Imagine how much they didn’t catch. My plug is doing import cannabis from the US right now. The risk isn’t much greater right now than operating grow houses in the UK so we’ve got some fun menus with US and UK cannabis on it, not something I’ve seen in the 18 years I’ve been smoking the stuff.
I’m up for legalisation of a few substances, but the main thing I want to see is a decent effort to bring people out of the black market when doing so.
We just need to get everyone to the east coast with sticks and we’ll push off
I’m vegan, and I do honestly think that PETA get a bad rap for their animal shelter work, but their online presence is ridiculous and cringe and it doesn’t surprise me at all that they get ripped to shreds constantly.
What’s great is all the stuff I used to listen to in Uni (I’m 37 now) is also up there, like Torche and Manatees. Now I have the money to, I can chuck all these artists that I found in what.cd all those years ago a few quid. Whilst I’m sure they would have appreciated it more back in the day, I couldn’t afford it and spent most of my uni years flat broke.
I try and buy albums at shows mostly! They don’t put ridiculous markups on stuff at small shows, but some venues want a cut of merch sales too, which is why I’m assuming some venues you can’t get a band shirt at for less than 30 quid. I could be wrong about this if course, but I have seen it at bloodstock where bands were literally just chucking merch off stage because they would have had to pay hundreds of pounds to have merch up in the festival shop.
Well, bandcamp bill their cut later as far as I’m aware, but when you buy an album you are paying into the artists PayPal account, you even see a partial email address. Unless that system is somehow lying.
That’s my bet, it’s the best one right now. Not sure why OP didn’t just say it.
If you want to support artists, try bandcamp, it has streaming but it’s more of a “try before you buy service”, and money goes directly to the artists’ accounts. Mp3/flacs with no DRM or just stream as much as you like. For an old-head like me who still has an SD card and a headphone jack on my phone, it’s perfect.
Maybe look into setting up your own supply chain or paying the businesses you rely on enough money to fix their supply?
If fairphone can set up a whole new phone manufacturering supply chain to make sure they don’t have any child slaves, I’m sure this isn’t so difficult, it’s many more suppliers, but many less steps.
Alternatively, go vegan and stop contributing to this barbaric industry.
I’d say just let sex workers run brothels and hire security and much of the problem will disappear, but I fear if it were just legalised in the UK, corporations would want to run the show and would cause a whole set of other problems for sex workers.
I have similar reservations about the legalisation of cannabis too, for I fear it would just be legalised without any effort to bring people out of the black market, pushing them to deal in harder substances.
Nottingham here.
FYI I managed to save deposit during COVID lockdowns, I actually lost my job again the beginning of lockdown and was unemployed for 3 months, then I managed to save 20k during the next year and a half, which was a little more than 10% of the house price.
You might want to check the mirror for clown makeup yourself.
“knowing these people”? The fuck does that mean? Is this racist or homophobic? I literally can’t tell.
As long as it means more rights for the worker and not less I’m all for it.
Rice and beans is life
I’ve heard of this, but I’m not sure it’s true, after searching I can’t find a source that says it is either, are you aware of any studies that suggest this is true?
I’m not advocating removing meat from school meals either, just that everyone is catered for.
They have to serve it, not force it down student’s throats though right? Is there anything restricting them from also serving something plant based at the same time?
It’s a weird position to take, if I was offered parental leave I’d take it all and probably wouldn’t want to come back to work.
Fair enough if you live in a place where people actually like their jobs and want to be there, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for the majority of us.
Just cos you like animals doesn’t mean you’re not a capitalist.
Cool, I’d argue that alcohol and gambling are the more damaging to society, can we ban ads for those too?