Yeah.

Though... how would the goombas fit in this scenario?

... I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make, neo. When both alcohol and tobacco are granted exemptions for no substantial reason, despite easily being as harmful and addictive as many substances that aren't exempt, weed being a controlled substance is... fairly meaningless.

As others have noted, if you want to equalize treatment of equally dangerous substances (i.e. remove the exemption for alcohol and tobacco), then... fine? You'll fail, as has been noted in the past, but you're consistent. In the mean time, decriminalization and/or legalization+regulation of weed (and, perhaps, eventually other similarly harmless recreational drugs) is, pretty much without doubt, the path of least harm and greatest benefit. The current situation does very few people good and a great deal of harm to society, and there's not really a good way to deal with that besides legalization and regulation.

Can't really address the OP's main question -- I'm down here in florida, where we just eeked under (<3% away from an amendment) passing legalization of medical marijuana -- but insofar as $0.02 goes, I definitely consider legalization -- or, at the absolute least, decriminalization -- of cannabis one of the absolute best things that could happen to the US in regards to our justice system. Just about anything that helps put the screws to the domestic monstrosity that's been the "war" on drugs is a good thing, really. And given that marijuana is, at worst, no worse than alcohol, we don't have a significant reason to not legalize it.

Secondary considerations like robbing the southern cartels of a significant income, as well as bringing in extra tax money, providing jobs, and the whole host of things that would arise from a legal domestic cannabis industry just make it even more attractive. It's one of those things that have an entire host of good sides and incredibly few bad ones, honestly.

Fortunately, the tide in the states is turning towards it. If trends continue, there's pretty good chances we'll see either full or near full legalization across the country before I kick the bucket, which is nice. A bit of hypocrisy corrected and a great deal of social injustice averted... bonuses all around.

... more blankets? It's not even cold where I'm at, but I still have three for casual heat regulation, impromptu blindfolds, and foot prop/pillows. Not even counting the couple that's covering the bed, since it's easier to sleep on top and bring more blankets than actually unmake the bed.

... if y'all are really doing the tabs thing for the nth time, you can give the forum a search for the other dozen times it's come up. Think the latest one before this was in the WTF thread? Seriously, if you're wondering why various people approach tabs in various ways, it's been brought up several times. The answers lay in forum history.

Now excuse frumple while frumple goes back to managing a couple hundred tabs. I actually tidied up fifty or so just recently...

Though @ Leo, that's actually an interesting idea. Mildly (and deniably) misspell your name when you do paperwork, so you can track who's sold your info to who.

... no, no, I could see a few situations where that line could come up and still be a fairly good reason to investigate a piece of writing. If a character was drunk out of their mind and screaming it in the middle the street, ferex. Something absurd along the lines of hentai kamen, yeah?

E: I could also see it come up pretty comfortably in, say, Toriko.

... of course those don't necessitate infinite growth. It's not a necessary thing in the vast majority of situations. It's not a minimum-needs thing, it's a +1. Desirable, but incredibly rarely needed to actually accomplish whatever goals you might have.

As for it not meaning they want more stuff... maybe not necessarily, but if it's hard to figure out that positive change and variety (even if in limited areas) don't entail more stuff, I'm not really sure how to better frame the discussion to elucidate. Change is generally going to mean new stuff, even if not necessarily a net increase in total stuff owned, and variety is almost certainly going to mean either new stuff or more stuff. Either way, even if you're not looking at a total increase in personally owned stuff, you're definitely looking at a total increase in societal-level stuff. If your population is growing or stuff-supply deteriorating, that means more stuff. And digital media definitely takes up more resources than you're giving it credit, methinks. It's cheaper than physical media, usually, but it's still by no means inexpensive or an example of resource paucity, from what I understand.

... that said, at least from what I've seen on the ground you're definitely rather extremely anomalous, SG. Most people I've met actually kinda' do want that massive garage with cars for every occasion, and various equivalent things. The extent they "don't care" is actually equivalent to the extent they can't figure out how to get it, not a lack of desire. It's incredibly easy to get locked into that cycle of "More stuff == more better" when you have the resources to do so -- more cars, more clothes, more houses, more whatever.