The difference is now you wouldn’t be able to buy it at 20 either.

You’d have to work pretty hard to get on cigarettes and hopefully most people just won’t bother.

Nicotine is still bullshit as are vapes. But as far as we know vapes are the lesser evil.

Except they aren’t like food. Vaping isn’t required to live. It’s purely recreational and aimed at children.

But I’m happy with either regulation or a ban.

Well yeah that’s the idea.

Yes and yes.

It works really well for kids. They aren’t even trying to ban it for adults.

Raising the age from 16 to 18 had a massive effect when I was young.

This will most likely dramatically decrease smoking in young people and that’s great.

It’s not 100% or nothing.

Yeah vaping will have its time. I bet they’re already sitting on evidence that it fucks you up.

Prohibition does work very well for kids though. Most people start young as when you’re older you know the issues.

So they are keeping it for people already exposed and trying to stop younger people starting in the first place.

They raised the age to 18 when I turned 16 and it dramatically cut the amount we had access to.

It’s not like the old alcohol probation. Plus smoking isn’t even fun like drinking. It’s just gross and bad for your health. And most people don’t drink because of addiction. It’s a different kettle of fish.

But they should be doing the same for vaping.

It’ll work for the majority of people. You won’t be able to do it out in public.

If you want to get cancer in your own house go ahead.

The truth is they put a huge burden on public services. Mainly the health service but also they create insane amounts of litter.

If vaping is still an option then most people will just do that.

Vaping is currently almost completely unregulated and some studies have found terrifying chemicals in them

People who don’t like cancer and want to take the insane pressure these death sticks put on the health service.

Who in their right mind supports mega corps selling addictive cancer causing products to young people?

I mean murdering people is extremist.

Taking their money would achieve the same.

The numbers put out by Ukraine have been 1000+ consistently for quite a while now.

How is interest on Russian assets your tax dollars?

No it’s not. It’s pedantic and arguing semantics. It is essentially useless and a waste of everyone’s time.

It applies a statistical model and returns an analysis.

I’ve never heard anyone argue when you say they used a computer to analyse it.

It’s just the same AI bad bullshit and it’s tiring in every single thread about them.

I literally quoted the word for that exact reason. It just gets really tiring when you talk about AIs and someone always has to make this point. We all know they don’t think or understand in the same way we do. No one gains anything by it being pointed out constantly.

I mean they literally do analyze text. They’re great at it. Give it some text and it will analyze it really well. I do it with code at work all the time.

Because they are two completely different tasks. Asking them to recall information from their training is a very bad use. Asking them to analyze information passed into them is what they are great at.

Give it a sample of code and it will very accurately analyse and explain it. Ask it to generate code and the results are wildly varied in accuracy.

I’m not assuming anything you can literally go and use one right now and see.

One of LLMs main strengths over traditional text analysis tools is the ability to “understand” context.

They are bad at generating factual responses. They are amazing at analysing text.

World of warcraft in the earlier days was very social as there were lots of things you simply couldn’t do on your own.

There was no built in LFG mechanic and even many quests required small groups.

You’d end up bumping into the same people regularly due to similar play times and levels.

I forged some really great friendships back then.