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That's gonna get seriously more dangerous pretty soon.  As in REAL soon.  By the end of October, the day length is only 8 hours.

 

Location of Gambell, Alaska

 

The red dot is where Gambell is.  Still a couple degrees below the Arctic Circle...63.8 degrees north.  But still.  Even that alone, and figure, the sun's never very high or bright, so on the water, if there's any haze, visibility would be really bad.  That's not even counting any difference in weather as full winter hits.  

 

OTOH, the most northerly peninsula of Russia has its southeasternmost tip only about 50 miles away, so the trip could be done in a few hours.  But God help you if you run out of gas or the motor breaks down.  And that's even assuming the weather lets you even consider it.

 

Hope they get a warm welcome, they bloody well deserve it.

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https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-10-06/biden-pardons-federal-marijuana-possession-scheduling#:~:text=President Biden on Thursday pardoned,more than 6%2C500 people nationwide.

 

Hopefully, it leads to a federal rescheduling of Marijuana so the persecution of simple possession goes away forever. Adding it to the spectrum of treatments available to doctors may also defuse much of the opioid crisis, too.

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On 10/7/2022 at 2:12 AM, Lord Liaden said:

It's good to have a step between opioids and the likes of NSAIDs.

 

Here in Washington, the marijuana-based pain ointments are legal under state law (and the feds have not come in after anyone), and they seem to work quite well.  Now, you have to go to a licensed-to-sell marijuana outfit to get it, and my age 70+ senior theoretical-nuclear-and-particle-physicist colleague admitted to feeling self-conscious when walking into the head shop to get the stuff the first time.  But it helps her like nothing else available.

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Allegations that China has 'police stations' in Toronto and other large cities. China says these are like a consulate express for Chinese immigrants to conveniently get bureaucratic chores done. Human rights groups claim they help compel Chinese citizens to return.

        

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/its-entirely-illegal-for-china-to-open-police-stations-here-says-ottawa

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