One can only draw the inevitable conclusion that they're just doing this for the memes now.

Time to rewatch "Phase IV".

I've seen many partial eclipses, but a total one. I'm always in a different country when they happen.

"the leak was coming from the Russian segment of the station"

To no one's surprise.

"has set off alarm bells"

One of the most abused phrases in contemporary media, which has been complicit in "flooding the zone".

dobroe utro, comrade

'Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.' - G.K. Chesterton

" Until the next president cancels that nonsense."

The next president might just nationalize and seize all the assets of anyone associated with the previous admin. It wouldn't surprise me, since that looks like where the state of politics is right now.

As many as you can fit.

Now do Buddhists.

#12 is both antisemitic and Hinduphobic. WTG.

"---- OFF WITH THAT ANTISEMITISM BS."

Looks like we struck a nerve here. You, #2 and #7 are clearly antisemitic. Because this story has zero relation to Israel or "the Jews"... unless you're a bigot who wants to make that connection solely because Weiss happens to be Jewish.

As an antisemite, the alias who posted #7 was elated when it saw #2 in this thread.

... Bari Weiss Murdered 60 Minutes ...

I know some people here celebrated after only reading the first three words of that.

" See you, BillJ."

Sorry to hear things aren't going well between you and BillJ. Hope you two can get back together. I can tell you miss him a lot.

This type of erosion is more about building and developing along waterfront areas, which degrades natural barriers which previously absorbed the energy from the sea tides.

" Of course, I look at my Dad who was a NYC Fireman. There were a couple nights per week, every week, when he was at work, and not at home."

Hmm. . . that could have been due to work, or something else. . . :-)

O-kay. . . whatever. I'm not gonna argue with you anymore.

"They still sell tobacco...and it is a poison that kills many millions of Americans, and all those young people will quite possibly be addicted to nicotine and die ten years early from tobacco related deaths, as did my father and both grandmothers. Start 'em on sugar and then caffeine and then tobacco and then expensive drugs from their physician."

Yup. It's a systemic cycle. If it's not one thing, it will be another human addiction that's being exploited while the limited attention span of society is focused more on previous ones in their collective memory.

#13- the article (and the summary of it at the top of this thread) specifically mentions the parallel of nicotine, so it's not solely about "pouches" or "caffeine" as you were implying. I get your point about how threads are often derailed by topic drift, but you were being hyper-anal in this case.

#11- you're just being pedantic and not arguing in good faith, IMO.

Is the topic of this thread specifically and solely about caffeine pouches, or kids being marketed to with unhealthy products in general? Don't be obtuse.

Big League Chew was in pouch form, though. And you could get both candy cigarettes and real cigarettes from vending machines.

" going to give them hundreds of billions of dollars and free trade in exchange for...literally the status quo before the war!"

And pathetic apologists will predictably say "Only Nixon could go to Chai-nah!"

The Snoofy alias still can't pass the Turing Test.