This isn’t a mathematical equation.

All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. AI is the rectangle and LLMs are the squares.

Don’t forget Putin’s help too

Every accusation is a confession

It’s never been about public health.

I’m not saying it’s a justification here, but the principle of least access is an important part of security best practices.

There are completely valid reasons to restrict what information can be shared.

Sounds like the only ethical thing to do is pirate it.

LLM = AI

AI ≠ LLM

I don’t disagree, I was just correcting the wrong use of a term.

Qualified immunity means that cops are protected from being personally targeted for civil lawsuits.

It doesn’t sound like there was any actual policing involved. They got a webcam still and posted it to social media.

I once had the cops find my stolen bike, because the state required you to have a registration number.

I never picked it up because the reason they recovered it is because they saw a black guy riding it and figured it must be stolen.

You can’t directly compare nicotine content like that.

They’re not the same substances. The form of nicotine in cigarettes is different than the freebase nicotine or nicotine salts used in vapes. Freebase nicotine is already about 25% as bioavailable as cigarettes, and nicotine salts is even less bioavailable than freebase. Cigarettes also have a lot of other chemicals that increase the bioavailability.

In general, people are pretty good at self-titrating to a certain nicotine level. Even if they go from a cloud chasing rig to a stealth vape, the actual amount of nicotine they consume is pretty consistent.

It’s really easy to keep track of how much you’re vaping. Many mods even keep track of how many hits you’ve taken, and disposables often come with a max hit count and display a percentage of liquid left. For me, I keep track by how long it takes before I fill my tank.

There’s been an absolutely massive disinformation campaign against vaping in the US. This is because states make a fuck ton of money on tobacco sales, and they often spend their projected earnings ahead of time.

Vaping was starting to make an impact, so they started panicking. A bunch of states tried to add a tax on eliquid, but the rates were always so ludicrous that they got shut down.

Then the FDA got the power to regulate tobacco products. Suddenly, everything related to vaping, including metal wire and batteries, were tobacco products.

They created the Pre-Market Tobacco Application process which required vaping manufacturers to submit every single SKU they had, at a cost of $250k-2m each. This meant that if you had one flavor in 0mg, 3mg, 6mg, and 12mg nicotine strengths, you had to submit 4 separate applications.

This effectively killed an industry run by small businesses who went out of their way to make sure their products were produced safely. Many had their own ISO clean rooms for manufacturing e-liquid. And the open hardware market that let you use refillable tanks.

That’s the reason sketchy disposables flooded the market. The legit businesses closed their doors, but the dispo manufacturers knew the FDA wasn’t going to go after every gas station.

I think there’s added confusion because Caucasian ≠ White either. Indians are caucasians (look up pictures of albino Indian people and they just look like white Europeans).

I’ve always chuckled at African American = Black too. My wife went to school with a kid whose parents were African immigrants. Kid entered an African American art contest, won, then had his award taken away because he was white.

Yup, the main reason the FDA killed the American vaping industry is because States had already spent the money they were expecting to get from tobacco tax revenue, and vaping was causing a significant drop.

But all it did was ensure the market was flooded with sketchy Chinese products. Before we had small businesses making eliquid in clean rooms and having independent third parties audit them.

That’s like shooting up heroin to stop taking ibuprofen.

Vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking. Basically every study on vaping out of the US that produced negative findings either had their results grossly misrepresented by scientific news sources (heavy metal study), or the methodology was designed to produce harmful results (formaldehyde and glycerin studies).

The reporting on the heavy metal study conveniently left out that A) all of the levels were orders of magnitude lower than cigarettes, B) all of them were well below OSHA thresholds, C) some of them were even lower than atmospheric levels.

The formaldehyde study fired one of the old CE4 carts (the old pen style) at almost twice the recommended voltage for 90 seconds without adequate airflow.

The Glycerin breakdown study used 2x CE4 carts on different mods, and one semi-modern box mod and tank. For the carts, their starting voltage was at the top of the recommended range (~5v) and increased it by 5v for each subsequent step. The results obviously showed increasing harmful chemical production. The modern one was fired mostly within its normal operating range, and produced quantities so low that they had to dope the samples with 100mg of the harmful chemicals to they their GC/MS to even detect it, and there was no change with increased voltage. They had to create a separate graph just for that mod.

And don’t even get me started on the popcorn lung or EVALI bullshit.

Edit: added more context.

Or the collapse of society in general. Being a craftsman is a valuable skill when your society loses the ability to buy the cheap products of slave labor.

I’ve always found it weird that people assume you have to be part of a marginalized group to support that group.

Although I’ve heard it’s not uncommon for gay people to hate on trans people, so maybe that’s why he asked.

Could be one of the Amazon scam sellers that send thousands of units of cheap plastic garbage to people for free for reviews, then add different “colors” which are actually completely different products.

You search for the product and find the one the seller added after racking up 20k 5 star reviews on the original, but if you filter the reviews for the product you actually want, there’s not a single review.

It’s actually not that uncommon for people to turn in lost cash if it’s more than like $5. Happened fairly frequently when I worked retail/hospitality.

Most people are decent and honest and know how they would feel if they lost a larger sum of money. Although I get keeping it if you can’t reasonably ascertain what location the person who lost it was visiting. No one is going to think to check with the police for $30 they randomly dropped in the street. ****