Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
A random Google search would find you these articles:
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2763273/vapes-ape-comics-to-lure-kids
I’m not going to discuss recent history revisionism, circular argumentation, or the illusion that your country is the only one in the world. Have fun!
You call it “bullshit propaganda”, because you haven’t seen black market disposables from China advertised at you local vape shop? Have you considered that, maybe, you haven’t seen them… precisely because they were stopped at customs?
No, I’m not even going to look for a SKU listing, just for your dismissal. Go believe it’s FUD if that makes you happier. Ask your government agencies to lift all bans, for extra un-FUDding.
Can you elaborate in detail on what makes it “toy shaped?”
If you didn’t get the memo about marketing targeting, there are courses for that. You can drop the sarcasm.
If you don’t want to use AI in WhatsApp, make sure you keep your hands off the AI button that appears right above the new chat button
There, that’s how you turn it off: exert self-control.
Red herring. QDs are not a measure of display quality. These ones are:
Add power usage and price, and I couldn’t care less about it being CRT, TFT, IPS, OLED, QLED, Laser, or hologram.
The KGB became the FSB. Historically:
…and so on.
Nothing new. Working for the UAE, Saudis, Kuwait, etc. has always been the same: they take your passport, and/or withhold payment, and/or you need to get your employer give you permission to leave the country.
Unless you’re wealthy enough to hire people to work for you, never ever go to work there.
I’m not into nicotine (menthol extra cold nasal cleaning is my thing), and after comparing prices… went with the 100% modular Vaporesso: mod, pod, coil, custom juice. Initially it’s slightly more expensive, but pods last forever, grabbed some coil packs at a good discount which pretty much offset the rest, and after almost a year still haven’t gone through a full bottle of juice.
In EU, Spain in particular, we get 3 years of warranty on customer devices, so the mod itself better last that long!
Not exactly. Toy-shaped non-nicotine fruit-flavored cheap disposables, are the best thing to get children hooked up on vaping.
Tobacco companies used to promote candy cigarettes for the same purpose.
They’re not. Check those laws again, only nicotine ones are banned.
Android is Android/Linux, not GNU/Linux.
The Linux kernel is compatible with a closed source userland, what makes GNU/Linux attract the userland towards open source, is GNU’s glibc, other libc alternatives don’t have that effect.
Two papers I used to work for closed up shop, and I’d not done so.
Try the wayback machine, but put the URL with “http” instead of “https”. I’ve recently found a page of mine they archived in the early 2000s, with data from as far back as 1997.
“Right of withdrawal” is quite easy: allow cancelling the transaction before the in-game content has actually been used.
It only takes a “has been used” flag, and maybe a log entry to prove when.
The newest take on cookies, is “accept all, or pay to read”. Quite shady, if you ask me.
Games reward you in game mechanics, same as most games at a casino.
The “space race” has always been a propaganda stunt.
There is a reason you don’t hear about every experimental result from the ISS, those are actual scientific achievements and not propaganda, while a guitar on the ISS or how to drink water, end up on the news.
China […] without the politics and waste
Wrong. China’s politics and waste may look different, they’re still there in huge amounts. Institutionalized corruption and cultural corner cutting, whether for a capitalist goal, or a power control and egocentrism goal, are still corruption and corner cutting.
Matrix/Element allows for mixing different servers for each part of the stack:
GOOGL knows that to become a long term successful company in a world of 4.50% interest rates, that P/E of 21 and dividend yield of 0.49% are barely cutting it.
They can no longer push popular platforms like YouTube as a loss leader.
Kind of. Personally, I started using them precisely because I can be reasonably sure that I’d get some without nicotine. My favorite active compound is menthol and “cool effect”, with other flavors from time to time.
Used to be an “After Eight” chocolate fan, but a vape juice bottle plus any random chocolate, is way cheaper.