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lemmy.world

Portugal (and Switzerland, I think?) had a heroin problem in the 2000s. They decriminalized it and it was a major success.

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BC needs to do the same. But instead we’re criminalizing open use which increases the likelihood of death for those doing drugs alone. 🤦‍♀️

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Probably talking about the weather or the food

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lemmy.world

They wanted to use the geographical definition of Europe, so they cut off everything beyond the Ural mountains and Caspian sea.

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lemmy.world

It is. Europe is commonly defined all the way to the Ural mountains, which are located somewhere in the middle of Russia. Most of russian population lives in Europe.

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Interesting!

I was thought the five continent model as a child concerning the geographic continents (but Australia was called Oceania) and the seven continent model in society class (Samhällsorientering)

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Culturally I'd also put that part of Russia closer to the Slavic countries than to any fully Asian country.

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lemmy.world

But why would the other countries, like Switzerland would be excluded then?

Edit: I'm asking in the context of the Russia is/is not in Europe conundrum.

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It's made by some dude on instagram. He probably just didn't find the proper data for some countries.

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