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During all that time, the law of prohibition was making it more potent, to make it easier to smuggle. Not at all. The US market was dominated for a long time by very low quality Mexican cannabis, where the growers seemed to treat it like industrial hemp production, producing large bales full of stems and seeds, poorly cured, with little regard for THC content. As it became more difficult to smuggle their bulky product across the border into the US, Mexican producers responded by smuggling in the laborers, instead, to produce the same low quality product inside the United States, on clandestine farms on public lands. Law enforcement responded to this with aerial surveillance, forcing growers indoors. That’s the point where quality began to improve, as growing indoors is more technically challenging, creating more proficient farmers, and quality improvements allowed the more expensive to produce indoor cannabis to compete with low quality outdoor grown cannabis. Only once indoor production began to dominate the market did concentrates like hash oil begin to become common, as the more technically proficient growers gained the expertise to produce it, and had an economic pressure to maximize THC yields from what at that point had become agricultural waste, with a more discerning consumer now unwilling to smoke anything less than seedless flowers.

The data on CD-DAs and CD-ROMs is recoverable, even if it’s from a bad batch that suffered disc rot, as the data is physically pressed into the polycarbonate, and is unaffected by the oxidation of the aluminum reflective layer. Longevity claims failed to account for that, but were also made in contrast to magnetic tapes, which wear substantially from use, and bleed in storage, destroying the data. CD-R and CD-RW discs use different methods of data encoding, and were never advertised as having similar longevity.

You cannot, however, do that with gasoline. Yes, you can. A match or a lighter will ignite gasoline vapors. A smoldering cigarette will not.

Connecting a generator to a house. The legal way to do it is to install a new breaker, a sliding metal plate that only allows the new breaker to be flipped on when the main breaker is flipped off, and a male wall socket. But that’s expensive and requires permits. The cheap and easy way is to flip the main breaker off, stick a male-male cord into an existing wall socket, then stick the other end into the generator. But that’s illegal, and could be dangerous if you forget to flip the main breaker off, or plug into the generator before the wall.

About 80% of humans have Neanderthal ancestry. Everyone that isn’t a sub-Saharan African.