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[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There is in most countries. Unless you mean shortfills you are meant to add nic to? In the US those still firmly fall under the laws restricting sale of vapes. Don't know about the UK or Europe, I know those products exist there though.

Otherwise you can't legally sell bulk nicotine to underage people, obviously the other ingredients are used for such a wide variety of things they can't really be restricted like that.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Alkaline batteries are great for remotes and stuff like that, where they potentially last years, in those applications it seems very reasonable, my TV remote still has the included AA batts and I bought it 3 years ago. But they end up getting used in higher drain devices and it gets a bit absurd. Still, at least people aren't rocking around with their boombox with 6 D cells that last 8hours.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As a long time e-cig user and enthusiast I agree. I thought we got away from that garbage a decade ago, but then it came back. I don't get it, it's expensive, it sucks, and it's mind bogglingly awful for the environment.

I don't even love the idea of pre built coils but I compromised for the convenience now that they are actually good. Feels a lot less bad to toss a little bit of steel and kanthal every few weeks.

I can't really get behind banning flavors, but less attractive packaging and only allowing open refillable systems would be a huge step to slowing adolescent use, they pretty much all use disposables because they can be bought at gas stations and you have to go to a smoke shop to get the refillables. Not to mention dropping $60 on a mod+tank isn't as easy to start as $10 for a disposable.

I think the flavors are a big part of why they can be effective as cessation aids you start to no longer associate tobacco with it which helps a lot. I no longer smell someone smoking and get cravings.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They look just fine over RCS. Which everyone else supports and apple could even integrate support for into iMessage.

Even straight up MMS on most carriers has no limit or a generous enough one that a short clip comes through just fine.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

The bickering was dumber and less serious but there was plenty of it on the newsgroups lol.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

to put that into some interesting context that's about what your cell phone uses if you go through the battery over 24hrs. With a battery or big capacitor to act as an accumulator you could in theory have a smart phone that never needs charging, or rarely when you use it a lot in one night.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Only way I'm doing it is if I assembled the machine from a kit and got to inspect the source code myself.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I hope so, but they also cannot just lie about the direction they think they are headed like that as a public company. With the kind of progress translation has made it just seems inevitable that the switch will happen for lower power consumer devices at least. (Lower power being relative to a high end workstation) interesting to see if maybe this means a pivot to commercial only products.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

Israel definitely is well within their rights to retaliate against Hamas, it would be foolish to claim otherwise. It's the exact way they are doing it that is the issue, they are behaving nearly as poorly as their enemy. You can't just tell the world "look at the barbarity of Hamas slaughtering innocent civilians just out there kibbutzing" and then turn around and bomb civilian hospitals, completely disregard rules of engagement around medical aid killing humanitarian volunteers you were aware of, shutting off all power, water and closing food supply to the Gaza strip, and then act like it's somehow better than that.

Hamas absolutely sucks and Israel has every right to defend themselves from terrorism, but the Palestinian children buried under rubble didn't deserve any of this. (Neither did the Israeli citizens who were slaughtered and kidnapped for that matter.)

Israel has the technology, the troops, and the tactics to be far more precise and surgical in their retaliation, but their response has been punitive and brutal, and seems to almost maximize collateral damage. Of course that's what Netanyahu and his thugs will all but directly say they want given the opportunity to speak. I do not believe that properly represents the citizens of Israel who are generally much more sympathetic to the people of Palestine.

Both the citizens of Israel and Palestine have been failed by their leadership. Agree or disagree, at this point, I just had to write that down somewhere. I know people from both Palestine and Israel, wonderful people, all this is heartbreaking.

War is hell, even if you play by the rules, why make it even worse?

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The best part is it's not even that complicated of a thing conceptually. Like you don't need to study it to kind of understand the idea and some of its limitations.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah I feel that. Not an easy decision to make.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

It's an interesting theory. Big if true. It just seems far too risky when you know most of the western world still supports Israel.

Though if you can pull it off, wow, and they could probably have predicted that it would cause a lot of internal division among Americans which only benefits Russia.

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