People ingest it, yes. my father-in-law preferred the effects of CBD over his hallucination medication, but couldn't take it because it interacted badly with his blood-pressure medication. He got some sort of mesh (sorry can't remember what) implanted which eliminated the use of his BP meds, and now he can replace his hallucination meds with CBD.
He's in his late 70s, and lived hard (enjoyed every minute of it, but still).
This is something I'd really love to give a go, but since transitioning I'm just not so sure about safety. I travelled South East Asia on a shoestring budget before I came out and had a few scrapes that turned out fine, but I'm not sure they would have gone as well if I was just a lone woman at the time, especially if I got clocked!
In my experience the places that sound scary are usually less scary on the ground once you get there, but the stakes are pretty high... I'm still travelling occasionally, but mainly to safer places. I hope to build my confidence back up!
In case any passers by don't know about an extra factor that makes Cambodia even worse: lots of the country floods annually. This means that you can clear an area of landmines, but then when the floods come it can wash in landmines from other areas into the areas you thought were clear. It's very sad :-(
That's not entirely true. Twitter doesn't show you all tweets in chronological order, it has some kind of sorting algorithm like Facebook. If you follow enough people popular tweets and tweeters definitely drown out less popular ones
I felt quite sad to read the fate of the top of that list
> Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組 Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company which was the world's oldest continuously ongoing independent company, operating for over 1,400 years until it was absorbed as a subsidiary of Takamatsu in 2006.
I feel the opposite way — it’s breaking the old magazine convention that pullout quotes are merely highlights for quick browsing, and it feels disorienting that there’s new information in these design elements.
Designers like pullout quotes because they break up the monotony of body copy, and you can use fancy display fonts on them. Consequently they make pages look more "expensive" to readers simply by association with more thoughtful design.
I just mean there will be additional costs to the state if it means more people survive car crashes and therefore need medical care. But those costs might be outweighed if longer-term survivors tend to have less severe injuries.
One possible argument: You can't get "mutually assured destruction" from vulnerabilities. With guns you can say if you invade here I'll shoot you, if you were to bomb me, I'd bomb you back. But with vulnerabilities you can't even say you have them as that would help the other party find them. You can't say unleash a cyber attack on me and I'll do the same back in the same way. It seems rather than being both an offence AND defence like guns, they are an offence at the expense of your defence.
The point is not to use them#, the point is that the opposition believes that you have them, they are effective and that you will use them. In that sense the Snowden leaks have been a powerful propaganda win for NSA offensive cyber: everyone knows they have real capability. Likewise we know that the Russians have offensive capability against civilians (DNC, Ukraine power grid, etc), a propaganda machine, and a counter-cyber team (Shadow Brokers). What we don't know is how good the Russian/* military cyber capability is, and how strong the defence would be.
Personally I think most defences are rubbish, it is MAD, and the financial implications would be dire.
It reminds me of a classic line from Spies Like Us: "A weapon unused is a useless weapon."
