I know teachers seem cruel for doing stuff like this, but they’re trying to help. The classroom is a pretty low-risk environment in the grand scheme of things, and experience is the best way to help address fear of things like public speaking. Getting shy kids to speak up often helps them be more likely to speak up and less afraid.
IIRC from the Apple lawsuit, though I may be wrong, the issue wasn’t that they were like, always listening. The issue was that it was overly sensitive to trigger words and would sometimes activate and listen when it wasn’t supposed to. I can believe this, because even now the stupid thing will sometimes activate when I didn’t want it to, but NOW it’s very obvious that it has activated, whereas before it wasn’t as obvious.
Suffice it to say, I was not particularly surprised when I later learnt the reason Grey pulled out of Nebula was that he (and Veritasium, IIRC?) wanted a business model/corporate structure which would allow him and other early members to profit off of the work of later-added members. An opinion that put him at odds with the other early founders like Wendover and Real Engineering, who preferred the more equitable model.
Really? I never did find any info about why he and Kurzgesagt (not Veritasium) left. Where did you hear this? (I’m not doubting you I’m just curious.)
but at least short term studies, while being inconclusive, show that vaping is just as damaging as smoking
Citation needed. Every study I’ve seen, with the exception of the ones where they were burning wicks, has shown the opposite. Vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol are far less damaging than burnt plant matter.
Most smokers I know startet smoking more when they switched to vapes.
Anecdotal, and I can counter with my own. When I vaped, the vast majority of people I knew who did were former smokers. I don’t know that I’ve ever met someone who went the other direction. I could see that happening among younger people, but switching from vaping to smoking is one of the most braindead things a person could do.
Then there is the whole issue with one time vapes and batteries in landfills
So ban single-use vapes, or come up with a core-charge recycling scheme like we do with lead-acid batteries. Lithium batteries are recyclable.
This was an election because they pulled the Republican senator from the district and appointed him to a position believing the district, which went to Trump by 17 points in 2024, was safe.
It went to Rehmet by 14.4 points. That’s a 31.4 point swing.
I think what we’re seeing is that a lot of people refused to see the fascism, and are finally starting to wake up.
100%.
I made my own liquid for a couple years. Made it extremely really easy to taper my nicotine amount and quit.