While smoking isn’t explicitly mentioned in the quran(because tobacco industry isn’t much a thing back then), the religion basically said any substance that cause self harm or impede judgement is haram. Guess what tobacco is.

In Malaysia, tobacco use in 2023 is around 19.5%, if we then divide this using the current demographic which is 70% Muslim, around 13.65% of tobacco user who is also a muslim. That’s the number of muslim that wilfully defy the islamic teaching and using substance that is considered harmful to one self. Yet when we look at alcoholic use the number is really minute to the point you will only read about it in the news, but never seen a drunk muslim. It’s exactly because one substance is banned for them while another is not.

But you know what is also banned for muslim but it still so prevalent? Gambling. Here we have this lottery where people buy a 4 digits number and the prize is given if your number matched the drawn. Because this game is simply number and have no physical form, illegal bookie can appear anywhere, and it’s so easily accessible that a lot of the bookie is set up just to serve muslim.

And that’s why, kids, you should never cheap out and skip primer. This piece won’t last two years of Australian weather before it start chipping, and this kid proof it.

Imo, as someone living in a muslim country with alcohol sales ban on muslim only, there’s nothing similar to this. For one, if the law isn’t being amended later on, the sales ban will only and ever only imposed on muslim, prohibiting them from ever purchasing alcoholic drink. This has been a thing since the begining of Islam. What different from the generation ban is there’s in no point in time alcohol would be prohibited to anyone. The generation ban on tobacco sales however will adjust the age of smoking up by one year, every year, automatically without amending the law, so by the time the last person born after a certain year dies the prohibition will only then take effect for everyone. This is what i mean it’s new-ish, because it’s not a hard blanket ban like everything we used to see, but a soft ban that slowly take effect in a time span of a few decades.

As for it being effective or not, if we compared to the alcoholic drinks ban for muslim, does it stop muslim from drinking? No. But does it significantly decrease it? Yes. It also mean it’s significantly harder for muslim to be addicted to alcohol exactly because it’s harder to obtain and consume it, they can’t just walk into a store and get it, they have to get from other source.

Prohibition of the history tend to prohibit the sale of such substance for everyone, this one is kinda like a new-ish idea, merely prohibit people born after a certain year from ever purchasing tobacco, preventing them to even starting, or at least in theory. It however did not prevent people who already smoke from purchasing it. It’s a less severe form of prohibition, akin to prohibition from selling to people younger than 18, no-smoking zone. Smoking decline in a lot of country didn’t happened by chance, its a result from a shit tons of rule set on tobacco industry, short from blanket ban.

As for black market, you can’t create something that’s already exists.

This one animated, looks real enough, and can made to do whatever the person want.

Well, it’s all a loan, in the end we still have to pay them back + interest

It’s one thing to curb misinfo, but this smell like trying to control the population. You can’t just blanket ban people from speaking a certain topic, that’s like saying all science communicator now need to have science degree to talk about science. Now they say only people with degree able to talk about it, then if someone talk about topic not permitted, they lose their privilege. It’s a very basic tactic for authoritarian.

The Slovak parliament Tuesday afternoon adopted an amendment to the traffic law that sets a maximum permitted speed on sidewalks in urban areas at 6 kph.

It’s a blanket speed limit for the sidewalk, so no it’s not only about ebike and escooter, which mean you can’t walk like a rushing businessman catching bus, or running to catch your escaping cat. Your baby stroller is rolling downhil and you’re running at it to save your baby? Too bad, you get two ticket.

I’m not in the US so this one is easy

Nestle, Unilever, Mondelez, who else should i add to my boycott list?

Lmao, all them is a close neighbours. Luckily they still know who’s their PM.

Not sure how it could be achieved, but one could try.

Straits Times is a Singapore news agency and Singaporean have the habit of shortening it to S’pore

A legacy of failed businesses, colluding with child pedophile(and probably are one), trade war, and harassment and deportation of immigrants? Should we count those too

Both are officially invited, alongside other non ASEAN countries like India and South Africa

The White House said there were now “no plans” for the US president to meet his Russian counterpart “in the immediate future” as a round of diplomacy at the end of last week failed to yield any significant progress towards ending the war.

It would be funny if Putin accept the invitation to ASEAN summit, right after Trump confirmed his trip and this news.

How can society ruined society!?

But alas, China isn’t a true communist country. Just like many socialist country, their economy still relies on capitalism, and this issue is much more complex than say housing should be free, because the issue they’re facing right now is there’s way too many supply and there’s not enough demand(or simply unaffordable).

Housing price falling might be a good news for people who’s looking to buy one as their forever home, but beyond that, it will make upper-middle class and upper class people spending less as the mortgage they’re paying doesn’t match the housing price in the current market, which could have a cascading effect toward the economy as a whole. Another issue is, when the demand is too low and the housing development company stop their project, ten(or even hundred) of thousands of blue collar will also affected. Now suddenly a “good news” doesn’t sound as good as it is. The article explain it better.

And i’m not even talking about the multimillionaires that can escape when they want to.

This read like capitalist from China will do anything to gain their wealth.

This read like he’s just attempt escape by giving up something as a distraction.