What kills me about all this is how it feels like we're being assaulted on every front. Everybody is simultaneously trying to brainwash and addict our kids and and scam our parents and sell us illegal goods shipped direct from China and constantly harass us to try and con us out of our money and meanwhile the government can't even do automated enforcement on speed limits much less fraud and professional crime.

I have no visibility on what the cops do all day but I assume it's mostly reactive triage for people on the margins of society that are in crisis, with varying approaches of support vs punitive harassment. But I doubt that Ford's plan to expand cops and prisons will help.

Which leaves me wondering who's in charge of making sure kids can't buy weapons from Amazon, or stores can't them ferocious amounts of energy drinks.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

It is about control. One thing that I kinda had to give to it (begrudingly) to the pro-gun Canadians who adopt American style talking points about government overreach in every aspect of life 'starting with gun control' (note: it was never just gun control alone or first. They always passed things concurrently. More surveillance, less privacy, less everything, and more and more control for the few over everyone else), and while I am not going to say dumb shit like we need guns to overthrow our government or intimidate people on the streets like they do in the US, but I cannot help that everything IS part of a grander scheme to make sure that have neither the means nor the willingness to do anything. Basically destroying our ability to organize and communicate and getting rid of any potential leaders well before hand.

[–] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So im older now mid 30's but when I was in highschool this whole energy drink fad started taking off. My friend 15 at the time had a heart attack. He drank maybe 3 cans a day. Today I work with youth and its not uncommon for a kid to have 4+ energy drinks a day.. I always tell the story of my friend had a heart attack but non of them care as its almost a youth culture thing. Anyways best of luck to Quebec, this could be an important thing as we don't even know the long term effects of energy drinks.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I was in university when the energy drink fad took off. There was a guy who would arrive almost late to a morning class, sit at the front near the door and take out three energy drinks from his backpack. He would drink all three during the class.

He did not make it through the term. I don't know if he just dropped the class, but I imagine he had a heart attack.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I was an idiot with money back in high school when these energy drinks became the hot new thing. One day friends and I were screwing around and over the course of a day I drank 24 of the Red Bulls, I think I would be dead had it not been so bloody hot that day and one of my friends and I were walking around taking bus rides. All the sweating I was doing and actually being active kept me alive. The last time I drank a full can of Red Bull, we were on the bus and everything was just hurting I told the friend we need to get off so I can lay down in the shade and asked him to call some other friends to bring me water. I lay down in the shade and I remember hallucinating, the friend said I feel a sleep but looking back I was probably passed out. I was done with being an idiot with energy drinks then and there. I am so lucky I did not die, but I am a fan of making those illegal or at least harder for idiots to get.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

But somehow bill c-22 is still on the table and has had more pushback from the public.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

Because you know American profit are more important than kid’s health

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

energy drinks only account for 11 per cent of the caffeine consumption of teens

Where is the rest coming from? Considering a single can is packed with multiple (standard) coffees worth of caffeine.

How many of them also include loosely regulated herbal supplement and vitamins in large doses?

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Starbucks, probably.